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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

Wild boar tongue and grilled eggplant, topped with sesame vinegar (edamame, shiso flower spike)

We serve wild boar tongue — an ingredient not often used in Japanese cuisine — dressed with a refreshingly tart sesame vinegar for a light, clean…

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

Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke

This is a rice-course dish developed using jasmine tea. (Jasmine tea, 30g: 350 yen.) For Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke, I used heshiko, mackerel cured…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Niigata Noppe

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Niigata noppe Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since long ago for a…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Simmered Beef in Miso

For the simmered beef chuck-eye roll (kata-rosu), I use several kinds of miso along with chicken-bone broth and other ingredients to build a…

• Serves 1 · ¥215

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

Crab Yoro-age, Ebi-imo Hakusen-age, Daikoku Shimeji Egg-Yolk Fry, Paprika Su-age

From dishes paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, this is a fried dish. For the yam-bound crab deep-fry, grated mountain yam is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

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

Whole Simmered Round Eggplant

From "Early-Autumn Eggplant Dishes, a Variety," this is a simmered dish. Whole Simmered Round Eggplant is a dish in which the round eggplant is…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Suppon Dashi Bursts Out! Soy Meat Tempura

Even when I cooked block-type soy meat as a meat substitute, its distinctive aroma was hard to eliminate no matter how strongly I seasoned it from…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style

This is a grilled dish from a summer set menu. For the Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style, I remember this from when I had just joined Tokyo Kaikan, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Abalone dressed with its own liver, stone-grilled

A dish that makes it easy to order another drink. The aroma of butter makes it easy for women to enjoy as well.

Niigata Sake-Lees Soup, Niigata Yellowtail Belly Salt-Grilled

This is a soup course. This time it's a sake-lees soup (sakekasu-jiru), but instead of salmon or the like, I've put in yellowtail with just the right…

• Serves 1 · ¥566

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Soup, Yellowtail Turnip Sushi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. When it comes to winter ingredients, there is also fugu and cod, but we chose yellowtail, which is…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Ise lobster pine-nut grill, milt cream bake

This makes use of true cod milt at its very first appearance of the season (hashiri). Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Monkfish hot pot

Monkfish hot pot is usually made with bonito or kombu dashi, but this time I roast the monkfish bones and simmer them in a pressure cooker to draw…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 50 min

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

Rikyu-style sea bream dressed with kombu

I pair aged tai with olive oil carrying the umami of kombu, aiming for a synergistic effect between the umami of the fish's fat and the umami of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Suppon clear soup: grilled scallion, goji berries

The soup "Marusui" is one of our specialty dishes. It is made using only turtle stock, which we tak…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 10 min

Ise spiny lobster ice-rinsed sashimi

This is a sashimi course that makes use of Ise spiny lobster as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Ise lobster is a premium ingredient regarded…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 30 min

Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup

For 'Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup,' I treated caffeine-free herbal tea as a dashi drawn with tea. I built it into a soup together with sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr