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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

Salt-seared bonito with Takaoka fruit-tomato salad, vinegared moray eel, juvenile conger eel with garlic nuta

This is the vinegared dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. As for the salt-seared bonito — katsuo no tataki, Kochi's signature dish, is usually eaten…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 40 min

Kamo Eggplant Grilled with Herb Miso Glaze

For the Kamo eggplant grilled with herb miso glaze, we use two kinds of miso. The rosehip miso: rosehip contains twenty times the vitamin content of…

Akashi octopus cherry-simmered, icefish cherry-blossom sushi, warm-smoked salmon and papaya, broad bean grilled with bottarga powder, bamboo shoot, simmered abalone

This time, this is a dish meant to be enjoyed around the time the first cherry blossoms are announced to be opening. This is the tray course. We…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Nakijin Agu Pork Rafute

For the Nakijin Agu pork rafute, an Okinawan braised pork belly, when boiling the Agu pork — a rare, purebred island breed — it's important to skim…

• ¥850

• Cook time 4 hr

Seaweed Parfait

Served in a glass for a colorful, showy presentation.

Tilefish grilled with edamame paste, wagyu roast wrapped in lettuce

This is the grilled course of the summer menu. For the grilled tilefish with zunda, the skin side of the tilefish is lightly seared, then coated with…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish and Sea Urchin Grilled, Crab Apple Denpō-Yaki, Obuse Chestnuts Simmered in Their Skins

This is a grilled dish that pairs the tilefish's refined fat with the sea urchin's rich umami. The sauce combines 100 cc white wine, 50 cc light soy…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 2 hr

Bamboo shoot, pen shell, bigfin reef squid, bracken fern, and sansho leaf in sansho-leaf miso dressing

This time, on 'sakizuke,' I learned from chef Matsubara (Roppongi's 'Kasumitei Matsubara'). I take up 'kinome-miso-ae.'

Squid and Egg-Yolk Yawata-maki, Saltleaf Tazuna Potato Sushi

For the appetizer squid and egg-yolk yawata-maki, we roll it up yawata-style, simmer it in egg yolk, and then lightly torch the surface to add a…

Seared bluefin medium fatty tuna cured in miso, threeline grunt blanched and stuffed with myoga, kombu-cured whiting with okra topped with grated mountain yam

This is a sashimi course built around the idea of new ways of serving seafood. Rather than simply serving it as plain sashimi, I've added one or two…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,380

• Cook time 3 hr

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

Shingoro, Okoge-Style, with Kozuyu Sauce

This is a modern arrangement of the Fukushima local dishes shingoro (a rice cake glazed with egoma, or perilla) and kozuyu (a dish simmered in dried…

• Serves 1 · ¥140

• Cook time 2 hr

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

King crab, Kyoto-style steamed with fish paste

This is an introduction under the theme of heritage dishes. At our membership-only stores, I make a sample dish using ingredients that can be sourced…

• Serves 1 · ¥297

• Cook time 1 hr

Niigata gnomefish simmered with young ginger

Gnomefish is characterized by its tender flesh, rich fat, and deep flavor. To balance that and let its flavor stand out, I prepared it simmered with…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 30 min

White miso broth, spring color layering, glossy simmered Tamba shiitake

This is a simmered-ingredients soup course timed to the opening of the cherry blossoms. By using three colors of gluten cake in the soup -- mugwort…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Turban shell, grilled in the shell

This is a grilled dish designed with the presentation in mind. Turban shell tsubo-yaki (grilled in the shell) expresses old-fashioned "nostalgia."…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Soba in its own cooking broth, with myoga; rock salt and yuzu; wasabi and Nankō ume; wakegi scallion and hand-picked nori

The idea for this product came about when I was feeling unwell and couldn't take my medicine withou…

Deep-Fried Eel with Corn and Vegetables

At the restaurant where I work, we're used to handling freshwater fish, so I felt this eel theme was approachable, but I also took on a dish I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Ayu Arai, Octopus and Summer-Vegetable Nanban Jelly, Chilled Scallop-and-Cauliflower Purée

Naturally I wanted diners to savor the season, but I also wanted to offer a kind of psychological healing — settling summer fatigue and bringing a…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Saimaki Prawn Five-Color Roll

This is an appetizer built around the themes of a heat-relief dish for summer and the technique of cold cuisine. For the saimaki prawn (a small-grade…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min