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Sajima Octopus, Pear Vinegar

‘Pear vinegar’ is a technique with a long history, but pairing it with octopus reveals a fresh appeal. This is a mukozuke dish, a sashimi course…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Bonito and Pen Shell Clam Marinated in Lavender-Garlic Oil

For the bonito and pen shell clam marinated in lavender-garlic oil, we bottle lavender, sliced garlic, olive oil, and salt and pepper and let it rest…

Roe-bearing sweetfish, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing

For the roe-bearing ayu, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing, I could never quite enjoy the dry, mealy texture of the roe, so I thought about how…

• Serves 1 · ¥395

• Cook time 2 days

Layered Ayu and Eggplant, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, we have many guests from overseas, so I devised this dish with them in mind. Sweetfish, a summer ingredient, is typically…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Grilled firefly squid with white asparagus, fiddlehead fern, and egg-yolk shuto vinegar

This is a warm vinegared dish prepared on the iron griddle. We bring out the umami of spring's seasonal ingredients by steaming them with a seared…

Hairy crab wrapped in lettuce (ginger gelée, sea grapes, shiso flower spikes, white asparagus)

At our restaurant, we focus on cooking that draws out the umami and flavor of the ingredients themselves. We're always thinking about the menu, and…

Soba Canapé Style

As for Soba Canapé Style, since a lot of meat scraped from the bones after filleting and similar scraps come out of preparing fish, I steam it, flake…

• Serves 1 · ¥172

• Cook time 30 min

Cockle and spring cabbage

This is the vinegared-dish course. For the torigai and spring cabbage, torigai becomes wonderfully fragrant when seared, so trimmed spring cabbage…

• ¥660

• Cook time 2 hr

Roast Venison Shintama

This is the additional course, making use of autumn ingredients. Roast Venison Shintama uses in-season venison, a lean cut from the hindquarter…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Chilled savory black tea water-bead jelly

A tea's flavor matters, but I think its aroma is one of the great pleasures too, and with the idea that a variety of aromas can be enjoyed through…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Japanese-Style Roast Beef

This time it is the additional course. For the Japanese-style roast beef, since many of our guests prefer red, lean meat, this time we use the inner…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Winter yellowtail with grated wasabi, whole daikon, mizuna, wasabi

We grill the yellowtail close to a strong flame for about 40% of the way through, to crisp up the skin while keeping the inside rare. On top of that…

Blanched pike conger with amanatsu-jasmine-tea vinegar gelée

This is a piece of Japanese cuisine built around white tea. (Reference: white tea, Jasmine Silver Needle, 50 g: ¥1,836.) This is a tomezakana, a late…

• Serves 1 · ¥455

• Cook time 2 hr

Tomato in aromatic marinade

This is the tomato in aromatic marinade we make at Yonemura, where I work. We char bell peppers well over charcoal until the skin turns completely…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

New Cabbage Hakata-style

For the vinegared dish, I expressed ‘beauty.’ I thought of this because the color and pattern of kuruma prawn, the star ingredient, come out…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 45 min

Kobako crab in a grated-yam fritter, baby sardine cracker with Parmigiano Reggiano, Shogoin daikon simmered and topped with miso, fresh wood-ear mushroom and paprika sautéed sweet-savory, smoked pond smelt tempura, dried persimmon butter, winter greens blanched and dressed, baked sweet potato and ginkgo, and yam bulbils and sea urchin, baked

We prepare nine dishes to accompany drinks, but serve three to five depending on the guest. We always have several kinds ready in advance. Since our…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 min

Snow crab and sesame tofu, aromatically steamed, yellow yuzu, Kujo scallion, fragrant mushroom

We break down the snow crab right in front of the guest, and it's popular enough that guests from overseas often film it. Kōtake mushroom (a fragrant…

Hakata Wagyu Sukiyaki Rice Bowl

This time, we developed a dish featuring Hakata wagyu. For the sukiyaki rice bowl, mindful of the time between cooking and serving, we use rib roast…

• Serves 2 · ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Wagyu and round eggplant, cold shabu-shabu style

This is a chilled course. Here too we use eggplant. The eggplant is peeled, deep-fried, then steeped in a soy sauce with Chinese-style vinegar and…

Cherry sea bream steamed with festive red rice

This warm small bowl course expresses ‘nostalgia.’ In the present day, festive red rice with azuki beans is nothing special — it can be eaten any…

• Serves 1 · ¥315

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared and Smoked Beef Tataki, Finished with Gyūbishio

Wanting to create an interesting soy sauce, I devised a "beef soy sauce" (gyūbishio) made using beef. Beef is said to be the meat that pairs with red…

• Serves 1 · ¥726

• Cook time 45 min

End-of-Season Winter Vegetables and Kawaba Hotaka Salmon Steamed in Hot-Spring Water

This course marking the end of the sake pairing makes use of napa cabbage and Japanese mustard spinach as end-of-season winter vegetables. For…

• Serves 1 · ¥860

• Cook time 40 min

Ise lobster shell-simmered, turnip sauce, bottarga kōsen

For the additional course, I use a whole Ise lobster, gorgeously and extravagantly. I express the image of 'brocade autumn' -- yellow maple leaves…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,020

• Cook time 20 min

Abalone Grilled with Saikyo Miso, Eel Kosode Roll, Beef Yawata Roll, Squeezed Lily Bulb

This is a dish meant to accompany sake. For the fruit cheese, candied beni-amanatsu peel is mixed with finely diced cream cheese and shaped into a…