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'Whale' — whale throat cartilage (Onagawa's traditional food culture: 'Whale')

This is the appetizer course. Taking as its theme the 'whale culture' rooted in Onagawa, a town on the eastern side of Miyagi Prefecture, I hoped…

• Serves 1 · ¥398

• Cook time 2 days

Spanish mackerel and napa cabbage snow-viewing hot pot with yuzu-and-chili condiment

This dish makes use of Fukuoka's Tokusen Hon-Sawara, exceptionally fresh Japanese Spanish mackerel. Eating it together with sweet napa cabbage lets…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Walnut Tofu with Sea Urchin Poured In, Crab Meat, Savory Dashi, Wasabi, Chestnut Shibukawa-Ni Bed, Beef Loin Miso-Marinated, Smoked Egg, Needle-Scored Shishito, Foie Gras and Daikon Mochi, Yuba Dressed in Truffle Wine Sauce, Enoki Mushroom, Spinach Stems, Persimmon, Salmon Roe Crowning Garnish

We are conscious of the surprise that our guests will feel when the dish is first served, and have …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,550

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod age-dashi

This makes use of cod and prawn-shaped taro in season, both of which are emblematic winter ingredients. I designed this dish for the guests in their…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 50 min

Oyster in seven-layer sauce

For washing the oysters, an apple with strong acidity works best. Washing them with apple gives off a sweet-tart, fruity aroma from the oysters…

Clear seafood broth

This time, we learned about "soup courses" from Technical Director Kawabata (Kotoritei). We feature the clear seafood broth.

Chilled green tea and chicken (Mt. Fuji ice-drawn dashi, green tea, Suruga shamo chicken soup, avocado jade, eggplant wrap)

Thinking afresh about dashi in Japanese cuisine, I realized it's created through the synergy between glutamic acid and inosinic acid, the umami…

• Serves 10 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Abalone tempura, Inaniwa udon, grated daikon, aromatics

This time, the basic rice course is 'Inaniwa udon.' We have guests eat it simply, with grated daikon and aromatics, but the temperature and time used…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn sea bream head, simmered

This time, we learned about the simmered course from Master Instructor Tomizawa (Yoshimura, a Japanese-cuisine restaurant). We feature simmered fish…

Black Wagyu Lean Meat, Scallop Arare, and Daikon Mochi

I created this dish under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a simmered dish. To let guests enjoy a variety of ingredients, I've woven them…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 3 hr

Roasted wagyu fillet, bottarga sauce

I consider it the value of dining out at our restaurant to create theater in serving dishes that lets guests feel something out of the ordinary…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Salt-cured yellowtail and daikon, oil-simmered abalone, maple-leaf carrot, fallen-leaf mushroom, green garnish, finely shredded ginger, pine-needle-cut yuzu, a thickened sauce from its own broth

For the salt-buri daikon, salting the yellowtail heavily and letting it rest overnight draws out excess moisture from the flesh, removing off-odors…

• ¥950

• Cook time 5 hr

Grated Daikon Pickle

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at 'Yonemura.' For the grated daikon pickle, we grate the daikon along with its juice, add…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 days

Cool breeze salad

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…

Crimson-Fuji Inaniwa udon, cloud-white abalone, tempura bits, aromatics

So that it's clear the tanuki — the shape-shifting trickster of folklore — has transformed itself into Crimson Fuji, I scattered tenkasu, the fried…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Sashimi Assortment, Three Kinds

Extra care taken in the preparation creates a sense of surprise.

Kuruma Prawn and Fig Mizore-Ae

This is a dish where the balance between grated daikon and the other ingredients is extremely important. If there's too much grated daikon, the dish…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Ezo Deer Saikyo-yaki — Daikon Simmered in Consommé, Watercress-Wasabi Sauce

After marinating overnight in Saikyo miso, it's cooked at low temperature in a convection oven, then finished with a seared color on the surface. For…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Nodoguro Salad, Charcoal-Seared, with Charcoal-Scented Dressing

In front of the guest, burning-hot charcoal is placed into the dressing to transfer its aroma, and the dressing is then poured over the dish and…

• Serves 1 · ¥560

• Cook time 40 min

Green Tea-Roasted Kagoshima Kurobuta

For the green tea-roasted Kagoshima kurobuta, I first sear the pork in a frying pan to give it color, then rub it with Chiran green tea and roast it…

• ¥154

• Cook time 4 hr

Cherry-Blossom Sea Bream and Rapeseed Blossom Kombu-Cured, Butterbur Kosode Sushi, Sardine and Snap Pea Nanban-Marinade, Icefish and Shirataki Noodles with Kinome Miso Dengaku, Cherry-Leaf and Lily Bulb Squeeze, Bamboo-Leaf Mugwort Sesame Tofu, Baby Octopus and Sea Bream Roe Simmered with Cherry Blossom

This is the appetizer course, seven dishes for a spring evening. The cherry-blossom sea bream and rapeseed blossom kombu-cured dish is plated…

• ¥580

• Cook time 2 hr

Black-Roasted Brown Rice Coffee and Tea Snack

Black-roasting is a technique that has existed in Japan since ancient times; I first learned of it while studying macrobiotics. Carbonizing…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 5 min

Winter melon steamed parcel, summer bracken rolled in fried tofu skin, tender-simmered beef tongue, lotus root dumpling, summer vegetable deep-fried tofu fritter

This is the lidded-dish course. For the summer warabi shinoda-maki, the warabi is first treated as usual to remove its bitterness and simmered to…

Pacific Cod and Snow-Covered Daikon Mizore-Mushi

This is a steamed dish, using Hokkaido overwintered snow-covered daikon and scallion. The Pacific cod and grated snow-covered daikon steamed dish is…

• Serves 1 · ¥190

• Cook time 1 hr