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Late-season pike conger and early matsutake teapot-steamed soup

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: the pairing of two luxury ingredients, pike conger and matsutake…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Shark fin and fish-paste dumpling, rolled in yuba — crab-and-chrysanthemum thin kuzu sauce, saimaki prawn, carrot, ginkgo-leaf cut, wood ear mushroom

When boiling the chrysanthemum petals, we add a very small amount of vinegar to stop discoloration and keep the color vivid. We bring out the ginkgo…

Sweetfish fermented-dashi soup

At this time of year, we always serve sweetfish salt-grilled with tade vinegar — the classic pairing — but I wondered if there might be another…

• Serves 2 · ¥328

• Cook time 20 min

Jumbo Kuruma Prawn, Shark Fin

This is kuruma prawn tempura, but the jumbo kuruma prawn is served fried to about a half-cooked doneness, not quite fully cooked through, and I've…

• Cook time 10 min

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

Tiger pufferfish aspic

I devised this dish under the theme of "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing." My restaurant, Wangu, will mark its 45th anniversary since founding in…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Corn pureed soup, grilled mochi, quail anpei, thinned mustard

This time, on the 'soup-bowl course,' I learned from technical director Katō (Meguro Gajoen). This time I take up 'surinagashi.'

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-grilled juvenile sweetfish

This is a dish that uses quite a number of different oils at the preparation stage. The young sweetfish are rinsed in water, vacuum-packed with olive…

• Serves 1 · ¥385

• Cook time 15 min

Sea bass, oil-seared, Manganji green pepper grilled and dashi-steeped, kofuki-dusted ginger, vinegared myoga bud, tade vinegar

This time, on 'grilled dishes,' I learned from technical director Iwata (Royal Park Hotel). I take up 'abura-yaki.'

Clear soup style, bottarga, lotus root mochi

Continuing the reconception of dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine, this time it's a clear-soup preparation (sumashi-jitate). We pair…

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 40 min

Shark fin chawanmushi

This is a steamed dish. I serve this shark fin chawanmushi because, at around this point in the course, I think guests want something that lets them…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 hr

Kuruma prawn and abalone denpo-yaki, lily bulb, ginkgo nut, Daikoku shimeji, maple-leaf-cut carrot, ginkgo-leaf-cut kabocha, silver sauce

This time, we will be looking at Denpo-yaki. It is a dish cooked in earthenware, and is also called…

Abalone shinjo

This is the simmered soup bowl course. The dried sea cucumber ovary isn’t fully dried — it’s more of a half-dried, still somewhat raw state. At the…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Botan Shrimp and New Potato Soup

As part of using spring ingredients at their peak, first catch, and last of the season, this uses the first catch of botan shrimp. This is served in…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

The fragrance of home: 'Sakura shrimp'

The idea for this dish came from the nostalgic smell I got from serving fried sakura shrimp rice at…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 25 min

Ayu Namerou with Finger Lime

I devised this dish as a new way of serving seafood. My focus is on a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Corn Potage

This is our small team's version of work that would normally take 300 to 400 covers, done amid a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour…

• Serves 5 · ¥620

• Cook time 20 min

Suppon rice-flour dumpling in julienned-vegetable broth

This is 'Shiratama Dumpling in Sawani-Style Broth.' I wanted to express the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a soup course. After the…

• Serves 1 · ¥375

• Cook time 2 hr

Salmon Iizushi and New-Crop Rice Okoge

This is an expression of modern regional cuisine. Original regional dish: salmon iizushi Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 min

Spring turnip and Date chicken wings takiawase

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

Surf clam julienned-vegetable clear broth

This is a clear soup devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the surf clam sawani soup, I control cost by adjusting the amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Pike conger and matsutake, gently simmered

This is what's known as a 'deai-mono' — a dish pairing two ingredients that come into season together — for autumn. It's a simple dish you often see…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 20 min

Cod Oyako Clear-Soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the Cod Oyako Clear-Soup — oyako meaning "parent and child," pairing cod flesh with cod roe — in the Tohoku region…

• Serves 1 · ¥570

• Cook time 30 min