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Simmered and steeped — white asparagus, clam, wasabi flower, soy-marinated salmon roe, shiso flower spike

This time, we learned about "sakizuke" (the appetizer course) from Technical Director Yoshiaki Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank Meguro Branch Office). We…

Spanish mackerel and turnip

This is a steamed dish. Sawara and turnip is a dish where, on top of the elegant sweetness of sawara — a fish with no unpleasant edge to its flavor —…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Crystal aspic

For the chilled simmered course, I designed it with couples in their thirties in mind, around the concept of “a refreshing concentration of dashi's…

• ¥180

• Cook time 40 min

Three-Fruit Jelly Terrine

Because the fruit is arranged in two layers, we pour the jelly base in five to six separate stages. If each layer isn't poured before the surface has…

Winter yellowtail with grated wasabi, whole daikon, mizuna, wasabi

We grill the yellowtail close to a strong flame for about 40% of the way through, to crisp up the skin while keeping the inside rare. On top of that…

Malabar spinach and chrysanthemum, blanched in dashi (white eggplant, scallop cream sauce, okra blanched in dashi)

Malabar spinach is a summer vegetable that's highly nutritious and has a bit of natural stickiness. As autumn approaches, the stems grow tough, so…

Pike conger and shrimp Yoshino-ni, furofuki winter melon

The hamo (pike conger) and shrimp yoshino-ni is a dish where each ingredient's flavor layers with the eggplant and corn, so every individual taste…

• ¥695

• Cook time 1 hr

New Cabbage Hakata-style

For the vinegared dish, I expressed ‘beauty.’ I thought of this because the color and pattern of kuruma prawn, the star ingredient, come out…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 45 min

Milk-Washed Punch

This is the sweet course. The Milk-Washed Punch is cocktail-like work: some guests from overseas like to have a little something to drink at the end…

• Serves 1 · ¥396

• Cook time 1 days

Salt-Seared Bonito Tataki

We often serve this as one of our restaurant's standard dishes: after filleting the bonito into blocks, we give it an appetite-stirring aroma by…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 3 hr

Assorted Sprouting Spring Vegetables and Fresh Fish

This is a sashimi dish I devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the assorted sprouting spring vegetables and fresh fish, since…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Clam in clear seafood broth

Guests enjoy the natural, deeply concentrated umami of Kashimanada clams, carefully drawn out through meticulous preparation, together with crisp…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 45 min

Scallop and Salmon Hakata-style, Uni Set with Lime Jelly, Hydrangea Small Clam Adductor Temari-zushi, Beef Chigusa-maki, Tomato and Abalone Cream Bake

This uses scallops in season. I thought about what could be made using shellfish with a June feel. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and…

• Serves 5 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 30 min

Hyuganatsu-Scented Grilled Course, Saikyo-Yaki Black Cod, Snow Crab, Yuba and Grated Mountain Yam, Saikyo-Yaki Vegetables

Hyuganatsu, a citrus fruit, has a rare characteristic no other fruit has: even the white pith on the inside can be eaten together with the flesh, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Eggplant Sōmen-Cut

Smooth and easy to swallow, with a refreshing finish.

Octopus, Taro, Kabocha Squash, Green Beans, and Yuzu

This is a kabocha squash dish. Consulting the literature, the temperature and time at which pectin hardens and at which a vegetable breaks down are…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Amaou strawberry mamekan

Among strawberries, Amaou is especially famous and popular. Hotel New Otani Tokyo also offers limited-time menus featuring it at each of our…

• Serves 2 · ¥221

• Cook time 20 min

Dried purslane simmered with mixed vegetables (Yamagata Prefecture)

This is the first course. This purslane dish, hyo-boshi gomoku-ni, is one of the local dishes handed down in the Murayama region of Yamagata…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 40 min

Thread-cut mountain yam, shredded egg crepe, tomato, mitsuba, ginger pickled in vinegar and soy, mountain yam

This is a vinegared dish within the summer course menu. For the mountain yam somen, the mountain yam is cut thin and fine with a knife, then tied…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Hamaguri and Bamboo Shoot Takiawase

A stock taken from the hamaguri's fringe is combined with the soup used to simmer the bamboo shoot, and poured over at the finish. Hamaguri and…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Mountain vegetables and cockle, vinegared and chilled, hosta shoot, angelica-tree shoots, bracken fern, needle-cut radish, egg-yolk vinegar, wasabi vinegar

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from chef Iizuka (Asakusa View Hotel). This time I take up 'sansai vinegared dishes.'

Three Kinds of Sesame Cream

This time I would like to introduce dishes we regularly serve at the restaurant, as well as dishes I hope to serve in the future. Here I introduce…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 20 min

Spring green dressed salad (iced kombu-dashi tea style)

As part of my effort to work around rising ingredient costs, this dish introduces something my staff and I devised together — during the aftermath of…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring baby sea bream grilled with a rapeseed-blossom glaze, fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr