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Simmered Daikon

Encountering Yushima daikon from Kumamoto Prefecture was what led me to think about how best to make the most of a daikon so juicy and sweet it's…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 3 hr

Ginkgo-nut rice, new-crop bettarazuke, oyster red miso soup

The rice course is ginkgo-nut rice. Salt alone is enough seasoning, since it lets the ingredient's own flavor come through fully. And when I thought…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Striped jack thin-sliced sashimi, flounder chrysanthemum roll

This is a sashimi course. For the shima-aji thin-sliced sashimi, since we have a fish tank at the restaurant, we always keep live, fresh shima-aji on…

• Serves 1 · ¥725

• Cook time 10 min

Koban-Shaped Pen Shell and Fava Bean Chakin

This is a seasonal assortment course proposal built around the last of the pen shell season. For the gold-coin-shaped pen shell and fava bean chakin…

• Serves 5 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

Seared Hoshiko Shinjo

Taking aroma as the theme, I focus here on 'the scent of shijimi clams and first-extraction dashi.' Rather than the bold, hit-you-in-the-face aromas…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Swordtip squid somen

Added richness with grape-seed oil.

Chestnut and fig in basil-sesame cream (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by medicinal-cuisine specialist Momoyo Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Female snow crab pot-cooked rice

This is something of a signature dish at our restaurant: the trick is that when you open the pot, charcoal and kobako crab appear, to guests'…

• Serves 12 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 40 min

River trout oil-smoked and steamed, salmon chakin shaped like ground cherries, Kurakake bean and rock tripe steeped in dashi, Shinshu grape dressed in daigo, curved bamboo shoot with plum-shiso dressing

Right now, we're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so I'd like to…

• Serves 5 · ¥220

• Cook time 20 min

Sea bream, pen shell clam, and bluefin tuna straw-seared

From the dishes I created under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today," this time it's the sashimi course. Within this menu, I often split the sashimi into…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 1 hr

Wind-Dried Sasagarei

By soaking sasagarei, which comes into season in winter, in salted water and then wind-drying it for about half a day, this becomes a dish where just…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel Clear Soup — Chilled Style

This is a chilled clear soup made with eel. The eel is cut into rounds while still live, grilled, then steamed and de-boned, and briefly simmered in…

• Serves 3 · ¥320

• Cook time 40 min

Ise lobster simmered with sea urchin, comma-shaped shrimp-taro fukume-ni, bamboo shoot simmered Tosa-style, purple sweet potato crisp, flower-cut carrot, and bok choy

For the tosa-style bamboo shoot, the bamboo shoot is simmered once, then simmered again with a generous amount of added bonito flakes. It's then…

Blended Miso Broth, Char Wrapped in Lotus Root

My workplace is in Karuizawa, Nagano, so I think of the four seasons of Shinshu's clear mountain streams as four kinds of warmth, and I used char…

• Serves 1 · ¥780

• Cook time 40 min

Making Vegetables Delicious

Since vegan cooking can only use vegetables, and that leaves the flavor feeling somewhat lacking, I thought about whether I could perfect it starting…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,208

• Cook time 20 min

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

Yashonma

We're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so let me introduce how our…

• Serves 3 · ¥3,200

• Cook time 30 min

Ice Block Presentation

For the palate-refreshing mid-meal course, I made it into an ice-block presentation. This time I laid down bamboo leaves and served sudachi sōmen…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• 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.

Layered star flounder with salted sea urchin

For the mukōzuke, the sashimi course, since it’s summer, I used star flounder. I deliberately slice star flounder thick. That brings out the fish’s…