Sake Night

Hi everyone,

Fun, fun, fun!!
It was packed with people at last night Tokyo Table Sake Night event.
There were more than 150 people who had enjoyed sake and sake cocktails with paired food. I hope people learned something about sake last night.

Here is a write up about the last Sake Night in Arcadia from latheplace.com


The Spectacle

What a site to behold! Two types of sake at each of the ten tables! Sushi for miles! DJ spinning tunes! Happy, beautiful Angelenos from all over town eating the finest sake and sushi to their hearts content (which took awhile because we all know what big hearts Angelenos have!).

The Layout

Upon walking in, I was treated to a site beyond my wildest sake sushi dreams. Stretching to my left and to my right were what seemed like an endless string of tables of different sake and sushi, carefully arranged by event expert Hideyuki Sakurai and masterfully assembled by Sake Sommelier Yuji Matsumoto, the Tokyo Table sake master who was brought in from the homeland of Japan to oversee the sake supply and choose the best sakes in Japan to stock Tokyo Table with.



The Experience

Sommelier Yuji Matsumoto is a sake master who represented the USA West Coast Region at the 2006 World Sake Sommelier Competition. Hideyuki Sakurai is a Director of New Store Openings who has opened fine dining establishments from all over LA to Honolulu. Together, they created a feast of dreams:

At each table, two types of top shelf sake and two types of succulent and oh-so-fresh sushi awaited. Cards were available at each table describing the offerings, and the friendly staff re-filled each cup with a beautiful smile, as teeming crowds of Angelenos became ever more sake’d and sushi’d out, or should I say, in.

The Sake

Let’s start off by saying that there were far too many varieties of sake to describe, but some of the options ranged from Kaguyahime, a Junmai from Kyoto, Japan with a refreshing aroma with sweet rice flavor; to Shirakabegura, a special full-bodied Junmai from Hyogo, Japan rich in rice flavor; to Kikusui, a Junmai Ginjo from Niigata, Japan with light to medium body and crisp, smooth aftertaste, to Daishichi Kimoto, a Junmai from Fukushima, Japan, with a smooth but pleasant and long-lasting after-taste, etc. You get the idea? This was going on at every table.

Suffice to say, by the end of the delectable rounds, I had learned about a whole new world of sake, and was amazed by the quality and distinct taste of each one of these hand-picked offerings. In fact, I was humbled. I have so much to learn! My mouth waters at the prospect.

Health Benefits

For the record, sake and sushi are two of the healthiest things on earth. As a matter of fact, in Japan with the rise in the sales of beer, wine and liquor, sake is now being diverted towards women’s cosmetics for its cleansing qualities, where the rice extract has proven to be beneficial to skin tone first and foremost while providing nutrient support for a whole range of cosmetic and dietary benefits.



Informative Staff