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Fukushima Koriyama Hotel Hana no Yu
Yasuhiko Jinno
A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: wappa-meshi, rice steamed in a bentwood box Wanting to seek out the long-transmitted dishes…
Serves 2 · ¥879.3
Cook time 5 hr
Toranomon/Toranomon Hills Lucy's
This makes use of sea bream milt. I myself love fishing, and sea bream is a special ingredient — good to catch and good to eat. Its seasons are…
Serves 1 · ¥1,000
Cook time 1 hr
Azabu Kadowaki (Michelin three stars, Japan 2026)
Toshiya Kadowaki
For the blanched taro stem dressed with shiso: I bruise the shiso and let it sit in water so the color doesn't change, then dress it right in front…
¥780
Cook time 1 hr
Kamogawa Ryokan Nakaya
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
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
Kagurazaka Shimakin
As my parents own a traditional Japanese inn, I started out by creating a breakfast menu for guests…
Serves 2 · ¥150
Cook time 20 min
Aomori Fujiki
We wanted to newly express the local dish kenojiru, handed down here, as a modern arrangement based on the cooking methods of Japanese cuisine. This…
Serves 4 · ¥1,200
Cook time 1 hr
Hita Hotel Shinshiyo
Noboru Konishi
From "expressing Fukuoka through cooking," this is a grilled dish. Titled "The Charm of Nature," I fashioned freshly harvested bamboo shoots from a…
Serves 1 · ¥700
Cook time 40 min
White tilefish (shiro-amadai) is wonderful for its rich fattiness and the clear, pale beauty of its scales when scored into a pinecone pattern, so…
Serves 1 · ¥2,800
Cook time 30 min
In honor of the Chrysanthemum Festival (Chōyō no Sekku) in September, I devised a vividly colored dish built around a delicate amber kuzu sauce made…
Serves 1 · ¥1,000
Cook time 40 min
Grand Exiv Nasu-Shirakawa, where I currently work, is the only facility in the Tōhoku region within our group, and we build our menus around locally…
Serves 4 · ¥430
Cook time 30 min
From the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat, under the theme "the cool taste of midsummer," I wanted diners to savor…
Serves 4 · ¥1,500
Cook time 1 days
This is the shiizakana, an additional hearty course, from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. For the chilled beef…
Serves 4 · ¥900
Cook time 1 hr
The ayu is first filleted and de-boned, then its innards — soaked in sake and wind-dried — are carefully returned to the fish. It's a labor-intensive…
Serves 4 · ¥1,200
Cook time 20 min
Hamo (pike conger) is at its best this time of year. This time, I wrapped it around winter melon, secured the shape with a toothpick, and let it…
Serves 4 · ¥800
Cook time 30 min
By deliberately setting the dashi gelée soft and loose rather than firm, the beltfish (tachiuo) and kuruma prawns take on the seasoning fully while…
Serves 4 · ¥1,200
Cook time 20 min
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
From the theme of cold cuisine, this is a chilled bowl dish. For the winter melon manju, I put soft-shelled turtle (suppon) inside a winter melon, in…
Serves 1 · ¥87
Cook time 2 hr
This dish cures ayu (sweetfish) overnight in kombu to draw out its umami and give it a silky richness. It's finished light and refreshing, paired…
Serves 1 · ¥800
Cook time 1 hr
A special dish available only for a limited time, from right after the season opens until late July, before the ayu's bones harden. From August…
Serves 1 · ¥1,200
Cook time 10 min
Founded in 1934 in Nichihara, Tsuwano Town, Shimane Prefecture, our restaurant Mikadoya serves a range of dishes made with ayu from the clear Takatsu…
Serves 10 · ¥8,000
Cook time 1 hr
Founded in 1934 in Nichihara, Tsuwano Town, Shimane Prefecture, our restaurant Mikadoya serves a range of dishes made with ayu from the clear Takatsu…
Serves 12 · ¥10,000
Cook time 1 hr
This dish was developed under the theme "sauces chosen by color," or ways of expressing color. This one is a simmered dish (nimono). For the "eel…
Serves 1 · ¥450
Cook time 2 hr
This dish was developed under the theme "a sauce with presence." For the shiizakana, an additional hearty course, I created a rich, deep sauce with…
Serves 1 · ¥900
Cook time 1 hr
Under the theme of "sauces chosen by color," or ways of expressing color, this time I designed a sauce meant to bring out the appeal of the main…
Serves 1 · ¥550
Cook time 40 min
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