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Mirugai, Udo, and Wasabi Aemono

This was devised as an additional hearty course to make use of giant clam in season: giant clam, udo, and wasabi aemono. In my own sense of it, this…

• Serves 5 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 30 min

Black-skin flounder Tōji-style deep-fried, sea sculpin and skate Tatsuta-style deep-fried, roe-bearing sailfin sandfish deep-fried with ponzu

These are three deep-fried dishes devised as a way to cope with rising food costs. I introduce four kinds of inexpensive fish using different…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 1 hr

Plum hot water

First is the welcome course. Many restaurants serve something like salted cherry blossom in hot water, but I learned of this one at Eihei-ji. At…

The Nightingale's Plum

From the theme of heritage dishes, this is ōshukubai, named after the "nightingale's plum tree" of Heian-era poetry. When I was taught this dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 1 days

Soba-Gaki 'Tofu' in Thick Broth

These days, I think the restaurant industry is having a hard time due to a labor shortage. On top of that, we're operating in a very tough…

• Serves 5 · ¥600

• Cook time 20 min

Fresh fish, kombu-cured (using "small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted")

Heritage dishes. As a dish that makes use of the "small sardines, simmered and dried" I introduced, this is an introduction of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 3 hr

Tuna Roll with the Fragrance of Charcoal

I use a charcoal-infused vinegar made by steeping black-roasted brown rice in red vinegar for about two days to transfer its aroma. I also grind…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 15 min

Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke

This is the rice course from Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke, ayu swim upstream in the rivers of the prefecture, so fishing…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,017

• Cook time 2 hr

Amazake, Ramune Mizu-Yōkan with Mango and White Wine Jelly

In the old days, dessert too was called a "water sweet," and melon and strawberries were an acceptable choice, but that's no longer acceptable today…

• Serves 1 · ¥480

• Cook time 3 hr

Kamo eggplant and whale in a small hot pot

This is a hot pot dish. For the Kamo eggplant and whale small hot pot, the Kamo eggplant is deep-fried once and then the excess oil is removed…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 3 hr

Sesame Soy-Milk Somen -- Using "Macro Tare"

We thought about "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine" by making use of a sauce that delivers impact without any animal-derived ingredients. The "Macro…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

Sixteen-grain Fukagawa rice, mushroom and egg soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by Ms. Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that sparked my interest in yakuzen. Since…

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 35 min

Monkfish with liver-miso sauce in a hollowed Kōgyoku apple

This appetizer uses monkfish and monkfish liver as end-of-season ingredients for March. In this monkfish tomo-miso in a hollowed Kōgyoku apple, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

"Cool flavors": summer crab shinjo, small-grade kuruma prawn, oil-simmered tuna, fresh yuba, blanched pike conger, kinjiso jelly, piped anchovy cheese

The appetizer, which I named "Cool Flavors," was designed to give guests a sense of coolness. The saimaki prawn and avocado dashi-soy jelly is made…

• Serves 3 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Sakura shrimp soba (green laver tempura crumbs and egg, scallion)

This is a dish that could be called our restaurant's signature. We serve it as something you can only eat here. It's a sakura shrimp soba: sakura…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Low-Temperature Simmered Abalone, Melting Sesame Tofu, Seared Sea Bass

As a dish meant to help beat the summer heat, I focused above all on practicality while designing it around the theme of "unconventional cold…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,775

• Cook time 2 hr

Salt-simmered yellowtail

From our use of the winter ingredient yellowtail, this is a simmered dish. I think it's common to enjoy yellowtail for the umami of its fat, but the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Simmered Daikon

Encountering Yushima daikon from Kumamoto Prefecture was what led me to think about how best to make the most of a daikon so juicy and sweet it's…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 3 hr

Koban-Shaped Pen Shell and Fava Bean Chakin

This is a seasonal assortment course proposal built around the last of the pen shell season. For the gold-coin-shaped pen shell and fava bean chakin…

• Serves 5 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Scallop Ganmodoki, Curry-Flavored

This is the simmered course, another new way of serving seafood. For the Scallop Ganmodoki, Curry-Flavored, I took a hint from seafood curry and…

• Serves 1 · ¥485

• Cook time 40 min

Quail meatball

This is an introduction of a dish paired with the white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, where my own workplace is located. This is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Summer Duck Steamed with Sake

We sear the aigamo duck's skin to medium-rare, then steam it with sake. Into a center cut we tuck mustard and shiraga-negi, fine white scallion…

Eel simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper

This is a simmered dish. For the Eel Arima-ni, normally you'd remove the sliminess from the eel, cut it into tube sections, sear it, steam it, then…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Vegan kakuni (wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut shiro-uri melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, potato mustard)

Thinking of veganism as also a matter of religion, I wanted guests to be able to taste the best qualities of animal-derived ingredients through a…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min