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Mushroom broth, flame-seared pike conger, duck meatball

This is the clear-soup course. Matsutake is the standard choice for this season, but simmering dried mushrooms and finishing with an extra dash of…

• ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Pike conger quick-blanched with seasonal vegetables, pike conger roe in savory jelly

This is the vinegared dish course. For the pike conger yubiki with seasonal vegetables, I quick-blanch the pike conger and chill it in a lightly…

• ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Gizzard shad, white-wine-cured

Its charm is a unique sweetness, different from the kohada served in sushi.

Pike Conger Dusted with Kuzu Starch

This is the soup course. For the pike conger dusted with kuzu starch, we used kuzu — a Japanese herb — to coat the pike conger, which is in season in…

Tilefish with Fugu Milt in Kuzu

For the tilefish with fugu milt in kuzu, I salt the tilefish, rinse it with sake, and grill it. The shiitake is grilled and then rinsed with ponzu…

• ¥950

• Cook time 3 hr

Three-Year Fugu, Kombu-Cured and Steamed with Ginjo Sake

Making use of winter ingredients, this is a dish for three-year fugu at its peak season. This is a steamed dish. For the Three-Year Fugu Kombu-Cured…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Tender bamboo shoot sheath, vinegar-pickled; turban shell, styled 'spring haze' in celebration of spring shellfish

This is one of our creative dishes using bamboo shoots. Playfully punning on the word for spring haze, a seasonal term for spring, we named the dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Bream Kombu-Cured, Layered with Salt-Cured Roe

The sashimi course is sea bream kombu-jime layered with shio-ko. We don't want to make guests do the work of dipping into a small cup to eat, so…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Whole Daikon Soup-Simmered, Lotus Root Hiryōzu, Herring with Kombu

The simmered course is whole daikon soup-simmered. We peel the whole daikon into a fan shape, rehydrate it, and simmer it with chicken fat, fried…

• Serves 30 · ¥170

• Cook time 1 days

Aizu Horse Meat Tataki, Sango-hachi-zuke

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Aizu raw horse meat Fukushima Prefecture covers a large area, comprising the Aizu…

• Serves 2 · ¥850

• Cook time 30 min

Pike Conger Blanched, Local Octopus Seared, Kuruma Prawn Oil-Blanched

For the kuruma prawn oil-blanched, we cook the prawn by passing it briefly through oil. With the pike conger, octopus, and kuruma prawn alike, not…

Sea bass with potato sauce, organic vegetables grilled with fermented fish innards

This is the grilled course. Since it is a new dish, I plated it on a piece of contemporary Arita ware. As for the green-yuzu sauce for the sea bass…

• ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish, kombu-cured and koji-marinated, with kombu-cured white melon, needle-cut wasabi, and seasoned soy sauce

For the tilefish kombu-cured kōji-pickle, the vinegar-cured tilefish is rolled with kombu and vegetables, then marinated in amazake for about a week…

Winter individual hot pot, yukimi-style

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Sea Urchin and Abalone "Ichigo Steamed Sushi"

Sea urchin and abalone ichigo-ni is a traditional local dish of Aomori, and this time we've arranged it into a rice course. The sea urchin and…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Spiny lobster and cockle

This is a specialty course. The Ise lobster is cleaned and pan-seared in sake until half-cooked. The cockle is also shelled and pan-seared in sake…

• ¥540

• Cook time 15 min

Snow Crab, Hakata-Style

This is the vinegared course. For the snow crab hakata-style, we clean the crab and cut it to size. We quickly blanch the lettuce and layer it…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

All carp: carp miso soup manju, carp simmered in golden miso, carp miso sauce

At our restaurant in Naka-Karuizawa, Nagano, we hold an event where guests walk through streets that once flourished as a post-town, learn about the…

• Serves 4 · ¥250

• Cook time 20 min

Flathead and giant Pacific octopus, cocktail-style

For the kochi and mizudako cocktail-style: if you use too little dill when tossing it, the fragrance turns muddy, so use a generous amount and go…

Sweetfish takikomi gohan

This is the rice course. Ayu takikomi gohan is often made with the fish left whole, but the bones make it hard to eat, so this time I fillet the ayu…

Wild yam deep-fried, wrapped in tofu skin

As for the wild yam tōji-age, the texture combines the springy bite of a fish-paste dumpling with the moist, tender quality of wild yam. I feel…

• ¥106

• Cook time 25 min

Lapis-blue eggplant, eggplant with pounded-soybean dressing, vine-ripened pickled eggplant (the eggplant myth)

This is the Eggplant Myth course. Lapis-blue eggplant is simmered together with pickled plum to drive off its moisture, becoming a color-set simmered…

• ¥760

• Cook time 25 min

Simmered course: roe-bearing ayu wrapped jakago-style, mountain yam wrapped in kombu, shrimp and komatsuna shinoda roll, chrysanthemum manju, layered shiitake

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…