Another, Edo & Co (363 Miyanoshita, Hakone-machi, open 9am-6pm Fri-Wed), sells antique porcelain of the kind that would have been snapped up by the first wave of Japanophiles – large platters decorated with landscape patterns in classic blue, tiny sake cups embellished with enamel the colour of rust and jade.
Today, the Georgian Hotel still stands as a distinctive landmark on Santa Monica's skyline, and celebrities like former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and actor Robert De Niro still visit to enjoy the restaurant's panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean, along with specialty cocktails like the Georgini martini, containing Malibu rum, blue curacao, sake and pineapple juice).
"I think for Blue Note's sake," Mr. Thompson said, "that if we just present Al Green in a way that's natural, the Starbucks generation will get it, and people will feel it".
Here he is on painterly blues: "Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies".
Greg Harrington, beverage director at the B.R. Guest restaurant group, which includes Blue Fin, said the sake is kept cold at all times and transferred by hand to 15-ounce bottles before being shipped from Japan by refrigerated container.
Germans, Italians, Poles and Americans flocked to fight under the Greek blue and white for the sake of democracy.
Bring a crowd, lower your expectations and sip your sake, preferably the Blue Ribbon house junmai ginjo, brimming over in a cedar box, as velvety and lovely as it ever was.
Despite the announcement by Gordon Brown just days before that he wanted to phase out plastic bags by the time England qualified for the next big tournament, we saw about 8,000 Croatian fans before kick-off obeisantly holding up plastic bags of red, blue and white for the sake of a pretty picture for the television cameras.
The three categories, from now on denoted as Blue, Black, and Red for sake of simplicity, accounted, respectively, for 22%, 42%and16%6% of the all KOG dataset.
Blue Fin offers five cold sakes by the glass or by the bottle, and one hot sake.
