The bar – which has views of the Tokyo Tower from its balcony and rooftop house – attracts inspiration from a home get together “that will get suitably rowdy”, bringing to bear Graham’s model of “heat hospitality and pleasant chaos”.
Graham has relocated from Hong Kong, the place she held positions as editor of Drink Journal Asia – a task she’ll proceed half time – and at one time as a bartender at The Previous Man, previously Asia’s Finest Bar.
The British expat instructed Drinks International: “The bar encourages company to drag up and ’fess up, that means come as you’re and confess what’s weighing you down.”
The décor is described by the journalist-cum-bartender as a comfortable however trendy Japanese house punctuated by Graham’s personal “vibrant artwork and trinkets”.
The star of the present, she says, is the “snaking wood bar prime carved from 300-year-old reclaimed temple pine”, which has “no obstacles, that means company can pull up proper subsequent to bartenders”.
The drinks menu, created by Graham and head bartender Wakana Murata, highlights lesser-known Japanese components corresponding to doburoku and awamori.
Tokyo Confidential additionally places an emphasis on low and no-abv cocktails, and as a nod to Graham and Murata’s love for champagne and agave spirits, options “a hearty number of each”.
