When you think 'Nobu' - the Japanese restaurant bearing the name of its chef creator Matsuhisa Nobu - it may bring to mind shiny celebrities attending London's swanky Mayfair venue as much to be seen as for the sushi.
So we arrived at the firm's latest venture, a collaboration between Nobu, actor Robert De Niro, film producer Meir Teper and Australian businessman James Packer, wary we might find Hollywood style over city-stay substance.
Nobu Hotel Shoreditch, it turns out, is super stylish - but the night away also left us feeling relaxed, well-fed and happy.
Turning a corner off Great Eastern Street after a 10 minute walk from Old Street station, the hotel rose, perhaps a little incrongruously amid the exposed brick of Shoreditch, like an
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