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Guji and Matsutake Clear-Soup Course, Sous-Vide

This is a proposal for matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. I myself have long experience studying Kyoto cuisine, and I like the philosophy…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 10 min

Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Beef Tongue Wrapped in Shiso

Next, I bring out the fried dish. I think fried food tastes best once the sake has kicked in a bit, or when you're hungry. For the beef tongue…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Two-topping deep-fried shrimp shinjo (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is a shrimp shinjo — a fish-paste dumpling — prepared futami-age style, fried two different ways. Here, I used Suzuhiro Kamaboko's "all-purpose…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

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

Young sea bass grilled Rikyū-style with sesame

For the grilled course, I designed it with couples in their forties in mind, around the concept of “an encounter with texture.” Customers in their…

• ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Fried Milt and Scallop, Turnip Mizore Agedashi Style

The key point of 'fried milt and scallop, turnip mizore agedashi style' is adding strong umami to the turnip mizore dashi using a stock taken from…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Ezo Abalone and Sesame Tofu with Arima Sansho Shark-Fin Sauce

For the Ezo abalone and sesame tofu with Arima sansho shark-fin sauce, raw abalone has a crisp, springy texture, and cooking it makes it tender, but…

• ¥770

• Cook time 1 hr

Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 min

Deep-fried wild sweetfish

This is a dish unique to summer: wild sweetfish from the Ado River, which flows through Kyoto and Shiga, are kept alive and then ice-stunned, and…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 20 min

Hamo Confit, Mousse

I sought a new flavor from hamo, an ingredient indispensable to Japanese cuisine that's in season in summer. Hamo has many small bones, and while…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 30 min

Milt Tofu

Today, I have prepared a dish to pair with the white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, where my workplace is located. First, this is the…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Brandy-Steeped Grilled Persimmon

This is the fresh-fruit dessert (mizugashi) course. For the Brandy-Steeped Grilled Persimmon, grilling the persimmon brings out more sweetness and…

• Serves 4 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 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

True Oyster Flan

This dish lets you fully experience, filling the mouth, the plump texture and the creamy, rich umami of true oysters, which come into season in…

• Serves 6 · ¥200

• Cook time 20 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

Oyster lightly salted then sun-dried

The deep-fried dish is overnight-dried oyster. We rarely used to use oysters in the past, but advances in fisheries technology have made it possible…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 20 min

Tilefish Matsukasa-age, with Sweet-and-Sour Thickened Sauce

Pine-cone-style fried tilefish is a classic dish, but I wanted to add a bit of a twist to the flavor. Wanting to serve it in the style of the Chinese…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 20 min

Softshell Turtle and Lotus Root Shinjo

The softshell turtle's simmering liquid is drawn out with sake and water for 30 minutes, skimming off the scum as it goes, then seasoning is added…

• Serves 20 · ¥6,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, Deep-Fried in Mochi-Rice Batter

For Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, since the crab's umami grows weaker in its nagori period — the last-of-the-season stretch — I thought it would work…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Winter cod deep-fried in fine rice-cracker crumbs, fan-shaped deep-fried milt

This is the deep-fried course. For the kandara mijinko-age, every January in the Shonai region of Yamagata Prefecture, the Kandara Festival is held…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Young Chicken in Milky White Sauce

Young chicken, steamed and pan-fried, in milky white sauce: steaming the chicken alone wouldn't feel like much of a change, so after steaming it I…

• ¥145

• Cook time 40 min