Is the Samurai Saki House back?

[jstaylor62]

I'm seeing some posting for events at the Samurai Saki House, but I cant find a decent address listing. Some events are posted as 3034 N Portland and others 7502 N May. I used to love going to the Samurai Saki House! Only place in OKC that had live music 7 nights a week.

[OkieHornet]

the ticketseller (ticketstorm.com) has it at 3034 n. portland.
http://www.ticketstorm.com/venue/sam...homacity/1108/

[Pete]

Yes, that was a great small live music venue with a fun crowd.

[OSUMom]

So it is opening back up in that strip shopping around McSaltys Pizza? Maybe the building right behind it?

[OKCNDN]

Samari is indeed open again. Ichiro Takahata still owns the place. But it's not the Samari Saki House. This reincarnation is just a bar with live music, no sushi grill. It is not open 7 days a week but rather just has a limited schedule. I think they may be open Thurs-Sat and possibly have a biker night on Mondays. I don't think they open until 7 or 8 when they are open.

The new location is in the old Fritzi's building. On Portland there is an old bus with a stripper on it and "Club Raw and something else. Turn in there. It's right next to Don Quixote's. They share the place with a club (also only open a limited number of nights and a strip club. Samari is on the north end and you enter there. Cover is $5 and it gets you into all three places. The dance club is in the middle and the strip club is on the south end. The strip club is open 7 days a week but doesn't open their doors until about 8:30 pm.

Greg Zubek supposedly drops by all the time.

[OKCNDN]

And there is a Facebook page for Samari Saki House. But it's mainly just stuff from the 90's, not an official one for the current venue.

[metro]

Sounds classy. That whole shopping center needs to be demolished and rebuilt. The Wll Rogers park area could really be nice with some quality development.

[MustangGT]

That whole shopping center needs to be demolished and rebuilt.

Agreed!!!

[Dave Cook]

Samari is indeed open again. Ichiro Takahata still owns the place. But it's not the Samari Saki House. This reincarnation is just a bar with live music, no sushi grill. It is not open 7 days a week but rather just has a limited schedule. I think they may be open Thurs-Sat and possibly have a biker night on Mondays. I don't think they open until 7 or 8 when they are open.

The new location is in the old Fritzi's building. On Portland there is an old bus with a stripper on it and "Club Raw and something else. Turn in there. It's right next to Don Quixote's. They share the place with a club (also only open a limited number of nights and a strip club. Samari is on the north end and you enter there. Cover is $5 and it gets you into all three places. The dance club is in the middle and the strip club is on the south end. The strip club is open 7 days a week but doesn't open their doors until about 8:30 pm.

What's the story with this Mr. Takahata? Has he been in the States for many years? Born there? Just curious.

It's kind of fitting the Samurai is located next to a Don Quixote's - a very popular discount outlet in Japan.

[USG'60]

Ichiro moved here from Japan about 50 years ago.