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Our entire Diamond Cut glassware line is on sale, including Toyo-Sasaki Hard Strong and our popular Diamond Cut Mixing Glasses, shaker, and bitters bottles!

Hello dear Umami Mart readers and loyal devotees! Holiday season is among us and I hope you are all geared up for a month of lame office parties, drawn-out family dinners and awful white elephant gift exchanges. Nah, it's not that bad, right? If there's...

Not many snacks require instructions, but you'll be left hungry if you don't play by the rules when eating an onigiri (rice ball). A traditional Japanese snack, onigiri is made of salted rice, loaded with a savory center, and wrapped in a seaweed jacket. The seaweed is usually wrapped in plastic,...

We are extremely excited to present yunomi (teacups) exclusively made for us by our dear friends Jay + Rie of Atelier Dion. They have been running their ceramic studio in West Oakland since 2010, and for years we've been in conversation with them...

Earlier this year, Yoko and I approached Wormfun (aka Kaoru Kumano) to be our Featured Artist in the Umamimart Shop's second season line. After working with Anders to create the Umamimart mug, Yoko and I thought to commission an artist to design...

Design, function and environmental sustainability were heavy on our minds when Yoko and I were thinking of new items to include in the Umamimart Shop. We wanted to include hashi (chopsticks) somehow, but all the ones we looked at were...