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Free-range chicken Kansai-style seasoned rice with bamboo shoot, carrot, burdock, thin fried tofu, shiitake, and mitsuba

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

Fan-cut golden eye snapper deep-fried with gyokuro tea, shiitake and almond deep-fry, fan-cut bamboo shoot deep-fry

I devised the fan-cut kinmedai deep-fried with gyokuro thinking that adding the tea's color and aroma to kinmedai, which is delicious and vividly…

The Land of Toyo: pike conger and kabosu shabu-shabu

Popularity points and particular care taken In Tokyo or Osaka, hamo tends to be seen as a premium, upscale fish, but where I'm from in Oita…

Grilled shiitake with sea urchin set in amber jelly, shintorina and Kyoto fried tofu, dashi-marinated

This is the appetizer course. For grilled shiitake with sea urchin set in amber jelly, both sides of the shiitake are cooked through, then its…

• ¥900

• Cook time 20 min

Minami-Uonuma-grown: Koshihikari white and brown rice, local pork sake-lees soup, Okukuji egg, shaved bonito flakes, house-made dashi soy sauce

This is from our breakfast menu. We're particular about serving the rice freshly cooked. Going forward, watching the timing and how guests respond…

• Serves 1 · ¥165

• Cook time 20 min

Noppe, Reimagined

A reconstruction of noppe, a Niigata local dish, from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." It is finished as a deep, rich…

• Serves 1 · ¥326

• Cook time 40 min

Steamed blackthroat seaperch, shiitake, ginkgo nut, sprouted scallion

Before plating the ingredients, we score the shiitake cap finely with a shallow hidden cut. This is partly out of consideration for ease of eating…

Cod and tofu in a yuzu shell

This makes use of cod and yuzu in season, and I designed it for the guests in their forties to seventies who make up most of our clientele. This is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥445

• Cook time 50 min

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu, Zenmaru Shiitake, Scallion Sprouts, Sudachi

Tiger fugu, which is normally enjoyed with the flavor of salt or soy sauce, we serve marinated in shuto (fermented salted bonito innards) broth and…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Clam, Ezo Abalone

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Ise Lobster Simmered in Yuzu-Scented Egg Yolk, Winter Bamboo Shoot Simmered in Shaoxing Wine, Thick Burdock Root Stuffed with Akagi Chicken and Wrapped in Napa Cabbage, Ichimatsu-Pattern Shiitake Mushroom Simmered in Coffee

For the Ise lobster simmered in yuzu-scented egg yolk, I mix chopped yuzu into the egg-yolk batter and simmer it in a sake-based happō dashi (an…

• ¥1,100

• Cook time 2 hr

Softshell turtle noppe

'Noppe' is a Niigata regional home-style dish, a lightly thickened simmered stew widely loved and often eaten at home. This time, I've added a twist…

• Serves 1 · ¥443

• Cook time 1 hr

Konjac and shiitake in tofu dressing

This is the tomezu. Tomezu means a dressed dish; a shojin meal built on one soup and three dishes always includes a dressed dish. For the konjac and…

• ¥70

• Cook time 30 min

Charcoal-Grilled Koshi no Tori Chicken, Noppe-Style Zoni

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: noppe Looking back on the history of dishes that have been eaten since long ago, I came to…

• Serves 4 · ¥365.5

• Cook time 3 hr

Kurosatsuma chicken, Kaga-style simmered dish

Baby hairy crab

This is a steamed dish. Small hairy crab, sold at under 300 yen apiece and normally used just for stock or miso soup, are actually packed full of…

• Serves 1 · ¥721

• Cook time 2 hr

Tenjin hot pot, softshell turtle, tortoise-shell-cut taro, mushrooms, ginkgo-leaf-cut daikon and carrot, grilled scallion, shiratama dumpling, sprouted scallion

For preparing the soft-shell turtle, the key to cleanly peeling the skin is to pour about 60°C water over it. If the temperature is too high or too…

Shark Fin Yakuzen Hot Pot with Chicken Dashi

With health-consciousness on the rise, when I thought about what kind of breakfast could draw in customers, I incorporated the concept of medicinal…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 20 min

Fukushima 'zakuzaku-ni' soup-style, with flower-cut daikon, flower-cut carrot, and chrysanthemum-cut taro

This is a modern arrangement of a local dish. With the wish to pass on the traditional Fukushima local dish zakuzaku-ni into a new era, we thought to…

• Serves 3 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Saimaki prawn and spring-grade shiitake wrap, new burdock and cauliflower mushroom stuffed, clover-cut kabocha squash

The sakizuke is the very first dish served to the guest, and since I wanted to make an impactful dish, I devised a savory dashi and shincha…

Tilefish with Fugu Milt in Kuzu

For the tilefish with fugu milt in kuzu, I salt the tilefish, rinse it with sake, and grill it. The shiitake is grilled and then rinsed with ponzu…

• ¥950

• Cook time 3 hr

Potato and egg rice porridge with seasoned ground chicken, udo, carrot, shiitake, butterbur-sprout miso, and fried onion

In the old days, zosui was written as "masu-sui" (large amount of water), and was made by adding wa…

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

Dried cod, fukume-ni

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: simmered bōdara Wanting to seek out the long-transmitted dishes of Fukushima and Kōriyama…

• Serves 1 · ¥284.6

• Cook time 5 hr