September 29, 2014
Heyyyy, Happy Hour is BACK! I spent all weekend trying to come up with a...
September 25, 2014
Alchemy Bottle Shop opened this year in March on Grand Avenue in Oakland. Owners Tova...
September 22, 2014
Pro tips from a chef on how to take care of – and clean –your cast iron pan.
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...