Tuesday, January 22
Networking Evening With Young Professionals
Join Japan Society for their first San Francisco YPG Happy Hour of 2008 at Sozai. We will have happy hour special drinks and food Until 7:00PM
Date: Tuesday, January 22
Time: 6:00pm-
Location: Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge
Address: 1500 Irving St., SF CA 94122 (@16th Ave)
TEL: 415.681.7150
Transportation: N train, 7 and 71 bus
Parking: Difficult - relatively easy on Lincoln or near Andronico’s Market on 14th
If you are interested, please R.S.V.P. by calling Japan Society at 415.986.4383 (Makenna Barris).
Please download the menu at the following link: Valentine’s Day Dinner (PDF)
Dinner is served at both 6:00 and 8:00 PM.
As a class for Japanese culture and language workshop, we’re holding a Sushi making class at Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge.
You will learn:
- history of sushi
- how to make 4 types of rolls
- table manners
- Japanese around sushi
Date: Tue, 3/2
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Fee: $55-$70
Location: Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge
Address: 1500 Irving St., SF CA 94122
Tel: 415.681.7150
Transportation & Parking: N-Juda at 16th or 7 and 71 bus; parking is street (relatively easy on Lincoln)
Please call Japan Society at 415.986.4383 for details.
We will provide types of sake and the food to go with. Beau will explain about these high-end Sakes. It is an experienced Sake consumer event and the seats are limited (only 25). If you stay at Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge for dinner after the sake pairing, you will get 10% off your bill.
Date: Tue, 3/25
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Fee: $60
Location: Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge
Address: 1500 Irving St., SF CA 94122
Tel: 415.681.7150
Transportation & Parking: N-Juda at 16th or 7 and 71 bus; parking is street (relatively easy on Lincoln)
Please call True Sake at 415.355.9555 to make a reservation with deposit of $25.
More event details.
On Thursday, May 8th, from 6:30 - 8:30, enjoy the taste of spring sake and other premium sake selections from Joto Sake importers. Our guest host from Joto Sake will be pouring Watarabune Namasake, a special limited sake from a new brewer in the importer’s portfolio. It will be paired with a special Shiso Pork Gyoza to highlight the tastes of spring! Additionally, we will be pairing the Yuki no Bosha Akitahonmachi Dai Ginjo with a selection of Assorted Sushi (Maguro, Salmon, Scallops), and the Chikurin Fukamari (”Depth”) Junmai Sake with a Spring Bamboo Shoot and Kobe Beef Stew. Call us at 681-7150 to reserve your space for this special sake pairing next Thursday, May 8th!!
Take mom (or mother-to-be) to Sozai for a tasty East-meets-West brunch experience, complete with Sake Mimosas and Sake Mojitos to enjoy on a warm Sunday afternoon. We will be serving brunch from 11 to 2 pm, then will be open for dinner from 5:30. Call us at 681-7150 for reservations and check this page for menu updates throughout the week.
Click this link, www.sakeday.com, to buy tickets for Sake Day 2008, taking place next Wednesday, October 1st, at Fort Mason Center’s Golden Gate Room. With seven vendors, five sake stations, and five food and sake pairings, you are sure to leave as a sake samurai. Along with a live Okinawan band, multiple raffles and giveaways, this is a truly definitive sake and cultural event. Go to www.sakeday.com to buy tickets and get more information, or call 415-681-7150 to arrange to buy tickets at Sozai Restaurant.
Join us on Monday Dec. 8th as a brewmaster from Sam Adams helps us explore pairing Sozai’s signature tapas plates with four different Sam Adams beers, all for only $20! Four half-pints plus four tapas plates for $20, leaving you plenty of room for Sushi and Kushi (all our kushiyaki and kushiage menu items) all Monday night long! Call 681-7150 to make a reservation, or e-mail Gil to reserve at gil@marisfood.com. Sam Adams - Brewer, Patriot, beerman!
