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Young Sea Bass Pan-Seared in Oil, Manganji Peppers Tossed with Bonito Powder, Fig Wrapped in Prosciutto

For the young sea bass pan-seared in oil: young sea bass has little natural fat, so adding richness with olive oil makes for a more satisfying dish…

Smoked Rosy Seabass, Yuan-Style Grill, Stuffed Dried Persimmon, Beef Loin Miso-Koji Grill

This is the grilled hassun course. For the smoked rosy seabass, grilled yuan-style, we fillet it into three pieces and cut it to the desired size. We…

• ¥1,630

• Cook time 2 hr

Deep-fried sweetfish with corn

This is a fried dish from the summer course menu. For the deep-fried sweetfish with corn, we butterfly open the sweetfish, dry it lightly, stuff it…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 40 min

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

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…

Pike conger quick-blanched with seasonal vegetables, pike conger roe in savory jelly

This is the vinegared dish course. For the pike conger yubiki with seasonal vegetables, I quick-blanch the pike conger and chill it in a lightly…

• ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Kombu-Cured Ise Lobster, Ise Lobster Roe Mochi, Lily Bulb Oribe-Style Chakin, Snow-Ring Lotus Root with Yam Sushi

This is the appetizer course. For the kombu-cured Ise lobster, we shell the Ise lobster, slice the meat thinly, salt it, and press it between kombu…

• ¥950

• Cook time 12 hr

Whole Daikon Soup-Simmered, Lotus Root Hiryōzu, Herring with Kombu

The simmered course is whole daikon soup-simmered. We peel the whole daikon into a fan shape, rehydrate it, and simmer it with chicken fat, fried…

• Serves 30 · ¥170

• Cook time 1 days

Three kinds of eel skewers (kurikara-yaki, grilled eel head, and fin cutlet)

As a way to work around rising ingredient costs, the concept behind this presentation-stand course (dai-no-mono) is 'new value.' When eel prices…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Smoked greater amberjack with fermented tomato sauce

Cool-Breeze Jelly

We cook and sieve rice porridge, season with happō dashi (all-purpose dashi), add curled shrimp, ginkgo nuts, and okra, then chill-set with gelatin.

Miso-style, Chikuma River roe-bearing ayu-koku

This focuses on ingredients from Nagano. Koi-koku is a rich miso soup and simmered dish made by long-simmering carp cut into rounds in miso, and it…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 2 hr

Fermented trout sushi

We wanted to newly express the local dish masu no iizushi, handed down here, as a modern arrangement based on the cooking methods of Japanese…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 6 days

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Yuba-wrapped tilefish, Kamo eggplant

This is a simmered dish. For the yuba-wrapped tilefish, I use snow crab as the core, wrapped together with tilefish and hand-pulled tofu skin…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Butterfish and Lotus Root Grill

This is a grilled dish. For the yūan marinade (soy-mirin-citrus marinade) used in the butterfish and lotus root grill, the ratio of soy sauce changes…

• ¥650

• Cook time 50 min

Three-year fugu, three sesame-fragrant preparations: salt-grilled outer skin (teppi) with scallion, shichimi-grilled inner skin (mikawa), and sansho-grilled middle membrane (tōtōmi)

This time, I prepared a winter dish using three-year Seto Inland Sea fugu, the king of winter's seafood, with cooking methods matched to the season…

• Serves 3 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel and Lotus Root Mochi Kabayaki

This is the grilled dish for new-style eel cuisine. For "Eel and Lotus Root Mochi Kabayaki," I grated lotus root that's tender and delicious this…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 40 min

Five-color vegetables, simmered

This time, we learned about the simmered course from Master Instructor Tomizawa (Yoshimura). We feature a colored simmered dish.

Simmered course: roe-bearing ayu wrapped jakago-style, mountain yam wrapped in kombu, shrimp and komatsuna shinoda roll, chrysanthemum manju, layered shiitake

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…

Saimaki Prawn Five-Color Roll

This is an appetizer built around the themes of a heat-relief dish for summer and the technique of cold cuisine. For the saimaki prawn (a small-grade…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Japanese Sea Bass Jinta-Age

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…

Steamed beef neck, hand-pinched lotus root dumpling

Since the dish makes the most of the meat's umami and finishes light, I think it pairs well with a lightly alcohol-added sake or barley shochu. Neck…

Sea Bass, Cut into Rounds