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Spiny lobster colorful deep-fry, turban shell and grated cucumber salad, eel grilled with sansho pepper, and more

For the spiny lobster colorful deep-fry, the spiny lobster is simmered in sake, removed, coated with three colors of bell pepper, deep-fried, and…

Turnip Rice Porridge

Mackerel rolled Osaka-style, apple and cabbage wrap

Autumn-run bonito

Softshell turtle and dried daikon, medicinal simmer

The simmered course is softshell turtle and dried daikon medicinal simmer. The turtle is simmered slowly, without letting it boil too hard, in equal…

Kinki rockfish grilled with koji and soy sauce

Next is the grilled course. For the candied new ginger, simmer it down using sugar at roughly 80% of the ginger's weight (a ratio of about 10 to 8)…

Kombu-cured halfbeak

First, the appetizer course. At the restaurant, we don't serve these together under one single 'appetizer' heading — we present each one separately…

Snow-pellet clear soup, rolled juvenile sea bream

For the sea bream, I first salted it to remove any fishy odor, then plain-grilled it and simmered it in a mellow, mild clear-soup stock before…

Tenjō Kombu, Simmered Tender

For the tenjō kombu simmered tender, it's fine to use kombu that has already been used for making dashi. After all, it's New Year's, so I worked in…

Monkfish Liver and Daikon Layered Steam

The appetizer course has five dishes; first is the monkfish liver and daikon layered steam. I used salt and pepper to remove the odor from the…

Kabocha squash and shiratama rice-dumpling two-tone kinton

Starch-thickened broth, salt-steamed quail

Pine Cone-Style Sole

For the pine cone-style sole, the sole (shitabirame) is first pan-seared in butter. Then somewhat thick almond slices are inserted into the flesh one…

Abalone, Grilled Until Meltingly Tender

Shrimp-shaped taro simmered to absorb the broth

For the simmered assortment's ebi-imo simmered to absorb the broth, if you don't have rice-rinsing water on hand, parboil it in rice bran instead…

Clam and new bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf

For the grilled course, February and March are a season when shellfish are especially delicious, so instead of fish, I brushed hamaguri clams with a…

White-charcoal simmered, red-and-white simmered, and white-simmered lotus root — a three-whites assortment

Bamboo shoot rolled in daikon, taro, baby octopus, rapeseed blossoms

The simmered dish is the standard one we usually serve, but rather than a light seasoning, we gave it a firm, well-defined flavor.

Bamboo-leaf-wrapped sushi

Chimaki sushi is served from the latter half of April onward, with an eye toward the Tango no Sekku festival (Boys' Day, May 5). We make it small so…

Flounder roll with monkfish liver

Flounder roll with monkfish liver (ankimo)

Decorative carving

Foie gras potage

The shira-ae is thinned slightly with shirozake — a sweet, cloudy, low-alcohol rice drink — in a nod to the Peach Festival, but because the shirozake…

Sea bream deep-fried head with grated daikon topping

For the bowl-plated course's tai kabuto-age with mizore topping, when re-frying the tai, fry it slowly and thoroughly, to the point where guests can…

Rich, Strongly Seasoned Miso Broth, Simmered Horse Mackerel Curd

For the simmered horse mackerel curd, the horse mackerel is filleted into three pieces, well pounded, skinned, and minced; with no binder added at…