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Cockle and spring cabbage

This is the vinegared-dish course. For the torigai and spring cabbage, torigai becomes wonderfully fragrant when seared, so trimmed spring cabbage…

• ¥660

• Cook time 2 hr

Burdock wrapped in conger eel, baked kabocha cake with poppy seed, scallop in spicy vinegared miso dressing, Daikoku shimeji simmered with ginger, crab wrapped in nori, Pacific saury simmered with sansho peppercorns, oyster set in salted dashi jelly, tender-simmered abalone, salmon with land caviar

This is the seasonal assortment course. For the scallop in mustard-vinegar dressing, the scallop adductor muscles are soaked in 50°C water for about…

Bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, clam fried in egg-yolk batter, kuruma prawn Shiba-style simmered

As for the bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, they are normally simmered with bonito dashi and wakame to make wakatake-ni (bamboo shoots and…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Asari clams and spring daikon, simmered and steeped

The asari clams and spring daikon simmered and steeped is a dish devised with inspiration from a dish by my mentor, Rokusaburo Michiba. Using the…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Clear Uwazumi Broth, Shijimi Clam Shinjo

As for the shijimi clam shinjo, this time it was made as a shinjo, but it's also delicious made as anpei, so please feel free to change it to your…

• ¥1,600

• Cook time 6 hr

Chrysanthemum-Steeped Grilled Matsutake, Autumn Nut Cream Terrine, Seared Kamasu Sushi

This is a starter course. For the chrysanthemum-steeped grilled matsutake, edible chrysanthemum petals are soaked in alum water to set their color…

Turnip simmered in dashi, zenmai wrapped in yuba, Simmered Hakata-style freeze-dried tofu, candied sweet potato, tube-cut burdock root, maple-leaf carrot, green beans

This is a course of assorted simmered vegetables. For the turnip simmered in dashi, the turnip is cooked in a mixture of bonito dashi, salt, white…

Grilled and steeped tilefish

●Amadai Yaki-Hitashi: the tilefish is filleted into three pieces, lightly salted and sliced thin, air-dried briefly to remove a little moisture…

Scallop Wrapped in Prosciutto

●Scallop Wrapped in Prosciutto: the scallop adductor muscle is simmered in an all-purpose seasoned dashi with sake added at 70°C, then left to cool…

Ise spiny lobster grilled with a red roe-and-egg glaze, tilefish grilled with sea urchin

This is a grilled course. For the Ise ebi momiji-yaki, salted ikura is passed through a sieve, mixed with just enough egg yolk to bind it, and…

Turnip pureed-potage style, crab shinjo

The clear-soup course is a pureed turnip potage style. Freshly grated turnip is mixed directly into the raw fish flesh. Normally Japanese mountain…

Rice-bale-shaped deep-fried shrimp, pressed dried sardine sheet deep-fried with sea urchin

For the deep-fried course's shrimp tawara-age, the outside is kabocha squash cut into batons, and the inside is shinjo. Because kabocha quickly turns…

Monkfish liver, gently simmered

The simmered course is monkfish liver, gently simmered. The liver is worked well by hand in water for about an hour to drain the blood. An…

Overnight-dried blackthroat seaperch, butterfish pickled in sake lees

The grilled dish is blackthroat seaperch, overnight-dried. Blackthroat seaperch is a fish with tender flesh, so drying it once to draw out some of…

Osaka-style mackerel and daikon soup

For the soup course's semba-jiru, the mackerel is filleted, and a stock is taken beforehand from the bones and trimmings. The fillet, salted heavily…

Yuba pickled in salt-fermented bonito viscera

●Yuba Pickled in Shuto: the shuto — salted, fermented bonito innards — is rinsed in water and left to steep in sake with the alcohol cooked off. The…