On Feb 10th and 11th this year, Hakkaisan and Hakubai Restaurant at the Kitano Hotel in New York, celebrated two nights of wonderful kaiseki Valentine’s dinners. Executive Chef Yukihiro Sato prepared 6 courses of imaginative and visually stunning kaiseki that got everyone in the Valentine’s spirit.
Hakkaisan SakesThe event was “couples only” and Kitano Deputy [...]
Next in our series of interviews with Hakkaisan workers is Mr. Katsumi Nakazawa. Nakazawa-san is the Manager of Hakkaisan’s Tokyo office and a long time Hakkaisan employee. He oversees sales and promotional activities out of the the Hakkaisan Tokyo office. He’s a big fan of Hakkaisan Futsushu and Honjozo sakes, which he [...]
Hi, my name is Timothy Sullivan. I’m a sake Samurai and run a sake website called UrbanSake.com. I’m delighted to have been invited by Hakkaisan to visit them in Japan and report regularly on their website about what I see and experience! This is an exciting chance to show you first hand [...]
On January 21st we celebrated a new year’s party called “Sake Shinnenkai 2012″ at our favorite Izakaya, Kasadela. http://www.kasadela.com/
Ms Chizuko Niikawa, the CEO of Sake Discoveries worked to organized this great party. She arranged for several brewery’s sake to be served at the party. Thank you, Chiz!
TebasakiHakkaisan joined the party and I served our [...]
LOG ENTRY 1: Chelsea NYC
“It’s like the cleanest water ever!” said Jim. I asked him if sake was the cleanest water ever. He said,
“no, no. Hakkaisan is the cleanest water ever. I don’t know whether they use the cleanest water
ever to make it, but it tastes like the cleanest water ever. [...]
Next in our series of interviews with Hakkaisan friends and brewery workers is Mr. Tsuneo Suzuki. He is the well respected Hakkaisan technical adviser on sake brewing known to everyone as Suzuki-sensei. With decades of experience, Suzuki-sensei is the go to guy for brewing questions, advice and sake research by the staff. [...]
