Dassai sake Parramatta Tag

Heritage Lounge / Posts tagged "Dassai sake Parramatta"

The sake list at Heritage Lounge was built with a specific intention: to demonstrate that sake, served correctly from carefully chosen producers, is one of the most interesting drinks in the world — and that a bar in Parramatta can carry and present it at a standard that rivals any sake programme available in the greater Sydney dining landscape. The result is a list that covers the full quality spectrum of Japanese sake, from accessible and elegant through to the...

Sake has a reputation problem in Australia that is almost entirely the fault of bad sake. The Australian diner who has encountered it primarily through cheap, sweet commercial versions served warm in ceramic cups at casual Japanese restaurants — a product that exists to accompany inexpensive sushi rather than to be appreciated in its own right — has reasonable grounds for dismissing it. That dismissal is understandable. It is also wrong. The sake list at Heritage Lounge exists partly to correct...