"Boston’s buzzing bar scene received another national nod this past week: On June 1, Esquire magazine named three-year-old Boston sake bar the Koji Club one of its best bars in America in 2023. The beloved spot, run by acclaimed sake enthusiast Alyssa DiPasquale, is the city’s first dedicated sake bar, and it aims to approach sake from an educational yet accessible, everyday-drinking standpoint. Editor Kevin Sintumuang wrote for Esquire that stepping into the tiny space 'felt like a world away here more Tokyo than Beantown' and, once inside, bargoing strangers quickly became companions. 'Within minutes we all started to feel like friends deep into a sake journey,' Sintumuang wrote." - Erika Adams