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Monkfish liver, monkfish jellied broth

This is part of an effort to cope with rising food costs. At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Long-aged kombu and mold-cured bonito clear broth, shark fin, soft-shell turtle flavor-change ball, sprouted green onion, hidden ginger

This is another dish we serve year-round, offered as part of our higher-priced course. The key point of this dish is the top-grade first-extraction…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 min

Overwintered napa cabbage wrapped in ancient rice, minced raw herring, pickled herring, herring roe

This is the rice course. The overwintered vegetables used are overwintered napa cabbage, overwintered cabbage, overwintered carrot, and overwintered…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 1 min

Ayu Namerou with Finger Lime

I devised this dish as a new way of serving seafood. My focus is on a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Okinawan peanut tofu

I pursued the pleasure of the sound of chewing. The grilled peanut tofu is crisp on the outside and molten within, and the island-banana fritter also…

Yellowtail and Turnip Hot Pot

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a hot pot dish. The yellowtail and turnip hot pot is a dish we always include in our…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 40 min

Sea Bream Grilled with Western Vegetables

This is an introduction to a grilled dish using sea bream. For the sea bream grilled with Western vegetables, since sea bream past its season after…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,050

• Cook time 30 min

Shiba shrimp mino-age (oyster shin-biki-age, fried root vegetable with cheese, ginkgo-leaf-cut sweet potato, dead-branch-cut burdock, rice-ear garnish, sudachi)

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

Pike conger and matsutake, gently simmered

This is what's known as a 'deai-mono' — a dish pairing two ingredients that come into season together — for autumn. It's a simple dish you often see…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 20 min

Misaki-gazami in Kabosu Crystal Jelly

Building on autumn ingredients, I used Misaki-gazami, a treasure of the sea from Oita Prefecture, known in the classical era as Toyo-no-kuni, where…

• Serves 1 · ¥135

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod Oyako Clear-Soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the Cod Oyako Clear-Soup — oyako meaning "parent and child," pairing cod flesh with cod roe — in the Tohoku region…

• Serves 1 · ¥570

• Cook time 30 min

Crab and Potato with Daikon, Hairy Crab Grilled in the Shell

Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables. The overwintered vegetables used here are Niseko 540 potato, snow-covered daikon, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr

Cedar-plank grilled salmon, tube-rolled willowy flounder, uni-glazed shrimp-shaped taro, egg-yolk-glazed grilled salmon roe

This is a grilled course from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." The burdock sauce is remarkably fragrant and very well…

• Serves 1 · ¥945

• Cook time 40 min

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Eggplant burger (fruit tomato, soft-poached quail egg, Parmigiano, Kamoji scallion)

When people hear 'charcoal-grilled,' many picture yakitori, so I sandwich tare-glazed tsukune between slices of eggplant, giving it a burger style…

• Serves 1 · ¥210

• Cook time 50 min

Fragrance of Peach Blossoms

This expresses Fukuoka through cooking. I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Tender-Simmered Olive Pork

Japanese cuisine built around imported teas Tea used = For the simmered dish Tender-Simmered Olive Pork, I used dark tea, which has a distinctive…

• Serves 5 · ¥400

• Cook time 3 hr

Smoked Swimming Crab

The restaurant where I work is centered on shellfish and crustaceans, and our work smoking seafood has a good reputation, so I thought about giving…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Spanish mackerel pot-cooked rice

We propose 24 pleasures across a single year. The cool, refreshing aroma of watercress stimulates the appetite.

Fugu

This is a raw dish. With fugu, thickness is the key point, so I slice it a bit thick. It's a milt sauce with truffle flavor — slicing the milt raw…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 40 min

Spot prawn baked in egg batter

This uses spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori. This is the grilled course. For the botan shrimp tamaji-yaki, I make it with…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail shabu-shabu with grated daikon

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. Here, this stands in for the sashimi course rather than a hot pot. For the yellowtail…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 4 days

Herb-and-Breadcrumb Baked Oysters, Conger Eel Yawata-maki, Monkfish Liver in Butter-Soy Sauce

This is an introduction of dishes paired with Japanese white wine. This is a grilled dish. For the herb-and-breadcrumb baked oysters, the oysters are…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr