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Alfonsino steamed with a white, elder-style finish

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 30 min

On an auspicious day (red sea bream flesh and fin)

From "expressing local heritage through cooking," this is the simmered course. Using the flesh and fin of red sea bream from Fukuoka, which boasts…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 50 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

Ise lobster shell-simmered, turnip sauce, bottarga kōsen

For the additional course, I use a whole Ise lobster, gorgeously and extravagantly. I express the image of 'brocade autumn' -- yellow maple leaves…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,020

• Cook time 20 min

Yakuzen salmon, sake-lees grilled, with moistening shira-ae (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by yakuzen specialist Ms. Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that sparked my interest…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 35 min

Fugu milt and karasumi, steamed rice

Among all the delicious qualities of in-season fugu, this is a luxurious dish that lets you enjoy the rich umami of the milt -- called 'a jewel of…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu Milt, Fresh Green Laver Sauce, Wasabi

This dish is inspired by the image of a high-quality Japanese-style risotto, made with the rich, me…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 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

Eel Hot Pot

Throughout the year, our restaurant serves a hot-pot-style dish within the tasting menu that focuses on seasonal ingredients. This time it's a hot…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr

Niigata blackthroat seaperch, seared-skin sashimi

This is a sashimi course. I sear the skin of Niigata's nodoguro to give it a seared-and-chilled finish. Letting a little heat into the fish really…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,760

• Cook time 30 min

Hamo Abura-Shimo Sashimi, Water Spinach, and Powdered Soy Sauce

As a way of serving seafood, I devised a new combination of refreshingly summery aromas, flavors, and ingredients. Also, thinking of umami's richness…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Karasumi cured in shuto, new bamboo shoot with flowering sansho, and Ise lobster with sea cucumber roe

This is an appetizer meant to accompany sake. For the first dish, I serve something that conveys the season. Since guests are still drinking tea at…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,300

• Cook time 2 days

Ayu Namerou with Finger Lime

I devised this dish as a new way of serving seafood. My focus is on a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

New lotus root kinpira, red and green Manganji peppers fried and dashi-steeped, octopus miso-cured and armor-style grilled

• ¥970

• Cook time 1 hr

Filefish, Grilled Matsutake Mushroom, Cauliflower Mushroom

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. Rather than the bold, assertive fragrance of…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Jade-green simmered eggplant and Pacific saury simmered and steeped in broth

This is a paired simmered course. The Jade-Green Simmered Eggplant is a dish prepared using a cooking method involving oil, but it's cooked so that…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 3 hr

Salt-plank grilling

As part of "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is the grilled dish Salt-Plank Grilling. The "salt plank" is made by thoroughly kneading salt…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared-skin fugu, sudachi, milt sauce

Fugu has more umami and flavor the more you chew it, so at our restaurant we grill it over charcoal with the skin left on. Grilling firms up the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Shinshu Premium Beef Roast Beef

Shinshu Premium beef from Nagano Prefecture is slowly cooked at a low temperature, drawing out a moist, tender umami. Paired with the melting texture…

• Serves 1 · ¥820

• Cook time 2 hr

Red squid, beltfish, splendid alfonsino, horse mackerel, chicken grunt

For our sashimi course, we put thought into how the dish is eaten. Rather than having it eaten with just soy sauce and wasabi, we consider the…

'Early spring' new burdock steamed sticky rice

This time, I received an award called Chevalier. Twenty-three years ago in August, I opened my current restaurant, and back then I had almost no…

• Serves 20 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 30 min

Softshell turtle egg tofu (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is a steamed dish. The Softshell Turtle Egg Tofu is a steamed dish meant to support…

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 1 hr