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'Whale' — whale throat cartilage (Onagawa's traditional food culture: 'Whale')

This is the appetizer course. Taking as its theme the 'whale culture' rooted in Onagawa, a town on the eastern side of Miyagi Prefecture, I hoped…

• Serves 1 · ¥398

• Cook time 2 days

Wild Boar Hoba-yaki, Grilled on a Magnolia Leaf

For Wild Boar Hoba-yaki, guests taste the classic pale flesh of wild boar loin now that it has developed fat. Delicious wild boar loin is normally…

• Serves 1 · ¥579

• Cook time 40 min

Jade-simmered eggplant with beef jibu-ni, topped with an aromatic sesame sauce

For the eggplant, we poke a hole through the center of the flesh with chopsticks so the oil can reach all the way through, and cook it while turning…

Wagyu Lean-Meat Namerō

This is a dish perfect alongside a drink, its summery, colorful use of a Japanese-style salsa sauce stirring the appetite. So guests can tell what's…

Butter tea tofu — ice-cellar style

This is an appetizer course from a set of Japanese dishes built around black tea. (Black tea, 50 g: ¥1,200.) I made 'butter tea,' as drunk in Tibet…

• Serves 9 · ¥40

• Cook time 40 min

Kohaku-dori chicken liver mousse monaka, vinegar-cured mackerel with wild raspberry vinegar jelly, duck marinated in dashi soy sauce with orange flavor, black pork tsukune, chilled tomato takiawase, asparagus and garland chrysanthemum greens ohitashi

I've put together an assortment of drinking dishes that pair with anything — wine, shochu, or sake. Among them, the kohaku-dori liver mousse monaka…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 2 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Wagyu with Summer Vegetable Japanese-Style Salsa

This is a dish with a magnificent array of vitamin-bright colors woven together by summer vegetables, piled on top of well-grilled wagyu. You can…

Ezo Deer Saikyo-yaki — Daikon Simmered in Consommé, Watercress-Wasabi Sauce

After marinating overnight in Saikyo miso, it's cooked at low temperature in a convection oven, then finished with a seared color on the surface. For…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Burdock Cappuccino

I originally worked abroad, and when I was in Italy I drank cappuccino almost every day. When I think of a Japanese dish using burdock, kinpira-gobō…

• Serves 1 · ¥267

• Cook time 1 hr

Oil-cured Pacific saury, duck cutlet sandwich, monkfish liver in a hollowed yuzu shell, and saikyo-miso-cured monkfish

This is the winter course. The Oil-Cured Pacific Saury is made the way oil-sardines are made, but using saury instead of sardine. Soaking it once in…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon, Ikura, and Mushroom Rice, with Salmon Yuan-Yaki

A masterpiece cooked up with a rich, clear seafood stock in which you can sense the umami of a variety of fish, making lavish use of showcase…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 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

Charcoal-grilled wild mallard (lily bulb)

After quickly deep-frying just the surface of the wild mallard breast at high temperature, we apply low-temperature cooking, and finish it by smoking…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Chilled savory black tea water-bead jelly

A tea's flavor matters, but I think its aroma is one of the great pleasures too, and with the idea that a variety of aromas can be enjoyed through…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 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

Abalone Somen

Served coolly in a glass vessel.

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

Alfonsino steamed with a white, elder-style finish

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 30 min

Akamachi Steamed with Awamori

For the prized Okinawan deep-sea snapper steamed with awamori, an Okinawan distilled spirit, the key is not to over-steam it. It's a delicately…

• ¥550

• Cook time 1 min

Reishi sea snail fried in egg yolk batter, tomato deep-fried in white batter, stuffed hollow burdock

This is a fried course. For the Reishi sea snail fried in egg-yolk batter, I deep-fried the sea snail in a batter of rooibos tea, egg yolk, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Autumn brocade roll, red snow crab, edible chrysanthemum, seared cod milt tofu, napa cabbage puréed potage

This is an appetizer reconceived from dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine. Here in particular, we've put effort into how the dish is…

• Serves 1 · ¥828

• 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

Yakuzen salmon, sake-lees grilled, with moistening shira-ae (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by yakuzen specialist Ms. Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that sparked my interest…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 35 min

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