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Ise spiny lobster grilled with golden egg yolk, seared Sendai beef, bottarga, yuzu-grilled winter yellowtail, kombu-cured herring roe, seven-treasure namasu, lantern-shaped herring, miso-marinated winter cod milt, grilled sea urchin, teriyaki monkfish liver

This is the celebratory platter from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. For 'Golden-Grilled Ise Spiny Lobster,' I paid close attention to the heat so the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• 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

Snow-viewing style: yellowtail snow hut

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a soup-bowl course (wanmori). For the yellowtail kamakura, salt is applied to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 8 hr

Awaji beef, curry-spiced simmer

Awaji Beef Indo-ni (curry-spiced simmer) cooks the Awaji beef slowly at low temperature, leaving it moist and tender while deepening its umami. The…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 2 hr

Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Crab Yaki-Shabu, Sesame Ochazuke

This is the rice course made with Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables: "overwintered cabbage, snow-covered carrot, crab yaki-shabu with sesame…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,520

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam in clear seafood broth

Guests enjoy the natural, deeply concentrated umami of Kashimanada clams, carefully drawn out through meticulous preparation, together with crisp…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 45 min

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Herring roe and wasabi in tofu dressing, pine-needle skewers, cod grilled with saikyo miso glaze, a twist on namasu, amber-marinated quail egg

For the herring roe and wasabi shira-ae — herring roe is used in New Year's cooking for its meaning of "many children" — this time I bring in a hint…

Beef Loin Sawani-Style Clear Soup

This is a clear-soup course. Beef loin sawani-style clear soup was created for guests who are not fond of fish. I lightly sear the beef loin…

Dried purslane simmered with mixed vegetables (Yamagata Prefecture)

This is the first course. This purslane dish, hyo-boshi gomoku-ni, is one of the local dishes handed down in the Murayama region of Yamagata…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 40 min

Grilled and marinated salmon with seasonal colors

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: salmon yaki-zuke Looking back on the history of dishes that have been eaten since long ago…

• Serves 4 · ¥198.3

• Cook time 1 hr

Jellied deep-sea eelpout, whitefin trevally egg-yolk sushi, yellow sea bream pressed sushi, baby spear squid, sea sculpin, and salmon roe salad, goatfish fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, bracken fern shoots wrapped in a thin kombu sheet, and daikon radish dressed with bottarga

Under the theme of coping with rising food costs, I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata. The wide variety of inexpensive fish caught by…

• Serves 1 · ¥432

• Cook time 2 hr

Ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, arrow-fletching-cut mountain yam grilled with egg yolk, tree-ring-cut spring daikon, new water shield, abalone steamed with sake, matcha tofu, bamboo-wrapped sea bream sushi, black-tea-smoked salt-cured pork

For the accompanying dishes, I used green tea and black tea. For the ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, I hold the mountain leek in a…

Beef Tongue Steamed with Aromatics

This is the mid-course dish. For the beef tongue steamed with aromatics, since beef tongue has a tough skin attached, I remove it with a knife. It is…

• ¥350

• Cook time 3 hr

Three kuroge wagyu beef dishes: smoked tenderloin, red miso-braised round, and sirloin grilled with sake lees

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: generous use of multiple cuts of wagyu beef. Under the motto "what's…

• Serves 1 · ¥670

• Cook time 40 min

Rice-flour and fava-bean manju wrapped in cherry leaf, topped with silver sauce, carrot, udo, wasabi, cherry leaf

When you lift the lid of the soup bowl, the spring fragrance of fava beans drifts up along with a gentle scent of cherry blossom, creating what I…

Beef short rib simmered in miso, grilled tofu stuffed with mushroom

Since this dish has a rich, heavy seasoning, I think it pairs well with red wine or aged sake (koshu). For the geta-karubi beef simmered in miso, I…

• ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Braised Fruit Pork Belly, Cheese-Baked '540' Potato

Bringing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables Overwintered vegetables used: '540' potato, overwintered carrot, Kawanishi long yam…

• Serves 1 · ¥390

• Cook time 2 min

Kagoshima tea-leaf five-ingredient tofu dressing

This dish uses tea, one of Kagoshima Prefecture's proudest products — Kagoshima actually ranks first nationwide in tea output. Kagoshima tea is mild…

• Serves 3 · ¥300

• Cook time 30 min

Molded ark shell, baby turban shell grilled with wakame, whiting sushi wrapped chimaki-style, Hakata-style duck white loin, pale-poached, dried shrimp and tomato, lightly marinated, sea bream roe jelly

This is the appetizers course. For the baby turban shell grilled with wakame, I bring out the color of the wakame and blend it in a mixer, then blend…

Tateshina Beef Tenderloin, Deep-Fried with Aromatics

For the Tateshina beef tenderloin deep-fried with aromatics, I normally prepare Tateshina beef tenderloin — delicious even as a crossbred cattle — as…

• ¥850

• Cook time 20 min

Shark fin and fish-paste dumpling, rolled in yuba — crab-and-chrysanthemum thin kuzu sauce, saimaki prawn, carrot, ginkgo-leaf cut, wood ear mushroom

When boiling the chrysanthemum petals, we add a very small amount of vinegar to stop discoloration and keep the color vivid. We bring out the ginkgo…

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr