Ryuu assists a couple on their first date. Meanwhile, Yusada Sayo is waiting for her husband for their anniversary, however the two have grown apart. Ryuu mixes the Bijou Cocktail, then creates an Amber Dream from it. He explains that amber takes time to get its beauty, much like a marriage and the time a couple puts into it. The featured cocktails are the Bijou and Amber Dream.
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- Jiro Fujimoto
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S1 E1Bartender
Oct 15, 200623 min
At the bar Eden Hall in Ginza, Sasakura Ryuu creates cocktails dubbed "The Glass of the Gods." Hotel redesigner Kamishima holds deep disregard for bartenders because of an embarrassing mistake he made as a younger man. He is shown the skill
S1 E2Heart of the Menu
Oct 29, 200623 min
Kurushima Miwa comes to Eden Hall to ask Ryuu to find her "Menu of the Heart." As a child, she broke a bottle of alcohol intended to mend the rift between her father and Kurushima Taizou, her grandfather. The two had been fighting over mode
S1 E3Glass of Regret
Nov 5, 200623 min
Shimaoka, the head of an advertising company, is retiring, and his old love, the actress Yuzuki Mieko, has just died. The two of them wanted to perform together in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, until he decided to take over his family's co
S1 E5Things Forgotten in a Bar
Nov 19, 200623 min
A young salesmen, Shibata, is given a transfer notice from his boss after his sales figures are low. Ryuu lifts the young man's spirits by telling him about Ernest Hemingway and the story The Old Man and the Sea. The featured cocktail is th
S1 E6The Story Inside the Glass
Nov 26, 200623 min
Kasahara Shizuo, a screenwriter, has been having trouble writing scripts. He poses a riddle to various bartenders, having ordered four brands of single malt Scottish whiskies (Laphroaig, Miltonduff, Glenburgie, and Ardbeg), asks what should
S1 E7Bar Holidays
Dec 2, 200623 min
Ryuu has fallen ill and the bar is closed for the day. Two senior bartenders who visit Ryuu decide to concoct some drinks to help him. In the meantime, two customers enter the bar: Souma Kouji, a politician embroiled in a scandalous court c