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Hand-Cut Soba Jibu-ni

This is the shokuji, the rice or noodle course. For Hand-Cut Soba Jibu-ni, a soba take on jibu-ni, the Kanazawa-style simmered dish, rather than…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 5 min

Wild Boar and Vegetables, Dengaku-Style

For Wild Boar and Vegetables, Dengaku-Style, I use wild boar belly with good marbling of fat. Wild boar stays in season through this period, and I…

• Serves 1 · ¥634

• Cook time 4 hr

Cod and tofu in a yuzu shell

This makes use of cod and yuzu in season, and I designed it for the guests in their forties to seventies who make up most of our clientele. This is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥445

• Cook time 50 min

Fugu karaage

This is Yugawara, expressed through cuisine -- this is the deep-fried course. Fugu karaage was a favorite dish of the novelist Naoya Shiga. The words…

• Serves 1 · ¥60

• Cook time 1 hr

Ayu clear broth, grilled ayu, winter melon, wood ear mushroom, water shield, baby melon, a touch of yuzu

For the sweetfish in clear seafood broth, we draw the dashi using dried sweetfish. This adds a deep sweetfish umami to the soup broth, different from…

Grilled shark fin

A clear-soup course. The vessel used is a Wajima-lacquer piece in the Unkaku (cloud-and-crane) design. The shark fin is steamed with chicken stock…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel Clear Soup — Chilled Style

This is a chilled clear soup made with eel. The eel is cut into rounds while still live, grilled, then steamed and de-boned, and briefly simmered in…

• Serves 3 · ¥320

• Cook time 40 min

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu, Zenmaru Shiitake, Scallion Sprouts, Sudachi

Tiger fugu, which is normally enjoyed with the flavor of salt or soy sauce, we serve marinated in shuto (fermented salted bonito innards) broth and…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Autumn Sweetfish, Marinated in Vinegar

This is the su-zakana (vinegared course). For the grilled ochiayu marinated in vinegar, I plain-grill the ayu, remove the dorsal fin, pectoral fins…

• ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Akebono Pinecone-Scored Squid Stuffed with Minced Tuna

This is the festive appetizer. For the Akebono Pinecone-Scored Squid Stuffed with Minced Tuna, since it is "akebono" (dawn), the red part — the…

Kaikyo Salmon Hakata-Oshi

This is the first dish. Salmon salads are common in Italian cuisine, and I wondered whether one could be arranged in a Japanese style. Using onion…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 20 min

Manganji pepper stuffed with bottarga and sticky rice

For the Manganji pepper stuffed with bottarga and steamed glutinous rice, delicacies like this also work well as a side dish with a meal, so I mixed…

• ¥140

• Cook time 1 hr

Two Kinds of Garlic Chives and Onogawa Bean Sprouts with Squid-Liver Sauce

For the two kinds of garlic chives and Onogawa bean sprouts with squid-liver sauce, thinning the Japanese common squid liver with the starchy liquid…

• ¥150

• Cook time 1 days

Wild mountain vegetables in rapeseed-blossom egg dressing, sea bream and sansho-leaf sushi, firefly squid with tomato sauce

This is course three. As for the wild mountain vegetables in natane-ae — 'natane' (rapeseed) is a word that can only be used in spring, so I worked…

Cod Shirako Clear Soup

This time, we used cod milt to evoke the image of a snowy landscape.

Ise lobster simmered with sea urchin, comma-shaped shrimp-taro fukume-ni, bamboo shoot simmered Tosa-style, purple sweet potato crisp, flower-cut carrot, and bok choy

For the tosa-style bamboo shoot, the bamboo shoot is simmered once, then simmered again with a generous amount of added bonito flakes. It's then…

Sesame-crusted grilled wagyu, butter-grilled bamboo shoot

For the sesame-crusted grilled wagyu, season the wagyu with salt and pepper, and finish the first roasting to medium in a convection oven — the same…

Mugwort tofu

For the mugwort tofu, we ladle in a delicious dashi broth, top it with sake-steamed icefish, and try to bring out the fragrance of spring.

Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke

For the shellfish frills used in the Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke — white mirugai, ark shell, and pen shell — we rub them well with salt to…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Cucumber and Daikon Surinagashi, Nagaimo Surinagashi, Grated Tenkabu Turnip

For the Cucumber and Daikon Surinagashi, we paired the delicately flavored cucumber and daikon with the strongly flavored mirugai clam. We top it…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Shinshu Natural Ice Kombu-Press

This is the sashimi course. For the Shinshu Natural Water Kombu-Press, Shinshu's water is remarkably delicious and serves as an important seasoning…

• ¥150

• Cook time 3 min

Sailfin sandfish, kombu-cured

This is a palate-settling course themed around Akita Prefecture's local cuisine. For the Sailfin Sandfish Kombu-Cured, I wanted people to enjoy every…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 12 hr

Blended Miso Broth, Char Wrapped in Lotus Root

My workplace is in Karuizawa, Nagano, so I think of the four seasons of Shinshu's clear mountain streams as four kinds of warmth, and I used char…

• Serves 1 · ¥780

• Cook time 40 min

Small sea bream steamed with okara, silver sauce

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Kodai Soy pulp-Mushi with Silver Sauce gives a modern update to soy pulp-mushi, a dish long…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr