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New Onion with Parmigiano

As June approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Spanish mackerel and napa cabbage snow-viewing hot pot with yuzu-and-chili condiment

This dish makes use of Fukuoka's Tokusen Hon-Sawara, exceptionally fresh Japanese Spanish mackerel. Eating it together with sweet napa cabbage lets…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Walnut Tofu with Sea Urchin Poured In, Crab Meat, Savory Dashi, Wasabi, Chestnut Shibukawa-Ni Bed, Beef Loin Miso-Marinated, Smoked Egg, Needle-Scored Shishito, Foie Gras and Daikon Mochi, Yuba Dressed in Truffle Wine Sauce, Enoki Mushroom, Spinach Stems, Persimmon, Salmon Roe Crowning Garnish

We are conscious of the surprise that our guests will feel when the dish is first served, and have …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,550

• Cook time 1 hr

Light kuzu-thickened broth with tilefish and lotus-root mochi, bracken fern, carrot, and fava bean

This time, on the 'clear-soup course,' I learned from chef Igawa (Nihonbashi's 'Nihon Ryōri Kafū'). This time I take up 'usu-kuzu-jitate.'

Matsushima Conger Eel Yōrō-Steamed, Zunda Habutae-Style Broth

This is the soup-course alternative from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. Matsushima Conger Eel Yōrō-Steamed with Zunda Habutae-Style Broth uses conger eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Assorted platter: nanban-style grilled barracuda, kabosu simmered in light syrup, Uda-kin burdock, tilefish with black rice, avocado baked in its shell, three kinds of rolled deep-fry

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,570

• Cook time 50 min

Chilled green tea and chicken (Mt. Fuji ice-drawn dashi, green tea, Suruga shamo chicken soup, avocado jade, eggplant wrap)

Thinking afresh about dashi in Japanese cuisine, I realized it's created through the synergy between glutamic acid and inosinic acid, the umami…

• Serves 10 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Momiji-dai, Autumn Sea Bream, Kombu-Cured with Matsutake

I devised this dish under the theme of matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. This time, I would like to propose a dish that pairs autumn…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Pinecone-cut tokobushi, bamboo-cut asparagus and salmon roll, plum-shaped noshi with a naruto twist, black soybean wine jelly

We'd like to propose a way to make the most of true cod milt in season, a winter ingredient. Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Yuzu Vessel: Niigata Red Snow Crab, Lily Bulb, and Ginkgo Nut Grilled with Yuzu Miso

I serve Niigata's 'red snow crab' presented in a yuzu vessel (yuzu-gama — a hollowed-out yuzu peel used as a serving bowl), to bring out the…

• Serves 1 · ¥468

• Cook time 40 min

Spring Three-Kind Assortment — Spring Vegetable Ohitashi, Kinome Miso, Hassaku and Snow Pea Shira-ae

This is a three-item assortment using wild mountain vegetables, vegetables, and fruit that grow more delicious in spring. With the freshness of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Tomato, water shield

You can savor the sweetness and deep, concentrated umami of Tokutani tomatoes, which boast a sugar content of 13 degrees Brix — more than twice that…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

Buen-gatsuo Tartare

This is a tartare made with Kagoshima 'buen-gatsuo' (bonito that is caught, flash-frozen, and shipped unsalted — 'buen' is local dialect for…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

White sesame blancmange (grilled fig, Japanese bayberry, lotus root crackers, black sugar syrup)

I made this dish centered on sesame and other Japanese ingredients, based on 'blancmange,' a dessert born in France. Since it's traditionally made…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Blackthroat seaperch grilled in a miso-yuzu marinade (chestnut, maitake, black fig)

Rather than the method of marinating the blackthroat seaperch in the seasoning broth, preparing it by grilling it and finishing with the sauce poured…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Lily Bulb Manjū with Suppon Poured In, Chrysanthemum-Style, Plum Flesh

For the simmered-soup course, the softshell turtle lily bulb manjū gets a chewy texture and more substance by adding a little mochi flour to the lily…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 10 min

Crab Miso Gratin

For the red snow crab gratin, I combine rustic country miso and white miso, and add crab miso — the crab's own tomalley — to finish a richly flavored…

• Serves 10 · ¥151

• Cook time 50 min

Wagyu Lean-Meat Namerō

This is a dish perfect alongside a drink, its summery, colorful use of a Japanese-style salsa sauce stirring the appetite. So guests can tell what's…

Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style

This time I'll introduce a dish made with buckwheat flour: Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style. Gozen soba, a refined, fine-milled soba, won't hold together…

• Serves 1 · ¥565

• Cook time 10 min

Keiju egg mousse, sea urchin, shrimp with savory dashi sauce and wasabi

This is a signature dish of sorts at our restaurant, served year-round and well received by guests. The eggs we use are called Keiju-tamago, produced…

• Serves 20 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Crispy deep-fried tilefish with bottarga sauce

The small tilefish is deep-fried in high-temperature oil so that its scales stand up crisply, conveying a sense of crunchiness at a single glance…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 30 min

Crimson-Fuji Inaniwa udon, cloud-white abalone, tempura bits, aromatics

So that it's clear the tanuki — the shape-shifting trickster of folklore — has transformed itself into Crimson Fuji, I scattered tenkasu, the fried…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Wagyu with Summer Vegetable Japanese-Style Salsa

This is a dish with a magnificent array of vitamin-bright colors woven together by summer vegetables, piled on top of well-grilled wagyu. You can…

Clam and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho-leaf miso, fava bean, Kyoto carrot, and mountain udo

At our restaurant we normally serve three appetizer courses, but through March and April it still gets cold at night, so we serve something warm as…