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Sailfin sandfish, kombu-cured

This is a palate-settling course themed around Akita Prefecture's local cuisine. For the Sailfin Sandfish Kombu-Cured, I wanted people to enjoy every…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 12 hr

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

Hadano Mandarin Orange Kuzu-yu

I created this dish under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is an in-between accompanying dish. After the grilled, marinated kue, I wanted to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 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

Making Vegetables Delicious

Since vegan cooking can only use vegetables, and that leaves the flavor feeling somewhat lacking, I thought about whether I could perfect it starting…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,208

• Cook time 20 min

Softshell turtle noppe

'Noppe' is a Niigata regional home-style dish, a lightly thickened simmered stew widely loved and often eaten at home. This time, I've added a twist…

• Serves 1 · ¥443

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed abalone, pine-needle-skewered ginkgo nut, yam bulbil, Japanese walnut, maple-leaf wheat gluten, arrowhead bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped sweet potato, matsutake, soft-boiled egg, sea urchin and liver sauce

Valuing the color of the dish — a key point of Japanese cuisine.

Small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted

From the theme of heritage dishes, this is "small sardines, simmered and dried." For the sardines, simply remove the heads, guts, and tails, then…

• Serves 1 · ¥52

• Cook time 5 hr

Akashi octopus cherry-simmered, icefish cherry-blossom sushi, warm-smoked salmon and papaya, broad bean grilled with bottarga powder, bamboo shoot, simmered abalone

This time, this is a dish meant to be enjoyed around the time the first cherry blossoms are announced to be opening. This is the tray course. We…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• 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

Cod milt pureed soup, winter-solstice pumpkin dumplings, snow-ring-cut daikon, stem lettuce, straight-cut yuzu peel

As for the red beans set into the pumpkin shiratama dumplings, season them with the minimum amount of sugar so the sweetness doesn't stand out. To…

Tilefish and Sea Urchin Grilled, Crab Apple Denpō-Yaki, Obuse Chestnuts Simmered in Their Skins

This is a grilled dish that pairs the tilefish's refined fat with the sea urchin's rich umami. The sauce combines 100 cc white wine, 50 cc light soy…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 2 hr

Baby hairy crab

This is a steamed dish. Small hairy crab, sold at under 300 yen apiece and normally used just for stock or miso soup, are actually packed full of…

• Serves 1 · ¥721

• Cook time 2 hr

Toya Sasaki Farm Ice-Cellar-Aged Sapporo-ki Onion Soup Ochazuke

For the rice course, I developed an ice-cellar-aged Sapporo-ki onion soup ochazuke. Under the theme of drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's…

• Serves 4 · ¥250

• 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

Softshell turtle and egg terrine from Agatsuma, Gunma, with Shimonita scallion pureed soup

This substantial showcase course makes use of Shimonita scallion as an end-of-season winter ingredient. For softshell turtle and egg terrine from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,280

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared bluefin medium fatty tuna cured in miso, threeline grunt blanched and stuffed with myoga, kombu-cured whiting with okra topped with grated mountain yam

This is a sashimi course built around the idea of new ways of serving seafood. Rather than simply serving it as plain sashimi, I've added one or two…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,380

• Cook time 3 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

Brown rice coffee, charred tea snack

Charring is an old technique in Japan; I first learned of it back when I studied macrobiotics. Carbonizing ingredients in a Vermicular oven takes…

• ¥180

• Cook time 5 min

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

Three-Year Fugu, Kombu-Cured and Steamed with Ginjo Sake

Making use of winter ingredients, this is a dish for three-year fugu at its peak season. This is a steamed dish. For the Three-Year Fugu Kombu-Cured…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Niigata gnomefish simmered with young ginger

Gnomefish is characterized by its tender flesh, rich fat, and deep flavor. To balance that and let its flavor stand out, I prepared it simmered with…

• Serves 1 · ¥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