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Surf clam julienned-vegetable clear broth

This is a clear soup devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the surf clam sawani soup, I control cost by adjusting the amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Tomato, cheese, and baby sardine salad

Under the theme of heritage dishes. I previously introduced "chirimen sansho simmer," and this is a dish that makes use of it. Here it is finished…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 15 min

Eggplant Somen

This is an introduction from our restaurant's popular autumn dishes. Eggplant is generally thought of as a summer vegetable, but by presenting it…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 10 min

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr

Eel and cucumber in vinegar

This is a vinegared dish. We always include one eel dish in the summer course. This time we made it as the classic unagi-zaku, shaped into an eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 40 min

Fragrance of Peach Blossoms

This expresses Fukuoka through cooking. I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

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

Fresh Fish and Sunomono

I was born and raised in Tokyo. After graduating high school I spent five years at a sushi restaurant in Shinbashi, and I joined a mikoshi…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 3 hr

Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi

This is the soup course. For ‘Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi,’ mekaja (Lingula anatina, a lamp-shell brachiopod) is a seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Sea bass rinsed in ice water, threeline grunt blanched with hot oil, tuna seared on the skin, live kuruma prawn

This is the sashimi course. Both the octopus arai and the sea bass arai taste refreshing served with wasabi and a plum-flesh vinegar-miso. For the…

Niigata willowy flounder wakasa-yaki

Willowy flounder has an unusually elongated shape among flatfish, and is a prized high-end fish known for its very delicate, subtle flavor. Northern…

• Serves 1 · ¥460

• Cook time 30 min

Conger Eel Shirayaki, Hakata-Style Pressed

I proposed this as a way of serving seafood, using Kanagawa ingredients while exploring the prefecture's local cuisine. This is a vinegared dish. For…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 40 min

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

Temari Kisu, Kisu Nishiki-Maki, and Seared Kisu in Ume Vinegar Marinade

For temari kisu (Japanese whiting), I cut kombu-cured kisu into fine strips — with an eye to how easily chopsticks can pick it apart — and layer them…

• ¥520

• Cook time 50 min

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

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

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

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

Tomato Soba

Tomato Soba is a menu item I've served during this season for some time. Perhaps because of Karuizawa's local character, many guests enjoy Western…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Tomato and Onion Droplet

I devised this as the zatsuke (the first dish served at the start of a banquet) within a summer set menu. This is a chilled soup course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Water namasu, Daiō char minced with miso

As for Water Namasu, I'm told that in the region where I was born and raised, sailors used to eat it this way aboard ship. Wanting guests to taste…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 20 min

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

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