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Free-range chicken Kansai-style seasoned rice with bamboo shoot, carrot, burdock, thin fried tofu, shiitake, and mitsuba

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

Champignon pureed soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is the clear-soup course. The Champignon Surinagashi — a ground, strained purée-style…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

Sakura shrimp soba (green laver tempura crumbs and egg, scallion)

This is a dish that could be called our restaurant's signature. We serve it as something you can only eat here. It's a sakura shrimp soba: sakura…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled sweetfish with bitter uruka

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥260

• Cook time 40 min

Shiso rice porridge

Rice porridge has been served at the end of our course meals since the beginning. By washing the ri…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min

Softshell Turtle Takikomi Gohan

In the past, our restaurant served a clear-soup course with large pieces of softshell turtle, but since some guests found the appearance off-putting…

• Serves 5 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 4 hr

Salt-simmered yellowtail

From our use of the winter ingredient yellowtail, this is a simmered dish. I think it's common to enjoy yellowtail for the umami of its fat, but the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bream sashimi, seared tuna tataki, seared-skin pike conger sashimi

The conger eel sashimi is served charcoal-grilled, as is typical of a counter restaurant. It is imp…

Simmered Daikon

Encountering Yushima daikon from Kumamoto Prefecture was what led me to think about how best to make the most of a daikon so juicy and sweet it's…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 3 hr

Roe-Bearing Ayu Simmered and Steeped, Claypot Rice

I designed this as a repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. The reason it resonates with that generation is the value proposition of…

• ¥1,140

• Cook time 40 min

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

Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

Seared Hoshiko Shinjo

Taking aroma as the theme, I focus here on 'the scent of shijimi clams and first-extraction dashi.' Rather than the bold, hit-you-in-the-face aromas…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Salt-Boiled Dōman-Gani

Found in a renowned lake, the Doman mud crab is said to be a phantom crab; its official name is the serrated mud crab. It's characterized by firm…

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

Eel simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper

This is a simmered dish. For the Eel Arima-ni, normally you'd remove the sliminess from the eel, cut it into tube sections, sear it, steam it, then…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

River trout oil-smoked and steamed, salmon chakin shaped like ground cherries, Kurakake bean and rock tripe steeped in dashi, Shinshu grape dressed in daigo, curved bamboo shoot with plum-shiso dressing

Right now, we're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so I'd like to…

• Serves 5 · ¥220

• Cook time 20 min

Vegan kakuni (wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut shiro-uri melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, potato mustard)

Thinking of veganism as also a matter of religion, I wanted guests to be able to taste the best qualities of animal-derived ingredients through a…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Sea bream, pen shell clam, and bluefin tuna straw-seared

From the dishes I created under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today," this time it's the sashimi course. Within this menu, I often split the sashimi into…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Hand-Cut Soba Jibu-ni

This is the shokuji, the rice or noodle course. For Hand-Cut Soba Jibu-ni, a soba take on jibu-ni, the Kanazawa-style simmered dish, rather than…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 5 min

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

Eel Clear Soup — Chilled Style

This is a chilled clear soup made with eel. The eel is cut into rounds while still live, grilled, then steamed and de-boned, and briefly simmered in…

• Serves 3 · ¥320

• Cook time 40 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…