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Dashing Ichimatsu-Pattern Box Sushi

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Building excitement for the moment the lid is lifted Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 20 min

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

Autumn Mackerel Ichimatsu Sushi

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: designed with photogenic appeal for guests in their twenties and thirties…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing uses raw konjac tuber. If you blend it into a paste with the skin left on, you get black konjac; if you…

Swimming crab (gazami) mold

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. For Gazami Mold — swimming crab caught in Tosa Bay is called 'gazami' in Kochi Prefecture. I…

• Serves 1 · ¥870

• Cook time 1 hr

Water namasu, Daiō char minced with miso

As for Water Namasu, I'm told that in the region where I was born and raised, sailors used to eat it this way aboard ship. Wanting guests to taste…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 20 min

Crab Yoro-age, Ebi-imo Hakusen-age, Daikoku Shimeji Egg-Yolk Fry, Paprika Su-age

From dishes paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, this is a fried dish. For the yam-bound crab deep-fry, grated mountain yam is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Tomato and Onion Droplet

I devised this as the zatsuke (the first dish served at the start of a banquet) within a summer set menu. This is a chilled soup course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Square-Cut Herring Roe Pickled in Amber, Salmon Roe Pickled in Sake Lees, Pine-Cone-Cut Small Abalone Simmered Kōshū-Style, Moroko Lake Fish Wrapped in a Delicate Paper-Style Roll, Eel-Filled Sweet Rolled Omelet, Salmon and Turnip in a Checkerboard Pattern, Lotus Root Stuffed with Spicy Cod Roe, Dried Persimmon with Egg-Yolk Sushi, Lily Bulb and Walnut Twisted into a Bundle, and Bolted Lettuce Stalk Pickled in Saikyo Miso

These are the celebratory dishes, ten kinds in all. We combined auspicious items like datemaki and herring roe with tangy ones like Saikyo-zuke and…

Red Soup, and More

The "Red Soup" for the soup course serves as a substitute for the clear soup. We actually serve it at the restaurant, and it's quite popular — it…

Corn pureed soup

This serves in place of the soup course (o-wan). The chicken tenderloin is soaked briefly in shio-kōji, and once the seasoning has taken, it is…

• Serves 5 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Smoked Char, Cured Prosciutto-Style

Continuing the proposal for using char across its hashiri, shun, and nagori stages, this represents the nagori, or end-of-season, use. This is served…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

White plum-shaped taro, kuruma prawn simmered shiba-ni style, early-dug bamboo shoot, milt simmered in egg yolk

This proposes a way to use true cod milt at the end of its season (nagori). This is the simmered course. The milt simmered in egg yolk takes milt…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Swimming crab amber aspic, Chinese razor clam wine-steamed with nori sauce, mantis shrimp aromatic grill, Ariake eel-goby confit, ganba pufferfish overnight-dried with seasoning sauce, Ariake Sea red jellyfish in Western-style sake-fragrant dressing, seasonal garnish

First, the appetizer course. As dishes to accompany sake from the Ariake area, several pieces carry fairly strong flavors and aromas, making this a…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 3 hr

Porcini Takikomi Rice

After experimenting with porcini mushrooms in various ways, I found they have a distinctive aroma not found in any Japanese mushroom, and I wondered…

• Serves 3 · ¥380

• Cook time 35 min

Suppon Dashi Bursts Out! Soy Meat Tempura

Even when I cooked block-type soy meat as a meat substitute, its distinctive aroma was hard to eliminate no matter how strongly I seasoned it from…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed sushi

This is the rice course, an arrangement of the Fukushima local dishes wappa-meshi, rice served in a bentwood box, and hokkimeshi, surf clam rice. For…

• Serves 3 · ¥780

• Cook time 2 hr

Tenjin hot pot

This is a hot pot dish. This time we were given the theme of 'rethinking hot pot,' so we wanted to show a different way of presenting the work we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 1 hr

Hakata-style layered freeze-dried tofu, carp burdock roll, glazed leaf-cut squash, and lightly simmered kuruma prawns

We have arranged the Fukushima local dishes carp umani and freeze-dried tofu for a new era. This time it is a takiawase. Hakata-style freeze-dried…

• Serves 3 · ¥950

• Cook time 2 hr

Chrysanthemum-Style Deep-Fried Rolled Pacific Saury, Taro with Seaweed Sauce, Moist Salad

This is a small dish. For the chrysanthemum-style deep-fried rolled Pacific saury, since the fish has many small bones, I fillet it into three…

• ¥180

• Cook time 30 min

Lily bulb steamed dumpling

This is the simmered course. For the lily bulb manju, coat the outside with crushed kori-mochi (freeze-dried rice-cake flakes), and just before…

Abalone dressed with its own liver, stone-grilled

A dish that makes it easy to order another drink. The aroma of butter makes it easy for women to enjoy as well.

Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style

This is a grilled dish from a summer set menu. For the Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style, I remember this from when I had just joined Tokyo Kaikan, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Niigata Sake-Lees Soup, Niigata Yellowtail Belly Salt-Grilled

This is a soup course. This time it's a sake-lees soup (sakekasu-jiru), but instead of salmon or the like, I've put in yellowtail with just the right…

• Serves 1 · ¥566

• Cook time 1 hr