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Kisu Grilled with Kabusecha

For Japanese whiting grilled with kabusecha, a shade-grown green tea, since I'm from Shizuoka and tea-based cooking is a specialty of mine, I used…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Cream cheese kuzu tofu, Miura-style chilled scrambled egg, summer vegetable namasu pickled in salt-koji and honey

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. Since there is little seafood available to use in summer, I built the menu around vegetables. Cream cheese kuzu…

• ¥120

• Cook time 1 days

Dried daikon spiral roll, sea bream shinjo and minced shrimp terrine, herring kelp roll, tender-simmered beef, tube-cut burdock and accordion-cut kabocha

We prepared two simmered dishes. For the dried daikon Naruto-maki, we first peel the daikon into a continuous thin sheet, parboil it once to remove…

Flame-Seared Kisu, Nuta-Style Kisu, and Oil-Blanched Kisu

Flame-seared whiting is a dish for enjoying whiting in a rich, thickened kombu dashi. Rather than a richly seasoned dashi or a pale starch sauce, I…

• ¥200

• Cook time 50 min

Eel and Tofu, Tender-Simmered Octopus, Stone-Wall-Pattern Baby Taro Chakin, Kabocha Squash Stuffed with Tube-Cut Burdock

This is a simmered dish. Eel and tofu layers grilled eel kabayaki with tofu alone, without adding any vegetables.

• ¥400

• Cook time 2 hr

Kisu Senbei, Kuruma Prawn Kimi-Age, and Young Rakkyo Kimi-Age

Kisu (Japanese whiting) senbei is kisu deep-fried into a cracker shape and served with matcha salt, finished to feel light and fresh, fitting for…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Temari Kisu, Kisu Nishiki-Maki, and Seared Kisu in Ume Vinegar Marinade

For temari kisu (Japanese whiting), I cut kombu-cured kisu into fine strips — with an eye to how easily chopsticks can pick it apart — and layer them…

• ¥520

• Cook time 50 min

Autumn salmon wrapped in potato and grilled, king crab and potato with an egg-yolk glaze, chicken tenderloin pie with an egg-yolk glaze, rice paper flavor-coated deep-fry, grilled matsutake mushroom, chestnut mash with the skin left on, seared squid chrysanthemum roll, leaf-shaped grilled Chinese yam with sea urchin, and perilla-vinegar pickle styled to look like a grilled plum

This is the grilled hassun course. For the rice paper flavor-coated deep-fry, after rehydrating the rice paper, we coat it with dried sakura shrimp…

Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled with yuzu miso, kettle-boiled shrimp grilled with sesame salt, chicken tenderloin rolled with burdock, chrysanthemum-cut yam grilled with golden egg yolk, chrysanthemum-leaf-cut yam grilled with uni

For the grilled fish course's Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled dish, mackerel landed at Matsuwa fishing port is famous under the…

Okra pureed soup, deep-fried okoze, mozuku fish-paste dumpling, pounded shrimp

This is a clear-soup course. A purée is normally made in a food processor, but here I finely minced the okra by hand and thinned it with a clear soup…

• ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Ashigara beef nanban-style rolled and fried, tuna roe light egg-white batter fry, Shonan whitebait dumplings, deep-fried river shrimp

This is a fried course. I used a branded beef called Ashigara beef. Also, the tuna roe is something distinctive to Miura; it is three to four times…

• ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Beltfish nanban roll, deep-fried; quail dumpling and potato, deep-fried; yam bulbil, nori-wrapped and fried

The fried course's basket somen is made by gathering somen noodles into a basket shape and deep-frying them plain (su-age).

Chilled Roast Beef

Tea-covered grilled sea bass, giant longarm prawn grilled with golden egg yolk

This is a grilled hassun course. For the tea-covered grilled sea bass, if served at the counter, placing the sea bass on a heated stone, pouring tea…

• ¥590

• Cook time 1 days

Western-style seared bonito, herb-wrapped flounder, skin-seared whiting, Odawara horse mackerel tataki stuffed in mountain yam

This is a sashimi course. I prepared three types of sauce: a tart sauce, a salt-based sauce, and soy sauce. The amaranth has a beautiful purple…

Soy milk tofu, tomato terrine, sake-sautéed abalone, steamed sea urchin, snow crab roll with crushed soybean coating

Japanese-style spare ribs, kuruma prawn grilled after a moromi miso marinade, abalone steamed with awamori

For the Japanese-style spare ribs: the ribs are cut into pieces of no great size, worked with a blended miso, and left under vacuum for about half a…

Overnight-dried, spicy-grilled Japanese whiting, leaf-shaped taro matcha dengaku, grilled fava beans wrapped in konashi, and more

• This twist on the sweet rolled omelet is made from a base of ground fish paste, milk, and fresh cream, with just a touch of egg yolk added, then…

Sesame tofu wrapped in grilled eggplant, Wakasa-style grilled tilefish

For the clear-soup course's sesame tofu wrapped in grilled eggplant, the sesame tofu is made by combining kombu dashi, sake, and Yoshino kuzu starch…

Miso-pickled tofu, walnut tofu with a stuffed filling, grilled fig, grilled ladybell shoots and oyster mushroom

For the fifth seasonal dish's miso-pickled tofu, at our restaurant we use the cores left over from carving vegetables into chrysanthemum shapes in…

Smoked salmon mousse, black soybeans sandwiched with cheese, cheese hosho-style roll

As for the course that closes out the sake-paired dishes — the smoked salmon mousse — our restaurant serves both Western and Japanese cuisine. In the…

Shira-ae

For the shira-ae, the tofu is blanched as usual, pressed to remove moisture, and run through the Cuisinart to bring out a smooth, mellow texture…

End-of-season pike conger cracker, shrimp cracker, maple-leaf wheat gluten cracker, ginkgo-leaf sweet potato cracker

For the first of the seasonal dishes, the shrimp cracker uses tiger prawns. We peel them, butterfly the flesh open, dust it with starch, pound it…

Kuruma prawn blanched with hot oil, fatty Pacific saury seared, snake mackerel isonoyuki, seared squid, surf clam

As for the sashimi course's garancho isonoyuki, this 'garancho' is Roudi escolar caught in Sagami Bay, and it seems to be called this in the Miura…