A bottle of junmai ginjo and two small cups on a stone bar

春 SpringSix pours with the omakase

Sake keeps the seasons too.

Four cellars, one for each season. Tonight we are pouring from the spring one.

Shiboritate 搾りたてSix pours$140 a head

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Sake poured from a flask into a dark cup

Tonight's six pours

Each one meets a course.

  1. 01

    Shiboritate

    Just pressed, unpasteurised

    With the sakizuke

  2. 02

    Junmai, warmed to 40°

    Round, rice-forward

    With the owan

  3. 03

    Daiginjo, Niigata

    Cold, pear and white flowers

    With the otsukuri

  4. 04

    Kimoto junmai

    Lactic, savoury

    Through the nigiri

  5. 05

    Yamahai, Ishikawa

    Wild, a little salt

    With the tamago and soba

  6. 06

    Sparkling nigori

    Cloudy, faintly sweet

    With the mizugashi

Poured at the counter, measured to the course. Tea and a house shrub for anyone not drinking.

Four cellars

The cellar open tonight is the season's own.

Take any of the four to read what it holds. Today's is open already.

A small bottle of just-pressed sake on a wooden table

Kō 1 to 18 · August to November

Shiboritate春

Just pressed and unpasteurised. Bright, with a little prickle.

Six pours open on a shiboritate from Niigata with the sakizuke, warm a junmai for the owan, and close on a sparkling nigori with the mizugashi.

Chilled sake poured into a small glass

Kō 19 to 36 · November to February

Natsuzake夏

Light and chilled, lower in alcohol, for warm nights.

Poured cold from glass, alongside the kingfish and the white peach.

A bottle of hiyaoroshi resting on a wooden board

Kō 37 to 54 · February to May

Hiyaoroshi秋

Brewed in winter, rested through summer, released once. Round and calm.

Poured at room temperature, alongside pine mushrooms and blue mackerel.

Wooden tokkuri flasks and cups set out for warm sake

Kō 55 to 72 · May to August

Kanzake冬

Warmed in a tokkuri to bring the rice forward.

Warmed to 45 degrees, alongside sea urchin and toothfish in saikyō miso.

Reservations

November opens Thursday 1 October.

Bookings open at 10am on the 1st of each month, for the month after. October is full; the waitlist is open.

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This is a concept site.

On the live site this opens Hanare's booking page, where seats are ticketed and the deposit is taken by card. Nothing is booked here.

For the demo, the release calendar and the remind-me list are on the reservations page.

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