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Smoked Char, Cured Prosciutto-Style

Continuing the proposal for using char across its hashiri, shun, and nagori stages, this represents the nagori, or end-of-season, use. This is served…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

White plum-shaped taro, kuruma prawn simmered shiba-ni style, early-dug bamboo shoot, milt simmered in egg yolk

This proposes a way to use true cod milt at the end of its season (nagori). This is the simmered course. The milt simmered in egg yolk takes milt…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Whole Simmered Round Eggplant

From "Early-Autumn Eggplant Dishes, a Variety," this is a simmered dish. Whole Simmered Round Eggplant is a dish in which the round eggplant is…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Tenjin hot pot

This is a hot pot dish. This time we were given the theme of 'rethinking hot pot,' so we wanted to show a different way of presenting the work we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style

This is a grilled dish from a summer set menu. For the Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style, I remember this from when I had just joined Tokyo Kaikan, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Niigata Sake-Lees Soup, Niigata Yellowtail Belly Salt-Grilled

This is a soup course. This time it's a sake-lees soup (sakekasu-jiru), but instead of salmon or the like, I've put in yellowtail with just the right…

• Serves 1 · ¥566

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Soup, Yellowtail Turnip Sushi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. When it comes to winter ingredients, there is also fugu and cod, but we chose yellowtail, which is…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Monkfish hot pot

Monkfish hot pot is usually made with bonito or kombu dashi, but this time I roast the monkfish bones and simmer them in a pressure cooker to draw…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 50 min

Grilled Char with Shincha, Shirobai Liver Grill, and Okaki-Crumb Deep-Fried River Shrimp

This is a proposal for using char across its first-of-season, peak-season, and end-of-season stages. This time it is a dish that makes use of char in…

• Serves 1 · ¥790

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

Lotus Root Shinjo

This is the simmered-dish course. As for the lotus root shinjo, in-season lotus root, when left to rest until late autumn, has its starch convert…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Rikyu-style sea bream dressed with kombu

I pair aged tai with olive oil carrying the umami of kombu, aiming for a synergistic effect between the umami of the fish's fat and the umami of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min

Fat greenling dusted with kuzu starch — new-crop water shield, small bok choy, shiitake, yuzu

This time, we learned about the "clear-soup course" from Instructor Wada (Nihon Ryōri Aogaki). We feature the "ainame clear-soup course."

Spiny lobster in kuzu-starch sauce, deep-fried tofu simmered in soup

For the Ise lobster in kuzu-starch sauce, we coat the lobster meat firmly with potato starch. Coating it too many times deadens the lobster's flavor…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 30 min

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Akita Prefecture "Yuri Beef Roast" with Iburigakko Sauce

The theme is "Reimagined Local Cuisine" — a creative reworking of the standard way local cuisine is typically served. This is an additional course…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 30 min

Winter melon and freeze-dried tofu naruto roll, pork belly steamed with salt and lemon

This is an introduction to the simmered assortment from the summer course. For the winter melon and freeze-dried tofu naruto-maki, the winter melon…

• Serves 3 · ¥300

• Cook time 40 min

Suppon clear soup: grilled scallion, goji berries

The soup "Marusui" is one of our specialty dishes. It is made using only turtle stock, which we tak…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 10 min

Ise spiny lobster ice-rinsed sashimi

This is a sashimi course that makes use of Ise spiny lobster as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Ise lobster is a premium ingredient regarded…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 30 min

Sakura-dai Sawani-wan

This makes use of a spring ingredient — this time, sakura-dai, a cherry-blossom-season sea bream. This is a clear-soup course. For the sakura-dai…

• Serves 1 · ¥595

• Cook time 20 min

Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup

For 'Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup,' I treated caffeine-free herbal tea as a dashi drawn with tea. I built it into a soup together with sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Mirugai, Udo, and Wasabi Aemono

This was devised as an additional hearty course to make use of giant clam in season: giant clam, udo, and wasabi aemono. In my own sense of it, this…

• Serves 5 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 30 min

Kawachi duck and whole-roasted Tennoji turnip

As a way to make use of a winter ingredient, this is a dish built around Tennoji turnip in season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Hakkinton Pork and Potatoes — An Evolution of Niku-jaga

The main branch of the restaurant I currently work at has long served breakfast, so coming up with a fresh breakfast idea again was a challenge. To…

• Serves 2 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 min