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Sesame tofu

The appetizer is sesame tofu. Normally we'd serve the ingredients laid out across separate vessels, but this time I arranged steamed abalone, caviar…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,650

• Cook time 2 days

Steamed Turnip, Dried Shrimp Soup

For the steamed turnip, we normally combine grated turnip with egg white, but since our restaurant serves a large number of guests and needs a…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 12 min

Corn Minegaoka tofu with charcoal-scented thick sauce

I wrap the corn, still in its husk, in plastic wrap and steam it for about 20 minutes in a steamer; once the residual heat has released, I clean it…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Autumn brocade platter: kogarashi-yose, smoked autumn duck, oil-simmered roe-bearing ayu, and pike conger and matsutake ōharagi-age

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a large shared platter that makes people want to take a photo. I designed…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 20 min

Kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-cape coating — young corn

By wrapping the first turn of julienned potato a little firmly and the rest loosely, the potato stays attached to the prawn and fries up beautifully…

Scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried scallop sauce

For the scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried-scallop sauce, scallop is thick-fleshed and full of flavor, but…

• ¥620

• Cook time 30 min

Autumn-leaf assortment: oyster and persimmon miso gratin, shrimp and water caltrop grilled with yuzu, scallop autumn-color pickle, small clam adductor in apple vinegar, shuto cheese, persimmon and salmon, rolled dried persimmon, matcha red bean paste with skin-on chestnut

As a reconception of dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine, this evokes a late-autumn medley. We designed each dish with an eye to color…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,475

• Cook time 1 hr

Edamame Tofu, Corn Surinagashi, Abalone Steamed with Sake, Kuruma Prawn

Wanting guests to enjoy the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a variety of soup courses, I made this dish using summer vegetables just…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Crystal aspic

For the chilled simmered course, I designed it with couples in their thirties in mind, around the concept of “a refreshing concentration of dashi's…

• ¥180

• Cook time 40 min

Butterfish Saikyo-Yaki, Scallop in Sake-Lees and Shuto Marinade, Kuruma Shrimp

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. This time it's the fragrance of smoke. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 min

Chilled savory black tea water-bead jelly

A tea's flavor matters, but I think its aroma is one of the great pleasures too, and with the idea that a variety of aromas can be enjoyed through…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Round eggplant oil-steamed with burnt sesame-soy sauce

The origin of Japanese cuisine lies in enjoying the aroma and taste of ingredients and the passing of the seasons. However, as diversification of…

• Serves 5 · ¥980

• Cook time 30 min

Isaki and Tomato Aspic

This is an appetizer course. For the isaki and tomato aspic, when making the tomato tofu, the tomato is seeded and blended, then — without squeezing…

• ¥480

• Cook time 40 min

Pike conger and shrimp Yoshino-ni, furofuki winter melon

The hamo (pike conger) and shrimp yoshino-ni is a dish where each ingredient's flavor layers with the eggplant and corn, so every individual taste…

• ¥695

• Cook time 1 hr

New Cabbage Hakata-style

For the vinegared dish, I expressed ‘beauty.’ I thought of this because the color and pattern of kuruma prawn, the star ingredient, come out…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 45 min

Walnut tofu, whelk with vinegar-miso, sea cucumber intestines, savory egg parcel, rolled cured salmon, jellied small abalone, bottarga with daikon, aromatic deep-fried tiger prawn

The appetizer course begins with walnut tofu. We roast the walnuts, puree them, thin the paste with kombu dashi, and knead in sake, Yoshino kuzu…

• Serves 100 · ¥920

• Cook time 1 hr

Abalone with liver soy sauce, chamame beans simmered with sansho, bottarga sushi, vinegar-pickled myoga, kuruma prawn tofuyo-style, tonburi, Kaga lotus root with pike conger roe, layered chrysanthemum petals

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Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Two-topping deep-fried shrimp shinjo (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is a shrimp shinjo — a fish-paste dumpling — prepared futami-age style, fried two different ways. Here, I used Suzuhiro Kamaboko's "all-purpose…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 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

Chirashi Sushi

This time it's chirashi sushi, the fundamental rice course. For this sushi rice, I wanted a pronounced vinegar aroma, so I make the sushi vinegar…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo eggplant, mansion-style platter: miso-glazed grilled Kamo eggplant, salt-steamed aigamo duck, aze-mame edamame, shrimp simmered in sake, thread-cut flower garnish, and pickled ginger shoot

This time, we learned about pottery from Technical Director Yoshiteru Iwata (Royal Park Hotel). We will focus on Shigi-yaki.

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.