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Last Thursday, we celebrated a momentous occasion – Kayoko's 36th birthday! Collaborating with our friends at Holy Mountain, we threw a party that we dubbed Kayoko's Cherry Blossom Cobbler Birthday Festival 3000.

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If you've never been to Holy Mountain, you're missing out. Perched above Hawker Fare's San Francisco location on Valencia Street, it's exactly the kind of watering hole you'd want from a place that gives props to Alejandro Jodorowsky's epic surrealist film. Dimly lit in an eerily beautiful way with just the right vintage decor and artwork, there's a feeling that anything could happen up on this Mountain.

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And you'd never know from being downstairs at Hawker Fare...

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Back to KCBCF3000: As the event's name suggests, there were Cobblers (drinks made with muddled fruit and spirits, shaken in a Cobbler shaker). In fact, there were two Cobbler drinks that night:

Behold, the Sherry Cobbler:

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and the Cherry 3000 Cobbler:

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Both made in these well-loved Cobbler shakers.

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Here's what else we had that night. Luckily we took a photo of the menu, because we're still a little fuzzy from all those delicious drinks...

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So, so many drinks...

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And yes, there were cherry blossoms everywhere.

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Thanks to Holy Mountain for hosting and all our wonderful friends who joined us for the night. We'll do it again next year!

Photos by Yoko Kumano