Riled Review: Nobu

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NOBU
105 Hudson St. (Franklin St.), 212-219-0500

Those who know let the chef “do it for you,” at Nobu Matsuhisa’s Japanese-Peruvian that “doesn’t hold hot food at above 140°F.” Reservations are “next to impossible,” for cuisine prepared on “surfaces not properly washed, rinsed or sanitized.” Harvey Weinstein may be “seated next to you” with a table of “big ballers,” and you can know that “non-food contact surface was constructed with unacceptable materials.” Zinger: surface also “improperly maintained.”

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Restaurant Inspection points: 24.

(Originally published 10/18/06.)