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Upcoming Event: Free Tasting with Q Drinks and Workhorse Bitters
November 13, 2015
Saturday Nov. 14 from 12-3 p.m. at Umami Mart. Get ideas for inventive drinks to serve at your upcoming holiday party using Workhorse bitters and Q Drinks!
Announcing the Studio Arhoj Pop-Up @ Umami Mart
November 9, 2015
We’re excited to announce that Danish design and ceramics makers Studio Arhoj will have its first U.S. pop-up shop inside Umami Mart
Upcoming Event: Runoff Book Release Party with Tom Manning
November 3, 2015
Runoff Book Release Party with creator Tom Manning Get your book signed by Tom, enter a raffle drawing, and look through Tom’s original art and illustration tools!
Upcoming Event: Stirred Not Shaken: Learn to Mix Cocktails and Take the Tools Home! (SF)
September 3, 2015
A lesson in cocktail history and tutorial on how to stir cocktails at the Forgery in San Francisco
Upcoming Event: Single Origin Tasting with Horiguchi Coffee
August 27, 2015
Our second free tasting with Tokyo-based Horiguchi Coffee featuring Flower and Juicy #2, and single-origin Ethiopia and Kenya blends.
Upcoming Event: 3rd Annual Umami Mart MATSURI
July 27, 2015
Wow guys, THREE YEARS!!! Can you believe we have been open in Old Oakland for...
Upcoming Event: Hakkaisan Brewery Sake Tasting @ Alchemy Bottle Shop
July 23, 2015
It's been a crazy sake week here at Umami Mart -- first we launched the...
Upcoming Event: Horiguchi Coffee Tasting
June 16, 2015
We are thrilled to host a complimentary coffee tasting this Saturday with Horiguchi Coffee, a...
UMAMI MART BOTTLE SYSTEM OPENING PARTY
April 6, 2015
We can not tell you how fun it has been at Umami Mart since we've...
Upcoming Event: How to Grow Japanese Herbs with Kitazawa Seed Co. + Namu Farm
March 23, 2015
We are excited to announce a special morning event with our great friends Maya Shiroyama...
Upcoming Event: 2nd Annual Japan Beer Fest
January 19, 2015
As Yoko and I are putting together our events calendar for the year, we are...
Upcoming Event: Meet Shrub & Co. (OAK)
December 2, 2014
The holidays are coming and we are hosting a few exciting events to get you...