I hadn’t been to Europe since 2008 so I was delighted to learn recently that the summer ICANN meeting this year would be in Brussels. I’ve been pretty behind on
posting to Sake World with work being exceptionally crazy so I wanted to make sure to find and write about a memorable sake experience this trip. [...]
On a recent business trip to New York my colleague Dave Hauser and I dropped by Robataya in the East Village for a late dinner. Dave is originally a west coast guy where they know a bit about Japanese food so I was looking to show him some of New York’s best. Robatya was definitely [...]
It’s had to believe that it’s 2010 and that I haven’t made a post in Sake World since before Thanksgiving! The combination of the holidays, some crazy travel, and an insane year-end at work has unfortunately kept me away from the blog, but the good news is I’ve had several great sake experiences and thus [...]
Sakagura restaurant is the reason I love saké. This past week while attending the Ad Tech conference in New York I had a chance to take a couple of clients there. Sakagura is located in midtown East in Manhattan and has over 500 sakés on the menu. I’ve been going there for over five years [...]
Best Sushi in Canada – believe it or not….
When I scheduled a dinner meeting with friend and client Bill Sweetman in Toronto two weeks ago, I knew the restaurant would be a good one. To call Bill a “foodie would be a complete understatement. Bill prides himself in being up on the best restaurants in [...]
Fall in New England is my favorite time of year. The temperature is perfect for outdoor activities like hiking and mountain biking, soccer season starts and I can watch my kids remember how to kick the ball again after a crazed summer of trips and vacation, but most of all I love fall because it’s [...]
Mark Umphrey was my fraternity brother at Phi Gamma Psi at the University of Lowell. While I hadn’t seem Mark in quite some time, I was terribly saddened to attend his wake this past Friday. Later that evening we toasted Mark with good friends and sake and shared memories of the Ump.
Cold sake and mountain biking are two of my favorite things to do. On the surface they seem like total opposite ends of the leisure spectrum. Sake is best consumed in a relaxed environment with food and friends. It’s very social and the high alcohol content means you don’t generally want to be moving at [...]
Rockport Massachusetts is on the tip of Cape Anne, a rocky peninsula 30 miles northeast of Boston. Cape Anne was settled in 1624 and was the 3rd colony in New England, just after Plymouth and Nantasket. Just west of Rockport on Cape Anne is the fishing town of Gloucester. The movie The Perfect Storm was [...]
As I was driving to my next meeting in Toronto I stopped at my favorite cigar place in the entire world. For cigar fans Frank Correnti Cigars on King St is the place. I discovered them while living in Toronto in 2000 (I don’t know where Sam the shoe shine man from the Westin is [...]
