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Kombu-Cured Yellowtail with Mountain Yam

The vivid colors of ingredients such as yellowtail, scallion, and quail egg are wonderful.

Momiji-dai, Autumn Sea Bream, Kombu-Cured with Matsutake

I devised this dish under the theme of matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. This time, I would like to propose a dish that pairs autumn…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Buen-gatsuo Tartare

This is a tartare made with Kagoshima 'buen-gatsuo' (bonito that is caught, flash-frozen, and shipped unsalted — 'buen' is local dialect for…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Japanese-style tartare

This is served in place of the sashimi course. The Japanese-style tartare is an arrangement of French tartare. The ingredients for November are…

Ōiwana Ginjō-Arai, Stuffed Fruit Tomato

This dish makes use of char in season. What we use here is large char — the difference from regular char is the growing period and size: large char…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 1 hr

Nodoguro Salad, Charcoal-Seared, with Charcoal-Scented Dressing

In front of the guest, burning-hot charcoal is placed into the dressing to transfer its aroma, and the dressing is then poured over the dish and…

• Serves 1 · ¥560

• Cook time 40 min

New-season blanched pike conger, and lime-cured chicken grunt

The new-season blanched pike conger is finished with a plum-and-wasabi flavor, and the lime-cured isaki is brought together with ponzu jelly. To…

• ¥330

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bass oil-seared tataki, fish-sauce-based thick sauce

"Koku" — the richness that spreads through the mouth the instant you take a bite. If you were to express this in music, it would resemble the…

• Serves 5 · ¥900

• Cook time 40 min

Butterbur miso salad

Though fuki miso salad might be considered a standard dish, at our restaurant we plan to serve it as the sashimi course partway through the meal. For…

• Serves 2 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Sashimi: Daikon Wrap

This is the sashimi course. I added a twist to the presentation, bringing some fun to an otherwise ordinary sashimi course. Which fish is inside is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 15 min

Sawara with Shuto Sauce, Monkfish with Its Own Liver, Shellfish Terrine, Seared Autumn Mackerel Sushi, Beef and Asparagus Rolls, Duck Yuba Rolls, Thick Rolled Omelette, Okra Tofu, Matsutake and Chrysanthemum Vinegar Marinade, Persimmon Shira-ae, Purple Sweet Potato Chakin

This is the seasonal course, the sashimi course. For the sawara with shuto (fermented, salted fish innards) sauce, the shuto is simmered down in sake…

Salt-Seared Bonito Tataki

We often serve this as one of our restaurant's standard dishes: after filleting the bonito into blocks, we give it an appetite-stirring aroma by…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 3 hr

Assorted Sprouting Spring Vegetables and Fresh Fish

This is a sashimi dish I devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the assorted sprouting spring vegetables and fresh fish, since…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Samegarei Thin-Sliced Sashimi

This is the sashimi course, and from here on we move into the work I do at my current restaurant. Since the restaurant sits right above the market, I…

Rikyu-Style Sesame-Seared Bonito, Fermented Mustard Vinegar-Miso

The Rikyu-style sesame-seared bonito is served as sashimi, and I have guests enjoy it with fermented mustard vinegar-miso. For the fermented mustard…

• ¥480

• Cook time 1 hr

December sashimi selection: tiger fugu, bluefin tuna, blackthroat seaperch, truffle, finger lime, nori tsukudani

I generously use luxury fresh fish whose umami increases in the cold of winter, plating it in a showy way — mindful of visual impact — without being…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,450

• Cook time 15 min

Fermented sea bream sashimi, topped with jellied fish broth

For about ten years now, he has focused on Aspergillus oryzae (Japanese koji mold), and opened his current restaurant in 2014. He noted that food…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 8 hr

Kawakawa tuna

This is the sashimi course. The kawakawa tuna is farm-raised. The farm currently raising it is in Wakayama Prefecture, under the brand name 'Umi no…

• Serves 20 · ¥3,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea squirt with citrus dressing, shrimp with fennel dressing, surf clam hydrangea-style dressing, sansho herring, beef with egg-yolk dressing

This is the sashimi course. In place of the usual sashimi, I made a five-color namasu. It uses seafood, beef, and sanshō herring, a local dish of…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Niigata blackthroat seaperch, seared-skin sashimi

This is a sashimi course. I sear the skin of Niigata's nodoguro to give it a seared-and-chilled finish. Letting a little heat into the fish really…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,760

• Cook time 30 min

Hamo Abura-Shimo Sashimi, Water Spinach, and Powdered Soy Sauce

As a way of serving seafood, I devised a new combination of refreshingly summery aromas, flavors, and ingredients. Also, thinking of umami's richness…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Abalone Shabu-Shabu, 'Shuto Sauce,' 'Liver Soy Sauce'

By slicing the abalone extremely thin and preparing it shabu-shabu style, heat is added in a way that increases the original texture and umami…

Shiogama Bluefin Tuna, Watari Wild Flounder, Yuriage Ark Shell

This is the sashimi course from Miyagi Prefecture's New Year cuisine. Bluefin tuna from Shiogama carries just the right amount of fat, with a good…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 40 min

Tuna cured in miso, gurnard cured with seared kombu, and kanoko-scored giant Pacific octopus

Q: Please tell us ways to serve sashimi besides with soy sauce. A: Curing tuna in miso gives the flesh a beautiful color and boosts its umami. Curing…

• ¥1,800

• Cook time 3 hr