JR East Japan Hotels Group held their first-ever Craft Cocktail Competition this past Monday, September 24. The event was a showdown of 13 different bartenders assembled from various Metropolitan Hotel properties, where each developed a unique cocktail and offered it to both judges and event […]

Shuiku no Kai is a fairly new group and website (about a year old) that was established to spread knowledge about all aspects of drinking, and help the public have a better drinking life. In a way their mission is similar to that of this very […]

On November 11th Mrs. Whiskey Richard and myself attended the “Tsukiji Hashigo-shu,” a sake-themed pub crawl in the Tsukiji neighborhood where everything costs only 500 yen. This time the event featured 37 izakayas and restaurants, and I figured it’s a good opportunity to get to […]

On September 11, 2016, I went down to Yokohama to once again enjoy the Cocktail Cruise. Now in its sixteenth year, the Cocktail Cruise is always great way to get a sampling of what Yokohama has to offer from local bars. Read on to hear more about […]