Eat, Drink, Sleep @Tokyo, Now in Nagasaki

This bar was located on the first floor in the multi-tenant building. From the ground floor, there was only stirs to first floor, next to the mustard & wine A restaurant (former Chinese tapas Renge). The customer who coming into this bar will face to the bar counter and a painting of Rooster as the symbol of the bar.

"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.

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.

Bar Waverley [Shian-bashi area, Doza machi side]
This bar was named from the station in Edinburgh. The selection of Whiskey was lovely selected. The Barman will serve various traditional standard cocktails from Gin with tonic to Cosmoporitan. The beer is also the signature drink of this bar.


Sakae Bar [Shian-bashi area, Kajiya machi side]
The martini, generally named Vesper martini, was very nice. The high life magazine from British Airways describe as the bar for Martini in Nagasaki. Fruit cocktail will also be nice for ladies.


Bar Archive [Nagasaki Station area]
The Newest bar in Nagasaki. Convienient from Nagasaki main station. There are premium beer, Scotch or Japanese Whiskey selection and liqours. The barman will serve classical style of cocktails. Several hotels are very near to this bar.


Bar Strand [Shian-bashi area, Doza machi side]


Bar IF [Shian-bashi area, Kajiya machi side]

The old fashioned American taste cocktails in Main Bar, Tokyo Kaikan





 

I ordered gin with tonic and gimlet on my visiting. I heard a lot of old book lovers visited to this bar after bought the targeted books and opened the book on the counter with happy faces. The sweet smell of the old book will be lovely marriage to the Speyside whiskey.

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The newest bar spot in Nagasaki

This bar entrance is likely as the Viennese café which has the heavy curtain which were hung in the entrance. In the late autumn to winter season, this curtains shut out outside cold wind and air in the public space of this bar, are will be very useful for the visitor. The interior and furniture are shown like the British style of this public bar.

The interior was conservative but gave the relaxed atmosphere to the guests. The red brown colour of Rose wood were nice accents in your view. Orange lights were nicely reflected from a lot of glasses. The space was small but comfortable .


The cocktails are lovely because the bartender has training in the famous and popular bar named Bar Waverly located in the city centre of Nagasaki. I had Gin with tonic, Side car and dry Martini on my first visiting bar. All cocktails were nice quality and very traditional style.

I was very surprised at that he serving the Master’s dream beer from the Suntory premium Malts series. The flavour and taste of this brand is very lovely in Japan. The bars where serve this brand beer is very rare. The bartender will serve you one of the best beer with his careful maintenance of beer server and skilful technique.

The nearest hotels are Wingport Nagasaki, Hotel Cuore Nagasaki, Apa hotel Nagasaki station (in front of the satation) and Chisan inn Nagasaki. The master of this bar welcome to your visiting. If you will visit this bar for your drinking, the barman will help you at Nagasaki city.

9-7 1F Daikoku-cho, Nagasaki city

The renovated classic hotel bar in Bangkok

The Bamboo bar was located in the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok. The renovation in the main building is now running in this hotel. This bar had firstly been renovated and re-opened on this February 2015.

All furniture was designed based on original Bamboo bar originally located in Authors' wing.

The several original signature drinks were famous with Thaijito or negroni etc. I had ordered Thaijito, classical cocktail from this bar and Liquid cigar, infusion cocktail.
The bartenders were very good at producing the new infusion cocktails. On my visiting, I tried the liquid cigar. which was served with leaves of cigar. The base liquor was Ron Zacapa 23yo infusion with the Montecristo. The taste and flavour was nicely sweet but some bitter from the cigar leaves. The smell were based on the cigar without of the smoke.


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Like James Bond? No, command him.




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Martini in Nagasaki? Visit Sakae bar!

It was come from the bartender mistake. But it has shown me what is the Sakae bar style martini.
One Sunday in summer, I have been this bar to enjoy the last drink of the weekend. Then I just had a seat at the counter, I have ordered a glass of vodka martini. After a moment's thought, the lady bartender search her notebook to find the recipe. I was wondering whether she did not know the vodka martini recipe. She prepared the bottles; lillet, Gordon gin, grace goose. She measured and shake them and poured into the martini glass.  The colour of cocktail  was a little bit yellow coming from the Lillet. Her shake was very soft and completely nice for this cocktail. Eva Green would not have made a moue of discontent if she had this cocktail. The harmony of the bitter, fruity and dry had been complete on one glass. The cocktail was Vesper martini.
I have found the article about this bar in the feature about the Bond's Skyfall movie on the high life magazine from the British airways

The interior was very authentic. The black rock counter made us feeling cool in summer. The spot right is on the glass filled with cocktail or liquor. This bar will also serve whisky, fruit cocktail or cigar.

This bar is located in the quiet area in city centre of Nagasaki. From the window, we will find the storehouse for the float named the spouting of a whale. This float will be used for the Okunchi festival which is normally held on early October in Nagasaki. The chef bartender is looking forward to joining in the Okunchi festival as the duty of town. The dragon dance, known as Ja-odori, is one of the famous and popular piece in Okunchi festival. The float of the spouting of a whale is popular as the whale blows the water from its top. I am a fun of  this float since I met it two years ago. The people of Nagasaki who love to eat and live together with whale, express their love as the Whale float (I will write about the whale food in Nagasaki in future). SS(sea Shepard, the trademark of similar to Nazi SS) or IS (they also have similar mark as SS) are not able to express their principal as this float. You will find this float every seven years, because the duty will rotate around the towns by year by year.

The cocktail will very nice for you. The barman had signature victory in a lot of championship. His cocktail has been the lovely harmony in one glass of cocktail. The gimblet I have ordered on my visiting was very nice harmony on the glass. The clashed ice pieces have shown as the snow on the glass.

