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New-harvest soba, soba-zashi

This time I would like to introduce a dish that is well loved when we serve it at our restaurant during the autumn-to-winter season. This is the…

• Serves 10 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Fugu and monkfish liver with ponzu jelly, scallion, garland chrysanthemum greens, red grated daikon

Among four dishes I'd like guests to enjoy in the cold season, I've prepared this fugu dish. Not only in this dish but in all of them, while letting…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsusaka beef fillet shabu-shabu, May vegetable roll

This is a palate-changer course. For the Matsusaka beef fillet shabu-shabu, May vegetable roll, the beef fillet is put into a steam convection oven…

Winter melon steamed dumpling

This is a chilled dish. For the winter melon manjū, the winter melon is peeled, salted, then blanched and refreshed in hot water. After that, it is…

Sliced Abalone with Summer Vegetables in Abalone-Liver Sauce

For the sliced abalone with summer vegetables in abalone-liver sauce, I prepare the abalone by slow-simmering it whole, cut the summer vegetables to…

• ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Blanched pike conger

This is a vinegared course. For the blanched hamo, what is laid underneath is grated yamato yam mixed with pickled-plum flesh, so it can be enjoyed…

Wild mountain vegetables, miso-flavored, yogurt-topped: mountain udo, bracken fern, mountain garlic, bamboo shoot, fava bean, radish, crumbled fried egg, plain yogurt, strained white miso

This time we've knife-cut the radish into a janome (bull's-eye) pattern, but depending on the dish, we vary the knife-work — sometimes simply slicing…

Venison Corned Beef

Crop damage from deer and wild boar is a problem nationwide. I devised a summery dish that lets people enjoy venison, sourcing it this time from…

Minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail

This is the vinegared dish course. For the minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail, mozuku is placed inside, a bonito-flavored vinegar is softly set…

• ¥1,350

• Cook time 1 hr

Winter Solstice Bath

This is the additional hearty course. Since it's December, I've titled this "Winter Solstice Bath" and prepared simmered tofu in a bath-shaped…

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Three Japanese-Style Canapes on a Plum-Blossom Plate

For this recommended-snack course, I titled it "Three Japanese-Style Canapes on a Plum-Blossom Plate," and made three kinds of Japanese-style canapes…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 4 hr

Bamboo Shoot and Awaji Beef Horaku-Yaki

From our creative dishes using bamboo shoots, this is the additional course. "Tai Horaku-yaki" is a traditional dish of Awaji Island in which sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,240

• Cook time 2 days

Wagyu roast, low-temperature cooked, marinated in fermented seasoning paste and soy sauce

This is the additional course. For the wagyu roast, I used hishio, miso-damari with garlic, and miso-damari with garlic and soy sauce to draw out the…

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…

Abalone liver tofu, new-season bottarga wrapped in lettuce, eel grilled with an egg-yolk glaze, cod milt grilled with cheese, Pacific saury ogawa-style, winter duck leek roll, and sweet shrimp in a fragrant marinade

Starting with the tray course, the abalone uro tofu. Uro refers to the liver; we use abalone liver saved from summer and set it with gelatin. For the…

Horsehair Crab

Served in place of the sunomono. I use only the green, well-colored outer leaves of the Brussels sprouts. The celery dressing underneath is extremely…

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

Milt Persimmon Roll, Butterbur Tossed with Soy Milk Skin, Tofu-Dressed Salad

This is a seasonal assortment course. For the milt persimmon roll, we combine 500 g of fish paste, 200 g of milt, one egg white, and seven shaku of…

• ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Beef fillet, steamed abalone

This is the additional hearty course. I had originally intended to serve the beef fillet with a sea urchin sauce, but for the sake of the plating…

Roast Beef

This is a substitute dish. The method for making the roast beef is a little unusual. After searing it once, it is placed in a plastic bag and cooked…

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

Kombu-wrapped sea bream

A vinegared dish. For the sea bream matsumae, the sea bream is opened, lightly salted and firmed, then wrapped in sheets of sushi kombu to make a…

Yōrō Tofu

Sunomono, true to its title 'Melody of the Rain' — a bit of fun. The base: yōrō tofu, mountain yam and lily bulb sieved together, seasoned with milk…