We want you and your special someone to join us for our 2nd annual, very special Valentine’s Day Kaiseki Dinner at Sozai, Saturday, February 14th. We are offering two scrumptuous, six course prix fixe menus: a Japanese menu and a California Fusion menu. There are two seatings: 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM. The 6:30 seating has the full six course menus, or, for only $35 per person, you can to choose to have just four courses (no soup or 1st course; paired sake for each course is an additional $14).
The 8:30 seating features the full six course Kaiseki menus for $55 per person; each course can be paired with sake for an additional $20. Enjoy a wonderufl night of sensual tastes, romance and flair! Call us at 681-7150 to reserve your table and please tell us what your menu choices. You can also reserve via OpenTable and write your menu choices in the notes, or you can e-mail the host at gil@marisfood.com.
Here’s to love despite the downturn. Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
Japanese Menu: Mussles Japanese Style; Slow Cooked Daikon, w/Yuzu; Scallops, Shrimp, & Shiso Tempura; Kobe Beef Steak, Yuzu-Kosho; Giant Clam Soup (clear broth); Assorted Sushi (Toro, Hamachi, Snapper, Salmon, Eel); Lava Cake.
California Fusion Menu: Mussles Japanese Style; Organic Mizuna & Endive Salad, Yuzu Dressing; Macadamia Crusted Salmon; Lamb Chop, Garlic Shiitake Cream Sauce; Lava Cake.
Great news to start the Spring: Chef Mari is the guest chef at Mission Street Food this Thursday!. MSF is a twice-weekly foodie evening held at Lang Shun restaurant on Mission Street that features chefs from many popular SF restaurants and lounges. Mari will be cooking Pork Belly, Yaki Onigiri, Okonomiyaki, and Mizuna Salad, and Gil has paired Sake for the menu. It will be open from 6:00pm to midnight.
Sake - 8 oz pour or flight of 2 oz each:
Tengumai Yamahai-jikomi, Junmai (Bold, dark, ligering, acidic, deep - goes well with steak, heavy and fatty foods) $10
Take-no Tsuyu, Junmai (Smooth, silky, great finish, refreshing - goes well with fatty sashimi, fatty fish, stir fry, pork chops) $8
Kikusui, Junmai Ginjo (Very light, pure, refreshing - goes well with sashimi (white fish), salads, and lighter foods) $8
Memu and Pairing:
Fresh Lucque and Castelvetrano Olives - $4
Organic Mizuna Salad, Mixed Citrus, Sesame Miso Dressing, Wonton Chips - $7.25
(Kikusui, Junmai Ginjo)
Slow-Braised Berkshire Kurobuta Pork Belly with Shichimi (Japanese 7 spices), Yaki Onigiri (Soy Grilled Rice Ball), Yuzu Daikon Pickles - $9.5
(Tengumai Yamahai-Jikomi, Junmai)
Homemade Kurobuta Bacon Okonomiyaki (Japanese Pancake), Sweet Worcestershire Sauce, Japanese style Aioli, Shaved Bonito Flakes, Ao-Nori - $7
*Can be made vegetarian w/o Bacon and Bonito
(Take-no Tsuyu, Junmai)
Lung Shan’s Vegan Delight: Shitake and Oyster Mushroom Dumplings in Miso Soup - $5.5
(Kikusui, Junmai Ginjo)
Lung Shan’s Bacon Xiao Long Bao: Four Shanghai Soup Dumplings filled with Benton’s Bacon, ground Pork and Herbs - $5.5
(Tengumai Yamahai-Jikomi, Junmai)
King Trumpet: Mushrooms, Triple-Fried Potato, Garlic Confit and Charred Scallion Sour Cream on a homemade Flatbread - $6
(Kikusui, Junmai Ginjo)
Sesame Avocado Brown Rice with Tofu Tempura - $7.5
(Kikusui, Junmai Ginjo/Take-no Tsuyu)
For more info, visit http://blog.missionstreetfood.com/ and come support Mari and the cause - we will be donating profits to Food Runners (a cool feature of MSF!!!).
