Nobu: A Memoir

He now has forty-one restaurants and seven hotels around the world. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa—known to the world simply as “Nobu”—is the acclaimed and highly influential chef proprietor of Nobu and Matsuhisa restaurants located across five continents. In 1977, he moved to Los Angeles and

He has the traditional Japanese perspective that there is great pride to be found in every element of doing a job well—no matter how humble that job is. What makes Nobu special, and what made him famous, is the spirit of what exists on these pages. Not just for serious foodies, this inspiring memoir is perfect for fans of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Danny Meyer’s Setting the Table. Nobu’s writing does what he does best—it marries the philosophies of East and West to create something entirely new and remarkable.. A fascinating and unique memoir by the acclaimed celebrity chef and

About the Author Nobuyuki Matsuhisa—known to the world simply as “Nobu”—is the acclaimed and highly influential chef proprietor of Nobu and Matsuhisa restaurants located across five continents. He now has forty-one restaurants and seven hotels around the world. In 1977, he moved to Los Angeles and opened his own restaurant in Beverly Hills ten years later. The restaurant quickly became a hot spot and was frequented by Hollywood celebrities, including Robert De Niro, who invited Nobu to set up a restaurant in Tribeca. At the age of twenty-four, he moved to Lima and opened a restaurant with the same name of Matsuei in partnership with his sponsor. In August 1994, the two opened up Nobu to critical acclaim. He worked at the restaurant Matsue Sushi in Shinjuku, Tokyo, for seven years and was invited by a regular cust