cafe hocca

Now it's end of year party season in Japan and yesterday we took a day off to attend two end of year parties. The first one was a Cafe Hocca located in Mitsuke which is a 1 hr train ride from Niigata station, Hocca is a fantastic single malt and craft beer bar in the owners house and they have a 3 tap kegerator which yesterday was serving an IPA, Pale Ale & a Pilsner which were all fantastic so was the food. On returning to Niigata we also attended a pot luck dinner party at Chillin Mama's craft cafe , where we made our felt bonnets a few months ago. The pot luck dinner party was a lot of fun with many local artists and craftspeople in attendance , the selection of dishes for dinner was great and it's nice that we had the chance to join both of these events. Pictured below are some of the photos that were taken yesterday !