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White asparagus with kuruma prawn cream, tofu sauce, snap peas, shiso sprouts, and bracken fern

Cream cheese marinated in sake lees is something we also serve as a stand-alone dish at our restaurant. The batch used this time has been marinated…

Deep-fried and simmered monkfish

At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often during its harvest season, from November through March. By…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 40 min

Grated Daikon Pickle

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at 'Yonemura.' For the grated daikon pickle, we grate the daikon along with its juice, add…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 days

Shijimi Clam Chawanmushi, Cauliflower Surinagashi

This appetizer is a dish we also served during our pre-opening. The image is of something like a 'Japanese-style clam chowder.' The potato added to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

Chilled Corn Chawanmushi

For the season when the heat increases, I devised a dish that lets you savor, with a smooth, pleasant swallow, the aroma and gentle sweetness of…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

Walnut tofu, chewable dashi jelly

For the appetizer that marks the start of the meal, I always think about wanting to serve something with impact that leaves an impression and lifts…

Hamo Surinagashi

I introduce a luxurious dish unique to summer, packed generously with hamo flesh and bursting with its deliciousness. Rather than the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 30 min

Dōman-Gani, Taro Manjū

So that the flavor of Dōman crab -- said to be a phantom crab -- comes through firmly, I wrap the crab meat in taro that's been pressed through a…

Steamed Turnip, Dried Shrimp Soup

For the steamed turnip, we normally combine grated turnip with egg white, but since our restaurant serves a large number of guests and needs a…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 12 min

Turnip and Duck Jibu-ni

This is a dish we've served since our restaurant's opening, out of my wish to 'preserve the excellent dishes that have existed since long ago.' It's…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 2 hr

Seiko Crab, Grilled in the Shell

The deliciousness of the seasonal Seiko crab is served in the course as an appetizer with a refresh…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 10 min

Spanish mackerel and turnip

This is a steamed dish. Sawara and turnip is a dish where, on top of the elegant sweetness of sawara — a fish with no unpleasant edge to its flavor —…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Cherry Cheese Tofu

Ingredients from the past are disappearing along with the era. I recall how, where I live in Yamagata, the heavy snow meant that in winter foods were…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,986

• Cook time 45 min

Snow-viewing style: yellowtail snow hut

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a soup-bowl course (wanmori). For the yellowtail kamakura, salt is applied to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 8 hr

Pike conger and lotus root, steamed, chrysanthemum, matsutake

When wrapping the lotus root in hamo, brush on kuzu starch firmly with a pastry brush, but take care — depending on how the fine bone-cutting is…

Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 min

Charcoal-Grilled Hida Beef, with Grilled Mushroom Thickened Sauce

For the charcoal grilled Hida beef, we take a lean cut of meat called "togarashi," which is soaked …

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu Milt, Fresh Green Laver Sauce, Wasabi

This dish is inspired by the image of a high-quality Japanese-style risotto, made with the rich, me…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Tilefish Matsukasa-age, with Sweet-and-Sour Thickened Sauce

Pine-cone-style fried tilefish is a classic dish, but I wanted to add a bit of a twist to the flavor. Wanting to serve it in the style of the Chinese…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 20 min

Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, Deep-Fried in Mochi-Rice Batter

For Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, since the crab's umami grows weaker in its nagori period — the last-of-the-season stretch — I thought it would work…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip steamed dish, tilefish, mitsuba, ginkgo nuts, wood ear mushroom, shimeji mushroom, wasabi, silver sauce

This is a dish, somehow comforting, where guests enjoy steamed tilefish and turnip with a silver sauce poured over. Since we mainly serve tempura…

• Serves 1 · ¥975

• Cook time 30 min

Oyster, Nanzenji-style, with smoked oyster, grilled scallion, and wasabi

Enjoy the umami of oysters, a taste of winter. By adding oyster paste to sieved tofu and grinding it together, the oyster's characteristic odor…

Warm-Stone Kombu Broth, Tsugaru Duck, Lotus Root Mochi with Mizore Sauce, Diced Yuzu, All-Purpose Scallion

Here I introduce a dish that expresses the warmth distinctive to the season when the weather starts turning cold. Because we use a heated stone, you…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min