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Matsutake and pike conger grilled with fragrant onion soy

This is the grilled course. For the matsutake and hamo grilled with fragrant onion soy, we first make an onion soy sauce and baste the fish with it…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• 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

Grilled Char with Shincha, Shirobai Liver Grill, and Okaki-Crumb Deep-Fried River Shrimp

This is a proposal for using char across its first-of-season, peak-season, and end-of-season stages. This time it is a dish that makes use of char in…

• Serves 1 · ¥790

• Cook time 1 hr

King crab shinjo napa cabbage roll, simmered, with snow-ring lotus root, twisted colorful vegetables, garland chrysanthemum sauce, and bok choy

As an accompaniment we've added yukiwa-cut lotus root; fewer chefs take the time to do this kind of decorative knifework these days, so we decided to…

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

Kumquat-Tea Grilled Kagoshima Chicken, Kagoshima Chicken Tea-Leaf Miso Pickle

I used Akadori Satsuma, a Kagoshima branded meat chicken. For the kumquat-tea grilled Kagoshima chicken: kumquat skin is delicious on its own, so I…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 6 hr

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

Kettle-cooked ginger rice with alfonsino

I created this dish under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is the rice course. For this course, we offer a choice of dishes — mainly uni rice —…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Takikomi Gohan: Matsutake and Ginkgo Rice

Here I introduce a dish from our restaurant. 'Matsutake and ginkgo rice' is a dish I devised valuing the aroma that conveys the season, arriving the…

Sakura-dai Sawani-wan

This makes use of a spring ingredient — this time, sakura-dai, a cherry-blossom-season sea bream. This is a clear-soup course. For the sakura-dai…

• Serves 1 · ¥595

• Cook time 20 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

Cod grilled with three flavors

This is a use of the winter ingredient cod. We made cod sanmi-yaki for the enjoyable value of being able to eat three dishes at once. Nagaimo (a type…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Sole kenchin-style fried roll, shrimp-stuffed mild long green pepper, shrimp and young ginger shoot roll, shrimp-head cracker, fig egg-yolk-batter fried

For the fried course, ‘Kutsuzoko Kenchin-Style Fried Roll’ uses sole as its main ingredient — a fish landed year-round locally, appearing in many…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Koya-dofu Beef Liver Steak Style, with Herb Butter Sauce

I wanted to create a health-conscious menu using freeze-dried tofu, which is high in protein. Since I have long experience cooking Western cuisine, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 20 min

Fugu soup

We fully draw out the umami of fugu bones unique to this season, and pair it with miso for guests to enjoy.

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell with egg yolk

This is the simmered course. The menu lists it as shiradatsu — the taro stem also known as zuiki — but blanched taro shoots can be used in its place…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke

This is the rice course from Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke, ayu swim upstream in the rivers of the prefecture, so fishing…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,017

• Cook time 2 hr

King crab and sea urchin soy-glazed grill, butterfish saikyo-yaki

The grilled course pairs king crab with a sea-urchin soy glaze and butterfish saikyo-yaki. Combining sea urchin with king crab brings out a rounder…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 9 hr

Seared cod, grilled cod milt, zoni-style

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. Our restaurant sees many local customers — older guests, young couples, and gatherings of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled barracuda rice-ball ochazuke (young myoga, trefoil, sesame, arare, nori, wasabi)

The ochazuke dashi is poured over only after the grilled rice ball and all the other ingredients have been plated, but it's important not to pour too…

Kamo eggplant and whale in a small hot pot

This is a hot pot dish. For the Kamo eggplant and whale small hot pot, the Kamo eggplant is deep-fried once and then the excess oil is removed…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 3 hr

Steamed fugu

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a clear-soup course. For the Fugu-fukashi, I first simmer fugu bones and trimmings…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 5 hr