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Picnic Under the Blossoms
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Cherry Blossoms at Restaurants

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Asia Nine
This pan-Asian dining room, which seats guests for lunch, dinner, late night, and weekend brunch, serves hot, cold, and sparkling sake. There are also dessert varieties, such as Choya Ume-Plum Wine  (Ume-shu), available. During the Cherry Blossom Festival, be sure to try the specialty concoction: cherry-infused sake. Prices range from $4 to $9 for a glass, and $14 to $100 for a bottle.  

Cafe Japone
This seven-days-a-week karoke bar/lounge/restaurant attracts a rowdy weekend crowd; karoke gets them into the place, but the sake bombs—a sake-beer combo—keep them there. Karoke starts at 9:30, and although there’s no cover, there’s a $10 minimum per person on weekdays and $15 on weekends.

Kaz Sushi Bistro
Not far from the Tidal Basin, ground zero for cherry blossoms, is this Foggy Bottom sushi spot, which packs a generous sake list. Bottles range from $15 to $120 and are categorized by terms such as “fragrant” or “light and smooth” for neophytes; look to the menu’s right panel for longer descriptions of each category. Six-ounce sake pitchers can be had for $7 to $15, or you can order tastings of three types of sake for $9 or $12. Sake cocktails include martini-inspired concoctions such as the Plum Wine Sake-Tini and the Cosmo Sake-Tini (both $7).

Oya
Twenty sake labels make the cut on Oya’s robust wine list. The Penn Quarter dining room, sister of the new Sei, takes the rice drink seriously: A note on the menu explains that sake varieties—honjozo/junmai, ginjo, and dai-ginjo—are determined by how much of the rice grain is polished away before brewing. Honjozo/junmai is the lowest grade, being 30 percent polished, and dai-ginjo, at more than 50 percent polished, is best. Oya’s sake comes in 6-to-24-ounce servings.

Sake Club
The name of this Woodley Park restaurant pretty much says it all. More than 50 sake varieties, served chilled or warm, are on the menu. Order it by the glass or bottle, or try a sampler during happy hour—Monday through Saturday starting at 5—when it’s half price.

The Source
Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant in the Newseum boasts a wine list with nearly a dozen bottles of sake. You can also sample it by the glass or try one of the specialty cocktails, such as the sake-based Asian Pear Drop ($12).