Oh my stars! LiseS that sounds amazing! Here’s the rest of the tasting menu I had: ONE Four Raw Treatments-Smoked Salmon, Hamachi, Big-Eye-Tuna, and Albacore (Kubota Sake, Junmai Daiginjo, “Hekijyu”, Nigata, Japan)...

daiginjo selections. They graciously let you sample the sake before committing to a glass. . Best dishes of the night were: 1. “Lissa’s Staff Meal” Cuttlefish Noodles and Sea Urchin Tossed with Quail Eggs, Wasabi, Soy Sauce and...

yourself out in 1-1.5 hours. If you want atmosphere and decor with the slightest notch down in sushi perfection, Jewel Bako. Think of Yasuda as a sushi temple. It’s about the sushi and traditionalism and nothing but. Order a...

Thank you all for your suggestions. I hit the Bowl, and bought a delicious, though not cheap, Junmai Daiginjo called Junshinmuku from Shuzou. It’s “english” name is pretty classic...“Naive...

-40 different types of fish, 20-30 flown in from Japan daily, 5 grades of toro, 5 grades of fatty yellowtail, lightly fried blowfish, junmai daiginjo sake...average cost per person at Yasuda was $150/person but well worth the...

Daiginjo sake – my current favorite sake. She started with a seaweed salad, followed by a negi toro hand roll , salmon roe over daikon, and finished with zaru soba. I was tempted by the kaiseki dinner, but it is slightly...

oh, also Saito’s in Belltown has a fairly impressive sake menu, with sakes broken out by classification (ginjo, daiginjo, junmai, etc) as well as dryness rating.

listed on menu), accompanied perhaps by a glass of their Momokawa ruby sake (unfortunately they were out of Gekkeikan Horin daiginjo and Tsukasabotan shizuku), hamachi belly sushi, hamachi kama (collar)...

list is a full two pages long, with daiginjo on one side and ginjo and honjozo on the other, so if you get overwhelmed, it’s worth asking the staff for recommendations (along the lines of “I like X type of sake; what...

Depending on the Kubota it can be great. Manju is their premium and there are a couple of “secret” reserve brews which are even better, but only for those with connections. Their menu states "junmai daiginjo" which...

I have to confess: I used to hate sake, but there are a number of truly excellent ones available now: Junmai Daiginjo, Junmai-Ginjo, Daiginjo and Ginjo . . . I find that I enjoy sake now quite a bit. (Chilled — never that...

to make them tastier. My favorite $20-$40 Sake is Wakatake Daiginjo “Onikoroshi” , Mansaku no hana (Junmai Dai-Ginjo), and Akita Homare. Gekkeikan’s “Haiku” is also good for the price. Sake ages quickly...

conducting your own experiement. It’s grounds for breaking up friendships I tell you. As for what I had to drink. We ended up ordering two bamboo pitchers of the junmai daiginjo Hokusetsu sake. The junmai means that it was...

tiny sushi counter i was actually quite surprised by – not bad sushi and a good sake selection (they had Yuki No Bosha daiginjo from Akita which is a favourite) but i wouldn’t make a special effort to go there. i still...

Ssusu, good tip on Umi. Went back there for the 1st time since they opened and they have come a long way. I was a bit dubious looking at some of the fish in the display case but everything I ordered was excellent. The Mu daiginjo...