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Arare tofu, hakata-fried tofu, avocado shira-ae

The story of tofu. I recently visited a tofu village in Shanghai, China, and tracing the story of tofu back far enough, it leads to China. For the…

Bamboo Shoot Tofu

For the appetizer, the bamboo shoot tofu is made by simmering bamboo shoot trimmings with a fresh addition of bonito flakes partway through so the…

Summer Duck Steamed with Sake

We sear the aigamo duck's skin to medium-rare, then steam it with sake. Into a center cut we tuck mustard and shiraga-negi, fine white scallion…

Salt-Boiled Dōman-Gani

Found in a renowned lake, the Doman mud crab is said to be a phantom crab; its official name is the serrated mud crab. It's characterized by firm…

Quail meatball

This is an introduction of a dish paired with the white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, where my own workplace is located. This is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Sea bream, clam, and shamo chicken triple-stock tsukemen in a mini hot pot

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties A tsukemen-style twist on a rich, full-bodied broth Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Chestnut and fig in basil-sesame cream (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by medicinal-cuisine specialist Momoyo Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Noppe, Reimagined

A reconstruction of noppe, a Niigata local dish, from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." It is finished as a deep, rich…

• Serves 1 · ¥326

• Cook time 40 min

Female snow crab pot-cooked rice

This is something of a signature dish at our restaurant: the trick is that when you open the pot, charcoal and kobako crab appear, to guests'…

• Serves 12 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 40 min

Spiny lobster grilled with salted fish-innard paste, tilefish grilled with sea urchin, Tosa-style herring roe, black soybean and lily-bulb sweetened mash, snow-ring lotus root achara pickle, salmon wrapped in squid

For the grilled Ise lobster with shuto, I use Ise lobster, a New Year's staple, basted and grilled with shuto. For the grilled tilefish with sea…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Tanba Black Soybeans in Sweet Syrup, Tosa-Style Herring Roe, Lily Bulb Chakin, Korin-Pine Lotus Root Stuffed with Spicy Cod Roe

This is a celebratory New Year tiered box. It was designed to be colorful and to keep well, so that families gathered together could enjoy a relaxed…

• ¥2,800

• Cook time 3 days

Flounder Hakata-Press, Smoked Salmon and Turnip Checkerboard

The second, flounder hakata-press with smoked salmon and turnip in an ichimatsu checkerboard pattern, incorporates the traditional hakata and…

• ¥420

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed blackthroat seaperch, shiitake, ginkgo nut, sprouted scallion

Before plating the ingredients, we score the shiitake cap finely with a shallow hidden cut. This is partly out of consideration for ease of eating…

Sea bream clear-soup course with millet wheat gluten and needle-cut scallion

Skewer the sea bream collar, salt it, and grill it thoroughly for about ten minutes. Grilling it until it develops good browning removes any fishy…

Young sea bass kombu-cured, beltfish vinegar-cured, pen shell kombu-cured, trough shell clam blanch-cured, bigfin reef squid kombu-cured

This is a vegetable-and-fish plate. It lets you enjoy cured fish together with lightly pickled vegetables enlivened with kombu. If the flavor is too…

Eel simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper

This is a simmered dish. For the Eel Arima-ni, normally you'd remove the sliminess from the eel, cut it into tube sections, sear it, steam it, then…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

New Soba-Gaki, Okaya Eel Tree-Ring Roll

When people think of Nagano, I imagine many picture soba. This time, I kneaded fresh new-crop buckwheat flour to bring out a chewy, mochi-like…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Plum blossom and bush warbler

For the Ume ni Uguisu (Plum Blossom and Bush Warbler) plum-fragrance roll cake: since the castella sponge is already sweetened, I kept the yokan and…

River trout oil-smoked and steamed, salmon chakin shaped like ground cherries, Kurakake bean and rock tripe steeped in dashi, Shinshu grape dressed in daigo, curved bamboo shoot with plum-shiso dressing

Right now, we're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so I'd like to…

• Serves 5 · ¥220

• Cook time 20 min

Sea bream, pen shell clam, and bluefin tuna straw-seared

From the dishes I created under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today," this time it's the sashimi course. Within this menu, I often split the sashimi into…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 1 hr

Vegan kakuni (wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut shiro-uri melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, potato mustard)

Thinking of veganism as also a matter of religion, I wanted guests to be able to taste the best qualities of animal-derived ingredients through a…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Ise lobster and daikon man'nen-ni

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, I’ll introduce a dish featuring Ise lobster in season. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥930

• Cook time 3 days

Three-year fugu, thin-sliced sashimi winter vegetable roll

This sashimi course is only possible thanks to fugu in season. For the Three-Year Fugu Usu-zukuri with Winter Vegetable Roll, the thin-sliced sashimi…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Boar Soup with Fresh Soba-Sashi Style

Wild boar soup with fresh soba-sashi is a comforting dish where you can fully enjoy the umami of the boar's fat, dissolved into the broth, and the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,397

• Cook time 40 min