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Wind-Dried Sasagarei

By soaking sasagarei, which comes into season in winter, in salted water and then wind-drying it for about half a day, this becomes a dish where just…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Three-year fugu, thin-sliced sashimi winter vegetable roll

This sashimi course is only possible thanks to fugu in season. For the Three-Year Fugu Usu-zukuri with Winter Vegetable Roll, the thin-sliced sashimi…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Boar Soup with Fresh Soba-Sashi Style

Wild boar soup with fresh soba-sashi is a comforting dish where you can fully enjoy the umami of the boar's fat, dissolved into the broth, and the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,397

• Cook time 40 min

Fugu karaage

This is Yugawara, expressed through cuisine -- this is the deep-fried course. Fugu karaage was a favorite dish of the novelist Naoya Shiga. The words…

• Serves 1 · ¥60

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Boar and Vegetables, Dengaku-Style

For Wild Boar and Vegetables, Dengaku-Style, I use wild boar belly with good marbling of fat. Wild boar stays in season through this period, and I…

• Serves 1 · ¥634

• Cook time 4 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

Blended Miso Broth, Char Wrapped in Lotus Root

My workplace is in Karuizawa, Nagano, so I think of the four seasons of Shinshu's clear mountain streams as four kinds of warmth, and I used char…

• Serves 1 · ¥780

• Cook time 40 min

Char Steamed in Green Bamboo

This is a dish under the theme of expressing local heritage through cooking. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 1 hr

Soy Milk Hot Pot — Using Fish Maw

Swim bladder is a luxury ingredient in Chinese cuisine, but we came up with this dish with the idea…

• Serves 3 · ¥740

• Cook time 15 min

Carp daikon-wrapped roll, takiawase

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: carp kanroni, a candied simmered carp Fukushima Prefecture covers a large area, comprising…

• Serves 4 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Sweet Deep-Fried Carp

This is a fried dish reimagining Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Sweet Deep-Fried Carp, in Yamagata in the old days, carp was eaten as an…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,406

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared sweetfish sushi

As a fresh exploration of aroma, I set out to express ayu's refreshing fragrance and umami by using the whole fish without waste. I thought of ayu as…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Whitefin trevally grilled with kabusecha tea

This is the grilled course. For ‘Kakuaji Grilled with Kabusecha Tea,’ I use kakuaji, a rare local fish also called white trevally, in a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 2 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

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

Layered star flounder with salted sea urchin

For the mukōzuke, the sashimi course, since it’s summer, I used star flounder. I deliberately slice star flounder thick. That brings out the fish’s…

Sesame Soy-Milk Sōmen with 'Macro Tare' Sauce

'Macro tare,' the key point of this dish, is usually used as a dipping sauce or dressing for meat and fish. This time I thought about whether this…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

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

Aizu Horse Meat Tataki, Sango-hachi-zuke

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Aizu raw horse meat Fukushima Prefecture covers a large area, comprising the Aizu…

• Serves 2 · ¥850

• Cook time 30 min

Sheet Jellyfish with Shuto Dressing

This is a tsubotsubo dish. In tea-ceremony cuisine, tsubotsubo is served to convey the meaning "I'd like to get closer to you" or "I'd like to become…

• ¥150

• Cook time 30 min

Miso-style, Chikuma River roe-bearing ayu-koku

This focuses on ingredients from Nagano. Koi-koku is a rich miso soup and simmered dish made by long-simmering carp cut into rounds in miso, and it…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 2 hr

Dried cod, fukume-ni

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: simmered bōdara Wanting to seek out the long-transmitted dishes of Fukushima and Kōriyama…

• Serves 1 · ¥284.6

• Cook time 5 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

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min