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Sushi Ran to Host Special New Year's Day Event

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Sushi Ran "Kagami-Biraki" Ceremony

4:30 PM New Year's Day

Sushi Ran has announced that they will be celebrating on January 1 with a special ceremony called "Kagami-Biraki,” the traditional sake barrel-breaking for the holiday.

The Sushi Ran announcement says that "Kagami-biraki is a ceremony performed at celebratory events in which the lid of the sake barrel is broken open by a wooden mallet and the sake is served to everyone present. It represents an opening to harmony and good fortune. In the traditional Japanese culture, the ceremony is a means of beseeching the gods to grant good health and fortune on special occasions, such as the New Year."

The restaurant will feature special displays called kadomatsu, the traditional Japanese decoration of the New Year, which are placed in pairs in front of homes to welcome ancestral spirits and spirits of the harvest.

After the barrel breaking ceremony at 4:30 PM, the restaurant will serve dinner from 5:00 to 10:30 PM.

If you want to get a head start on the celebration, the wine and sake bar at Sushi Ran will also be open for beverages until midnight on New Year's Eve..

Sushi Ran is located at 107 Caledonia St.  A map to the location is on our Sushi Ran page.

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Sushi Ran

 

Sushi Ran

Our Rating....................................................... 9 Sea Lions

107 Caledonia St., Sausalito     415-332-3620

Website is here, for reservations click here.  An article about their head chef winning the international sushi competition is here.

Free street parking, though you may need to walk a few blocks in the evening.

Open for Lunch and Dinner. Most recent editor review: November, 2008.  Price range (for Dinner) at time of most recent review: Expect total to be in range of $30 - $55 per person, but as always with Sushi there are wide variations.

 

 

#1 on our Long Memories Top Ten^TM list of the best special occasion restaurants in Sausalito for December, 2008

#1 Japanese restaurant and #3 overall on our Sausalito Visitors Ranking^TM list for December, 2008

Awarded one Michelin star, 2007

Special Event: Ceremony New Year's Day at Sushi Ran

Fast Forward Summary^TM:  Super-popular sushi place just north of downtown Sausalito, draws a faithful clientele of regular customers from San Francisco and from points north.  Some people drive a long ways to get here, but it's also only five blocks from the Sausalito Ferry pier.  Not cheap, but very good.  Patio seating in nice weather.  Make sure to get a reservation to avoid a long wait.  The satellite bar across the walkway from the main seating area has a more narrow selection than the main dining room.

 

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Sushi Ran: The Details

This restaurant, situated away from the Bay and downtown in an area that caters to local residents, has managed to pull off a very difficult trick: in some months they've made the Top 5 rankings in both the Special Occasion and the Casual categories of the ComeToSausalito.com online surveys.  It does not have the big views or the large dining rooms of the downtown destinations, but it does attract a fiercely loyal audience from both sides of San Francisco Bay.

Service has been excellent on my visits.

I strongly recommend getting reservations here.  During dinner especially you can have a long wait if you just decide to drop by.

The restaurant and satellite bar (which has a more restricted menu) are on either side of a passageway mid-block on the uphill side of Caledonia St. near the movie theatre.

Other thoughtful articles on Sushi Ran are here, here, and here.

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