Nobu

    By Julie Tilsner

    | 4:15PM 6/24/2010
    Foodies in the foggy city rejoice! BlackboardEats.com, the online restaurant deal site, has launched its service in San Francisco. BlackboardEats.com is a subscription-based (free) newsletter that's already met with huge success in Los Angeles and New York. Subscribers get a proprietary passcode...

    By Julie Tilsner

    | 3:00PM 3/19/2010
    It's not easy being a foodie in the Great Recession. The cost for a night out at an interesting restaurant has gone up, but your income has gone down. What to do? Check out BlackboardEats.com, a new player in gastronomic circles that will help you dine out in the manner to which you were...

    By Julie Tilsner

    | 11:00AM 6/09/2009
    Just last month, our own Sarah Gilbert wrote about endangered bluefin tuna, continuing to sell briskly at trendy sushi bars in London and New York. The best the owners of Nobu London could do was write a recommendation that patrons not order the bluefin sushi (but you could if you wanted to, since...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 7:00PM 5/28/2009
    For years, Greenpeace has been after celebrity-studded sushi joint Nobu to stop serving the endangered bluefin tuna at its restaurants. Last year, the environmental activist group had tuna samples (not labeled as bluefin tuna) from Nobu's three London restaurants DNA tested, and discovered they...