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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

Turban shell and spring vegetables

As for the sazae and spring vegetables with amanatsu citrus sorbet, every ingredient is locally sourced, making it a dish that conveys the sense of…

• ¥1,755

• Cook time 2 hr

Ezo Deer Cutlet

Ezo deer cutlet is a dish that lets you serve venison — meat that's difficult to cook properly — deliciously and without failure. I cleanly remove…

• ¥515

• Cook time 15 min

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

Thread-cut mountain yam, shredded egg crepe, tomato, mitsuba, ginger pickled in vinegar and soy, mountain yam

This is a vinegared dish within the summer course menu. For the mountain yam somen, the mountain yam is cut thin and fine with a knife, then tied…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Jellied deep-sea eelpout, whitefin trevally egg-yolk sushi, yellow sea bream pressed sushi, baby spear squid, sea sculpin, and salmon roe salad, goatfish fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, bracken fern shoots wrapped in a thin kombu sheet, and daikon radish dressed with bottarga

Under the theme of coping with rising food costs, I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata. The wide variety of inexpensive fish caught by…

• Serves 1 · ¥432

• Cook time 2 hr

Fried Hamo and Shark Fin, White Miso Stew

This time I thought I'd try using shark fin. Shark fin is a signature ingredient of Chinese cuisine, and I think people picture dishes with a color…

• Serves 4 · ¥480

• Cook time 35 min

Apple Gratin

This is a reimagining of Gunma Prefecture's local cuisine. This is a grilled dish. The Apple Gratin is an attempt to let guests eat the apple…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: puff-baked flat tofu skin

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥780

• Cook time 20 min

Two-topping grilled yellowtail

From our use of the winter ingredient yellowtail, this is a grilled dish, two-topping grilled yellowtail. The tail and back portions of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 40 min

Warm-Stone Kombu Broth, Tsugaru Duck, Lotus Root Mochi with Mizore Sauce, Diced Yuzu, All-Purpose Scallion

Here I introduce a dish that expresses the warmth distinctive to the season when the weather starts turning cold. Because we use a heated stone, you…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Rabbit and Yuba Spring Roll, Sudachi

For the rabbit and yuba spring roll, I thought some guests might find it too visceral if the shape of the meat were left intact, so I made it into a…

• Serves 1 · ¥196

• Cook time 15 min

Isaki Yawata-Maki

The threeline grunt yawata-maki, a roll named for Yawata and traditionally wrapped around burdock root, uses the trim left over from slicing sashimi…

• ¥570

• Cook time 1 hr

Shark fin chawanmushi

This is a steamed dish. I serve this shark fin chawanmushi because, at around this point in the course, I think guests want something that lets them…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 hr

Roasted Lamb in Apple Miso

I took the term open-country-style cuisine to evoke the image of a country that had closed itself off opening up and welcoming guests from overseas…

• Serves 3 · ¥930

• Cook time 1 hr

Ezo Deer Tsukune, Cabbage-Wrapped

Ezo venison meatballs wrapped in cabbage are made by mincing the meat that is left over from fillet…

• ¥606

• Cook time 30 min

Moonlit-night soup, rabbit meatball, small scallion, goji berries

As for the name "Moonlight Wan," I heard that just like horse meat was called "sakura" and wild boa…

• Serves 1 · ¥281

• Cook time 10 min

Monkfish liver, monkfish jellied broth

This is part of an effort to cope with rising food costs. At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Overwintered napa cabbage wrapped in ancient rice, minced raw herring, pickled herring, herring roe

This is the rice course. The overwintered vegetables used are overwintered napa cabbage, overwintered cabbage, overwintered carrot, and overwintered…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 1 min

Salmon Iizushi and New-Crop Rice Okoge

This is an expression of modern regional cuisine. Original regional dish: salmon iizushi Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 min

Wagyu roast with okara — rapeseed blossoms, shredded egg crepe, boiled onion

I myself love roast beef, and one time I tried topping roast beef with simmered okara — it was delicious, so I decided to put it on the menu. Okara…

Flame-Seared Kisu, Nuta-Style Kisu, and Oil-Blanched Kisu

Flame-seared whiting is a dish for enjoying whiting in a rich, thickened kombu dashi. Rather than a richly seasoned dashi or a pale starch sauce, I…

• ¥200

• Cook time 50 min

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr