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Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 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

Eggplant Sōmen-Cut

Smooth and easy to swallow, with a refreshing finish.

Amaou strawberry mamekan

Among strawberries, Amaou is especially famous and popular. Hotel New Otani Tokyo also offers limited-time menus featuring it at each of our…

• Serves 2 · ¥221

• Cook time 20 min

Brandy-Steeped Grilled Persimmon

This is the fresh-fruit dessert (mizugashi) course. For the Brandy-Steeped Grilled Persimmon, grilling the persimmon brings out more sweetness and…

• Serves 4 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 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

Finely scored abalone, clam with mugwort kuzu noodles and raw sea urchin, beach silvertop, udo

I made mugwort-flavored kuzu strips. I thought about whether I could make something that even guests who visit several times a month wouldn't tire…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Oyster lightly salted then sun-dried

The deep-fried dish is overnight-dried oyster. We rarely used to use oysters in the past, but advances in fisheries technology have made it possible…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 20 min

Corn Mousse, Sea Urchin and Chamomile Gelée

The corn mousse lets guests enjoy the sweetness of the corn in a refreshing way, through the fragrance of chamomile. We used soy milk rather than…

Monkfish liver and turnip terrine

This is monkfish liver and turnip terrine, an appetizer (sakizuke) that makes use of monkfish liver as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Ankimo…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Asari clams and rapeseed blossoms in mustard dressing, with lily bulb

As with the hamaguri clams, the key with asari clams too is not to overcook them, so they finish soft and tender.

Tsukune Yam Consommé Jelly Mold

This is a vinegared dish, a molded preparation using tsukune-imo, a yam whose appeal lies in its stronger stickiness and denser, clingier texture…

• ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring green dressed salad (iced kombu-dashi tea style)

As part of my effort to work around rising ingredient costs, this dish introduces something my staff and I devised together — during the aftermath of…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring baby sea bream grilled with a rapeseed-blossom glaze, fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Herring and eggplant

Herring and eggplant is a classic summer combination in Kyoto. I finish it thoroughly and carefully, without trying anything gimmicky. In particular…

• Serves 6 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 50 min

Lily Bulb Mont Blanc

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." For dessert, I made a Mont Blanc using lily bulb. The base is a lily-bulb sponge cake, baked a…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Niigata blackthroat seaperch, seared-skin sashimi

This is a sashimi course. I sear the skin of Niigata's nodoguro to give it a seared-and-chilled finish. Letting a little heat into the fish really…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,760

• Cook time 30 min

Turnip-steamed tilefish (ginkgo nuts, shimeji, wood ear mushroom, Domyoji rice)

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from chef Yamamoto (Azabu-Jūban, Azabu Nagasaka Sarashina Honten). This time I take up 'kabura-mushi.'

Highland Lettuce and Isaki Hakata-Style

For the highland lettuce with threeline grunt hakata — a pressed, layered preparation — I wanted to bring out the pairing of salt-grilled threeline…

• ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamo Abura-Shimo Sashimi, Water Spinach, and Powdered Soy Sauce

As a way of serving seafood, I devised a new combination of refreshingly summery aromas, flavors, and ingredients. Also, thinking of umami's richness…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Joshu Black Wagyu Low-Temperature Roast Beef

This is a shiizakana, a hearty course. This dish is themed around Gunma Prefecture's Tomioka Silk Mill, famous for sericulture. By braiding Joshu…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,120

• Cook time 1 hr

Whole eggplant simmered in broth, topped with yuba sauce

This time, under the theme "Early-Autumn Eggplant Dishes, a Variety," -- eggplant is generally thought of as a summer vegetable, but by presenting it…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Nanohana Espuma Sauce, Herring Umani, Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Pine-Cone-Cut Kuwai, Shogoin Daikon,

This is a dish paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. For the simmered Shogoin daikon, it is cut, peeled, boiled in rice-rinsing…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 hr