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New Onion with Parmigiano

As June approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Chilled Kamo eggplant, Saikyo-miso-simmered

A confident signature dish that has been on the menu since the restaurant first opened.

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

Abalone tempura, Inaniwa udon, grated daikon, aromatics

This time, the basic rice course is 'Inaniwa udon.' We have guests eat it simply, with grated daikon and aromatics, but the temperature and time used…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

White sesame blancmange (grilled fig, Japanese bayberry, lotus root crackers, black sugar syrup)

I made this dish centered on sesame and other Japanese ingredients, based on 'blancmange,' a dessert born in France. Since it's traditionally made…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Blackthroat seaperch grilled in a miso-yuzu marinade (chestnut, maitake, black fig)

Rather than the method of marinating the blackthroat seaperch in the seasoning broth, preparing it by grilling it and finishing with the sauce poured…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style

This time I'll introduce a dish made with buckwheat flour: Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style. Gozen soba, a refined, fine-milled soba, won't hold together…

• Serves 1 · ¥565

• Cook time 10 min

Small Eggplant Jelly

We slowly steep the grilled eggplant in a broth with a touch of consommé added, until it becomes soft and infused with flavor.

Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi

This is the soup course. For ‘Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi,’ mekaja (Lingula anatina, a lamp-shell brachiopod) is a seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Fish somen made with all-purpose surimi powder

This time, I thought about how Suzuhiro Kamaboko Co., Ltd.'s "All-Purpose Surimi Powder" — I'll call it "surimi powder" from here on — could be put…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 15 min

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

Winter Melon Manju

For a light, fluffy sauce, we add well-drained tofu.

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

Shijimi Clam Chawanmushi, Cauliflower Surinagashi

This appetizer is a dish we also served during our pre-opening. The image is of something like a 'Japanese-style clam chowder.' The potato added to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish fried in its own scales, grilled eggplant, mogusa ginger, fried fresh yuba, shiso flower spike, thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, within Japanese cuisine, a proposal from head chef Honda (Ginza U Noki) on the basic dishes of fried food. In cooking, scales are, in…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 30 min

Kuroge wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, sake-simmered abalone, and Malabar spinach yuba roll

For the Kuroge Wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, meat is rarely used in a vinegared dish, so I thought I would take this opportunity…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Chilled Corn Chawanmushi

For the season when the heat increases, I devised a dish that lets you savor, with a smooth, pleasant swallow, the aroma and gentle sweetness of…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Akagai and Urui with Tosa-Vinegar Jelly

This dish allows you to fully enjoy the unique soft and crunchy texture of ark shell and the crispn…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 12 hr

Fruit Tomatoes in Hakui Sauce

Fruit tomatoes in white sauce is a dish where you can simply enjoy the flavor of fruit tomatoes while also tasting a sauce with a little something…

• ¥165

• Cook time 15 min

Isaki Marinated in Ishiru

For isaki (threeline grunt) in ishiru marinade, I take the flesh left over from making tataki, skin still on, and marinate it in ishiru — a…

• ¥399

• Cook time 1 hr

Kuruma Prawn and Fig Mizore-Ae

This is a dish where the balance between grated daikon and the other ingredients is extremely important. If there's too much grated daikon, the dish…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Seared Hokkigai and Torigai, New Onion Blancmange, Usui-Mame Surinagashi

For the seared surf clam and cockle, both kinds of shellfish taste sweeter raw, so I lightly smoke them to about a quick-blanch degree to add aroma…

• ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsuba Crab, Raw Sea Urchin, Wakame, with Tosa-Vinegar Jelly

The elegant sweetness distinctive to snow crab, the rich creaminess of raw sea urchin, and the refreshing sea aroma of wakame are brought together…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Grilled Tomato and Winter Melon Simmered in Consommé

The first course is an appetizer (sakizuke) using vegetables that grow tastier from summer into autumn: grilled tomato and winter melon simmered in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr