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Spiny lobster, kuzu-dusted and grilled, dressed with roe

• ¥1,650

• Cook time 1 hr

Softshell turtle noppe

'Noppe' is a Niigata regional home-style dish, a lightly thickened simmered stew widely loved and often eaten at home. This time, I've added a twist…

• Serves 1 · ¥443

• Cook time 1 hr

Toya Sasaki Farm Ice-Cellar-Aged Sapporo-ki Onion Soup Ochazuke

For the rice course, I developed an ice-cellar-aged Sapporo-ki onion soup ochazuke. Under the theme of drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's…

• Serves 4 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Shark Fin Yakuzen Hot Pot with Chicken Dashi

With health-consciousness on the rise, when I thought about what kind of breakfast could draw in customers, I incorporated the concept of medicinal…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 20 min

Brown rice coffee, charred tea snack

Charring is an old technique in Japan; I first learned of it back when I studied macrobiotics. Carbonizing ingredients in a Vermicular oven takes…

• ¥180

• Cook time 5 min

Rice course: clay-pot-cooked rice

Generously featuring the flavors of autumn, colorfully.

Sesame Soy-Milk Sōmen with 'Macro Tare' Sauce

'Macro tare,' the key point of this dish, is usually used as a dipping sauce or dressing for meat and fish. This time I thought about whether this…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

Three-Year Fugu, Kombu-Cured and Steamed with Ginjo Sake

Making use of winter ingredients, this is a dish for three-year fugu at its peak season. This is a steamed dish. For the Three-Year Fugu Kombu-Cured…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Crab

Rather than boiling the crab as is, we steam the legs and body separately for different lengths of time so the umami doesn't escape. A small amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Pike conger coated in kuzu starch, reconstituted pickled plum, small melon, Bubu-arare

This time, on the 'soup-bowl course,' I learned from chef Katō (Meguro Gajoen). This time I take up the 'hamo soup bowl.'

Duck stuffed with asparagus, sansho-flavored; wagyu prosciutto vegetable rolls

This is a mid-course dish, designed to pair with a spicy, medium-bodied but powerful red wine. For the grilled duck stuffed with asparagus, sansho…

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

'Kinki' Lightly Simmered — from Abashiri, Hokkaido

This time, in keeping with the restaurant's theme, I'd like to propose dishes using the seafood that represents Hokkaido in early summer. This is the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 30 min

Two-Layer Grilled Quail, Agar-Molded Grape, Fig and Chestnut Daigo-yaki

My restaurant is an eel specialty shop, but I've always felt it would be a waste to use the charcoal grill stand only for grilling eel, so I'd like…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 30 min

The Charm of Nature

From "expressing Fukuoka through cooking," this is a grilled dish. Titled "The Charm of Nature," I fashioned freshly harvested bamboo shoots from a…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 40 min

Kisarazu: Japanese Noodles of the Banzu Tidal Flats

The hotel where I work, located in Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture, has many guests from outside the prefecture, so I wanted to make use of Chiba's…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 50 min

Grilled White Tilefish and Matsutake Roll, with Marinated Manganji Peppers

White tilefish (shiro-amadai) is wonderful for its rich fattiness and the clear, pale beauty of its scales when scored into a pinecone pattern, so…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Ishikawa Taro Dumpling Wrapped Around Foie Gras, Deep-Fried in Rice Flour, with Swimming Crab and Chrysanthemum Sauce

In honor of the Chrysanthemum Festival (Chōyō no Sekku) in September, I devised a vividly colored dish built around a delicate amber kuzu sauce made…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Heshiko-Style Grilled Eel, Nigari-Cured Overnight-Dried Eel, Sansho and Herb-Flavored Grilled Eel

These are three grilled dishes for "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). Under the theme "Japan's Preserved Foods," I devised three grilled…

• Serves 1 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Red Wine-Braised Eel in Aspic

At the restaurant where I work, we're used to handling freshwater fish, so I felt this theme, "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine), was…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Hairy Crab and New Lotus Root, Molded and Oven-Baked (Funka Bay, Hokkaido)

From the proposal of dishes using the seafood that represents Hokkaido in early summer, this is the grilled course (yakizakana). For the hairy crab…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Flash-Fried Botan Shrimp in Salt-Kōji Marinade (Funka Bay, Hokkaido)

Grand Exiv Nasu-Shirakawa, where I currently work, is the only facility in the Tōhoku region within our group, and we build our menus around locally…

• Serves 4 · ¥430

• Cook time 30 min

Black Abalone in Asparagus Sauce, with Abalone Liver

Green asparagus steeped in kombu dashi and white asparagus steeped in bonito dashi bring two different flavors, and the contrast in their textures is…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Chilled Grilled-Corn Chawanmushi

While focusing above all on practicality, I designed this around the theme of "unconventional cold cuisine." This is the chilled chawanmushi (savory…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,067

• Cook time 1 hr