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Sakagura

  1. Grub Guides
    Where to Find New York’s Thirteen Coolest Izakayas, New and OldCherry, Chez Sardine, Sake Bar Hagi, and more.
    By Sierra Tishgart
  2. The Grub Street Diet
    Author David Rakoff Calms Himself by Keeping a Full Pantry“Tax day. Perhaps a sense of relief made me eat more, but I’d have gorged just as much had I been facing an audit.”
    By Vanita Salisbury
  3. Empire Building
    The Man Who Built Little TokyoDavid Chang’s East Village fiefdom is far from the largest one.
    By Daniel Maurer
  4. Lists
    Where Chang, Boulud, Bourdain, Canora, and Nawab Eat LateChefs pick their favorite late-night spots.
    By Daniel Maurer
  5. NewsFeed
    Wylie Dufresne Wins Tofu-Cooking ContestWylie’s miso soup with instant noodles killed them all.
  6. Foodievents
    Four Chefs to Face Off in Tofu BattleWho will tame tofu in sweet and savory ways?
  7. NewsFeed
    A Guided Tour of Pig Parts, Here in New Pork CityWhere to get the best parts of the pig, from snout to tail, according to ‘Time Out New York.’
  8. Ask a Waiter
    Sake Sommelier Chizuko Niikawa of Sakagura Serves $100 Bottles to Jean-Georges For three years Chizuko Niikawa has been a sake sommelier at hideaway Sakagura, the restaurant in the bowels of a midtown office building. In that time she’s served everyone from clueless first-daters to one of Japan’s most notorious soccer players (who apparently gets his feathers ruffled if he’s served vegetables) to a certain famous chef that she then knew only as Mr. Kakunko, a reference to his proclivity for dining at the bar with his favorite $100 bottle of sake for company. We asked her to clue us in about the art of sake.
  9. Foodievents
    Drink Japan Without Leaving Little Italy Sake has been the next big trend for so long that we’ve been loathe to recognize it now that it’s actually arriving. If, like us, you’re utterly mystified by the stuff (not being able to read the bottle is part of it), check out the Joy of Sake next week. The city’s biggest sake event will hit the Puck Building on Thursday featuring 300 different sakes, at least a third of which aren’t available outside of Japan. The restaurant lineup looks good too: Seventeen restaurants are creating dishes meant to be paired with sake, including wd-50, Sakagura, and 15 East. Tickets are $75 in advance, $90 at the door. Joy of Sake [Official Site]
  10. Restroom Report
    Basking in the Casks: Sakagura’s Five-Star Toilets Though we’re suckers for that new-bathroom smell (aah, the leather at Amalia, the pine at Morandi), every now and then we get the sudden urge to revisit those restrooms that really raised the watermark. One such classic lies deep in the bowels of a midtown office building, immediately beyond the hidden entry of perennial sake spot Sakagura.