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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

Octopus, reimagined, deep-fried arrowhead bulb, white shrimp dressed with fermented fish innards, mizuna steeped with nori, sesame tofu with amber sauce, green beans dressed with sesame, deep-fried ginkgo nuts, eel cheese egg, and grilled sea urchin

The dishes themselves haven't changed since before the pandemic, but the plating has changed due to how often each dish is served and demand for…

• ¥1,946

• Cook time 4 hr

Eggplant Sōmen-Cut

Smooth and easy to swallow, with a refreshing finish.

Herring roe and wasabi in tofu dressing, pine-needle skewers, cod grilled with saikyo miso glaze, a twist on namasu, amber-marinated quail egg

For the herring roe and wasabi shira-ae — herring roe is used in New Year's cooking for its meaning of "many children" — this time I bring in a hint…

Autumn brocade roll, red snow crab, edible chrysanthemum, seared cod milt tofu, napa cabbage puréed potage

This is an appetizer reconceived from dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine. Here in particular, we've put effort into how the dish is…

• Serves 1 · ¥828

• Cook time 50 min

Horsehair-crab meat, lantern-shaped salmon sushi, eel sandwich, abalone and sudachi-citrus sandwich, tender-simmered octopus, corn-shaped seared sweet potato, dark seaweed with grated daikon and miso, lightly steamed chicken gizzard, herring-roe wakame fritter

For the picked horsehair-crab meat, we boil the crab in roughly 2% salted water for about 20 minutes, turn off the heat, let it stand for ten…

White sesame tofu, fragrant steamed sweetfish, quail egg styled as eggplant, steamed abalone, foie gras hakata, corn shinjo, muscat grapes in tofu dressing

This is the appetizer course, a seven-item assortment. The fragrant steamed ayu is steamed with a fragrant oil used in Chinese cooking added to the…

Pen shell, cockle, and Welsh onion with vinegar-miso, Japanese halfbeak and squid ball-shaped sushi, baby turban shell baked with cream, young ayu deep-fried in a roasted-grain coating, beef loin rolled with butterbur, and cheese and salmon terrine

Steaming the beef loin and fuki roll once beforehand makes it easier to hold together, allowing the work to go smoothly. When preparing a large…

Tomato jelly with water shield, flower-cut cucumber, sea urchin and broccoli egg-yolk set, sweetfish grilled in water-pepper miso, treasure edamame, simmered long-armed shrimp, Shine Muscat in white vinegar dressing, nanban-zuke dragon fruit

This is the appetizers course. For the tomato jelly, we use tomato juice brought in from Iwamizawa, Hokkaido. The ratio is 1g of French gelatin per…

Isaki with Kinjiso Ohitashi, and Isaki Kara-Mushi

For the threeline grunt with kinjiso ohitashi, a dashi-marinated, blanched dish: kinjiso is a Kanazawa local vegetable, one of the Kaga heirloom…

• ¥155

• Cook time 1 hr

Jellied deep-sea eelpout, whitefin trevally egg-yolk sushi, yellow sea bream pressed sushi, baby spear squid, sea sculpin, and salmon roe salad, goatfish fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, bracken fern shoots wrapped in a thin kombu sheet, and daikon radish dressed with bottarga

Under the theme of coping with rising food costs, I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata. The wide variety of inexpensive fish caught by…

• Serves 1 · ¥432

• Cook time 2 hr

Glazed kuruma prawns, cream cheese miso-marinated, new sweet potato simmered Toganoo-style, jakago-style lotus root

For the appetizer course, I avoided any extreme techniques and brought together items whose texture and flavor come through clearly when eaten.

