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Rikyu-style sea bream dressed with kombu

I pair aged tai with olive oil carrying the umami of kombu, aiming for a synergistic effect between the umami of the fish's fat and the umami of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min

Clam and wild mountain vegetable takikomi rice — wasabi leaf, fiddlehead fern, butterbur sprout, angelica-tree shoots

They order delicious varieties of rice from all over Japan depending on the season. At the time of …

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Suppon clear soup: grilled scallion, goji berries

The soup "Marusui" is one of our specialty dishes. It is made using only turtle stock, which we tak…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 10 min

Takikomi Gohan: Matsutake and Ginkgo Rice

Here I introduce a dish from our restaurant. 'Matsutake and ginkgo rice' is a dish I devised valuing the aroma that conveys the season, arriving the…

Sakura-dai Sawani-wan

This makes use of a spring ingredient — this time, sakura-dai, a cherry-blossom-season sea bream. This is a clear-soup course. For the sakura-dai…

• Serves 1 · ¥595

• Cook time 20 min

Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup

For 'Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup,' I treated caffeine-free herbal tea as a dashi drawn with tea. I built it into a soup together with sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Kawachi duck and whole-roasted Tennoji turnip

As a way to make use of a winter ingredient, this is a dish built around Tennoji turnip in season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Koya-dofu Beef Liver Steak Style, with Herb Butter Sauce

I wanted to create a health-conscious menu using freeze-dried tofu, which is high in protein. Since I have long experience cooking Western cuisine, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 20 min

Fugu soup

We fully draw out the umami of fugu bones unique to this season, and pair it with miso for guests to enjoy.

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

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

Awaji Numashima Pike Conger, ‘Skin-Beauty’ Hot Pot

A small hot pot built around hamo (pike conger) in season. Hamo from Numashima on Awaji Island is characterized by soft bones and thin skin, carries…

• Serves 1 · ¥875

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Salt-Simmered Moon Bear

Wanting to convey, in a new style, ingredients that have fallen out of use along with changing times, and cooking methods no longer practiced in…

• Serves 4 · ¥14,857

• Cook time 2 hr

Snow crab, Kyoto shungiku tossed in sesame, and fermented crucian-carp sushi

As the menu approaches its final stretch, I serve a course designed to encourage more drinking, made with seasonal ingredients, to let guests enjoy a…

• Serves 1 · ¥20,000

• Cook time 2 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

Matsutake, Baby Turnip, Yuzu

For the soup course, our first priority is drawing a delicious dashi. We draw ichiban dashi using Kafuka kombu from Funadomari and katsuobushi from…

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

Chilled somen (abalone, okra, young myoga, shredded egg crepe, chives, ginger)

This time, we learned about "food" from Koji Kimizuka (Yoyogi・Shiki no Aji Horikawa). This time, we will be looking at "somen noodles."

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

Softshell Turtle Takikomi Gohan

In the past, our restaurant served a clear-soup course with large pieces of softshell turtle, but since some guests found the appearance off-putting…

• Serves 5 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 4 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