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Seasonal colors (persimmon terrine, potato wrapped in yuba and grilled, stone-wall egg terrine, purple mountain yam nerikiri, roe-bearing ayu simmered and steeped)

This is a seasonal-color course making use of autumn ingredients. For the Persimmon Terrine, I used in-season persimmons to make a persimmon set…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Cucumber with Soy pulp, Abalone Liver with Butter, Black Sesame Egg with a Touch of Rin Glaze, Arihei-Style Squid, Yellowtail and Bettarazuke Hakata-Style, Plum Monaka, Matcha Kinton with Budou-mame, Herring Roe Namasu

This is the course preceding the hassun course. For the sea cucumber with soy pulp, I put the sea cucumber in a bamboo colander together with round…

• Serves 1 · ¥830

• Cook time 1 hr

Spanish mackerel steamed in scallion oil (firefly squid sauce)

This is a steamed-dish proposal devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the Spanish mackerel steamed in scallion oil with…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-cape coating — young corn

By wrapping the first turn of julienned potato a little firmly and the rest loosely, the potato stays attached to the prawn and fries up beautifully…

Autumn-leaf assortment: oyster and persimmon miso gratin, shrimp and water caltrop grilled with yuzu, scallop autumn-color pickle, small clam adductor in apple vinegar, shuto cheese, persimmon and salmon, rolled dried persimmon, matcha red bean paste with skin-on chestnut

As a reconception of dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine, this evokes a late-autumn medley. We designed each dish with an eye to color…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,475

• Cook time 1 hr

Hairy crab wrapped in lettuce (ginger gelée, sea grapes, shiso flower spikes, white asparagus)

At our restaurant, we focus on cooking that draws out the umami and flavor of the ingredients themselves. We're always thinking about the menu, and…

Spanish mackerel and turnip

This is a steamed dish. Sawara and turnip is a dish where, on top of the elegant sweetness of sawara — a fish with no unpleasant edge to its flavor —…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Rice, Rice, Rice

Rice is an inseparable presence in Japanese cuisine, so as a chef standing in a position connecting producers and consumers, I created this dish with…

• Serves 2 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Pufferfish soft roe mochi, napa cabbage pureed soup, bamboo shoot flower-raft garnish

Fugu shirako is a prized, expensive ingredient valued for its creamy, rich flavor; in season it is typically served as grilled shirako or in fugu…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Spanish mackerel miso-marinated and grilled with citrus flavor, butterbur sprout grilled with miso glaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. The grilled course…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 2 days

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…

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

Oil-Steamed Sea Bass

This is a steamed course, designed with couples in their fifties and sixties in mind. For the oil-steamed sea bass, since sea bass has little fat and…

• ¥500

• Cook time 50 min

Butterbur-miso salad, sea urchin, bamboo shoot, sprouted scallion, salted cherry blossom, toasted sesame

This time, we learned about the appetizer course from Technical Director Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank, Meguro Annex). We feature fuki miso salad.

Yōrō-Dōfu

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

Malabar spinach and chrysanthemum, blanched in dashi (white eggplant, scallop cream sauce, okra blanched in dashi)

Malabar spinach is a summer vegetable that's highly nutritious and has a bit of natural stickiness. As autumn approaches, the stems grow tough, so…

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

Baked Pear Clafoutis

Hearing "pear" tends to bring to mind something like a compote, so this time I created a clafoutis instead. The key point is adding the batter little…

• Serves 1 · ¥87

• Cook time 40 min

Deep-sea snapper kenchin-style grilled, sweetfish grilled with water pepper leaf, pike conger grilled with plum-scented meringue, scallop and sea urchin grilled, king oyster mushroom wrapped in pork

This is the grilled course. For the onagadai kenchin-style grilled, rinse the onagadai, butterfly it open, salt it, and marinate it in light soy…

Abalone with liver soy sauce, chamame beans simmered with sansho, bottarga sushi, vinegar-pickled myoga, kuruma prawn tofuyo-style, tonburi, Kaga lotus root with pike conger roe, layered chrysanthemum petals

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Two-topping deep-fried shrimp shinjo (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is a shrimp shinjo — a fish-paste dumpling — prepared futami-age style, fried two different ways. Here, I used Suzuhiro Kamaboko's "all-purpose…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Young sea bass grilled Rikyū-style with sesame

For the grilled course, I designed it with couples in their forties in mind, around the concept of “an encounter with texture.” Customers in their…

• ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Cherry sea bream steamed with festive red rice

This warm small bowl course expresses ‘nostalgia.’ In the present day, festive red rice with azuki beans is nothing special — it can be eaten any…

• Serves 1 · ¥315

• Cook time 1 hr