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Walnut Tofu with Sea Urchin Poured In, Crab Meat, Savory Dashi, Wasabi, Chestnut Shibukawa-Ni Bed, Beef Loin Miso-Marinated, Smoked Egg, Needle-Scored Shishito, Foie Gras and Daikon Mochi, Yuba Dressed in Truffle Wine Sauce, Enoki Mushroom, Spinach Stems, Persimmon, Salmon Roe Crowning Garnish

We are conscious of the surprise that our guests will feel when the dish is first served, and have …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,550

• Cook time 1 hr

Housemade-miso sukiyaki-style (shaved burdock, Kujō scallion, grated yam dumpling, spicy condiment, truffle)

The meat course, 'housemade-miso sukiyaki-style,' is cooked and finished right in front of the guest; the smell of the beef grilling and the savory…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 10 min

Autumn Truffle and Foie Gras Soba

No matter how well soba is kneaded, it has no fat, so when people want more umami, there's a tendency to pair it with tempura, fried tofu, and the…

Matsusaka beef, hot-water rinsed, with spring truffle (bianchetto), egg, mountain udo, angelica shoot, and Kyoto Kujō scallion

Since our restaurant handles Matsusaka beef of world-class quality, we think every day about how best to draw out its deliciousness — which…

Omi beef fillet, silver duck miso, truffle

This is the grilled course. For the vessel, I use a teaburi (charcoal hand-warmer brazier) made by Eiraku Zengorō. Unlike the portable charcoal grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 40 min

Filet Truffle Sukiyaki

This is Obune's signature truffle sukiyaki. This time I wanted the finish to be light and refreshing, so I used filet. I've prepared a special…

December sashimi selection: tiger fugu, bluefin tuna, blackthroat seaperch, truffle, finger lime, nori tsukudani

I generously use luxury fresh fish whose umami increases in the cold of winter, plating it in a showy way — mindful of visual impact — without being…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,450

• Cook time 15 min

Deep-Fried Corn Roll

This is the fried course. For the corn-wrapped roll, isaki (threeline grunt) is wrapped around foie gras — a luxury ingredient prized for its rich…

• ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Joshu Black Wagyu Low-Temperature Roast Beef

This is a shiizakana, a hearty course. This dish is themed around Gunma Prefecture's Tomioka Silk Mill, famous for sericulture. By braiding Joshu…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,120

• Cook time 1 hr

Beltfish rolled around burdock, duck loin with mushroom dressing, whiting and bottarga sandwich, deep-fried, kuruma prawn and persimmon in tofu dressing with truffle, tender-simmered octopus, conger eel sushi

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. First, for the beltfish yawata-maki, I wrap beltfish around a core of kinpira-style braised burdock and grill it…

• ¥580

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Bream Grilled with Western Vegetables

This is an introduction to a grilled dish using sea bream. For the sea bream grilled with Western vegetables, since sea bream past its season after…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,050

• Cook time 30 min

Fugu

This is a raw dish. With fugu, thickness is the key point, so I slice it a bit thick. It's a milt sauce with truffle flavor — slicing the milt raw…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 40 min

Truffle sea bream chazuke — red sea bream, truffle, wasabi, sesame sauce, shredded nori, shiso, layered kombu, pickled cucumber, pickled turnip

Making the sesame sauce starts with toasting polished sesame seeds ourselves, since that lets us control the level of toasting to our own liking…

Tomato Soba

Tomato Soba is a menu item I've served during this season for some time. Perhaps because of Karuizawa's local character, many guests enjoy Western…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

One-Bite Black Truffle Soba

A new possibility for soba. Truffle, soba, bonito, soy sauce — all these aromas mutually enhance each other.

Clams from Futami, Mie, oil-steamed, shrimp and asparagus fried in a bread-crumb coating

This is the fried course. For the Futami clams oil-steamed, the clams are left in their shells and cooked sous-vide in salad oil with capers added…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Spiny lobster, kuzu-dusted and grilled, dressed with roe

• ¥1,650

• Cook time 1 hr

Tade-grilled sweetfish, wasabi-grilled beef, Kamo eggplant with foie gras

This is a grilled course. This time I used ayu from Lake Biwa to make the tade-grilled ayu. For the wasabi-grilled beef, I grill it over a net with a…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Truffle Wappa-meshi

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: wappa-meshi, rice steamed in a bentwood box Wanting to seek out the long-transmitted dishes…

• Serves 2 · ¥879.3

• Cook time 5 hr

Ayu Arai, Octopus and Summer-Vegetable Nanban Jelly, Chilled Scallop-and-Cauliflower Purée

Naturally I wanted diners to savor the season, but I also wanted to offer a kind of psychological healing — settling summer fatigue and bringing a…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Golden-eye snapper crisp

For the golden-eye snapper crisp, we roll the golden-eye snapper paper-thin, like fine washi paper, and fry it in refined oil at high heat until it…