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Juvenile Ayu and Summer Vegetables, Vinegar-Simmered

A device using rice vinegar so that guests will want to drink even the broth.

Winter melon serving bowl

A dish that summons the coolness of summer.

Kuroge wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, sake-simmered abalone, and Malabar spinach yuba roll

For the Kuroge Wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, meat is rarely used in a vinegared dish, so I thought I would take this opportunity…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Grilled Conger Eel with Red Miso, and Shibazuke Butter Sauce

For the grilled conger eel (anago) with red miso, I wanted a sauce that would suit not just meat but fish and vegetables too, which is how I arrived…

• ¥190

• Cook time 35 min

Corn Mineoka Tofu with Charcoal-Scented Sauce

Wrap the corn in plastic wrap while still in the husk, steam it for about 20 minutes, and once it's cooled enough to handle, clean it and separate…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Sesame tofu

The appetizer is sesame tofu. Normally we'd serve the ingredients laid out across separate vessels, but this time I arranged steamed abalone, caviar…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,650

• Cook time 2 days

Corn Minegaoka tofu with charcoal-scented thick sauce

I wrap the corn, still in its husk, in plastic wrap and steam it for about 20 minutes in a steamer; once the residual heat has released, I clean it…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Crystal aspic

For the chilled simmered course, I designed it with couples in their thirties in mind, around the concept of “a refreshing concentration of dashi's…

• ¥180

• Cook time 40 min

Isaki and Tomato Aspic

This is an appetizer course. For the isaki and tomato aspic, when making the tomato tofu, the tomato is seeded and blended, then — without squeezing…

• ¥480

• Cook time 40 min

Pear and steamed abalone, oil-blanched octopus, Ishikawa taro and kabocha shaped like an areca nut, kombu-cured horse mackerel with ominaeshi flower, beef tongue in aspic, paired kuruma prawns, corn tofu

This is the appetizer course. For pear and steamed abalone, pear is knife-cut and steamed abalone is placed on top of it, with passion-fruit egg-yolk…

• ¥1,920

• Cook time 2 hr

Malabar spinach and chrysanthemum, blanched in dashi (white eggplant, scallop cream sauce, okra blanched in dashi)

Malabar spinach is a summer vegetable that's highly nutritious and has a bit of natural stickiness. As autumn approaches, the stems grow tough, so…

Pike conger and shrimp Yoshino-ni, furofuki winter melon

The hamo (pike conger) and shrimp yoshino-ni is a dish where each ingredient's flavor layers with the eggplant and corn, so every individual taste…

• ¥695

• Cook time 1 hr

Cream cheese kuzu tofu, Miura-style chilled scrambled egg, summer vegetable namasu pickled in salt-koji and honey

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. Since there is little seafood available to use in summer, I built the menu around vegetables. Cream cheese kuzu…

• ¥120

• Cook time 1 days

Black-skinned kabocha squash simmered with lemon, fat greenling and sea urchin simmered together, new burdock root filled with sakura-shrimp shinjo, small eggplant Dutch-style simmered

This dish expresses Japanese cuisine through dark tea (Fu brick tea). For reference, Fu brick tea, 50 g: ¥1,620. This is an assortment of separately…

• Serves 1 · ¥489.5

• Cook time 1 hr

New lotus root kinpira, red and green Manganji peppers fried and dashi-steeped, octopus miso-cured and armor-style grilled

• ¥970

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed Chicken with Nametake Sauce

At our membership-based restaurants, I make a sample using ingredients that can be reliably obtained, and have each restaurant prepare it themselves…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Tender-Simmered Olive Pork

Japanese cuisine built around imported teas Tea used = For the simmered dish Tender-Simmered Olive Pork, I used dark tea, which has a distinctive…

• Serves 5 · ¥400

• Cook time 3 hr

Tamagawa raw abalone

A soup-course variation built around regional ingredients. ‘Tamagawa Namagai’ takes its name from a play on words: I poured tama-dashi (a rich…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Shrimp, Sea Urchin, and Okra Terrine, Tender-Simmered Abalone, Simmered Kabocha Squash, Shiitake Mushroom, Winter Melon Simmered in Soup

This is a chilled simmered dish. Wanting to offer something refreshing, I set shrimp, sea urchin, and okra together into a terrine. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed Kisu and Corn Shinjo

For the steamed whiting and corn shinjo, a fish-paste dumpling: pairing shrimp shinjo, which has strong umami, with the delicate whiting makes for a…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 45 min

Conger Eel Shirayaki, Hakata-Style Pressed

I proposed this as a way of serving seafood, using Kanagawa ingredients while exploring the prefecture's local cuisine. This is a vinegared dish. For…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 40 min