noda — Restaurant in New York

Dined here on July 14th.

I have dined at ALL the Michelin starred restaurant in nyc, and yet, never had this kind of an experience like I had at Noda.

As we were just about to start the dinner, our sommelier (his name was John) insisted that I should do the sake pairing because I looked like I would the “flashy guy.” No clue what that meant but I said I’m not a big sake guy, however, he kept on insisting I should do the pairing which I had to end up saying straight no because he seemed too persistent about it.

Throughout the night, we were ordering drinks from John, he seemed almost as rude every time we ordered something he didn’t want us to order. He even close the menu book super loud middle of the dinner as he was making a statement after taking my order for a beer…

At the end of the night he was giving everyone a drink as he was saying “male guest gets the whiskey and female guests shall get this fruit shots.” I ended up getting the fruit one when other male guests clearly received glasses of whiskey. Regardless of his intentions were, If you were going to serve everyone a drink, it shouldn’t have been presented this way at a Michelin starred restaurant where we all pay over 400 dollars just to dine.

Lastly, couple days after I checked my Amex and I found out that it was charged double for my drinks at Noda… A drink or two mistakes would have been understanding but I just don’t know how they would make mistakes by double the amount, literally.

As previously mentioned I have dined and documented every single Michelin starred restaurant in the city and it was actually second time dining at Noda (wanted to check their new location and dinner menu).

Noda simply does not deserve their 1 star review any longer. The restaurant clearly lost its vision to serve every customer with respect, instead all they care about was making extra dollars.

Highly recommend staying away from this restaurant and book any other Michelin starred Omakase on tock...

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