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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

Edamame Tofu, Corn Surinagashi, Abalone Steamed with Sake, Kuruma Prawn

Wanting guests to enjoy the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a variety of soup courses, I made this dish using summer vegetables just…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Aromatic Steamed Eel with Rice Oil

I've approached umami as richness = fat, for a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of ingredients. The steamed dish is…

• ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Beef Low-Temperature Grilled in Charcoal Oil

I made two charcoal oils: sawdust charcoal oil and binchotan oil. For both, heat the charcoal until red-hot on the stove burner, drop it into…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Charcoal-grilled wild mallard (lily bulb)

After quickly deep-frying just the surface of the wild mallard breast at high temperature, we apply low-temperature cooking, and finish it by smoking…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo Eggplant, Foie Gras Kuwayaki

This is a simmered course. As for the foie gras kuwayaki, foie gras has a reputation for being relatively expensive, but it is actually fairly…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 10 min

Cherry Cheese Tofu

Ingredients from the past are disappearing along with the era. I recall how, where I live in Yamagata, the heavy snow meant that in winter foods were…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,986

• Cook time 45 min

Largehead beltfish shin-biki-age, matsutake

This is a deep-fried course in which seasonal ingredients are coated with unconventional coatings such as toasted granulated glutinous-rice coating…

• Serves 1 · ¥495

• Cook time 15 min

Milt daifuku

This is the soup-bowl course showcasing true cod milt in season. True cod milt is called “kumoko,” “yukiko,” or “kikuko” depending on its shape, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥220

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsutake Confit, Hamo Somen

At sukiyaki restaurants and the like, beef fat inevitably ends up left over. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted me to start thinking about how to use…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 hr

Hamo Confit

Pike conger, an ingredient in season in summer and indispensable to Japanese cuisine, prompted me to look for a new flavor. Pike conger has many fine…

• Serves 4 · ¥300

• Cook time 30 min

Japanese-Style Roast Beef

This time it is the additional course. For the Japanese-style roast beef, since many of our guests prefer red, lean meat, this time we use the inner…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Omi beef fillet, silver duck miso, truffle

This is the grilled course. For the vessel, I use a teaburi (charcoal hand-warmer brazier) made by Eiraku Zengorō. Unlike the portable charcoal grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 40 min

Butterbur-miso salad, sea urchin, bamboo shoot, sprouted scallion, salted cherry blossom, toasted sesame

This time, we learned about the appetizer course from Technical Director Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank, Meguro Annex). We feature fuki miso salad.

Kisu and Summer Vegetable Kakiage, and Kisu Hasami-Age

For the whiting and summer vegetable kakiage, I wanted to bring out the natural umami of the whiting, so I combined it with shiso, myoga, and corn —…

• ¥560

• Cook time 30 min

Yōrō-Dōfu

A dish perfectly suited for welcoming guests during the hot season.

Smoked Soy-Glazed Grilled Yellowtail

This dish uses yellowtail as an end-of-season ingredient in March. Yellowtail is most often served as sashimi or in yellowtail simmered with daikon…

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

Eel and Agedashi Tofu

It's important to time the eel's grilling to finish together with the tofu's frying, so guests can enjoy the exquisite tenderness of both the tofu…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 25 min

Matsuba Crab Chawanmushi in a Yuzu Shell, Finished with White Miso

This dish allows you to enjoy the fresh and refreshing scent of yuzu, the rich aroma of the dashi s…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Torigai and Mizunasu Clear Soup

This dish combines ark shell, a prized ingredient known as a springtime-to-early-summer delicacy, with mizunasu (a mild, juicy eggplant variety from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• 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