I hope this bar staff improve technique beyond the history of the hotel.


The American bar in Savoy hotel is one of the famous bars in London. In the evening, a lot of ladies and gentlemen come and sit on a stool at the bar counter to enjoy their glass of cocktail and time. The barman or other staffs seemingly were proud of the occupation in this bar. The orange light was reflected from the brass in the furnishings.


This bar is very famous in the world as published cocktail book named “The Savoy cocktail book” which was the bible of the bartenders. The first book was written by Harry Craddock who was the chef bartender.


I had a glass of Gin with tonic, Rum with soda and gimlet on my visiting. The technique of bartender and presentation of the cocktail were nice, but the taste or flavour was unfortunately not so good. All cocktails are very wet.


The Gin with tonic was not bad. The premium Gin, No.3 gin from BBR had hugely helped the barman’s skill.


The Rum with soda was very bad; just brown liquid with bubble and no smells of the sweetness like caramel from Pusser’s. The long cocktails added some mineral water, soda or tonic water were called “Wari-mono (割りもの)” in Japanese. Some skilful bartenders always tell me the ratio of the liquor and added soda or tonic water. The Balance of the ratio had been broken.


The last one was not worthy of the name of the American bar. The gimlet was very wet and smell of lemon. The balance between bitter, sour and sweetness has lost after shaken. The barman had shown the cutting the ice in front of me. The edge of ice cube was dull to give huge surface area to the ice cube. On using the dull edge ice cube, all cocktail has gotten wet on service and had lost the flavours from liquor or fruits.


The Service of the bar was great. The barman or staffs listened to me; the English was very poor. I hoped this bar will be the sacred place for hard drinkers or bartenders to get a wonderful glass of cocktail.

“Tell me at which bar and what you drink and I will tell you what you are.”


 To drink to be satisfied himself or herself is very difficult; to drink to be drunk will be easy.








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The British public house(Pub) in Kagurazaka

There are small counter for 5people, some tables and high tables and barrel from the Chichibu distillery in this pub. The white wall, dark brown floor and black or dark green furniture are shown the traditional Scottish pub atmosphere in the United Kingdom. The brass knobs or goods on the counter are shining with warm yellow light. Some cloths like souvenirs from Scotland add the colour in this pub. The customer can choose their style on drinking, standing, sitting on the high counter or the table space.




 

After you stay in the hot spring bath, you will feel very sturb. On the dinner, you can choose from the French or Japanese resetaurant. The French restaurant served the courses with vegitable and meat from Shimabara. They can serve the french full course from apetiser to cheese and desert and very nice wine list from their selar.
After dinner, you can have several glasses of alcohol in the Bar. The bar interior made very classical atmosphere. The wood small counter has just three or four stools. The touch feeling of the counter is very confortable. The floor was decorated with the tile which were calm colour and has aged polished shining.

The bar is  located near the Saint Paul metro Station in Paris. There are Place de Vouge, Marais and Bastille etc, very famous sightseeing spots around the bar. The bar stands as other bistro or boutique in Paris, once I passed through in front of the bar. When you go into the door, the low light and wood interior is very comfortable.

The barman knows the service on the counter and has the skill for the very basic cocktail. In addition, he may try the new frontier like mixology or some other idea from cooking like Japanese or patissier.
 At first, I ordered one glass of Gimlet as the first time I visit. He has shaken as the modern recipe and with lemon and lime peal to add the flavour into the drink. He also decorated the glass like knife curved lemon peal like Itamae, Japanese chef. The taste and feeling on my tongue is one of the best gimlet on my experience. The cocktail was well shaken, to get chilled, changed like milk white creamy. And he added the citrous flavour into that.  I like very dry but beautiful balance gimlet among sweet, bitter and sour as the Barman at Bar Kakinuma, Japan usually makes. The Paris taste shown me the new European idea of cocktail.


 The flavour and taste is really mixology idea cocktail. But the bartender skill is perfect in the basic of cocktailogy and knowledge in all around of  liquid.
 They also serve a lot of whisky but I have no chance to try that. I will return there.

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The Bar was located on the top of the hill in Kagurazaka, in front of the metro station Kagurazaka.

The exterior is very exclusive, we cannot look inside the bar, like Japanese old town house, named Machiya(町家). Once we go into the bar, we will find the bar counter made from cheek wood and the nice only seven chairs and the set of table for four person. The interior looks like as the 70s Japasese mordean bar or living room. The 60s to 70s houses had the stools like this bar, like my hall in my home town.
The bartender is very famous in Japan as the cocktail maestro, the name is Mr. Shinbashi. He serves with very soft talking but has some strong opinion about the cocktail and beverage in his bar.

On my visiting, I ordered a glass of whiskey, Gimlet and vodka martini. The basic cocktails are very nice. The Gimlet was served with the classical style, not classical resipe. A glass with tall foot was intaken the gimlet with ice. The taste is very nice balanced with soure, bitter and sweet, the soure was a little bit strong on the three.
The vodka martini is also nice. He made it with Finlandia and white velmot, Dolin Chambery Dry. The stearing is very controled, very dry, not wet, and smellfull of vermot. The taste was strong but the comfort and beatiful smell of vermot was running throught my nose. Normally I prefer the shaken vodka martine, sometime called Bond martini, but he showed me his thecknick of stearing.

The bar open from Tuseday to Sunday, 1400-2300. Before you reaching, I recommend you to make reservation for your seat.You will find what the real of Japanese bar is.
The bar is always crowded with the cocktail geek, then I go to Bar Kakinuma, my most favourite one.

Phone: +81 3-6228-1232
Web: http://www.sanlucar.jp/

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