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Grilled thornyhead rockfish with sea urchin

This grilled dish uses kinki as an end-of-season winter ingredient. Grilled kinki with sea urchin is a dish meant to let guests enjoy two kinds of…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 40 min

Tenjin hot pot, softshell turtle, tortoise-shell-cut taro, mushrooms, ginkgo-leaf-cut daikon and carrot, grilled scallion, shiratama dumpling, sprouted scallion

For preparing the soft-shell turtle, the key to cleanly peeling the skin is to pour about 60°C water over it. If the temperature is too high or too…

Shijimi clam Inaniwa udon (mitsuba, julienned ginger, yuzu)

Boiling the udon and then tightening it once in cold water lets you enjoy a beautiful sheen and firm, springy texture. We select only large shijimi…

Seared bluefin medium fatty tuna cured in miso, threeline grunt blanched and stuffed with myoga, kombu-cured whiting with okra topped with grated mountain yam

This is a sashimi course built around the idea of new ways of serving seafood. Rather than simply serving it as plain sashimi, I've added one or two…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,380

• Cook time 3 hr

Shark Fin Yakuzen Hot Pot with Chicken Dashi

With health-consciousness on the rise, when I thought about what kind of breakfast could draw in customers, I incorporated the concept of medicinal…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 20 min

Eel and collagen rice porridge — the synergy of three collagen soups

As part of an effort to cope with rising food costs, the concept behind this meal course is "synergy." When steaming plain-grilled eel, the water in…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo eggplant clear-soup course — golden eye snapper, red shrimp, water shield, sudachi

For the soup course, it's important to time the preparation of each ingredient so that the dish tastes best at the moment the soup ingredients are…

Wild mountain vegetables and egg rice porridge with bamboo shoot, udo, bracken fern, koshiabura, fiddlehead fern, myoga, and grated ginger

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

Layered star flounder with salted sea urchin

For the mukōzuke, the sashimi course, since it’s summer, I used star flounder. I deliberately slice star flounder thick. That brings out the fish’s…

Three-Year Fugu, Kombu-Cured and Steamed with Ginjo Sake

Making use of winter ingredients, this is a dish for three-year fugu at its peak season. This is a steamed dish. For the Three-Year Fugu Kombu-Cured…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Potato and egg rice porridge with seasoned ground chicken, udo, carrot, shiitake, butterbur-sprout miso, and fried onion

In the old days, zosui was written as "masu-sui" (large amount of water), and was made by adding wa…

Helmet crab miso grilled in the shell, and helmet crab

This is a grilled dish, using Aomori ingredients to arrange the Aomori local dish hotate kayaki-miso (scallop grilled in its shell with miso). For…

• Serves 1 · ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Miso-style, Chikuma River roe-bearing ayu-koku

This focuses on ingredients from Nagano. Koi-koku is a rich miso soup and simmered dish made by long-simmering carp cut into rounds in miso, and it…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 2 hr

Brothless Okkirikomi

This is a reimagining of local cuisine. It's a simmered dish. I deliberately serve Gunma's classic local dish "okkirikomi" — hand-cut flat udon in…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 40 min

Negima Clear-Soup Bowl: Seared Toro and Three Kinds of Scallion

The clear soup-course dashi concentrates the umami of tuna and scallion. Of course the tuna, but the scallion is a star as well — so that the…

Three-year fugu, three sesame-fragrant preparations: salt-grilled outer skin (teppi) with scallion, shichimi-grilled inner skin (mikawa), and sansho-grilled middle membrane (tōtōmi)

This time, I prepared a winter dish using three-year Seto Inland Sea fugu, the king of winter's seafood, with cooking methods matched to the season…

• Serves 3 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel and Lotus Root Mochi Kabayaki

This is the grilled dish for new-style eel cuisine. For "Eel and Lotus Root Mochi Kabayaki," I grated lotus root that's tender and delicious this…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 40 min

Eel and Beef

From the theme of new-style eel cuisine, this is the grilled course. For the eel and beef, I paired eel and beef — which go well together — with…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,050

• Cook time 20 min

Kenojiru Shinoda-maki

We wanted to newly express the local dish kenojiru, handed down here, as a modern arrangement based on the cooking methods of Japanese cuisine. This…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

The Charm of Nature

From "expressing Fukuoka through cooking," this is a grilled dish. Titled "The Charm of Nature," I fashioned freshly harvested bamboo shoots from a…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 40 min

Kisarazu: Japanese Noodles of the Banzu Tidal Flats

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

Eel and Fresh-Greenery Tofu in a Soy Milk Broth

I work at a restaurant whose main offering is sushi, so I don't often get the chance to work with eel, but I'd like to introduce a dish from among…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 45 min

Grilled White Tilefish and Matsutake Roll, with Marinated Manganji Peppers

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

Heshiko-Style Grilled Eel, Nigari-Cured Overnight-Dried Eel, Sansho and Herb-Flavored Grilled Eel

These are three grilled dishes for "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). Under the theme "Japan's Preserved Foods," I devised three grilled…

• Serves 1 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr