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Abalone and Plum Zenzai

This is an exquisite dish combining the gentle sweetness distinctive to azuki beans, brought out by the plum's acidity; the umami of large pieces of…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 4 hr

Fragrant Fried Bonito with Hoshiko

This is a fried course. Fragrant Fried Bonito with Hoshiko is, in a sense, a dish that puts waste to good use, making full use of in-season bonito…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 10 min

Tazuru Farm Shōgoin Turnip

For the Tazuru Farm Shōgoin turnip, I peel it with a thicker cut and simmer it down slowly with no seasoning added at all, drawing out the gentle…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring sea bream in clear seafood broth — seared tofu, shiitake, garland chrysanthemum greens, julienned scallion, sansho leaf

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

Potato Kuwayaki — with Tanna Foie Gras Cream —

My hometown is Kannami, a town next to Atami, which includes the Tanna area, known for its thriving dairy farming, so I wanted to spotlight the milk…

• Serves 1 · ¥487

• Cook time 40 min

Smoked fugu milt sushi

Mixed with the sushi rice in equal proportion, so it takes on the aroma of the shirako.

The ultimate sea squirt, crisp-fried in light white batter

This is a fried dish devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. The concept is 'innovative.' Sea squirt, a specialty product of coastal…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Suppon and Napa Cabbage Takiawase

You can savor a rich, deeply flavored softshell turtle dashi, drawn out by slow-simmering it in sake, along with the sweetness and silky, melting…

• Serves 20 · ¥500

• Cook time 2 hr

Asari clams and spring daikon, simmered and steeped

The asari clams and spring daikon simmered and steeped is a dish devised with inspiration from a dish by my mentor, Rokusaburo Michiba. Using the…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Scents of home — sa-ku-ra shrimp

A fresh exploration of aroma: ‘a quartet of sakura shrimp, played through the layering of four forms.’ The idea began when I caught the scent of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 25 min

Fugu, Individual Hot Pot Style

The deliciousness of in-season fugu, with its plump, springy texture, is harmonized with and heightened by a rich stock taken from fugu bones. It's…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Softshell turtle egg tofu (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is a steamed dish. The Softshell Turtle Egg Tofu is a steamed dish meant to support…

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 1 hr

Winter melon simmered to absorb the broth

This is a summer simmered dish. For the winter melon simmered to absorb the broth, since winter melon has a relatively delicate flavor, I simmer it…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Kombu soup bowl, made with salted kombu

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is a kombu soup bowl. It is a simple dish in which a delicious clear-soup stock is poured over…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 20 min

Pike conger peony

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 40 min

Ezo Abalone Risotto

After cleaning the Ezo abalone, we steam it in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes to extract its stock, and cook the rice in that abalone stock…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon skin-and-roe dumplings, soup course

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: sake kogawa-ni (simmered salmon skin) Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down…

• Serves 4 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

White asparagus and abalone tofu-dressed dish, fava bean, twisted carrot

This time, on 'sakizuke,' I learned from chef Matsubara (Roppongi's 'Kasumitei Matsubara'). I take up 'shira-ae.'

Simmered Kuetama, Wakasa-Yaki Style

This is the simmered course, conceived around the concept of "protecting the ocean environment." Kuetama is a farmed fish — a cross between kue, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 50 min

Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Glossy rice wrapped in egg yolk, liver nori senbei, turban shell congee dip

This time, with the main focus on preserving the rice's sweetness as much as possible, I decided to use the rice just as it is. I used Tsuyahime rice…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 30 min

One-Bite Black Truffle Soba

A new possibility for soba. Truffle, soba, bonito, soy sauce — all these aromas mutually enhance each other.

Swimming crab (gazami) mold

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. For Gazami Mold — swimming crab caught in Tosa Bay is called 'gazami' in Kochi Prefecture. I…

• Serves 1 · ¥870

• Cook time 1 hr

Corn pureed soup

This serves in place of the soup course (o-wan). The chicken tenderloin is soaked briefly in shio-kōji, and once the seasoning has taken, it is…

• Serves 5 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min