September 16, 2014
Atelier Dion has been an important part of the Umami Mart family since we first...
September 8, 2014
Menya Musashi's namesake is one Miyamoto Musashi, regarded as one of Japan's greatest swordsmen and...
September 1, 2014
I have allowed an unsuitable amount of time to pass before writing about our Fragrance...
August 25, 2014
Somewhere over the Atlantic, I wondered -- do the Turks just call it coffee and...
August 18, 2014
Meet Ryu Sasakura, a dashingly handsome, deeply empathetic, incredibly talented bartender, back in Tokyo after...
August 11, 2014
We're excited to announce upcoming events with collaborators in San Francisco that we greatly admire....
August 4, 2014
Ah, Kauai. We went over New Year's, to unwind after an exhaustive holiday season. Yoko...
July 31, 2014
We just completed our fourth shochu talk and tasting, this time at Alchemy Bottle Shop...
July 28, 2014
Guess what? It's our birthday! We're turning TWO years old (can you believe?!?!?!) and as...
July 21, 2014
Yoko and I first met bartender Tomokazu Kai in 2010, when we helped present an...
July 14, 2014
We've been event-crazy here at Umami Mart. We've put on one event every week in...
July 7, 2014
Yoko and I were lucky enough to be invited to Gifu prefecture in central Japan...