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Abalone Duo, Layered

This is the clear-soup course. The usual method for green plums is to prick them all over with a needle and soak them in salt water, but the key here…

Swimming Crab Shinjo

As for the swimming crab shinjo in the simmered-soup bowl course, to keep a handmade feel we mostly use portions scooped by hand at the restaurant…

Fat greenling grilled with a golden egg-yolk glaze, and more

For the grilled course, the Cantonese-style grilled beef (gyu Kanton-yaki) is a technique we learned from our hotel's Chinese-cuisine chef; since it…

Koji-Grilled Trout

For the koji-grilled trout: rinse the cherry salmon, fillet it into three pieces, season it lightly with salt, marinate it in a three-way equal…

Tofu-dressed salad

For the steamed course, the tilefish dish steamed to evoke new spring growth is made by grinding every one of the tilefish's bones, down to the…

Sansho-leaf miso topping, fresh tofu skin topped with sea urchin, herring roe marinated in a seasoned bed, eel rolled with burdock, shrimp and fava beans, rapeseed blossoms and grilled egg, egg-filled baby octopus, flounder ball-shaped sushi, steamed lily bulb

Winter melon simmered in soup

This is a simmered dish. For the winter melon simmered in soup, we cook winter melon in a soup made by combining the liquid from steamed abalone…

Akebi platter; cod milt topped with grated turnip; flavor-grilled pen shell, and more

For the cod milt topped with grated turnip: raw cod milt is salted and left briefly, then rinsed in water to remove the sliminess. It's treated with…

Shrimp chrysanthemum shinjo

The clear-soup course is shrimp chrysanthemum shinjo. In the old days the shrimp would have been pounded with the spine of a deba knife, but at our…

Young Bamboo Shoot Tofu

For the appetizer (sakizuke): since evening guests are often here for business entertaining, I basically keep it as something that pairs well with…

Snow crab and yuba terrine in a light kuzu-thickened broth

For the soup-bowl course snow crab and yuba terrine, I coarsely mince fresh yuba and combine it with a fish paste as soft as a shrimp-paste dumpling…

Persimmon shira-ae

For the persimmon tofu-dressed salad: simmer all the ingredients to season them through, then dress with the shira-ae dressing. What matters here is…

Monkfish liver roll in amber glaze, small kuruma prawn with chili miso, checkerboard warm-smoked salmon, Ezo abalone sushi, king crab and tomato, chrysanthemum foie gras, stuffed bamboo fungus mushroom served with caviar

In the tray dish of saimaki shrimp with chili miso, the Chōkō miso from Nagasaki that I use has a spiciness that doesn't linger in the throat, and…

Barracuda bo-zushi, grilled mushrooms and chrysanthemum greens with sudachi in a kettle, abalone grilled with fragrant nori

This is the appetizer course. For the abalone grilled with fragrant nori, the abalone is layered in two: a liver-based sauce beneath softly steamed…

Eel wrapped in fried tofu skin

This additional hearty course is a fried dish. For the early matsutake and wasabi fritter, since it is an August dish we used matsutake mushroom…

Tilefish Stuffed with Matsutake, Wakasa-Style Grilled; King Crab with Sea Urchin, Grilled; Full-Moon Soba-gaki

Now to the grilled course. For the tilefish stuffed with matsutake, wakasa-style grilled, matsutake that has first been foil-grilled is tucked inside…

Jade ginkgo nuts, chrysanthemum-cut turnip, kuruma prawn, shimeji mushroom, leaf-cut kabocha squash, maple-leaf-cut carrot, ginkgo-leaf-shaped taro, pinecone-cut arrowhead bulb

Pufferfish first-snow fry, surf clam and shredded burdock, firewood-bundle fry, Annō sweet potato rice-cracker-crumb fry, hon-shimeji mushroom, and soy-flour fry

For the deep-fried course, the fugu hatsuyuki-age uses the collar of the fugu. For deep-fried dishes, the collar really is the tastiest part. The…

Soup Course: White Miso Broth with Seared Matsutake Mushroom

With the theme of the season turning from autumn into winter, we made three recommended dishes using ingredients of the moment. As the weather is…

Peanut tofu

We use Chiba Prefecture's specialty peanuts in the appetizer, the deep-fried course, and the vinegared dish: raw peanuts in the appetizer's peanut…

Autumn Brocade Salad

Tilefish steamed with autumn colors

This is the clear-soup course. For the tilefish steamed with autumn colors, the tilefish is steamed together with colorful vegetables. The tilefish…

Ise Lobster Sea-Urchin Yaki, Ebi-Imo and Foie Gras Yaki, Tender-Simmered Kurobuta Pork in Potato Sauce, Chrysanthemum-Steeped Dish Served in a Bitter-Orange Shell, Brandy-Steeped Chestnuts with the Inner Skin On

For the ebi-imo (shrimp-shaped taro) and foie gras yaki in the grilled tray course, I considered simply placing foie gras on top of the ebi-imo, but…

Molded mushroom preparation

Mushrooms plated in a neat, standard chakin — a twisted-cloth bundle — aren't very interesting, so I deliberately broke up the shape and arranged…