BOND OFFICIAL & HEAVENSAKE Host An Intimate Dinner

WORDS BY,

HAMISH EVANS-JONES

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Dinner Parties Are Back With New Sake Pairings.

and this seated dinner was hosted at Chinatown's beloved fine dining restaurant, Chinese Tuxedo.

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The night began on Doyers Street. Once known as “The Bloody Angle” given its history as the meeting point for the deadly Tong Gang in the late 1800s, the street is now home to various bars and casual restaurants.

If you are in the mood for a refined Chinese dinner, you will find no better place than Chinese Tuxedo, a traditional, banquet style restaurant located at a former opera house at 5 Doyers Street. This was the setting for the BOND OFFICIAL and HEAVENSAKE dinner last Friday night, hosted by Igee Okafor.

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*BOND OFFICIAL & HeavenSake Host An Intimate Dinner*

Guests took their seats in the Moon Room, a private dining space on the first floor of the restaurant. In attendance were notables from the New York’s creative scene like Christian Cowan, Ryan Clark, Larry Milstein, Giulia Marsico, and Yael Quint.

Dinner began with spicy cucumber and hamachi crudo paired with a “Mandarin Collar” cocktail consisting of gin, vermouth, Sakebaby and mandarin. Next, we were served shrimp dim and squid ink pasta with a “Junmai Gingo” pouring.

Beef short rib and steamed snow pea leaves followed with our third sake pouring, “Junmai”. No meal is complete without a dessert and Chinese Tuxedo did not disappoint. Strawberries and cream was an unexpected treat but worked perfectly. This was paired with “Junmai Daigingo”.

Throughout the night, the focus was concentrated on HEAVENSAKE, the newest sake creation from Regis Camus, the Chef de Cave of Rare Champagne, the eight time winner of Sparkling Winemaker of the year.

HEAVENSAKE CEO, Laurent Cutier, and its Head of Sales, Zak Gross joined the party and mingled with guests discussing the company’s collaboration with Japan’s finest breweries. Their passion and knowledge about each sake pouring made the uncommon drink feel as familiar as your local beer.

HEAVENSAKE’s mission to bring sake to a broader audience is well underway. My favorite, Urakasumi, is definitely a bottle I’ll be searching for on the shelves of my next bar stop.