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Ayu and Eggplant Terrine, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, guests from overseas have declined, but I designed this menu anticipating that they will eventually return, Sweetfish, a…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Sea Cucumber with Soy pulp, Abalone Liver with Butter, Black Sesame Egg with a Touch of Rin Glaze, Arihei-Style Squid, Yellowtail and Bettarazuke Hakata-Style, Plum Monaka, Matcha Kinton with Budou-mame, Herring Roe Namasu

This is the course preceding the hassun course. For the sea cucumber with soy pulp, I put the sea cucumber in a bamboo colander together with round…

• Serves 1 · ¥830

• Cook time 1 hr

Giant Pacific octopus grilled and steeped in dashi

This is an appetizer built around the theme of new ways of serving seafood. For the Giant Pacific Octopus Yaki-hitashi, octopus is usually served as…

• Serves 1 · ¥460

• Cook time 1 hr

Kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-cape coating — young corn

By wrapping the first turn of julienned potato a little firmly and the rest loosely, the potato stays attached to the prawn and fries up beautifully…

Layered Ayu and Eggplant, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, we have many guests from overseas, so I devised this dish with them in mind. Sweetfish, a summer ingredient, is typically…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Autumn-leaf assortment: oyster and persimmon miso gratin, shrimp and water caltrop grilled with yuzu, scallop autumn-color pickle, small clam adductor in apple vinegar, shuto cheese, persimmon and salmon, rolled dried persimmon, matcha red bean paste with skin-on chestnut

As a reconception of dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine, this evokes a late-autumn medley. We designed each dish with an eye to color…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,475

• Cook time 1 hr

Hairy crab wrapped in lettuce (ginger gelée, sea grapes, shiso flower spikes, white asparagus)

At our restaurant, we focus on cooking that draws out the umami and flavor of the ingredients themselves. We're always thinking about the menu, and…

Wagyu Beef, Three Ways, Low-Temperature Grilled

This grilled dish, with its creatively devised presentation and serving style, is Wagyu Beef, Three Ways, Low-Temperature Grilled. Meat's composition…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 3 hr

Freshly Made Sesame Tofu, Sea Urchin, Kombu-Water Jelly Broth

We insist on sesame that's 'freshly toasted, freshly pressed' and tofu that's 'freshly kneaded': we knead it fresh every day, one hour before…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip and Duck Jibu-ni

This is a dish we've served since our restaurant's opening, out of my wish to 'preserve the excellent dishes that have existed since long ago.' It's…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 2 hr

Salmon, Ikura, and Mushroom Rice, with Salmon Yuan-Yaki

A masterpiece cooked up with a rich, clear seafood stock in which you can sense the umami of a variety of fish, making lavish use of showcase…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Simmered and steeped — white asparagus, clam, wasabi flower, soy-marinated salmon roe, shiso flower spike

This time, we learned about "sakizuke" (the appetizer course) from Technical Director Yoshiaki Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank Meguro Branch Office). We…

Seared Ayu Sushi

I thought of sweetfish, a local Kanagawa ingredient in early summer. I filleted it, salted it light…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Seiko Crab, Grilled in the Shell

The deliciousness of the seasonal Seiko crab is served in the course as an appetizer with a refresh…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 10 min

Spanish mackerel and turnip

This is a steamed dish. Sawara and turnip is a dish where, on top of the elegant sweetness of sawara — a fish with no unpleasant edge to its flavor —…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Walnut tofu / early-summer salmon, Edo-style soy-cured and grilled / abalone and ginkgo nut takikomi rice

Even for a veteran master chef, there are many dishes whose preparation can't be understood just by hearing about them or seeing them once. That's…

Aromatic Steamed Eel with Rice Oil

I've approached umami as richness = fat, for a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of ingredients. The steamed dish is…

• ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Beef Low-Temperature Grilled in Charcoal Oil

I made two charcoal oils: sawdust charcoal oil and binchotan oil. For both, heat the charcoal until red-hot on the stove burner, drop it into…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Hell-pickled blue crab, blue crab roe tossed with sansho leaf

This is blue crab hell pickle. It gets this name because the crab is pickled while still alive. I adapted Korean ganjang-gejang into a Japanese-style…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 days

Charcoal-grilled wild mallard (lily bulb)

After quickly deep-frying just the surface of the wild mallard breast at high temperature, we apply low-temperature cooking, and finish it by smoking…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo Eggplant, Foie Gras Kuwayaki

This is a simmered course. As for the foie gras kuwayaki, foie gras has a reputation for being relatively expensive, but it is actually fairly…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 10 min

Largehead beltfish shin-biki-age, matsutake

This is a deep-fried course in which seasonal ingredients are coated with unconventional coatings such as toasted granulated glutinous-rice coating…

• Serves 1 · ¥495

• Cook time 15 min

Roast Venison Shintama

This is the additional course, making use of autumn ingredients. Roast Venison Shintama uses in-season venison, a lean cut from the hindquarter…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Spiny lobster egg-yolk deep-fry — matsutake hakusen-age, sudachi, plain salt

This time, we learned about "agemono" from new master Masaya Tsuji (Wanmiya). We will focus on "Koromoage".