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Cold-season yellowtail teriyaki

For the warm dish of cold-season yellowtail teriyaki, we add five kinds of daikon to balance the five flavors. The sweetness of the Yukinoshita…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 min

Cherry Cheese Tofu

Ingredients from the past are disappearing along with the era. I recall how, where I live in Yamagata, the heavy snow meant that in winter foods were…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,986

• Cook time 45 min

Wild scallop, pressed into a ball

This dish came from wondering whether there might be a delicious way to eat scallop that offers something a little different from the standard…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Octopus simmered in shio-koji, abalone simmered with rice, Kurosengoku black soybeans and lily bulb chakin, sweet-savory sautéed overwintered burdock

This is an appetizer using Hokkaido's overwintered squash and overwintered burdock. The flavor of the Yukigesho kabocha (a snow-white Hokkaido…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 min

Kisu Grilled with Kabusecha

For Japanese whiting grilled with kabusecha, a shade-grown green tea, since I'm from Shizuoka and tea-based cooking is a specialty of mine, I used…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Seared pike conger, hidden-plum style, Kyoto eggplant, cowpea, end-of-season red Manganji pepper, green yuzu

Tags & categories related to this post : June, July, August, September, striking, elegant, light and refreshing, kaiseki cuisine, lingering…

Conger eel and yuba napa cabbage roll, millet wheat gluten Dutch-style simmered, simmered winter melon, julienned yuzu

Among four dishes I especially want guests to enjoy in the cold season, I've prepared this anago and yuba dish. Not only in this dish but in all of…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 2 hr

Autumn sakura shrimp pureed soup

From the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is a clear-soup course. The Autumn Sakura-Shrimp Puree Soup uses the juvenile sakura shrimp…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Kamo eggplant pureed soup

This dish uses no seasonings whatsoever. I thought that if a cook can draw out an ingredient's own character — its five tastes and aroma — to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥482

• Cook time 40 min

Crab fish-paste dumpling (baby mustard greens, yuzu)

When making the crab fish-paste dumpling, I run scallop through a food processor and combine it with crab meat, so that the crab's natural flavor…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Snow-viewing style: yellowtail snow hut

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a soup-bowl course (wanmori). For the yellowtail kamakura, salt is applied to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 8 hr

Torigai and Mizunasu Clear Soup

This dish combines ark shell, a prized ingredient known as a springtime-to-early-summer delicacy, with mizunasu (a mild, juicy eggplant variety from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 days

Guji and Matsutake Clear-Soup Course, Sous-Vide

This is a proposal for matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. I myself have long experience studying Kyoto cuisine, and I like the philosophy…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 10 min

Tilefish Grilled with Shuto-Koji, New Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Sake and Salt

For the tilefish grilled with shuto-koji, I use amazake (fermented sweet rice drink). To make the amazake, I cook rice porridge at a ratio of three…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Cherry sea bream steamed with festive red rice

This warm small bowl course expresses ‘nostalgia.’ In the present day, festive red rice with azuki beans is nothing special — it can be eaten any…

• Serves 1 · ¥315

• Cook time 1 hr

Fried Milt and Scallop, Turnip Mizore Agedashi Style

The key point of 'fried milt and scallop, turnip mizore agedashi style' is adding strong umami to the turnip mizore dashi using a stock taken from…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Kyoto Turnip and Maitake with Crab An, Sea Bream Sogi-Zukuri with Sesame Soy Sauce, Kikuna and Mushroom Nibitashi with Ikura, Kiriboshi Daikon, Hijiki, Carrot, Bite-Size Abalone and Ise Lobster Tempura, Wagyu Shigure-ni

This is from our breakfast menu. From items served year-round to those changed by season, everything we serve is carefully selected from what I…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,150

• Cook time 50 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

Tilefish nanban-zuke and shrimp nanban-zuke with accordion-cut cucumber, freeze-dried tofu achara pickle, Fushimi pepper, and mixed scallion

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from instructor Nakamura (Ryōtei Chiyoda). I take up 'nanban-zuke.'

Dried purslane simmered with mixed vegetables (Yamagata Prefecture)

This is the first course. This purslane dish, hyo-boshi gomoku-ni, is one of the local dishes handed down in the Murayama region of Yamagata…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 40 min

Fugu milt and karasumi, steamed rice

Among all the delicious qualities of in-season fugu, this is a luxurious dish that lets you enjoy the rich umami of the milt -- called 'a jewel of…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Soft-shell turtle broth

Suppon broth is well received in September, when the summer heat is easing but the lingering warmth still leaves the body tired. We break down the…

• Serves 20 · ¥345

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamaguri and Bamboo Shoot Takiawase

A stock taken from the hamaguri's fringe is combined with the soup used to simmer the bamboo shoot, and poured over at the finish. Hamaguri and…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

A Soup Course Styled After Hanabira-Mochi, with Butterbur Sprout Tofu

This is a soup course styled after hanabira-mochi, the petal-shaped mochi confection eaten in January. I slice turnip somewhat thickly and let it…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr