Nobu Matsuhisa
(Picture: James Anastasi )Sitting in the luxurious surroundings of his Old Park Lane restaurant, Nobu Matsuhisa’s eyes are — for the second time in our interview — brimming with tears.
‘I still get emotional thinking about it,’ he says, as we discuss the suicide of his friend Sakai. This was a man who, at Matsuhisa’s lowest ebb, played a key part in helping the 73-year-old create what has, for almost three decades, been one of the world’s most recognisable status symbols: Nobu.
