Kesennuma Brewer’s Table

Kesennuma Brewer’s Table is a special dinner and sake experience based on a collaboration between local sake breweries and a popular restaurant within the Naiwan commercial complex. The dishes employ an assortment of ingredients from Kesennuma, and each course is paired with a variety of locally brewed sake. (Diners can choose Western or Japanese cuisine.) The storefronts and headquarters of two local sake breweries have long been landmarks in Kesennuma popular with local residents, but they were largely destroyed by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. However, the building was restored and has since been nationally designated as a Tangible Cultural Property. Before the dinner, visitors can tour the restored building, learn the story behind its reconstruction and about the brewery’s commitment to sake brewing, talk with the staff, and purchase sake. For dinner, the cuisine uses seafood landed in Kesennuma, and sake is selected for each dish, a pairing that can uniquely be enjoyed at this fishing port.