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21 December 2015

Bar Kakinuma (Bar 柿沼 神楽坂), Kagurazaka, Shinjuku, Tokyo [retouched]

Lim Ken 21 December 2015 16:00 , , , , No comments :
"To shake, to serve". Bar located on the upper Kagurazaka, proudly very nice location.

The Gimlet in Bar Kakinuma had already described.

This bar, Bar Kakinuma is my favourite bar in Tokyo.
The bartender, name was Mr. Kakunuma was 30s, and one of the best young barman of who I know. He had very nice carrier of the Barman and service, once he have been in luxury hotel as the barman. He had very huge knowledge and technique to serve the cocktail and other beverage. He also knew the whiskeys, rums, tequila or sherry in the world. He usually serves the very classical style cocktails and is good at making the dry ones.
The bar has the various hard liquors like rums, sherries, tequilas and brandies. The barman selected very nice beverages for customers. If you like to stay with your friends to talk over the glasses, they have very lovely personal corner.

The lantern is the landmark of entrance of this bar. Up to the first floor! 
The several glasses, made in Japan, were lovely thin glasses, called as Usuhari (うすはり). This type of glasses were very nice touch to your lips with liquor texture. The tumbler include cocktail, like gin with tonic, highball or Mizuwari(水割, Japanese original drinking style for whiskey, twice or triple up with ice).
 
The bar counter is natural wood coated with varnish, but we can feel the texture of the wood from the counter. The length of the counter is five meter. The thickness is very nice for our drinking, it is not so thick but not thin. The sound on putting a glass with liquid on the wood is majestic and fine. For the customer, we have the enough space for relax and enjoying whiskey, Rum or cocktail. The austere but profound counter is the signature of this bar. The cocktails, whiskeys or other liquor which are served in this bar, are commensurate with this counter. In Kagurazaka, it seems that the counter condition reflected in the bartender’s ability.
Moving your eyes to the horizontal beamed sherves, funeture or entrance, the interior of this bar was modern Japanese. The counter is running through the room, like the bar. The shelves are motif from the Japanese sherves made alternatively as the traditional Shoin style(書院, personal library).
 
The bar counter was beautifully polished and showed lovely colour for the cocktails.
 I usually order some gin with tonic water, whisky and gimlet which is dry and a little bit sweet without lime juice as classical gimlet, like Gimblet.
On this photo, I ordered Moscow Mule. The cocktail was served with the chilled bronze cup. The Barman made with the original ginger syrup, vodka with pickled ginger and very dry ginger ale. The Moscow Mule was very nice for the hot days in Summer.
The contrast between white colour of the coaster and hot towel and the right brown colour of the wood was one of the beautiful scene in the daily life in Japan.
 

I hope you will use to have aperitif before supper and have some cigar and drinks after dinner, which I love how to use this bar. There are a lot of nice restaurant or bistro in upper Kagurazaka from Italian or French to Japanese. You will have very lovely evening with this bar.
場所:6 Chome Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tōkyō-to 162-0825, Japan

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