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Deep-Fried Hamo with Rikyu Sauce

This is the lidded-bowl course. For the deep-fried hamo (pike conger eel) with Rikyu sauce, the hamo is filleted, the fine bones scored, and it is…

Salmon skin-and-roe dumplings, soup course

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: sake kogawa-ni (simmered salmon skin) Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down…

• Serves 4 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Good-Fortune Cod Milt Nuta in a Yuzu Shell, Monkfish Liver and Celtuce Kinuta-Maki, Yorou Smoked Salmon Hakata-Style, Fugu Cracker, Sake-Grilled Squid Bonbori-Style

This is the seasonal course. The good-fortune cod milt vinegared-miso dressing served in a yuzu shell uses seven ingredients, following the tradition…

An Assortment of Sake Accompaniments

Among the assortment of sake accompaniments, the burdock shaved to resemble soba noodles has such a good texture that guests often ask for a second…

Silver tofu pureed soup

This is the soup course. For ‘Gindofu Surinagashi,’ there is a well-known tofu shop near where I work, and I very much wanted to build a dish around…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 2 days

Trough shell clam in vinegared miso dressing

This is a way of using the last of the season’s trough shell clams. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and cherry salmon also come to mind, but…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 30 min

Sea Cucumber Tomo-Ae with Red Turnip

For the sea cucumber tossed with its own salted innards, paired with red turnip, I remove the sea cucumber's innards through the vent, julienne it…

• ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Simmered Kuetama, Wakasa-Yaki Style

This is the simmered course, conceived around the concept of "protecting the ocean environment." Kuetama is a farmed fish — a cross between kue, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 50 min

Steamed Cod Rice, Cold-Smoked Cod, Cod Cracker

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. The appetizer is designed to feel like a single course in itself. As a proposal for using…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Winter Peony

This is a fried dish. For the winter peony, we use the lily bulb scales just outside the center, beveling the edge of each one individually. The…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 20 min

Tomato Soba

Tomato Soba is a menu item I've served during this season for some time. Perhaps because of Karuizawa's local character, many guests enjoy Western…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Glossy rice wrapped in egg yolk, liver nori senbei, turban shell congee dip

This time, with the main focus on preserving the rice's sweetness as much as possible, I decided to use the rice just as it is. I used Tsuyahime rice…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 30 min

Colorful assortment of freshly sliced fish

The colors of freshly sliced fish were devised from the idea that eating sashimi with soy sauce alone gets monotonous, and that it would be more…

• ¥1,100

• Cook time 40 min

Soft-shell turtle clear soup with steamed abalone, Kamo eggplant, winter melon, julienned ginger, and nail-cut myoga

President Mita has said things to me like, 'Crab is delicious on its own, but let's think about it a bit more rather than just serving it as-is.' You…

Vegetable achara pickle with Chinese yam, baby cucumber, Fushimi pepper, Corinky squash, dried daikon, frozen konjac, firm tofu, tomato cup, scallion sprouts, and olive oil and white vinegar

Freezing the konnyaku once creates air pockets inside it, making it easier for the seasoning to soak in and giving it a pleasantly popping texture in…

One-Bite Black Truffle Soba

A new possibility for soba. Truffle, soba, bonito, soy sauce — all these aromas mutually enhance each other.

Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke

This is a rice-course dish developed using jasmine tea. (Jasmine tea, 30g: 350 yen.) For Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke, I used heshiko, mackerel cured…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Niigata Noppe

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Niigata noppe Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since long ago for a…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Wheel-Shaped Wheat Gluten and Nanban Shrimp Shinjo, Hakata-Style

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: simmered wheel-shaped wheat gluten Looking back on the history of dishes that have been…

• Serves 4 · ¥298.6

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot and Awaji Beef Horaku-Yaki

From our creative dishes using bamboo shoots, this is the additional course. "Tai Horaku-yaki" is a traditional dish of Awaji Island in which sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,240

• Cook time 2 days

Nori-Grilled Tiger Pufferfish Milt, New Bamboo Shoot and Jidori Chicken

“Knorr® Chicken Consommé” makes generous use of extract from fresh, domestic mature hens (“rōkei”), together with chicken meat and chicken fat…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 5 hr

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: crispy black-purple rice

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥575

• Cook time 20 min