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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

Largehead beltfish shin-biki-age, matsutake

This is a deep-fried course in which seasonal ingredients are coated with unconventional coatings such as toasted granulated glutinous-rice coating…

• Serves 1 · ¥495

• Cook time 15 min

Three-Fruit Jelly Terrine

Because the fruit is arranged in two layers, we pour the jelly base in five to six separate stages. If each layer isn't poured before the surface has…

Matsutake Confit, Hamo Somen

At sukiyaki restaurants and the like, beef fat inevitably ends up left over. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted me to start thinking about how to use…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 hr

Hamo Confit

Pike conger, an ingredient in season in summer and indispensable to Japanese cuisine, prompted me to look for a new flavor. Pike conger has many fine…

• Serves 4 · ¥300

• Cook time 30 min

Omi beef fillet, silver duck miso, truffle

This is the grilled course. For the vessel, I use a teaburi (charcoal hand-warmer brazier) made by Eiraku Zengorō. Unlike the portable charcoal grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 40 min

Roasted Joshu Beef, Grilled Fig and Cheese

This is the grilled course. The roasted Joshu beef with chocolate-miso sauce was devised on the idea that combining the mellowness of miso with the…

• ¥637

• Cook time 1 hr

Sashimi: Daikon Wrap

This is the sashimi course. I added a twist to the presentation, bringing some fun to an otherwise ordinary sashimi course. Which fish is inside is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 15 min

Cypress-scented miso-marinated butterfish from a deep forest, shrimp-shaped taro stuffed with Jōshū jidori chicken liver

This grilled dish uses butterfish, burdock, and lotus root as end-of-season winter ingredients. The facility where I work in Kusatsu, Gunma is…

• Serves 1 · ¥965

• Cook time 40 min

Round eggplant oil-steamed with burnt sesame-soy sauce

The origin of Japanese cuisine lies in enjoying the aroma and taste of ingredients and the passing of the seasons. However, as diversification of…

• Serves 5 · ¥980

• Cook time 30 min

Yōrō-Dōfu

A dish perfectly suited for welcoming guests during the hot season.

Milt gratin in a yellow yuzu shell, finished with Saikyo miso

Cleaning pufferfish milt is done carefully, to remove any fishy smell. How it's handled changes the mouthfeel, so it's a step that requires real…

Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style

For Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style, I use two kinds of dashi: the soaking liquid from dried scallops and chicken dashi. I add roasted…

• Serves 1 · ¥553

• Cook time 30 min

Pike conger and shrimp Yoshino-ni, furofuki winter melon

The hamo (pike conger) and shrimp yoshino-ni is a dish where each ingredient's flavor layers with the eggplant and corn, so every individual taste…

• ¥695

• Cook time 1 hr

Smoked Soy-Glazed Grilled Yellowtail

This dish uses yellowtail as an end-of-season ingredient in March. Yellowtail is most often served as sashimi or in yellowtail simmered with daikon…

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

Filet Truffle Sukiyaki

This is Obune's signature truffle sukiyaki. This time I wanted the finish to be light and refreshing, so I used filet. I've prepared a special…

Shironasu and Fig Dengaku

White eggplant, despite its appearance, has a surprisingly firm skin, yet inside it's meltingly soft, and it's characterized by a stronger flavor…

Matsuba Crab Chawanmushi in a Yuzu Shell, Finished with White Miso

This dish allows you to enjoy the fresh and refreshing scent of yuzu, the rich aroma of the dashi s…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• 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

Sake Lees Risotto

This is a sake lees risotto, devised as a dish that is easy to eat even during the season when the summer heat leaves the body fatigued. Here, we…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 50 min

Awaji beef, curry-spiced simmer

Awaji Beef Indo-ni (curry-spiced simmer) cooks the Awaji beef slowly at low temperature, leaving it moist and tender while deepening its umami. The…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 2 hr