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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

Jade-green simmered eggplant and Pacific saury simmered and steeped in broth

This is a paired simmered course. The Jade-Green Simmered Eggplant is a dish prepared using a cooking method involving oil, but it's cooked so that…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 3 hr

Seared Kanpachi, Lemon-Flavored

For the Seared Amberjack, Lemon-Flavored, in order to let guests enjoy amberjack alongside sour pomelo, we brushed on the liquid formed as rock salt…

• ¥274

• Cook time 15 min

Oil-steamed smelt

With the wish for guests to experience, with all five senses, the seasonal feeling of spring as the breeze turns warm, we devised a way to use…

• Serves 10 · ¥170

• Cook time 2 hr

White Miso Broth, Softshell Turtle Wrapped in Mochi

This is a soup course. This is a technique that Chef Yamamoto, whom I trained under, often used: he would steam cut rice cakes in happō dashi until…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Seared-skin fugu, sudachi, milt sauce

Fugu has more umami and flavor the more you chew it, so at our restaurant we grill it over charcoal with the skin left on. Grilling firms up the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Snow crab shinjo and Tennoji turnip clear soup

I designed this dish around the early-season (hashiri) appearance of Tennoji turnip, as a way to make use of a winter ingredient. It was a transfer…

• Serves 6 · ¥680

• Cook time 40 min

Charcoal-Scented Tuna Roll

I use charcoal vinegar — red vinegar steeped for about two days with charred brown rice to transfer its aroma. I also grind and mix in some brown…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 15 min

Red squid, beltfish, splendid alfonsino, horse mackerel, chicken grunt

For our sashimi course, we put thought into how the dish is eaten. Rather than having it eaten with just soy sauce and wasabi, we consider the…

Sado pufferfish ball-shaped sushi, Sado yellowtail and turnip fermented sushi, Niigata smoked salmon with mustard-egg-yolk vinegar, and garland chrysanthemum greens with Niigata edible chrysanthemum steeped in ponzu

First is the appetizer course. Using Sado Island's seasonal Niigata ingredients — Sado fugu, Sado salmon, and Sado yellowtail — I prepare each as an…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,311

• Cook time 1 hr

Swimming crab, smoked

As part of a fresh exploration of aroma, I set out to drape smoke over swimming crab to bring out its flavor. My restaurant centers on crustaceans…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Sea bass pureed soup, potage-style

As a new way of serving seafood, I've approached umami as richness = fat, so all four dishes I developed in this series incorporate added fat. This…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

'Early spring' new burdock steamed sticky rice

This time, I received an award called Chevalier. Twenty-three years ago in August, I opened my current restaurant, and back then I had almost no…

• Serves 20 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 30 min

Steamed Kisu and Corn Shinjo

For the steamed whiting and corn shinjo, a fish-paste dumpling: pairing shrimp shinjo, which has strong umami, with the delicate whiting makes for a…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 45 min

Pike conger simmered with egg yolk

This is the prep work for hamo. At my restaurant we process hamo by boiling it whole, so when I source hamo, I ask the supplier not to remove the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 5 min

Splendid alfonsino mago-chazuke

This is the rice course, devised with the presentation in mind. Kinmedai mago-chazuke was finished under the concepts of "nostalgic" and "gentle." It…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Baby sardines simmered with sansho pepper

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is baby sardines simmered with sansho pepper. For shirasu-boshi — dried baby sardines — first…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 5 hr

Hayama Highland Pork Sango-hachi Roast Pork

We gave a modern arrangement to the Fukushima local specialties Hayama highland pork and sango-hachi pickling. This is a meat dish. For the Hayama…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Yamagata Salmon "Nijizakura"

This is a vinegared dish. Yamagata Salmon's "Nijizakura" is an ingredient developed over five years starting in 2013, born from producers' wish to…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

New-harvest soba, soba-zashi

This time I would like to introduce a dish that is well loved when we serve it at our restaurant during the autumn-to-winter season. This is the…

• Serves 10 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Kombu-cured Spanish mackerel

This time it is the sashimi course. For the sawara kombu-jime, the sawara is filleted into three pieces and the pin bones removed, then lightly…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-sea scorpionfish skewer-grilled with scallion, blackthroat seaperch skewer-grilled, Sado Lake Kamo oyster baked with avocado mayonnaise

The reason I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata, under the theme of coping with rising food costs, is that the wide variety of…

• Serves 1 · ¥760

• Cook time 2 hr

Wild Mountain Vegetables from Shinshū

The new-onion sauce used to dress the wild mountain vegetables is made by blending new-crop onions and cooking them to bring out their sweetness…

Tomato and soy milk kneaded tofu

The tomato's acidity is neutralized with soy milk, and tapioca starch gives it a soft texture.