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Ginkgo-nut rice, new-crop bettarazuke, oyster red miso soup

The rice course is ginkgo-nut rice. Salt alone is enough seasoning, since it lets the ingredient's own flavor come through fully. And when I thought…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Oil-grilled pike conger, salt-grilled striped jack

For the grilled course, the salt-grilled shima-aji, we serve the collar of the shima-aji salt-grilled. Then there's the hamo. By September, if we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,160

• Cook time 20 min

Koban-Shaped Pen Shell and Fava Bean Chakin

This is a seasonal assortment course proposal built around the last of the pen shell season. For the gold-coin-shaped pen shell and fava bean chakin…

• Serves 5 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Quail meatball

This is an introduction of a dish paired with the white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, where my own workplace is located. This is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Swordtip squid somen

Added richness with grape-seed oil.

New Soba-Gaki, Okaya Eel Tree-Ring Roll

When people think of Nagano, I imagine many picture soba. This time, I kneaded fresh new-crop buckwheat flour to bring out a chewy, mochi-like…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu, Zenmaru Shiitake, Scallion Sprouts, Sudachi

Tiger fugu, which is normally enjoyed with the flavor of salt or soy sauce, we serve marinated in shuto (fermented salted bonito innards) broth and…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Ayu clear broth, grilled ayu, winter melon, wood ear mushroom, water shield, baby melon, a touch of yuzu

For the sweetfish in clear seafood broth, we draw the dashi using dried sweetfish. This adds a deep sweetfish umami to the soup broth, different from…

Cod Shirako Clear Soup

This time, we used cod milt to evoke the image of a snowy landscape.

Sailfin sandfish, kombu-cured

This is a palate-settling course themed around Akita Prefecture's local cuisine. For the Sailfin Sandfish Kombu-Cured, I wanted people to enjoy every…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 12 hr

Hadano Mandarin Orange Kuzu-yu

I created this dish under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is an in-between accompanying dish. After the grilled, marinated kue, I wanted to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted

From the theme of heritage dishes, this is "small sardines, simmered and dried." For the sardines, simply remove the heads, guts, and tails, then…

• Serves 1 · ¥52

• Cook time 5 hr

Clear-Soup Hamo Yoshino-Uchi

Clear soup with pike conger eel dusted in Yoshino kuzu starch. For the obaike (whale tail-fluke skin and blubber) tofu, we use jarred obaike: soak to…

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

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.'

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

Crab

Rather than boiling the crab as is, we steam the legs and body separately for different lengths of time so the umami doesn't escape. A small amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Brothless Okkirikomi

This is a reimagining of local cuisine. It's a simmered dish. I deliberately serve Gunma's classic local dish "okkirikomi" — hand-cut flat udon in…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 40 min

Sea Bream Milt Kan and Sake-Simmered Sea Bream and Bamboo Shoot

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

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

Chilled Eel and White Eggplant

This is a chilled simmered dish. For "Chilled Eel and White Eggplant," I finished the eel using the same method sushi restaurants use for simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Chilled Beef and Baby Corn

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

Chilled Grilled-Corn Chawanmushi

While focusing above all on practicality, I designed this around the theme of "unconventional cold cuisine." This is the chilled chawanmushi (savory…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,067

• Cook time 1 hr

Abalone Somen

From the themes of a heat-relief dish for summer and cold cuisine, this is an appetizer. For the abalone somen, since abalone prices have been rising…

• Serves 1 · ¥358

• Cook time 1 hr