Top Chef Selection ~Pioneers~ Recipe

Seiko Crab Cold Dish

We have guests enjoy the deliciousness of in-season seiko crab in a light, refreshing way as an appetizer, with crab vinegar jelly. In the course…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000
• Cook time 4 hr

Wind-Dried Sasagarei

By soaking sasagarei, which comes into season in winter, in salted water and then wind-drying it for about half a day, this becomes a dish where just…

• Serves 1 · ¥700
• Cook time 1 hr

Suppon and Napa Cabbage Takiawase

You can savor a rich, deeply flavored softshell turtle dashi, drawn out by slow-simmering it in sake, along with the sweetness and silky, melting…

• Serves 20 · ¥500
• Cook time 2 hr

Oyster and matsutake rice (ginkgo nuts, mitsuba, fried tofu)

The meal is "Oyster and Matsutake Rice." Washing the oysters with a daikon grater removes all dirt …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,095
• Cook time 30 min

Housemade-miso sukiyaki-style (shaved burdock, Kujō scallion, grated yam dumpling, spicy condiment, truffle)

The meat course, 'housemade-miso sukiyaki-style,' is cooked and finished right in front of the guest; the smell of the beef grilling and the savory…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200
• Cook time 10 min

Turnip steamed dish, tilefish, mitsuba, ginkgo nuts, wood ear mushroom, shimeji mushroom, wasabi, silver sauce

This is a dish, somehow comforting, where guests enjoy steamed tilefish and turnip with a silver sauce poured over. Since we mainly serve tempura…

• Serves 1 · ¥975
• Cook time 30 min

Jumbo Kuruma Prawn, Shark Fin

This is kuruma prawn tempura, but the jumbo kuruma prawn is served fried to about a half-cooked doneness, not quite fully cooked through, and I've…

• Cook time 10 min

Suppon clear soup: grilled scallion, goji berries

The soup "Marusui" is one of our specialty dishes. It is made using only turtle stock, which we tak…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,300
• Cook time 10 min

Walnut Tofu with Sea Urchin Poured In, Crab Meat, Savory Dashi, Wasabi, Chestnut Shibukawa-Ni Bed, Beef Loin Miso-Marinated, Smoked Egg, Needle-Scored Shishito, Foie Gras and Daikon Mochi, Yuba Dressed in Truffle Wine Sauce, Enoki Mushroom, Spinach Stems, Persimmon, Salmon Roe Crowning Garnish

We are conscious of the surprise that our guests will feel when the dish is first served, and have …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,550
• Cook time 1 hr

Ise lobster shell-simmered, turnip sauce, bottarga kōsen

For the additional course, I use a whole Ise lobster, gorgeously and extravagantly. I express the image of 'brocade autumn' -- yellow maple leaves…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,020
• Cook time 20 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish stuffed and steamed, water pepper, fish-bone crackers, lotus root

For the additional course, rather than the standard grilled preparation, I bone the sweetfish, restuff it with lotus root, and steam it back into its…

• Serves 1 · ¥865
• Cook time 15 min

Lily Bulb Manjū with Suppon Poured In, Chrysanthemum-Style, Plum Flesh

For the simmered-soup course, the softshell turtle lily bulb manjū gets a chewy texture and more substance by adding a little mochi flour to the lily…

• Serves 1 · ¥500
• Cook time 10 min