Christmas is finally approaching and so here’s our Christmas 2025 sake recommendations!  Sake offers unexpected gastronomic experiences when paired with traditional Christmas dishes. Here are four sake recommendations that would pair excellently with your festive foods, from Christmas party bites through to savoury main dishes like roast turkey and pigs in blankets to desserts like homemade minced pies.

From 14th February to 18th March 2022, 20 spectacular restaurants in London are running a sake promotion pairing some of their iconic dishes with Japanese sake.

Straight out of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, these famous chicken wings (Nagoya no Tebasaki) are quite unlike the usual the other chicken dishes we know and love from Japan.

Prepare to have your taste buds tantalised! Along with our buddies, The Oystermen (Observer Food Mag. Restaurant of the Year 2019), we’ve put together a special sake & seafood experience for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. I’m really excited about this! Having done sake & seafood pairings at The Oystermen […]

Last Saturday (15th June) Tengu Sake exhibited six sakes from three different producers at the Wing Gang’s London Summer Festival in London. I had actually participated in a previous Wine Gang show (in 2013). I was a lone table amongst many, many wine companies and – given that setting – I found the punters not […]

  Zenith is the English name for Tatenokawa’s newest sake, a Junmai Daiginjo, made with Dewasansan rice, polished all the way down to 1%. That’s just 1% of the rice grain left after months of polishing. No-one has ever accomplished this before. To celebrate, we invited Naomi-san from Tatenokawa to come over to the UK, […]

I thought I’d start a series of very brief posts where I show my experiences of trying various sake pairings with the sakes we offer in our shop. Fukukomachi “Gentle Breeze” Junmai Ginjo from Kimura Shuzo (find in our shop) with pickled herring (roll mops), mozzarella and plum tomatoes   I’m a big fan of trying sake […]

at On 15th May the British Sake Association hosted a sake dinner for their members and guests at London’s Anzu restaurant.  Our Director, Oliver, was invited along to present a selection of sakes, all paired with Anzu’s excellent food. The event was sold out and we welcomed 22 people for dinner.

Special sake menu from Thursday 22nd August Tengu Sake has teamed up with Tonkotsu Ramen on Dean Street, Soho, London to bring you an exclusive sake specials menu. The menu runs from 22nd but I’ll be at Tonkotsu on the day so pop on in and say hi!