Sake Club
One brewery, one guest from Japan, one evening.
One evening a month we close Shin Izakaya to the public and open a Japanese brewery instead. A handful of sakés, the kitchen matched to them, thirty people around the counter. Everyone talks, nobody lectures.
€45 per person · 30 seats · 6 rue des Ciseaux, Paris 6th
How an evening goes
One brewery at a time
Each edition follows a single house, from the first pour to the last. We'd rather spend a night with one brewery than skim ten labels.
Someone from Japan
A brewer or someone from the house makes the trip, with our sommelier alongside to translate and pick up the thread.
The kitchen, matched
Shin's signature dishes are reworked course by course to answer the sakés. Served to share, izakaya style.
Not a masterclass
Around the counter: sommeliers, restaurant owners, sake professionals, and people who know nothing at all and came anyway. Ask the obvious questions. You're allowed to dislike something. Serious about what's in the glass, never about ourselves.
Past editions
Three evenings since May, all sold out or close to it. The tasting booklets are free to read.
Kochi · Tosa 高知・土佐
Shikoku · juillet 2026
Off to Shikoku, the island that drinks seriously. Dry sakés built for the table rather than for contemplation.
La princesse chrysanthème — Kikuhime 菊姫
Hakusan, Ishikawa · fondée v. 1570 · 15 juin 2026
One of the oldest houses in Japan. It polishes its own rice, which is rare, and barely uses charcoal filtering: its yamahai keep the walnut, the grain, the caramel. The evening opened on a saké by Naohiko Noguchi, the man they call the god of sake, who learned his craft in this very brewery.
"Four and a half centuries spent listening to rice age."
Les levures de fleurs — Amabuki 天吹
Saga, Kyushu · 11 mai 2026
La première. Un voyage en cinq temps chez une maison qui brasse avec des levures issues de fleurs — rose, œillet, fraise — là où tout le monde utilise des levures de laboratoire.
Behind the scenes of every edition on @shin.izakaya6.
Corporate events
The Sake Club, private edition.
The club format, just for your team: one brewery, a tasting led by our sommelier, Shin Izakaya's cooking to match. Ten to thirty guests, at Shin — or at your place.
Want to go further? We build the evening to measure: a brewer or importer as guest, a regional theme, deeper pairings. Tell us the occasion, we handle the rest.
or write to contact@kobofamily.com
Be at the next one.
Seats go fast and there are thirty of them. Leave your email and you'll hear the date and the guest brewery before anyone else. One message per edition, nothing more.
You can also write to us at contact@kobofamily.com.
The Sake Club started with a conversation with Midorinoshima, who select and import over two hundred sakés from Japanese craft breweries. They're the reason those breweries make the trip to rue des Ciseaux.