Tokonoma World Sake Day Dinner

Overview

Did you know that sparkling sake is a thing? You drink it at the start of the meal in a flute-like glass, much like regular sparkling grape wine, and it tastes pretty damn good. Try it — along with six other specially selected sakes — at Tokonoma's World Sake Day dinner this Wednesday, October 19.

Celebrating the day (sure, it's a day — along with International Burger Day and Cheese Pizza Day) in a way that is truly fitting, the CBD Japanese bar and restaurant has invited Australia's only sake educator Yukino Ochiai (of importer Déjà Vu Sake Co.) to host a one-off seven-course dinner. Each course of impeccable izakaya-style food will be matched with a cup of boutique sake. Don't know much about it? No worries. Yukino knows her sake and will be on-hand to take you through each course, which will move through Japan's best sake distilleries.

And the food. Ah, the food. The dinner will include Tokonoma's sashimi omakase, kangaroo tartare, crispy polenta chicken karaage and an amazingly delicate white chocolate, coconut and beetroot dessert.

The dinner isn't cheap at $180 per person — but Japanese food and sake never are. If you're looking for a fancy mid-week dinner, this is it. Plus, it includes the Dewazakura sparkling sake, so there's that too.