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Sweetfish simmered with sansho, trout-salmon asparagus roll, sweet potato simmered in lemon, paprika twisted roll, egg tofu wrapped in a twisted cloth shape and stuffed with sea urchin, abalone steamed with sake

This is an assorted platter. For the overall presentation, I created a bonkei (tray landscape) themed 'An Angler on the Rocks.' I placed driftwood on…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 4 hr

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…

Noshi-style pressed abalone and black beans, monkfish liver rolled in a tree-ring pattern, roe-bearing rolled shrimp with caviar, butterbur himuro-style, arrowhead bulb castella, grilled dried squid roe, sweetfish kombu roll

This is the celebratory tray course. For the noshi abalone, abalone that has been steamed until tender is folded and pressed firmly for a while, then…

Scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried scallop sauce

For the scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried-scallop sauce, scallop is thick-fleshed and full of flavor, but…

• ¥620

• Cook time 30 min

Eggplant, Turnip, Lotus Root Dumpling, Tomato, Green Beans

This is a simmered dish, prepared as a chilled version. I score the eggplant in a bellows pattern, then soak it for a while in alum water with Bon…

• ¥250

• Cook time 50 min

Dried daikon spiral roll, sea bream shinjo and minced shrimp terrine, herring kelp roll, tender-simmered beef, tube-cut burdock and accordion-cut kabocha

We prepared two simmered dishes. For the dried daikon Naruto-maki, we first peel the daikon into a continuous thin sheet, parboil it once to remove…

Beef short rib simmered in miso, grilled tofu stuffed with mushroom

Since this dish has a rich, heavy seasoning, I think it pairs well with red wine or aged sake (koshu). For the geta-karubi beef simmered in miso, I…

• ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Soft-shell turtle, lightly steamed

Taro simmered in all-purpose seasoned dashi, simmered young bamboo shoot, carrot simmered with plum paste, quail dumplings, snap peas

Steamed abalone, sea urchin and wakame

This is single dish course three: steamed abalone, uni and wakame. I use farmed abalone from Hokkaido, steaming it for around eight to ten minutes…

• ¥690

• Cook time 15 min

Eel and Tofu, Tender-Simmered Octopus, Stone-Wall-Pattern Baby Taro Chakin, Kabocha Squash Stuffed with Tube-Cut Burdock

This is a simmered dish. Eel and tofu layers grilled eel kabayaki with tofu alone, without adding any vegetables.

• ¥400

• Cook time 2 hr

Shrimp, Sea Urchin, and Okra Terrine, Tender-Simmered Abalone, Simmered Kabocha Squash, Shiitake Mushroom, Winter Melon Simmered in Soup

This is a chilled simmered dish. Wanting to offer something refreshing, I set shrimp, sea urchin, and okra together into a terrine. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Dried daikon simmered country-style, beef and napa cabbage fried-tofu roll

For the dried daikon inaka-ni in the simmered course, simmering ordinary daikon just as it is already makes for a fairly good dish, but drying it for…

Burdock wrapped in conger eel, baked kabocha cake with poppy seed, scallop in spicy vinegared miso dressing, Daikoku shimeji simmered with ginger, crab wrapped in nori, Pacific saury simmered with sansho peppercorns, oyster set in salted dashi jelly, tender-simmered abalone, salmon with land caviar

This is the seasonal assortment course. For the scallop in mustard-vinegar dressing, the scallop adductor muscles are soaked in 50°C water for about…

Cherry-blossom turnip, tilefish sakura-steamed, ball-shaped potato

Three small simmered dishes. For the cherry-blossom turnip, the turnip is carved with a knife into a cherry-blossom shape, filled with sakura shrimp…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 40 min

Splendid alfonsino lightly simmered, steamed potato dumpling, mountain asparagus simmered pale, butterbur sprout

The golden-eye snapper lightly simmered is also an application of my head chef's technique. My chef often prepared filefish with a light simmer, but…

Eel steamed with lotus root

This is a steamed dish. June is the season when lotus root is at its best, so we steamed it together with eggplant and eel, which pair well with it…

Taro Dumpling in Happō-Dashi Ankake Sauce

Berkshire pork steamed with shio-koji

This is a takiawase, an assortment of separately simmered ingredients. For the baby taro simmered in koji and pan-rolled: as the stock in the pot…

Roasted genmaicha tofu, baby octopus simmered cherry-style, cherry-leaf-green kabocha squash, duck simmered with egg yolk, butterbur simmered green

As for the roasted genmaicha tofu, tofu is mostly made up of water, but I think that, turned to advantage, it's an ingredient rich in possible…

Deep-Fried Hamo with Rikyu Sauce

This is the lidded-bowl course. For the deep-fried hamo (pike conger eel) with Rikyu sauce, the hamo is filleted, the fine bones scored, and it is…

White Asparagus Steamed with Soy Milk

As for the white asparagus steamed with soy milk, I wanted to propose a health-conscious dish of the kind that has become notably popular in recent…

Spring turnip, Japanese-style pot-au-feu

This is the simmered course. For the spring turnip Japanese-style pot-au-feu, we hollow out the turnip into a small kettle shape and fill it with…

White tilefish, rolled and cut into mallet-shaped rounds, local alfonsino in a cloth-wrung purse shape

This is the simmered assortment course. As for the okitsudai kinuta-maki, okitsudai refers to white tilefish. This time, adding the extra step of…

• ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr