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White asparagus with kuruma prawn cream, tofu sauce, snap peas, shiso sprouts, and bracken fern

Cream cheese marinated in sake lees is something we also serve as a stand-alone dish at our restaurant. The batch used this time has been marinated…

Tosa-Age Herring Roe, Ginkgo Nuts

Herring roe is traditionally a winter food, but at our store we sometimes vacuum-frozen it and deli…

Roast Beef Marinated in Edo Sweet Miso

The roast beef marinated in Edo sweet miso that we make regularly at Yonemura, where I work, starts by trimming the shinshin cut (the central muscle…

• Serves 12 · ¥14,000

• Cook time 5 hr

Shirokane Pork and Apple, Steamed

Wanting to use a seasonal fruit, I experimented and came up with the idea of pairing pork's umami with apple, to see whether I could create a new…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Grated Daikon Pickle

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at 'Yonemura.' For the grated daikon pickle, we grate the daikon along with its juice, add…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 days

Yamayuri pork harami, fruit-miso grilled

We add blueberries and white peaches to the miso base to give the pork a refreshing sweetness witho…

• ¥650

• Cook time 3 days

Miso-Marinated Crab Roe, Nagori Grilled Eggplant

The appetizer, since it's October, is nagori, last-of-the-season, grilled eggplant: I grill only the cap end of the eggplant over charcoal and top it…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 2 hr

Isaki Marinated in Ishiru

For isaki (threeline grunt) in ishiru marinade, I take the flesh left over from making tataki, skin still on, and marinate it in ishiru — a…

• ¥399

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Bream Nanban-zuke with Jasmine Fragrance

This is a piece of vinegared-dish development built around jasmine tea. The deep-fried, vinegar-marinated sea bream was devised so guests can enjoy…

• Serves 2 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Yamayuri pork miso-marinated harami, grilled matsutake, pike conger senbei, rice porridge senbei, kuruma prawn senbei

The additional hearty course is a dish meant to be enjoyed with a drink partway through the course. This time, I devised a dish using delicious pork…

• ¥870

• Cook time 3 days

Wagyu rock-salt grill, wagyu vinegar pickle

Under the theme 'counter work that creates repeat guests,' I introduce simple dishes with a playful touch that please guests already well accustomed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

Ōiwana Ginjō-Arai, Stuffed Fruit Tomato

This dish makes use of char in season. What we use here is large char — the difference from regular char is the growing period and size: large char…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 1 hr

Wagyu Beef, Three Ways, Low-Temperature Grilled

This grilled dish, with its creatively devised presentation and serving style, is Wagyu Beef, Three Ways, Low-Temperature Grilled. Meat's composition…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 3 hr

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Yuan-yaki, Lotus Root Mochi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is the grilled course. For the yellowtail sake-lees yuan-yaki, the yellowtail is filleted…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 days

Shisen Cucumber and Aji Kinuta-Maki

I made this a dish where you can enjoy horse mackerel, which reaches its peak deliciousness in summer, together with crunchy Sichuan cucumber, in a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Butterfish Saikyo-Yaki, Scallop in Sake-Lees and Shuto Marinade, Kuruma Shrimp

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. This time it's the fragrance of smoke. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 min

Hell-pickled blue crab, blue crab roe tossed with sansho leaf

This is blue crab hell pickle. It gets this name because the crab is pickled while still alive. I adapted Korean ganjang-gejang into a Japanese-style…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 days

Spanish mackerel miso-marinated and grilled with citrus flavor, butterbur sprout grilled with miso glaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf

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

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 2 days

Japanese-Style Roast Beef

This time it is the additional course. For the Japanese-style roast beef, since many of our guests prefer red, lean meat, this time we use the inner…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Abalone with liver soy sauce, chamame beans simmered with sansho, bottarga sushi, vinegar-pickled myoga, kuruma prawn tofuyo-style, tonburi, Kaga lotus root with pike conger roe, layered chrysanthemum petals

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Seared and Smoked Beef Tataki, Finished with Gyūbishio

Wanting to create an interesting soy sauce, I devised a "beef soy sauce" (gyūbishio) made using beef. Beef is said to be the meat that pairs with red…

• Serves 1 · ¥726

• Cook time 45 min

Milt Tofu

Today, I have prepared a dish to pair with the white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, where my workplace is located. First, this is the…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamo Confit, Mousse

I sought a new flavor from hamo, an ingredient indispensable to Japanese cuisine that's in season in summer. Hamo has many small bones, and while…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo shoot 'tofu,' bamboo shoot simmered in miso, and sweet-savory simmered mallard duck

This is a dish that expresses local heritage. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr