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Seared Ise Spiny Lobster, Ise Spiny Lobster Bisque

This is the additional hearty course. For the Ise spiny lobster bisque, I use the lobster heads to make a Western-style Américaine sauce. It's…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Fukushima yeast-fed wagyu sango-hachi sous-vide, miso-glazed herring and sansho-leaf skewers, and red-miso-glazed tofu skewers

This is a shiizakana, an additional hearty course that is a modern arrangement of a local dish, newly developed based on the Fukushima local pickling…

• Serves 3 · ¥890

• Cook time 3 hr

Shrimp-shaped taro manju

Using ebi-imo as an end-of-season winter ingredient, along with both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that would warm guests during…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Kombu-cured halfbeak layered with bottarga, fugu milt steamed with grated turnip

For the kombu-cured sayori layered with bottarga, I cure the sayori (Japanese halfbeak) in kombu, but sayori absorbs the kombu's flavor easily and…

Napa cabbage pureed soup, sea bream milt mochi

For the napa cabbage surinagashi, since the core of the napa cabbage is sweet and a treasure trove of dashi, we make the broth together with…

Cherry-blossom turnip, tilefish sakura-steamed, ball-shaped potato

Three small simmered dishes. For the cherry-blossom turnip, the turnip is carved with a knife into a cherry-blossom shape, filled with sakura shrimp…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 40 min

Simmered dried skate (Yamagata Prefecture)

This is a takiawase, a combination-simmered dish. "Karakai-ni" is also a Yamagata local dish, eaten at New Year's and on celebratory occasions…

• Serves 2 · ¥850

• Cook time 3 hr

Hassun, Shojin Tempura, Shojin Sushi

For the yuba dengaku, I placed sakura-miso — sweet miso kneaded with sugar — on top of opened yuba sheets. For the grilled Chinese yam with plum…

Charcoal-Grilled Motobu Beef Chateaubriand

The charcoal-grilled Motobu beef chateaubriand is a dish featuring Motobu beef, which has a higher unsaturated-fat content than the average for…

• ¥1,250

• Cook time 10 min

Blended-dashi clear soup: autumn-brocade tilefish and turnip, habutae-steamed; matsutake with sprouted scallion; garnish of hail-cut yuzu

When folding the grated turnip into the meringue, it's important not to overmix — I think it's best to fold it in loosely, leaving the fluffy texture…

Clam shinjo

Shimanto River Region

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Three Japanese-Style Canapes on a Plum-Blossom Plate

For this recommended-snack course, I titled it "Three Japanese-Style Canapes on a Plum-Blossom Plate," and made three kinds of Japanese-style canapes…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 4 hr

Silver tofu pureed soup

This is the soup course. For ‘Gindofu Surinagashi,’ there is a well-known tofu shop near where I work, and I very much wanted to build a dish around…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 2 days

Tilefish kenchin-style grilled, lily bulb and purple sweet potato chakin, young pickled ginger shoot

This time, on 'grilled dishes,' I learned from chef Itō (Suitengū's 'Nihon Ryōri Sakura'). This time I take up 'kenchin-yaki.'

Steamed Cod Rice, Cold-Smoked Cod, Cod Cracker

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. The appetizer is designed to feel like a single course in itself. As a proposal for using…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Niigata Noppe

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Niigata noppe Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since long ago for a…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Simmered Beef in Miso

For the simmered beef chuck-eye roll (kata-rosu), I use several kinds of miso along with chicken-bone broth and other ingredients to build a…

• Serves 1 · ¥215

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

White tilefish, rolled and cut into mallet-shaped rounds, local alfonsino in a cloth-wrung purse shape

This is the simmered assortment course. As for the okitsudai kinuta-maki, okitsudai refers to white tilefish. This time, adding the extra step of…

• ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing uses raw konjac tuber. If you blend it into a paste with the skin left on, you get black konjac; if you…

Swimming crab (gazami) mold

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. For Gazami Mold — swimming crab caught in Tosa Bay is called 'gazami' in Kochi Prefecture. I…

• Serves 1 · ¥870

• Cook time 1 hr

Tenjin hot pot

This is a hot pot dish. This time we were given the theme of 'rethinking hot pot,' so we wanted to show a different way of presenting the work we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 1 hr

Niigata Sake-Lees Soup, Niigata Yellowtail Belly Salt-Grilled

This is a soup course. This time it's a sake-lees soup (sakekasu-jiru), but instead of salmon or the like, I've put in yellowtail with just the right…

• Serves 1 · ¥566

• Cook time 1 hr