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Kombu soup bowl, made with salted kombu

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is a kombu soup bowl. It is a simple dish in which a delicious clear-soup stock is poured over…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 20 min

Winter melon simmered to absorb the broth

This is a summer simmered dish. For the winter melon simmered to absorb the broth, since winter melon has a relatively delicate flavor, I simmer it…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Ezo Abalone Risotto

After cleaning the Ezo abalone, we steam it in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes to extract its stock, and cook the rice in that abalone stock…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Duck yawata-maki, shrimp simmered shiba-ni style, taro and sea bream miso dengaku, kabocha squash, egg-yolk glaze-grilled squid

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 30 min

Hanabira Daikon Platter

For this development, I chose sakura-dai, a spring ingredient. This is a sashimi course. April is when sea bream is at its best, so I thought serving…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,012

• Cook time 30 min

Steamed Cod Rice, Cold-Smoked Cod, Cod Cracker

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. The appetizer is designed to feel like a single course in itself. As a proposal for using…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

Autumn Mackerel Ichimatsu Sushi

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: designed with photogenic appeal for guests in their twenties and thirties…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Tomato and Onion Droplet

I devised this as the zatsuke (the first dish served at the start of a banquet) within a summer set menu. This is a chilled soup course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Water namasu, Daiō char minced with miso

As for Water Namasu, I'm told that in the region where I was born and raised, sailors used to eat it this way aboard ship. Wanting guests to taste…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 20 min

Corn pureed soup

This serves in place of the soup course (o-wan). The chicken tenderloin is soaked briefly in shio-kōji, and once the seasoning has taken, it is…

• Serves 5 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Smoked Char, Cured Prosciutto-Style

Continuing the proposal for using char across its hashiri, shun, and nagori stages, this represents the nagori, or end-of-season, use. This is served…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Matsutake and pike conger grilled with fragrant onion soy

This is the grilled course. For the matsutake and hamo grilled with fragrant onion soy, we first make an onion soy sauce and baste the fish with it…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Niigata Sake-Lees Soup, Niigata Yellowtail Belly Salt-Grilled

This is a soup course. This time it's a sake-lees soup (sakekasu-jiru), but instead of salmon or the like, I've put in yellowtail with just the right…

• Serves 1 · ¥566

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail and Turnip Sushi, Cold-Smoked Yellowtail and Monkfish Liver Monaka

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is the hashi-hajime, the first course eaten with chopsticks. For the yellowtail and turnip…

• Serves 2 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 weeks

Monkfish hot pot

Monkfish hot pot is usually made with bonito or kombu dashi, but this time I roast the monkfish bones and simmer them in a pressure cooker to draw…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 50 min

Grilled Char with Shincha, Shirobai Liver Grill, and Okaki-Crumb Deep-Fried River Shrimp

This is a proposal for using char across its first-of-season, peak-season, and end-of-season stages. This time it is a dish that makes use of char in…

• Serves 1 · ¥790

• Cook time 1 hr

Lotus Root Shinjo

This is the simmered-dish course. As for the lotus root shinjo, in-season lotus root, when left to rest until late autumn, has its starch convert…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

(Opening hassun) Gion Festival

I was born and raised in Tokyo. After graduating high school I spent five years at a sushi restaurant in Shinbashi, and I joined a mikoshi…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Takikomi Gohan: Matsutake and Ginkgo Rice

Here I introduce a dish from our restaurant. 'Matsutake and ginkgo rice' is a dish I devised valuing the aroma that conveys the season, arriving the…

Sakura-dai Sawani-wan

This makes use of a spring ingredient — this time, sakura-dai, a cherry-blossom-season sea bream. This is a clear-soup course. For the sakura-dai…

• Serves 1 · ¥595

• Cook time 20 min

Fugu soup

We fully draw out the umami of fugu bones unique to this season, and pair it with miso for guests to enjoy.

Sweetfish and taro-stem roll, somen noodle soup

I aimed to let guests enjoy the aromas of summer, especially July's seasonal ingredients, through a variety of soup courses. This soup course is Ayu…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 40 min