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Sake! Bento! Tampopo!

Saké Nomi screens the ultimate foodie film next Tuesday.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on May 16, 2011 at 08:36AM 0 Comments

Watch Tampopo while you sip sake and eat bento next Tuesday.

I called into Saké Nomi yesterday to get details on its plan to screen the movie Tampopo next Tuesday, May 24.

The deal is this: the film—more on that in a minute—will be shown on the big flat screen behind the bar at the Pioneer Square sake emporium beginning at 6:30pm.

The situation will accommodate 15 to 20 people. All of these people need to RSVP by Friday, May 20 or earlier so that the store can order them bento boxes from Indigo Bento, which cost $16.50.

To those of you who haven’t seen Tampopo, and also to those of you who have seen it but want to see it again and are frustrated by its unavailability on Netflix: here’s your chance. This movie is amazing. Made in 1985, it’s basically deceased director Jûzô Itami’s love song to food with lots of little interwoven stories that center around a noodle shop (the owner is named Tampopo). You’ll laugh, you’ll crave noodles, you may feel a little embarrassed watching sex scenes with strangers. We’re Americans, that happens to us. But no matter! Just drink a little more sake to loosen you up. It will be available by the glass.

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Tags: Pioneer Square, Film, Sake

Drinking Events This Week: What You Need To Know

More tickets to Sorrento’s whiskey class, details on sake benefit for Japan, and so on.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 28, 2011 at 03:56AM 0 Comments

Fill ’er up. Plenty of drinking events on the agenda this week.

1. The rum dinner at Daniel’s Broiler scheduled for Tuesday, March 29 has been canceled. Seattle boozephiles will flock instead to meet cocktail legend Dale Degroff at Kathy Casey Studios in Ballard.

2. More tickets have been made available for the previously sold out whiskey conversation on Thursday, March 31 at the Sorrento. Get those here. Proceeds from this $25 talk on Japanese and Kentucky-ese whiskies will go to Doctors Without Borders and its relief efforts in Japan.

3. It’s Hop Scotch time. This annual bonanza of craft beers and booze flights happens April 1 and April 2 at Fremont Studios. I say this every year but buy your tickets in advance or get there early! Lines happen at Hopscotch. Remember too: the whole “beer me” thing has run its course. Please don’t ask the poor volunteers behind the taps to beer you. They are volunteering, after all.

4. In other drinking for Japan news, Saké Nomi’s benefit for earthquake and tsunami victims is officially set for Friday, April 1 at 6pm. Tickets are $40; that includes four appetizers from Umami Kushi and a bunch of sake tastings. The store will be showcasing sakes from the Tohoku region in Northeast Japan, site of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11.

Proceeds here will go to Peace Winds America, a Seattle-based organization working to help Japanese disaster victims. Call the store at 206-467-7253 to reserve your ticket.

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Tags: Whiskey, Drinking Events, Sake, Seattle Cocktail Scene, Japan Relief Efforts, Cocktail Luminaries in Town

Introducing: Sake in Seattle

A new business aims to break the ice with rice wine.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Oct 12, 2010 at 12:45PM 4 Comments

Sake: Something to talk about.

Fancy Frenchwood (love that name) is the owner of a new business called Sake in Seattle. Here’s what she does: She goes to events and hosts sake tastings. Frenchwood says she’s long observed a lot of awkwardness at networking functions, and felt like she wanted to start a business that would help people ease into conversation.

The reason this works with sake makes sense. People don’t know a lot about it, and they don’t feel like they have to know a lot about it, so they don’t get all uptight like they do at wine tastings. You start talking about how you didn’t know sake could be sweet, or served chilled, and the next thing you know you’ve got a new job. Or a new boyfriend. Or, at the very least, a good buzz.

Isn’t it interesting that we, as a city, host hundreds and hundreds of events, all aimed at just talking to one another, and yet we feel we need some sort of premise in order to actually start talking to one another? I find it rather amazing.

Anyway, you can hire Frenchwood to come conduct a sake tasting at your wedding or private party, or you can just go to an event that’s hired her.

Man, I love sake. Almost as much as I hate the word “networking.”

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Tags: Booze News, Drinking Culture, Business Trends, Sake