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Dongpo-Style Sesame Tofu

Tilefish Grilled with Shuto-Koji, New Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Sake and Salt

For the tilefish grilled with shuto-koji, I use amazake (fermented sweet rice drink). To make the amazake, I cook rice porridge at a ratio of three…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Alfonsino steamed with a white, elder-style finish

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 30 min

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

Clam in clear seafood broth

Guests enjoy the natural, deeply concentrated umami of Kashimanada clams, carefully drawn out through meticulous preparation, together with crisp…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 45 min

Ezo Abalone and Sesame Tofu with Arima Sansho Shark-Fin Sauce

For the Ezo abalone and sesame tofu with Arima sansho shark-fin sauce, raw abalone has a crisp, springy texture, and cooking it makes it tender, but…

• ¥770

• Cook time 1 hr

Whole dried blackthroat seaperch, autumn miso yuzu-scented grilled, low-temperature roasted Daisen free-range chicken with yuzu kosho, freshly rolled dashi-maki tamago, tinted grated daikon, kombu, mentaiko

This is from our breakfast menu. The grilled fish is changed with the seasons to whatever is delicious at the time, and the dashi-maki omelet is…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 20 min

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…

Bamboo shoot 'tofu,' bamboo shoot simmered in miso, and sweet-savory simmered mallard duck

This is a dish that expresses local heritage. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn Raw Seafood Hassun

The dry-ice presentation contributes to the excitement of the banquet.

Snow crab cedar-plank bake, duck roast with black pepper, tilefish ponzu jelly, clam kuzu simmer, sake-simmered saimaki prawn, rolled plum sheet and sake lees, Hakata-style, sweet chestnut mash, apple and dried persimmon in tofu dressing

For the snow crab cedar-plank bake, I use snow crab at its best during the Minor Cold season, in early January, and steam-bake it on a cedar plank to…

• ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled carp with butterbur miso, arrow-fletched mustard lotus root, John Dory two-layer fish-paste dumpling, nemagari bamboo shoot grilled with sansho bud, iris-shaped Shadow Queen potato and cream terrine

This is the grilled course. For the grilled carp with butterbur miso, I take a carp fillet, lightly salt it, score the bones, and deep-fry it plain…

• ¥450

• Cook time 6 hr

Grilled and marinated salmon with seasonal colors

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: salmon yaki-zuke Looking back on the history of dishes that have been eaten since long ago…

• Serves 4 · ¥198.3

• Cook time 1 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.

Oyster lightly salted then sun-dried

The deep-fried dish is overnight-dried oyster. We rarely used to use oysters in the past, but advances in fisheries technology have made it possible…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 20 min

Sesame Tofu

This is the small deep-bowl course. The sesame tofu is served with a sesame sauce.

• ¥85

• Cook time 1 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…

Kisu and Summer Vegetable Temari

This kisu (Japanese whiting) and summer vegetable ball-shaped dish is beautiful to look at as well; I thought that combining kombu-cured kisu with…

• ¥590

• Cook time 45 min

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

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

Spring green dressed salad (iced kombu-dashi tea style)

As part of my effort to work around rising ingredient costs, this dish introduces something my staff and I devised together — during the aftermath of…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Warm-Stone Kombu Broth, Tsugaru Duck, Lotus Root Mochi with Mizore Sauce, Diced Yuzu, All-Purpose Scallion

Here I introduce a dish that expresses the warmth distinctive to the season when the weather starts turning cold. Because we use a heated stone, you…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 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.'

Ayu Nibitashi Spring Roll

Gently simmering ingredients in a seasoned broth is a technique with a long history, and I think it makes a very delicious dish that many people…

• Serves 10 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 3 hr