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New Onion with Parmigiano

As June approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Juvenile Ayu and Summer Vegetables, Vinegar-Simmered

A device using rice vinegar so that guests will want to drink even the broth.

Fish Sōmen

From the collection of dishes for beating the summer heat, this is the o-shinogi, a small filling course served partway through the meal. Fish sōmen…

• Serves 4 · ¥0

• Cook time 1 hr

Eggplant, deep-fried and marinated in dashi

This is eggplant agebitashi. I use Kumamoto's 'aka-nasu' (a red-skinned Kumamoto eggplant variety) because it's easy to work with. I peel the skin…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Spring Three-Kind Assortment — Spring Vegetable Ohitashi, Kinome Miso, Hassaku and Snow Pea Shira-ae

This is a three-item assortment using wild mountain vegetables, vegetables, and fruit that grow more delicious in spring. With the freshness of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Tomato, water shield

You can savor the sweetness and deep, concentrated umami of Tokutani tomatoes, which boast a sugar content of 13 degrees Brix — more than twice that…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

Shirokane Pork and Apple, Steamed

Wanting to use a seasonal fruit, I experimented and came up with the idea of pairing pork's umami with apple, to see whether I could create a new…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Small Eggplant Jelly

We slowly steep the grilled eggplant in a broth with a touch of consommé added, until it becomes soft and infused with flavor.

Fish somen made with all-purpose surimi powder

This time, I thought about how Suzuhiro Kamaboko Co., Ltd.'s "All-Purpose Surimi Powder" — I'll call it "surimi powder" from here on — could be put…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 15 min

Chilled Corn Chawanmushi

For the season when the heat increases, I devised a dish that lets you savor, with a smooth, pleasant swallow, the aroma and gentle sweetness of…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Akagai and Urui with Tosa-Vinegar Jelly

This dish allows you to fully enjoy the unique soft and crunchy texture of ark shell and the crispn…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 12 hr

Kuruma Prawn and Fig Mizore-Ae

This is a dish where the balance between grated daikon and the other ingredients is extremely important. If there's too much grated daikon, the dish…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Matsuba Crab, Raw Sea Urchin, Wakame, with Tosa-Vinegar Jelly

The elegant sweetness distinctive to snow crab, the rich creaminess of raw sea urchin, and the refreshing sea aroma of wakame are brought together…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

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

Crab, Local Clam and Rapeseed Blossom Crystal Aspic

“Knorr® Chicken Consommé” makes generous use of extract from fresh, domestic mature hens (“rōkei”), together with chicken meat and chicken fat…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 3 min

Ōiwana Ginjō-Arai, Stuffed Fruit Tomato

This dish makes use of char in season. What we use here is large char — the difference from regular char is the growing period and size: large char…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 1 hr

Corn Mineoka Tofu with Charcoal-Scented Sauce

Wrap the corn in plastic wrap while still in the husk, steam it for about 20 minutes, and once it's cooled enough to handle, clean it and separate…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Juvenile ayu deep-fried with sansho leaf buds

These days, I think the restaurant industry is having a hard time due to a labor shortage. On top of that, we're operating in a very tough…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 20 min

Sajima Octopus, Pear Vinegar

‘Pear vinegar’ is a technique with a long history, but pairing it with octopus reveals a fresh appeal. This is a mukozuke dish, a sashimi course…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo shoot manjū, baby octopus rice cracker, two-color icefish fritters

This is a deep-fried dish designed with the presentation in mind. The bamboo shoot manjū uses a butterbur-sprout sauce to bring out the "faintly…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Giant Pacific octopus grilled and steeped in dashi

This is an appetizer built around the theme of new ways of serving seafood. For the Giant Pacific Octopus Yaki-hitashi, octopus is usually served as…

• Serves 1 · ¥460

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-fried somen, salad-style (dried baby sardines, mizuna, daikon, young myoga, shiso, micro tomato, baby leaf greens, olive oil)

For the sōmen dashi, we add a few drops of olive oil for fragrance. This also has the effect of rounding off the sharp edges of the dashi's flavor…

Shisen Cucumber and Aji Kinuta-Maki

I made this a dish where you can enjoy horse mackerel, which reaches its peak deliciousness in summer, together with crunchy Sichuan cucumber, in a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min