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DINING
NOBU MALIBU SERVES UP SUSHI, CELEBRITIES, AND STUNNING OCEAN VIEWS UNLIKE ANY OTHER PLACE words by Bill Springer
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y recent dinner at Nobu Malibu couldn’t have been more perfect if it had been scripted by a Hollywood screenwriter. The sun was setting. Beautiful people were congregating at the bar. The salt air in the wide-open dining room on Malibu’s Carbon Beach was scented with perfume, and the valets parked the steady stream of Bentleys and Benzes with style and smiles. Then, almost on cue, a tanned and trim Jeff Probst (the long-serving host of TV’s seminal reality show Survivor) started regaling his friends with behind-the-scenes Survivor stories at the next table. It was a quintessential Southern California scene even before the plates of Nobu’s famously creative and succulent sushi were served. Of course, Nobu’s brand of Japanese cuisine is 48
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hardly new. In fact, one could say that Nobu Matsuhisa invented new-style sushi when he opened his first restaurant in Tribeca in 1994, and he’s been opening new Nobu locations in the world’s most exclusive destinations ever since.
The view at Nobu’s Malibu location is as good as Nobu’s famous new style sashimi.
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF NOBU RESTAURANTS (TOP), BY HENRY HARGREAVES (BOTTOM)
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