noauth

http://artrocity.net/ and other websites.
(google "nobu london bluefin")

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Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009
Renowned Restaurant Nobu Warns Diners Not to Eat Its
Endangered Tuna

MMmmm sushi…

Celebrity hotspot and renowned Japanese restaurant Nobu has

It calls the $50 dish on its own menu “environmentally challenged.”
It asks patrons to “ask your server for an alternative.” … estimates
breeding stocks could disappear in just three years, because his
Japanese chefs insist upon it.

gerry

On 2009-06-18 21:27:17 -0700, noauth <anon@remailer.gabrix.ath.cx> said:


I wonder why they offer it if they don't want to serve it.

Sorta like a vegetarian restaurant that offers beef but warns you it is
a terrible thing to eat and the cooks are disgusted by the process of
cooking it and the servers are horrified to bring it to you.
--
Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.

anonymous

I think they are more than happy to serve it at $50 a pop.
However, some groups are drawing attention to the bluefin
problem so Nobu is now recommending alternatives. See:
<http://gawker.com/5046443/nobu-busted-for-secretly-selling-endangered-sushi>

gerry

On 2009-06-20 10:17:49 -0700, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton@verizon.net> said:


Precisely. I use to frequent restaurant that had a fabulous Chilean
seabass in a light tomato broth. A new menu popped up that looked just
the same, with the seabass listed, but instead of a description of the
preparation, there was their rationale for why they were not providing
it after 10 years of popularity. I thought that was pretty cool and
frankly--for me--educational.

It was even better than simply stripping it off the menu without explanation.
--
Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.