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Crab Miso Gratin

For the red snow crab gratin, I combine rustic country miso and white miso, and add crab miso — the crab's own tomalley — to finish a richly flavored…

• Serves 10 · ¥151

• Cook time 50 min

Salt-fermented fugu milt, monkfish liver and yuzu achara-style pickle roll, pine-cone-scored turban shell simmered into a dark, long-cooked glaze, sea urchin-wrapped grilled halfbeak, pond smelt nanban-style soy-pulp salad

Salt-cured, fermented blowfish milt: soak the milt in a salt-water brine to draw out the blood, peel off the thin membrane, salt it firmly, and rest…

Baked Pear Clafoutis

Hearing "pear" tends to bring to mind something like a compote, so this time I created a clafoutis instead. The key point is adding the batter little…

• Serves 1 · ¥87

• Cook time 40 min

Alfonsino steamed with a white, elder-style finish

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 30 min

Herring roe and wasabi in tofu dressing, pine-needle skewers, cod grilled with saikyo miso glaze, a twist on namasu, amber-marinated quail egg

For the herring roe and wasabi shira-ae — herring roe is used in New Year's cooking for its meaning of "many children" — this time I bring in a hint…

Raw salmon roe in soy marinade, monkfish liver neatly rolled in thin-sliced turnip, saimaki shrimp hot-oil-blanched, and deep-fried shrimp heads

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 30 min

Monkfish liver rolled like folded paper, quick-blanched crab claw, crab roe with sea urchin, raw cod roe simmered to infuse flavor, snow-ring lotus root vinegar pickle, served in a hollowed yuzu shell

The monkfish liver hosho-maki is a longstanding technique, but I thought pairing it would let guests enjoy not only its rich umami but also the…

• ¥430

• Cook time 20 min

Simmered Beef in Miso

For the simmered beef chuck-eye roll (kata-rosu), I use several kinds of miso along with chicken-bone broth and other ingredients to build a…

• Serves 1 · ¥215

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail Shabu-Shabu

Guests enjoy seasonal yellowtail, with just the right amount of fat, as "tsuyu-shabu," shabu-shabu cooked in a seasoned broth rather than plain hot…

• Serves 1 · ¥380

• Cook time 30 min

Kinki rockfish grilled in sweet white miso, plum-flavored rolled egg, plum-blossom-cut carrot vinegar pickle, wild mountain berries in plum wine, pine-needle-cut celtuce mustard pickle, layered kombu cured in sweet white miso, chickpeas in sweet syrup

This is the savory platter course. The plum-flavored rolled egg is made by mixing plum flesh into the egg-roll batter and rolling it up. The…

Splendid alfonsino grilled with shio-koji, layered with plum-blossom sheet sake lees, plum-flavored egg, shrimp-shaped taro in a plum-crest bowl

For the kinmedai grilled with shio-koji, I tried to plate it with a sense of dimension. Marinating and grilling it in Saikyo miso tends to make the…

• ¥750

• Cook time 20 min

Early bamboo shoot, matsutake simmered Tosa-style with bonito flakes, simmered scallop, shrimp-shaped taro, tube-cut burdock, rolled yuba

This is the takiawase course. Since it was the New Year, I wanted to make a long-simmered vegetable dish, but as this is the season when families…

Yellowtail and daikon, abalone pan-simmered in sake, herring roe on kombu

This is the vinegared dish. For the yellowtail and daikon, cut the yellowtail into small block-cut fillets, skewer with a metal skewer, salt lightly…

Shrimp fish-paste dumpling deep-fried in a light paper-like coating, black soybean deep-fried with a dappled coating, pine-cone-scored arrowhead tuber, young bracken fern, deep-fried burdock, red-and-white noodle crisps, land saltwort deep-fried in a light egg-white batter, and yam bulbils deep-fried in a light egg-white batter

This is the deep-fried course. For the shrimp shinjo hosho-age, the shrimp shinjo paste is piped into a mountain yam base. Where it would normally be…

Salmon fish-paste dumpling, mirror-cut taro

This is the clear-soup course. For the soup's centerpiece, I used salmon to evoke abundant offspring, an auspicious motif. Combine seven parts salmon…

Fuku deep-fried in egg-yolk batter, clam deep-fried in a freshly milled rice-flour coating, black soybean deep-fried in a fawn-spotted coating

This is the deep-fried course. For the fuku deep-fried in egg-yolk batter, since it's the New Year I call the fugu "fuku" — a play on the word for…

• ¥560

• Cook time 20 min

Tortoiseshell-cut crossbred duck

Tortoiseshell-cut aigamo (crossbred duck) is usually made with chicken, but this time I use aigamo for its distinctive aroma and umami, lending it a…