March 2023

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[The Dining Table Is Also Dressed in Spring Attire]

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the cherry blossoms are in bloom, making us feel the arrival of spring. How about changing your dishes to match the change from winter attire to light spring attire?

Fresco's Kasumi series are glassware made in the image of a haze. You can enjoy them in various ways depending on the size, such as for salads, desserts, soups, pasta, and so on. The transparent texture will further enhance seasonal foods.

The other day, actress Riisa Naka's YouTube channel introduced freelance announcer Minami Tanaka's home-cooked dish, a chirashi sushi dish in spring colors, served in a Kasumi Bowl S. It looked very stylish. Please take a look at these beautiful bowls, which can be used for both Japanese and Western dishes.

Fresco's Kasumi Bowl
https://www.shokunin.com/en/fresco/kasumibowl.html
Fresco's Kasumi Plate
https://www.shokunin.com/en/fresco/kasumiplate.html

Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8of-3R6Bq18

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[Lunchtime Drinking in Kamigyo-Ku!]

On Saturday, let's go to Kamigyo-ku, where the Imadegawa Showroom is located, to visit restaurants where we can drink from noon! So, we left our house in the morning and headed for Senbon Street.

First, we went to "BOND" located in the middle of Senbon Imadegawa and Senbon Marutamachi. The restaurant is open from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and even a little before noon when I entered, the restaurant was almost fully booked. All of the most popular sashimi are thick and filling, and at a reasonable price, you will want to order all of the current items. The fried dishes, snacks, and drinks are also priced at unbeatable prices, so it is no wonder that the restaurant has so many fans. Since it is a stand-up bar, there is no snack, so you can just have a quick drink and move on to the next restaurant, but the delicious drinks and food always make you stay longer at this famous Nishijin restaurant.

The second restaurant is Kaku-uchi Asakura, located in a quiet residential area, where you can enjoy drinking craft beer and sake at a corner bar, opened in January 2023 as a sister restaurant of Sake Bar Asakura, which has been in business since 2005. The restaurant offers five taps of craft beer on tap and 10 types of sake. Kaku-uchi Asakura is both a sake shop and a standing bar. It is a rare place where you can taste both carefully selected craft beer and sake, try a canned beer you haven't heard of yet in the showcase, or examine the sake you want to drink next. Although we are craft beer fans, we found an interesting assortment that made us want to venture into the world of sake next.

Stopping by for a quick drink while taking a leisurely stroll. How about having a lunchtime drink (or a morning drink!) once in a while in Kamigyo-ku, which is a little far from the bustling center of the city?

BOND
https://goo.gl/maps/vDuD2ZLoqCXWcfQG9
Kaku-uchi Asakura
https://goo.gl/maps/YGJCccj7RzNH6DWr6
Imadegawa Showroom
https://www.shokunin.com/en/showroom/imadegawa.html