Rice Vice

Rice Vice, the home base of Proper Sake, is a tasting experience worth sharing with anyone even remotely interested in Japanese rice wine. The cheeky menu has scary-accurate flavor profile descriptions to help you choose (“slightly effervescent bubblegum funk”). If it’s your first time, try the Cloud Palace Nigori, a citrusy-but-not-sweet sake, and know they also have earthier options like the Rice Father #2. Don’t bank on it for dinner since they mainly have snacks, although they do occasionally host pop-ups out front from places like Two Ten Jack and the Fox Den Izakaya. But with sake this good, we can forgive the lack of real food.