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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

Giant Pacific octopus grilled and steeped in dashi

This is an appetizer built around the theme of new ways of serving seafood. For the Giant Pacific Octopus Yaki-hitashi, octopus is usually served as…

• Serves 1 · ¥460

• Cook time 1 hr

Freshly Made Sesame Tofu, Sea Urchin, Kombu-Water Jelly Broth

We insist on sesame that's 'freshly toasted, freshly pressed' and tofu that's 'freshly kneaded': we knead it fresh every day, one hour before…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Deep-fried somen, salad-style (dried baby sardines, mizuna, daikon, young myoga, shiso, micro tomato, baby leaf greens, olive oil)

For the sōmen dashi, we add a few drops of olive oil for fragrance. This also has the effect of rounding off the sharp edges of the dashi's flavor…

Simmered and steeped — white asparagus, clam, wasabi flower, soy-marinated salmon roe, shiso flower spike

This time, we learned about "sakizuke" (the appetizer course) from Technical Director Yoshiaki Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank Meguro Branch Office). We…

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Walnut tofu / early-summer salmon, Edo-style soy-cured and grilled / abalone and ginkgo nut takikomi rice

Even for a veteran master chef, there are many dishes whose preparation can't be understood just by hearing about them or seeing them once. That's…

Bottarga and cheese sandwich, deep-fried

For the bottarga (karasumi) and cheese sandwich, deep-fried, karasumi is usually paired with something light and refreshing like daikon, but this…

• ¥320

• Cook time 20 min

Rice, Rice, Rice

Rice is an inseparable presence in Japanese cuisine, so as a chef standing in a position connecting producers and consumers, I created this dish with…

• Serves 2 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Hell-pickled blue crab, blue crab roe tossed with sansho leaf

This is blue crab hell pickle. It gets this name because the crab is pickled while still alive. I adapted Korean ganjang-gejang into a Japanese-style…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 days

Cherry Cheese Tofu

Ingredients from the past are disappearing along with the era. I recall how, where I live in Yamagata, the heavy snow meant that in winter foods were…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,986

• Cook time 45 min

Scallop yakishimo

This is scallop that's been seared, then ice-chilled. It's plated with grilled matsutake mushroom, garland chrysanthemum, Sakamoto chrysanthemum, and…

• ¥600

• Cook time 15 min

Wild scallop, pressed into a ball

This dish came from wondering whether there might be a delicious way to eat scallop that offers something a little different from the standard…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

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…

Butterbur-miso salad, sea urchin, bamboo shoot, sprouted scallion, salted cherry blossom, toasted sesame

This time, we learned about the appetizer course from Technical Director Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank, Meguro Annex). We feature fuki miso salad.

Pine-nut sesame tofu

Adding pine nuts releases oil from them, which keeps the tofu from turning hard. This appetizer course is pine-nut sesame tofu. Sesame tofu turns…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Turban shell and spring vegetables

As for the sazae and spring vegetables with amanatsu citrus sorbet, every ingredient is locally sourced, making it a dish that conveys the sense of…

• ¥1,755

• Cook time 2 hr

Isaki and Tomato Aspic

This is an appetizer course. For the isaki and tomato aspic, when making the tomato tofu, the tomato is seeded and blended, then — without squeezing…

• ¥480

• Cook time 40 min

Cod and turnip

This is an early-season appetizer of cod and turnip. I designed this dish for the guests in their forties to seventies who make up most of our…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 40 min

Shinshu tofu, monkfish liver simmered with lemon, pond smelt nanban-zuke

Shinshu tofu is made by adding bittern derived from moshio (a traditional seaweed-brine salt) to soy milk and steaming it until set; compared to…

• ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Sweet Shrimp Shiokara, Sweet Shrimp with Fine-Julienned Nagaimo and Root Mitsuba

Salt-fermented sweet shrimp is something people have traditionally made for a long time, I think. For the sweet shrimp with fine-julienned mountain…

• ¥310

• Cook time 3 hr

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

Fresh Greens Jelly with Sea Bream Roe

For the fresh-greens jelly topped with sea bream roe, I use Otafuku shungiku, though Kyo-shungiku works just as well. The shirako is salt-boiled…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr