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Ryugujo Spa Hotel Mikazuki
The hotel where I work, located in Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture, has many guests from outside the prefecture, so I wanted to make use of Chiba's…
Serves 1 · ¥730
Cook time 50 min
This is a chilled simmered dish. For "Chilled Eel and White Eggplant," I finished the eel using the same method sushi restaurants use for simmered…
Serves 1 · ¥800
Cook time 30 min
This is the in-between course for the theme "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). "Eel Inro-Zushi" is my attempt to adapt inro-zushi — a style…
Serves 1 · ¥520
Cook time 20 min
White tilefish (shiro-amadai) is wonderful for its rich fattiness and the clear, pale beauty of its scales when scored into a pinecone pattern, so…
Serves 1 · ¥2,800
Cook time 30 min
This is the simmered dish for new-style eel cuisine. "Eel and Winter Melon, Hakata-Style" was inspired by gisei-dofu (mock tofu), with eel folded…
Serves 10 · ¥4,500
Cook time 1 hr
This is the warm dish for the theme "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). For "Eel and Vegetables with Yuzu-Kosho Sauce," I took on the…
Serves 1 · ¥490
Cook time 1 hr
Under the theme of new-style eel cuisine, I came up with four eel dishes that feel distinctly Japanese while also being new. We're also often asked…
Serves 1 · ¥800
Cook time 1 hr
The inn where I work is a hot-spring ryokan founded in Meiji 23 (1890), and nearly 80% of our guests come from overseas. Guests rarely ask us for…
Serves 1 · ¥750
Cook time 3 hr
This time, in keeping with the restaurant's theme, I'd like to propose dishes using the seafood that represents Hokkaido in early summer. This is the…
Serves 1 · ¥380
Cook time 1 hr
From the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat, under the theme "the cool taste of midsummer," I wanted diners to savor…
Serves 4 · ¥1,500
Cook time 1 days
This is the meal course (shokuji), from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. I took the hand-cut soba we normally…
Serves 1 · ¥2,290
Cook time 1 days
This is a vinegared dish (sunomono), continuing from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. For the kombu-cured sweet…
Serves 1 · ¥1,418
Cook time 2 hr
While focusing above all on practicality, I designed this around the theme of "unconventional cold cuisine." This is the chilled chawanmushi (savory…
Serves 1 · ¥1,067
Cook time 1 hr
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
From the theme of the technique of cold cuisine, this is a vinegared dish. For the eel and cucumber Hakata-style press, I took 'uzaku'—normally a…
Serves 1 · ¥419
Cook time 40 min
Hamo (pike conger) is at its best this time of year. This time, I wrapped it around winter melon, secured the shape with a toothpick, and let it…
Serves 4 · ¥800
Cook time 30 min
By deliberately setting the dashi gelée soft and loose rather than firm, the beltfish (tachiuo) and kuruma prawns take on the seasoning fully while…
Serves 4 · ¥1,200
Cook time 20 min
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
From the themes of a heat-relief dish for summer and cold cuisine, this is an appetizer. For the abalone somen, since abalone prices have been rising…
Serves 1 · ¥358
Cook time 1 hr
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
In keeping with the theme of cold cuisine, I took a dish I myself would want to eat in summer, gave it a slight twist as a 'heat-relief dish,' and…
Serves 1 · ¥328
Cook time 30 min
This is a summer heat-relief meal. Since it's summer, the soba sushi brings together eel and crab arranged in an ichimatsu (checkerboard) pattern…
Serves 1 · ¥800
Cook time 30 min
From the theme of the technique of cold cuisine, this is a chilled bowl dish (hiyashi-bachi). For the abalone yōrō-mushi, I steam the abalone in an…
Serves 1 · ¥2,000
Cook time 30 min
This is a fried dish, from the themes of a heat-relief dish for summer and the technique of cold cuisine. For the hamo (pike conger eel) cracker, I…
Serves 1 · ¥330
Cook time 30 min
This dish cures ayu (sweetfish) overnight in kombu to draw out its umami and give it a silky richness. It's finished light and refreshing, paired…
Serves 1 · ¥800
Cook time 1 hr
Founded in 1934 in Nichihara, Tsuwano Town, Shimane Prefecture, our restaurant Mikadoya serves a range of dishes made with ayu from the clear Takatsu…
Serves 10 · ¥8,000
Cook time 1 hr
Kagurazaka Shozantei
I made this mindful of sauces that bring out the flavor and aroma of the ingredients—evoking the refreshing early-summer breeze of June and July—and…
Serves 1 · ¥480
Cook time 1 hr
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