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Light kuzu-thickened broth with tilefish and lotus-root mochi, bracken fern, carrot, and fava bean

This time, on the 'clear-soup course,' I learned from chef Igawa (Nihonbashi's 'Nihon Ryōri Kafū'). This time I take up 'usu-kuzu-jitate.'

Kombu-Cured Yellowtail with Mountain Yam

The vivid colors of ingredients such as yellowtail, scallion, and quail egg are wonderful.

Juvenile Ayu and Summer Vegetables, Vinegar-Simmered

A device using rice vinegar so that guests will want to drink even the broth.

Kisarazu — Japanese-Style Noodles from the Banzu Tidal Flat

The hotel I work for is in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, and since many guests come from outside the prefecture, I wanted to use appealing local Chiba…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 50 min

Deep-Fried Juvenile Ayu, Sake-Steamed Icefish, Tamagoyaki, Bamboo Shoot Kinpira, Octopus Ogura-Ni

We placed importance on visual beauty and on being a combination that lets guests enjoy their sake.

Pinecone-cut tokobushi, bamboo-cut asparagus and salmon roll, plum-shaped noshi with a naruto twist, black soybean wine jelly

We'd like to propose a way to make the most of true cod milt in season, a winter ingredient. Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring greens and firefly squid

We value the green fragrance and refreshing texture of the wild mountain vegetables.

Crab Miso Gratin

For the red snow crab gratin, I combine rustic country miso and white miso, and add crab miso — the crab's own tomalley — to finish a richly flavored…

• Serves 10 · ¥151

• Cook time 50 min

Oil-steamed fall-run sweetfish, pinecone-cut Pacific saury with almond, whelk risotto in a turnip bowl, beef loin and green bean old-branch-style sticks, Ohara-style deep-fried taro shinjo, color-simmered long eggplant with peanut-kuzu sauce, jade ginkgo cracker with tofu dressing, dried persimmon with lily bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped tricolor sweet potato

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Visual impact that makes you want to take a photo Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 3 hr

Crimson-Fuji Inaniwa udon, cloud-white abalone, tempura bits, aromatics

So that it's clear the tanuki — the shape-shifting trickster of folklore — has transformed itself into Crimson Fuji, I scattered tenkasu, the fried…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho-leaf miso, fava bean, Kyoto carrot, and mountain udo

At our restaurant we normally serve three appetizer courses, but through March and April it still gets cold at night, so we serve something warm as…

Sakura shrimp and Malabar spinach ohitashi

This is a dish where the savory aroma of fried sakura shrimp and the crisp crunch of the vegetables combine exquisitely. The tsurumurasaki is boiled…

• Serves 7 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Miso-Marinated Crab Roe, Nagori Grilled Eggplant

The appetizer, since it's October, is nagori, last-of-the-season, grilled eggplant: I grill only the cap end of the eggplant over charcoal and top it…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 2 hr

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

Seiko Crab Cold Dish

We have guests enjoy the deliciousness of in-season seiko crab in a light, refreshing way as an appetizer, with crab vinegar jelly. In the course…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 4 hr

Salmon Roe in Golden Marinade, Hairy Crab Spring Rolls, Amigasa Yuzu, Shrimp Kōsen-age, King Oyster Mushroom Age-ni, Lotus Root Itoko-ni, Senpōshi Oyster Slow-Poached in Oil

Taking aroma as the theme, I present these by building on my everyday work. These are sake accompaniments expressing 'the scent of winter.' For ikura…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 min

Red sea bream, turnip-steamed and topped with silver sauce

We cut the kuruma prawn into about 5 small pieces, keeping the balance with the other ingredients in mind. For the turnip combined with meringue, the…

Kuroge wagyu simmered sukiyaki-style

The signature dish is the Kuroge Wagyu Sukiyaki-Style Simmer. Under the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," where meat dishes used to be…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Roast beef kimiage, somen noodles, truffle salt

This time I introduce kimiage. The batter, made by adding water to egg yolk and mixing in flour, turns a vivid yellow color, which is why it's also…

Charcoal-grilled splendid alfonsino and abalone

For the charcoal-grilled kinmedai and abalone, the smoky aroma of the charcoal grilling layers over the flavor of the miso, bringing out the…

• ¥1,385

• Cook time 1 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

Crab Tazuna, Kombu-Cured and Seared Tilefish

For the crab tazuna with kombu-cured and seared tilefish, searing the kombu-cured tilefish to roughly 50% doneness lets the crab and tilefish bring…

• ¥958

• Cook time 40 min

Fava Bean Shinjo

Made to evoke the image of budding sprouts, in the season when many wild mountain vegetables appear.

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