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Umami Mart celebrates its 4th birthday with Coedo Brewery, Ramen Shop, Abura-Ya, Casa de Kei, FOB Kitchen, B-Dama, others. Part of Oakland Beer Fest.

Learn when, why, and how to use syrups to make sodas, cocktails, and mocktails, and three recipes to make yourself at home using fresh fruit, spices, herbs.

Get ready for SAKQUESO!, our first dinner event with Timothy Sullivan of Hakkaisan Brewery and Casa de Kei...

A Sake Gumi members-only field trip to Sequoia Sake Brewery in San Francisco. Featuring facility tour and a sake tasting with food pairing. Limited tickets!

Enjoy a three course dinner paired with sake at Camino restaurant in Oakland. Take home your very own Hard Strong sake glass too!

A free coffee tasting with Oakland's Red Bay Coffee. Sample single-origin coffees – Sumatra Honey, East Fourteenth, and King's Prize – before you buy.

For the fifth anniversary of the Tohoku disaster, we are teaming up with the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley to bring you TOHOKU SPRINGS BACK, an evening of food, drinks, music and dancing.

Join us at the Trappist in Oakland for Japan Beer Fest on Jan 24, 2016 for 20+ Japanese craft beers and Ramen Shop fried rice!

The fourth annual Hanukkah celebration at Umami Mart with Erin Gleeson of The Forest Feast and Rabbi Jack. Latkes and cider served.