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Autumn sakura shrimp pureed soup

From the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is a clear-soup course. The Autumn Sakura-Shrimp Puree Soup uses the juvenile sakura shrimp…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Kamo eggplant pureed soup

This dish uses no seasonings whatsoever. I thought that if a cook can draw out an ingredient's own character — its five tastes and aroma — to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥482

• Cook time 40 min

Crab fish-paste dumpling (baby mustard greens, yuzu)

When making the crab fish-paste dumpling, I run scallop through a food processor and combine it with crab meat, so that the crab's natural flavor…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Snow-viewing style: yellowtail snow hut

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a soup-bowl course (wanmori). For the yellowtail kamakura, salt is applied to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 8 hr

Torigai and Mizunasu Clear Soup

This dish combines ark shell, a prized ingredient known as a springtime-to-early-summer delicacy, with mizunasu (a mild, juicy eggplant variety from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 days

Guji and Matsutake Clear-Soup Course, Sous-Vide

This is a proposal for matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. I myself have long experience studying Kyoto cuisine, and I like the philosophy…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 10 min

Awaji onion and winter melon pureed potage

Because Awaji Island blooms with flowers through all four seasons and is known as the ‘Island of Flowers,’ I am mindful of how to make use of…

• Serves 1 · ¥787

• Cook time 1 hr

Corn surinagashi, edamame mochi

This is a clear-soup course. For the corn surinagashi: August is the best time of year to eat corn, and the yellow of the corn against the green of…

Beef Loin Sawani-Style Clear Soup

This is a clear-soup course. Beef loin sawani-style clear soup was created for guests who are not fond of fish. I lightly sear the beef loin…

Soft-shell turtle broth

Suppon broth is well received in September, when the summer heat is easing but the lingering warmth still leaves the body tired. We break down the…

• Serves 20 · ¥345

• Cook time 1 hr

Finely scored abalone, clam with mugwort kuzu noodles and raw sea urchin, beach silvertop, udo

I made mugwort-flavored kuzu strips. I thought about whether I could make something that even guests who visit several times a month wouldn't tire…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

A Soup Course Styled After Hanabira-Mochi, with Butterbur Sprout Tofu

This is a soup course styled after hanabira-mochi, the petal-shaped mochi confection eaten in January. I slice turnip somewhat thickly and let it…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Yamanashi corn pureed soup, lotus root dumpling, Fuji Sakura pork, tender-simmered

This is a clear-soup course. As for the Yamanashi corn surinagashi, corn is exceptionally delicious in Yamanashi in June and July — so much is…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Softshell Turtle and Lotus Root Shinjo

The softshell turtle's simmering liquid is drawn out with sake and water for 30 minutes, skimming off the scum as it goes, then seasoning is added…

• Serves 20 · ¥6,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Rice-flour and fava-bean manju wrapped in cherry leaf, topped with silver sauce, carrot, udo, wasabi, cherry leaf

When you lift the lid of the soup bowl, the spring fragrance of fava beans drifts up along with a gentle scent of cherry blossom, creating what I…

Pufferfish skin chakin bundle filled with milt / black daikon from Keihoku, Kyoto

For the fugu-skin chakin bundle with milt in the soup course, we combine fish paste with an egg base. We mix chopped fugu skin and the fish-paste…

Mamekozō pea purée, overnight-dried ayu, and lotus root aspic

For the Mamekozō pea purée, I used “Mamekozō,” a new Kagoshima variety of usui-mame pea, so guests could enjoy the taste and aroma unique to this…

• ¥450

• Cook time 40 min

Late-season pike conger and early matsutake teapot-steamed soup

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: the pairing of two luxury ingredients, pike conger and matsutake…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Sweetfish fermented-dashi soup

At this time of year, we always serve sweetfish salt-grilled with tade vinegar — the classic pairing — but I wondered if there might be another…

• Serves 2 · ¥328

• Cook time 20 min

Corn pureed soup, grilled mochi, quail anpei, thinned mustard

This time, on the 'soup-bowl course,' I learned from technical director Katō (Meguro Gajoen). This time I take up 'surinagashi.'

Turnip and soft roe tofu

This is a clear-soup course using turnip as an end-of-season winter ingredient. Using both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 30 min

Wild Mountain Vegetable Sawani-Wan

You can enjoy two flavors in a single soup bowl. One is a flavor combining vegetables and asari clams. I roast butterbur sprouts and udo at 100°C for…

• Serves 1 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Cod lightly salted then grilled, soft roe tofu, and hard roe slow-simmered

This is the soup course. Toasted-rice dashi is a stock we often use for the soup course in fall and winter. It pairs well with fish, and in winter…

Hoshiko fish-paste dumpling, kuzu-dusted clam, daikon

This is a unique winter soup dish that uses Hoshiko dried roe, a luxury delicacy, as the topping, a…

• ¥520

• Cook time 1 hr