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Extravagant dining without leaving Stadium 2. Being honest, one of the things that I enjoy most about our annual pilgrimage to the BNP Paribas Open (the tournament likes it when I use the official corporate name) is the dining. It’s an annual extravagant binge–in the fabled steak houses and the Italian and French restaurants spread out across the valley. But it looks like for 2014 we (and you, since you are going right?) can have some of that extravagance without actually leaving the grounds. The biggest news for this year is probably the new permanent Stadium 2. But, relevant to the dining issue, there are three high profile new restaurants in that new Stadium. One is Nobu. I actually went to the original Nobu in New York about 20 years ago and at that moment, it’s blend of Japanese and South American cuisine was the absolute latest (and most expensive…) food available in New York, which is quite a claim. The purpose of the new stadium is to watch more tennis right? Now Nobu is a world brand with locations in Vegas among other places. The food was mind blowing then, and I am sure it’ll still taste pretty good…