When Chef Nobu Matsuhisa catered the Golden Globes in January 2024, the result was an immediate sensation — a radical and welcome change from the parade of familiar awards meals. Chef Nobu promises that the Jan. 5, 2025, meal will be even better.

“The presentation is very important,” he said recently from the Beverly Hilton kitchen where he and his team will be working. To ensure variety in the eating, there will be both hot and cold food in each serving, with every item “visually different. It’s very exciting.”

He downplays the pressure. While a beautiful introduction to the meal is key, it’s difficult to present everything to nearly 1,000 individuals in a very limited time frame.

Guests will have an array of offerings, including Yellowtail Jalapeno, Sashimi Salad, Tai Matsuhisa Nigiri, Salmon Nigiri, Tuna Nigiri and one of the restaurants’ trademark meals, the Miso Black Cod. There will be a mix of last year’s fare plus some new offerings; instead of last year’s tartar, they are going with a Caviar Taco, for example.

This year, there will be more that’s familiar to fans of the world’s 50-plus Nobu restaurants.

“Many guests know my food, like Black Cod. We will have more signature dishes and some new ones, making each course exciting,” he says.

There will also be a new Golden Roll, created this year in honor of the awards. It is also being served at three Southland Nobu restaurants, Dec. 1 through Jan. 5.

The new dish has proven “quite successful” at the restaurants, says Chef Gregorio Stephenson, a key member of the Nobu team.

Chef Gregorio adds that there will be more food for guests who may be late to the dinner because of being detained by red-carpet interviews.

Landing Nobu to serve the meals was a coup for the Globes and Dick Clark Prods., and it’s a tribute to the extremely popular Nobu that the BevHilton would open its kitchen to outsiders. (“I’ve never seen that done before,” marveled one awards veteran).

The ceremony will take place Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton. The 82nd annual Golden Globes, the first major award show of the season, will air live at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on CBS and stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the special airs.