This Sunday, treat mom to a scrumptous Japanese meal that any mother would savor. For just $34.95 plus tax, Mom will get to enjoy:
Petite Organic Mizuna Salad プチ有機水菜サラダ
Chicken & Burdocks Roulade 地鳥のごぼう巻き
Sashimi or Sake Lees Cod 刺身、または、ギンダラの粕漬け
New Bamboo Fried with Bonito Flakes 新筍の鰹節揚げ
Savory Egg Custard 茶碗蒸し
Miso Soup 味噌汁
Green Tea Organic Strawberry Shortcake 抹茶の有機苺ショートケーキ
Green Tea 新茶
Cheers,
Gil & Mari, Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge
Sake Pairing with Take-no-Tsuyu Brewery from
How Much: $40 per person for four sakes and four plates, plus welcome sake. Regular menu including Dine About Town menu to be available following the tasting.
Take-no-Tsuyu Junmai – Welcome SakeOkuribito - Chasen Nasu (Deep Fried Eggplant in Dashi Broth)
Hakuro Suishu Junmai Ginjo - Local Halibut with
Yuki Honaka Junmai Hatsushibori - Chicken and Burdock Roulade, Sansho
Genzo Haguro Honjozo – a wonderful Chef’s surprise
Who to contact: For reservations, call Sozai at 415-681-7150. You will be contacted back for confirmation and payment.
Sake Story Food and Sake Pairing, Wed. 7/29, $35
Next Wednesday, from 7 to 8:30PM, we are hosting sake importer Sake Story for a pairing of five of their breweries with four special tapas made by Chef Mari, and one Western tapas made by our guest Chef Jeff Banker, former executive chef of Home Restaurant. Call 681-7150 to make your reservation today.Though Jeff has yet to confirm his dish, Chef Mari will be serving the following:
1) Wasabi-tossed organic beets in Belgian endive cups
2) Tuna Sashimi served with Yuzu Kosho Aioli and scallions
2) Yu Dofu (warm tofu) in a Shichimi Ponzu sauce
3) Chicken Roulade served wtih Vinegared Egg Yolk and a Wakame (seaweed) salad
Our guest from Sake Story, Kiyo Kojima, will be giving away bottles of sake to the most attentive audience members, so ask lots of questions!
As for free tickets, we have randomly selected Matt from San Francisco and Vincent from Palo Alto to receive one ticket each to next Wednesday’s event. I will give one free ticket to the first person to call the restaurant with the correct answer to this question: What is the name of the mountain range that is called “the Japanese Alps”? Hint: Take no Tsuyu Brewery is located in this region and gets its water from mountains in this range.
This will surely be a spectacular culinary evening, so we encourage you to call 415-681-7150 to make reservations, or RSVP via e-mail to gil@marisfood.com.
Cheers,Gil and Mari
Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge
Sake Day 2009 (www.sakeday.com) will take place Thursday, October 1st, from 6 - 9 PM at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco. This event, brought to you by True Sake and mari’s Catering, Inc., is the 4th annual celebration of Nihonshu no Hi (Day of Sake in Japan) here in San Francisco.
In partnership with True Sake, the San Francisco original that was the first sake-only liquor store in the U.S., we bring together our sake vendors and Mari’s Catering’s culinary talent to make a sake, food, and sake education event like no other. There are over 100 sakes to taste, a Japanese Street Food booth featuring okonomiyaki and other festival favorites, a raffle, a complimentary sake glass, an Okinawan band, 4 sake and food pairings (featuring a Japanese, an El Salvadorean, a Mediterranean, and a California Fusion dish, each paired with a great sake by True Sake and Mari’s Catering)! All this for only $80. Buy tickets online at www.sakeday.com or at True Sake at 560 Hayes Street (415-355-9555). Don’t miss out on the San Francisco sake event of 2009, SAKE DAY 2009!!!
