
Noboru Yamamoto
Kombu-cured cornetfish, crab rolled in nori
This is the appetizer course. For the kombu-cured yagara, it's best to slice it into thick fillets before curing it between sheets of kombu. The…
Kaiseki cuisine

Noboru Yamamoto
This is the appetizer course. For the kombu-cured yagara, it's best to slice it into thick fillets before curing it between sheets of kombu. The…

Hitotsubashi Josui Hall "Hashihantei"
Now to the grilled course. Monkfish dobu-jiru yaki (a rustic monkfish stew, here finished on the grill) is a local dish from Ōtsu, Kita-Ibaraki City…

For the two-style mochi roll, we made the mochi portion — which normally wraps around red bean paste in this confection — from potato and egg yolk…

For the rice course, clam rice: extract the clam's dashi, remove the meat from the shells, score it finely, and cut it into bite-sized pieces…

For the tome-zakana (final sake-accompanying dish before rice): coat the gasu ebi and Kaga lotus root with kuzu starch and deep-fry them in oil.

For the soup course, the fat greenling kuzu-tataki: fillet the fat greenling into three pieces, remove the small bones, salt it lightly, score the…


Atami Ginsharizawa
This is eel chirashi. Butterfly the eel open from the back and prepare it as kabayaki, glazed and grilled. Mix freshly cooked white rice with sushi…

Hibiya - Daiwa Exceed Co., Ltd. "Esquire Club"
This rice course, shark fin and kiritanpo soup chazuke, wraps sanchi (loosened shark fin) into the core of the kiritanpo, then tops it with shark fin…

Wakakomakai KKR Hotel Tokyo
This is the course that opens the meal. Since New Year is a season for a good deal of drinking, we wanted to offer a starter that is gently warm and…

Yoshiharu Kasai
This is the small side-dish course. For the hamo dressed with its own roe, once hamo starts coming in from June, the roe is saved up little by…

Shiki Yuzen Edo
The batter for the egg-yolk-battered icefish is made by pressing the yolk of a hard-boiled egg through a fine sieve, adding raw egg yolk as well…

Ginza Okubo
Kinya Okubo
For the grilled course, the Koshu beef miso-marinated ebi-imo (a shrimp-shaped variety of taro) roll is made by wrapping the miso-marinated makura…

This is the grilled dish for new-style eel cuisine. For "Eel and Lotus Root Mochi Kabayaki," I grated lotus root that's tender and delicious this…
Serves 1 · ¥980
Cook time 40 min

This is a chilled simmered dish. For "Chilled Eel and White Eggplant," I finished the eel using the same method sushi restaurants use for simmered…
Serves 1 · ¥800
Cook time 30 min

I work at a restaurant whose main offering is sushi, so I don't often get the chance to work with eel, but I'd like to introduce a dish from among…
Serves 1 · ¥680
Cook time 45 min

White tilefish (shiro-amadai) is wonderful for its rich fattiness and the clear, pale beauty of its scales when scored into a pinecone pattern, so…
Serves 1 · ¥2,800
Cook time 30 min

In honor of the Chrysanthemum Festival (Chōyō no Sekku) in September, I devised a vividly colored dish built around a delicate amber kuzu sauce made…
Serves 1 · ¥1,000
Cook time 40 min

This is the simmered dish for new-style eel cuisine. "Eel and Winter Melon, Hakata-Style" was inspired by gisei-dofu (mock tofu), with eel folded…
Serves 10 · ¥4,500
Cook time 1 hr

These are three grilled dishes for "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). Under the theme "Japan's Preserved Foods," I devised three grilled…
Serves 1 · ¥5,000
Cook time 1 hr

At the restaurant where I work, we're used to handling freshwater fish, so I felt this theme, "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine), was…
Serves 1 · ¥4,500
Cook time 1 hr

This is the fried course for the theme "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). "Toji-Style Yuba-Wrapped Deep-Fried Eel" takes sauce-grilled eel…
Serves 1 · ¥1,500
Cook time 40 min
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