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Clam shinjo, turnip simmered with a hint of plum

With the presentation in mind, I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. For the clear-soup course, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 40 min

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr

Cedar-plank grilled salmon, tube-rolled willowy flounder, uni-glazed shrimp-shaped taro, egg-yolk-glazed grilled salmon roe

This is a grilled course from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." The burdock sauce is remarkably fragrant and very well…

• Serves 1 · ¥945

• Cook time 40 min

Sanriku Shiogama 'Higashimono' sekihan rice balls (Shiogama's traditional food culture: 'Tuna')

This is the shiizakana course, a hearty side dish. Sanriku Shiogama 'Higashimono' Sekihan Rice Balls let guests sample fresh bigeye tuna caught at…

• Serves 1 · ¥557

• Cook time 1 days

Eggplant Somen

This is an introduction from our restaurant's popular autumn dishes. Eggplant is generally thought of as a summer vegetable, but by presenting it…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 10 min

Japanese-Style Gratin

Japanese-Style Gratin uses scallop, but it can also be made deliciously with pen shell, cockle, or Ezo ishikage cockle. Rather than simply searing…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Flounder, Ark Shell Clam, and Tiger Prawn with Kombu Aroma

From 'counter work that creates repeat guests,' this is the fresh-fish course. One of the strengths of a counter is being able to serve sashimi cut…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 min

Sea bream takikomi chirashi rice — Flavor Signs (The Spread of Flavor)

I consider the value of dining out to be dishes that only our restaurant can serve, and service that stays close to the guest. This time, taking a…

• Serves 2 · ¥490

• Cook time 30 min

Sesame-milk tofu, kintsuba-style, butterbur miso, flame-seared sea urchin, grilled bamboo shoot, fried scallion, cherry-blossom petals

When making sesame tofu, soaking the sesame overnight in kombu dashi before blending it makes the sesame plump back up and brings out its flavor more…

Medicinal cuisine style, suppon shiratama-wrapped dumpling

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: adopting yakuzen (medicinal cuisine), currently a boom among young women…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 1 hr

Kinki Wakasa-Yaki, Fukiyose Style

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: an expression that lets guests feel the season. Under the motto "what's…

• Serves 1 · ¥885

• Cook time 30 min

Eel and cucumber in vinegar

This is a vinegared dish. We always include one eel dish in the summer course. This time we made it as the classic unagi-zaku, shaped into an eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 40 min

Three-aroma grilled horse mackerel

This is a grilled dish I devised around the theme of new ways of serving seafood. For the Horse Mackerel Sanka-yaki, 'sanga-yaki' — written with the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 40 min

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Eggplant burger (fruit tomato, soft-poached quail egg, Parmigiano, Kamoji scallion)

When people hear 'charcoal-grilled,' many picture yakitori, so I sandwich tare-glazed tsukune between slices of eggplant, giving it a burger style…

• Serves 1 · ¥210

• Cook time 50 min

Clear soup, 'Fukuoka Spring' (Ariake nori, bamboo shoot, and Muromi River icefish)

I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table from my childhood. This is a clear soup…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Tender-Simmered Olive Pork

Japanese cuisine built around imported teas Tea used = For the simmered dish Tender-Simmered Olive Pork, I used dark tea, which has a distinctive…

• Serves 5 · ¥400

• Cook time 3 hr

Pike conger karaage

This is the prep work for hamo. At my restaurant we process hamo by boiling it whole, so when I source hamo, I ask the supplier not to remove the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 min

Fragrance of Peach Blossoms

This expresses Fukuoka through cooking. I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Kamo eggplant somen (Challans duck, shrimp cracker, fried scallion, umami powder, clarified miso sauce)

Eggplant sōmen is a long-established preparation, but I made it as a grilled sōmen so as not to break it apart. In plain hot water the kuzu starch…

Smoked Swimming Crab

The restaurant where I work is centered on shellfish and crustaceans, and our work smoking seafood has a good reputation, so I thought about giving…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Tamagawa raw abalone

A soup-course variation built around regional ingredients. ‘Tamagawa Namagai’ takes its name from a play on words: I poured tama-dashi (a rich…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Spanish mackerel pot-cooked rice

We propose 24 pleasures across a single year. The cool, refreshing aroma of watercress stimulates the appetite.

King crab and lotus root manju, chrysanthemum-cut daikon in sake-lees pickle, millet wheat gluten Dutch-style simmered, bamboo-leaf-cut kabocha

This time, on 'simmered dishes,' I learned from technical director Saito (Nihon Ryōri Kinari). This time I take up 'renkon manju.'