Kagoshima kurobuta pork and snap pea, ginger-flavored, kombu-cured amberjack, green tea shinjo skewer, baby shrimp, baby turban shell with herbs, mallet-rolled kokanee salmon, young rakkyo prosciutto roll

Kagoshima Kurobuta Pork and Snap Pea, Ginger-Flavored is made by rolling snap peas in Kagoshima kurobuta pork as a vegetable-in-meat roll and…

• ¥606

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoot in a boat-shaped presentation, shrimp crystal-coated in gelatin, broad bean simmered in syrup, rapeseed blossom topped with snowflake meringue and served with egg-yolk mustard, three-color cherry-blossom tofu, and spring baby turnip three-color cherry-blossom-viewing dumplings

For the appetizer course, the bamboo shoot funamori is bamboo shoot rehydrated in rice bran, then rinsed of the bran and shaped into a boat. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Mochi-kujira whale in vinegar-miso dressing, chicken breast in steamed white-loin style with yuzu chili paste oil, pressed vegetables, arrowhead bulb balls, wax-glazed grilled shrimp, monkfish liver kintsuba, Omi konjac, whelk deep-fried in seaweed batter, lily bulb monaka, plum-flesh swirl, layered egg

As for the mochi-kujira in vinegar-miso dressing, whale is rarely used these days because of the whaling ban, but since it's a nostalgic ingredient…

Kagoshima tea-leaf five-ingredient tofu dressing

This dish uses tea, one of Kagoshima Prefecture's proudest products — Kagoshima actually ranks first nationwide in tea output. Kagoshima tea is mild…

• Serves 3 · ¥300

• Cook time 30 min

Molded ark shell, baby turban shell grilled with wakame, whiting sushi wrapped chimaki-style, Hakata-style duck white loin, pale-poached, dried shrimp and tomato, lightly marinated, sea bream roe jelly

This is the appetizers course. For the baby turban shell grilled with wakame, I bring out the color of the wakame and blend it in a mixer, then blend…

Enoki mushroom, seasoned and simmered

This is a dish under the theme of traditional heritage cuisine. Lately there has been less work involving the simmering station, so I'd like to focus…

• Serves 1 · ¥40

• Cook time 1 hr

Barracuda grilled Matsumae-style, abalone dressed with liver, shrimp in crystal aspic, duck steamed in wine, goldfish-shaped rice-flour dumplings, chilled asparagus garnish, watermelon and small melon

This is the appetizer course for a summer set menu. For the Abalone Liver Ae, after cleaning the abalone, I gently simmer it in the shell. I press…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,050

• Cook time 2 hr

Arrowhead bulb castella, monkfish liver monaka, persimmon and lily bulb, mole-shaped taro, barracuda kimono-wrap sushi, brandy-cured bottarga

This is an appetizer course. There is a tenth-night custom of making a straw gun from bundled straw and beating the ground with it to drive away…

• Serves 200 · ¥250

• Cook time 2 days

Crab and sesame tofu with soft first-skimmed tofu skin, bush-warbler-green lily bulb, pumpkin and cheese terrine, Japanese halfbeak wrapped in coarse glutinous rice and sakura leaf, fava beans and whelk in plum-mist dressing

The toro-yuba in the crab and sesame tofu with toro-yuba is the soft portion that rises first when making yuba. For the lily bulb uguisu: combine…

Whiting rolled in mountain yam, pike conger with salted kombu oil, eel and cucumber Hakata-style, small turban shell baked with cream, smoked duck

This is a refreshing course for the season. Whiting rolled in mountain yam: curing the whiting with kombu (kobujime) concentrates its umami, and…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Vinegar-cured sweetfish, hydrangea-style, seared and ice-chilled pike conger in yuzu vinegar, chakin-wrapped, Kamo eggplant mousse, nori-battered fried whiting and baby corn, sea eel simmered with sansho pepper, green pea 'plums'

Starting with the appetizers. For the vinegar-cured ayu, hydrangea-style, I dice dried kiwi, strawberry, and papaya small, soak them in white wine to…

Conger eel roll with spring greens, urui dusted with kuzu starch, sweet shrimp tossed with shuto, three-color cheese terrine, baby turban shell baked with cream

The conger eel roll with spring greens came from wanting to make the most of lettuce's fresh green color, and is an application of our usual…