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Pear and ricotta cheese salad, pear and white fungus honey-simmered with yakuzen tea jelly (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is a dessert themed around Japanese cuisine and yakuzen. I chose a pear-based dessert because, once you enter working life, opportunities to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• 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.

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell with egg yolk

This is the simmered course. The menu lists it as shiradatsu — the taro stem also known as zuiki — but blanched taro shoots can be used in its place…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Plum hot water

First is the welcome course. Many restaurants serve something like salted cherry blossom in hot water, but I learned of this one at Eihei-ji. At…

Oyster and Kombu Boat Grill

As the hearty course, this is oyster and kombu boat grill. We put sweet miso, oysters, scallion, and fresh wheat gluten onto a kombu boat and grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

Fresh fish, kombu-cured (using "small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted")

Heritage dishes. As a dish that makes use of the "small sardines, simmered and dried" I introduced, this is an introduction of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 3 hr

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell

This is a simmered dish built around the presentation. Spiny lobster simmered in its own shell was given a bold, high-impact plating under the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Soba béchamel bake

For the soba denpo-yaki, I use buckwheat flour in place of wheat flour for the béchamel sauce, added to bring out thickness and depth. For the sauce…

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 30 min

Salt-Simmered Moon Bear

Wanting to convey, in a new style, ingredients that have fallen out of use along with changing times, and cooking methods no longer practiced in…

• Serves 4 · ¥14,857

• Cook time 2 hr

King crab and sea urchin soy-glazed grill, butterfish saikyo-yaki

The grilled course pairs king crab with a sea-urchin soy glaze and butterfish saikyo-yaki. Combining sea urchin with king crab brings out a rounder…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 9 hr

Seared cod, grilled cod milt, zoni-style

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. Our restaurant sees many local customers — older guests, young couples, and gatherings of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Amazake, Ramune Mizu-Yōkan with Mango and White Wine Jelly

In the old days, dessert too was called a "water sweet," and melon and strawberries were an acceptable choice, but that's no longer acceptable today…

• Serves 1 · ¥480

• Cook time 3 hr

Steamed fugu

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a clear-soup course. For the Fugu-fukashi, I first simmer fugu bones and trimmings…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 5 hr

Snow crab, Kyoto shungiku tossed in sesame, and fermented crucian-carp sushi

As the menu approaches its final stretch, I serve a course designed to encourage more drinking, made with seasonal ingredients, to let guests enjoy a…

• Serves 1 · ¥20,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Sesame Soy-Milk Somen -- Using "Macro Tare"

We thought about "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine" by making use of a sauce that delivers impact without any animal-derived ingredients. The "Macro…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

Matsutake, Baby Turnip, Yuzu

For the soup course, our first priority is drawing a delicious dashi. We draw ichiban dashi using Kafuka kombu from Funadomari and katsuobushi from…

Coho Salmon Cured with Edible Flowers

The coho salmon cured with edible flowers becomes a dish with a gorgeous fragrance by curing the salmon with seasonal edible flowers. The lily-bulb…

• ¥532

• Cook time 1 hr

Oyster and matsutake rice (ginkgo nuts, mitsuba, fried tofu)

The meal is "Oyster and Matsutake Rice." Washing the oysters with a daikon grater removes all dirt …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,095

• Cook time 30 min

Sixteen-grain Fukagawa rice, mushroom and egg soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

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

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 35 min

Champignon pureed soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is the clear-soup course. The Champignon Surinagashi — a ground, strained purée-style…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

"Cool flavors": summer crab shinjo, small-grade kuruma prawn, oil-simmered tuna, fresh yuba, blanched pike conger, kinjiso jelly, piped anchovy cheese

The appetizer, which I named "Cool Flavors," was designed to give guests a sense of coolness. The saimaki prawn and avocado dashi-soy jelly is made…

• Serves 3 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Sakura shrimp soba (green laver tempura crumbs and egg, scallion)

This is a dish that could be called our restaurant's signature. We serve it as something you can only eat here. It's a sakura shrimp soba: sakura…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Low-Temperature Simmered Abalone, Melting Sesame Tofu, Seared Sea Bass

As a dish meant to help beat the summer heat, I focused above all on practicality while designing it around the theme of "unconventional cold…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,775

• Cook time 2 hr

Shiso rice porridge

Rice porridge has been served at the end of our course meals since the beginning. By washing the ri…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min