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Kurobuta pork, cherry-simmered, with kabocha, red Manganji pepper, and burdock

Kurobuta sakura-ni uses sugar-steaming as a cooking method to finish meat that tends to toughen into a tender, miso-simmered dish. Until now, in…

Takiawase (braised Jinhua pork belly, potato sauce, new-harvest burdock, spinach, Japanese mustard)

Jinhua pork is a breed known as 'the phantom pig,' characterized by its distinctive umami and richness. The meat is placed whole, still in the block…

• ¥460

• Cook time 14 hr

Shirokane Pork and Apple, Steamed

Wanting to use a seasonal fruit, I experimented and came up with the idea of pairing pork's umami with apple, to see whether I could create a new…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Yamayuri pork harami, fruit-miso grilled

We add blueberries and white peaches to the miso base to give the pork a refreshing sweetness witho…

• ¥650

• Cook time 3 days

Kohaku-dori chicken liver mousse monaka, vinegar-cured mackerel with wild raspberry vinegar jelly, duck marinated in dashi soy sauce with orange flavor, black pork tsukune, chilled tomato takiawase, asparagus and garland chrysanthemum greens ohitashi

I've put together an assortment of drinking dishes that pair with anything — wine, shochu, or sake. Among them, the kohaku-dori liver mousse monaka…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 2 hr

Grilled Pork Fillet with Herbs, and Shibazuke Butter

For grilled pork fillet with herbs, I wanted a dish that, in the heat of summer, lets you feel the refreshing aroma and tartness of shiso, and stays…

• ¥260

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon grilled with a dawn-pink egg-yolk glaze, kumquats simmered in honey, chicken baked into a ground-meat cake, pine-cone-scored ark shell daisen-ni, and more

Kumquats simmered in honey: since kumquats with their leaves attached turn bitter, they are first left overnight, leaves still attached, in a fairly…

Salt-cured pork thin-skin roll, Moriguchi daikon rolled in paper-thin kombu, sea cucumber styled as old wood, blowfish grilled with ichimi chili, crab, jellyfish head, kuzu tofu

This is a six-item small-bowl course. The salt-cured pork thin-skin roll: the method for making the salt-cured pork was based on Okinawa's sūchikā…

Yamayuri pork miso-marinated harami, grilled matsutake, pike conger senbei, rice porridge senbei, kuruma prawn senbei

The additional hearty course is a dish meant to be enjoyed with a drink partway through the course. This time, I devised a dish using delicious pork…

• ¥870

• Cook time 3 days

Takiawase: Kinka pork kakuni, potato sauce, new burdock, spinach, Japanese mustard

Kinka pork is a pig breed called "the phantom pig," characterized by a distinctive umami and richness. I place the meat whole, still in a block, into…

• ¥460

• Cook time 14 hr

Turnip Set in Dew-and-Frost Jelly; Grilled Fig in Prosciutto; Autumn Salmon and Chestnut Kowameshi

These are the three savory drinking snacks. For the turnip set in dew-and-frost jelly, since I named the course 'When the First Frost Falls,' I used…

Grilled eel roll, local mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper miso, new-harvest sweet potato in salted honey, azuki bean cream cheese terrine, sweetfish Hakata-style pressed sushi, mountain stream crab fried and marinated in vinegar, green plum in a crystal-clear kuzu-starch glaze, and blanched taro stem with salted fish-innard paste

As for the local Mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho miso: our local Mochibuta pigs are raised on feed blended with a high proportion…

Green Tea-Roasted Kagoshima Kurobuta

For the green tea-roasted Kagoshima kurobuta, I first sear the pork in a frying pan to give it color, then rub it with Chiran green tea and roast it…

• ¥154

• Cook time 4 hr

Turban shell with liver dressing, roe-bearing shrimp, spring cabbage Hakata-style, pressed chicken terrine with fava bean aspic, angelica-tree shoot smoked salmon roll, burdock wrapped in conger eel, icefish plum uiro, lotus root stuffed with orange, rapeseed blossom and prosciutto roll

Celebratory dishes. The sazae with liver dressing: the sazae is steamed with sake, then its liver is combined with a tofu-based white dressing to…

• ¥590

• Cook time 2 hr

Chilled verdant egg custard, sardine simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pumpkin castella sponge cake, coin-cut octopus fragrant fried, white melon tossed with bottarga, asparagus and bacon egg-yolk grilled, cheese tofu, pork belly simmered Yoshino-style with a kuzu-thickened sauce, hydrangea-style egg, and squid two-color grill

This is the appetizers course. For the chilled verdant egg custard, after making an egg tofu, I puree it in a mixer, combine it with gelatin and…

• ¥300

• Cook time 2 days

Kabocha Manju with Scallion-Ginger Sauce

For the kabocha manju with scallion sauce, I braise Kagoshima kurobuta (a prized black-pig pork breed) pork belly until tender and use it, along with…

• Serves 20 · ¥196

• Cook time 1 hr

Kinka pork oil-simmered, fava bean terrine, vinegar-pickled ginger, potato senbei, burdock base, black vinegar tamari

Scallion oil is made by slowly heating finely chopped aromatic vegetables in low-temperature rice oil. Frying for about 15 minutes, until a good…

• ¥480

• Cook time 2 days

Deep-Fried Oysters, Novelty Style; New Bamboo Shoot Wrapped in Prosciutto

• ¥5,040

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-sea snapper kenchin-style grilled, sweetfish grilled with water pepper leaf, pike conger grilled with plum-scented meringue, scallop and sea urchin grilled, king oyster mushroom wrapped in pork

This is the grilled course. For the onagadai kenchin-style grilled, rinse the onagadai, butterfly it open, salt it, and marinate it in light soy…

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 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…

Ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, arrow-fletching-cut mountain yam grilled with egg yolk, tree-ring-cut spring daikon, new water shield, abalone steamed with sake, matcha tofu, bamboo-wrapped sea bream sushi, black-tea-smoked salt-cured pork

For the accompanying dishes, I used green tea and black tea. For the ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, I hold the mountain leek in a…

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