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Winter yellowtail with grated wasabi, whole daikon, mizuna, wasabi

We grill the yellowtail close to a strong flame for about 40% of the way through, to crisp up the skin while keeping the inside rare. On top of that…

Blanched pike conger with amanatsu-jasmine-tea vinegar gelée

This is a piece of Japanese cuisine built around white tea. (Reference: white tea, Jasmine Silver Needle, 50 g: ¥1,836.) This is a tomezakana, a late…

• Serves 1 · ¥455

• Cook time 2 hr

Yōrō-Dōfu

A dish perfectly suited for welcoming guests during the hot season.

Turban shell and spring vegetables

As for the sazae and spring vegetables with amanatsu citrus sorbet, every ingredient is locally sourced, making it a dish that conveys the sense of…

• ¥1,755

• Cook time 2 hr

New Cabbage Hakata-style

For the vinegared dish, I expressed ‘beauty.’ I thought of this because the color and pattern of kuruma prawn, the star ingredient, come out…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 45 min

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

Alfonsino steamed with a white, elder-style finish

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 30 min

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

Assorted Sprouting Spring Vegetables and Fresh Fish

This is a sashimi dish I devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the assorted sprouting spring vegetables and fresh fish, since…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

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…

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu Milt, Fresh Green Laver Sauce, Wasabi

This dish is inspired by the image of a high-quality Japanese-style risotto, made with the rich, me…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

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

Tomato Purée

This is a chilled dish. For the tomato purée, I blanch tomatoes and press them through a sieve. Since there is a lot of liquid, I knead half of it…

• ¥150

• Cook time 20 min

Mountain vegetables and cockle, vinegared and chilled, hosta shoot, angelica-tree shoots, bracken fern, needle-cut radish, egg-yolk vinegar, wasabi vinegar

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from chef Iizuka (Asakusa View Hotel). This time I take up 'sansai vinegared dishes.'

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…

Kawakawa tuna

This is the sashimi course. The kawakawa tuna is farm-raised. The farm currently raising it is in Wakayama Prefecture, under the brand name 'Umi no…

• Serves 20 · ¥3,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip steamed dish, tilefish, mitsuba, ginkgo nuts, wood ear mushroom, shimeji mushroom, wasabi, silver sauce

This is a dish, somehow comforting, where guests enjoy steamed tilefish and turnip with a silver sauce poured over. Since we mainly serve tempura…

• Serves 1 · ¥975

• Cook time 30 min

Tempura (Rice with Soy-Marinated Ikura, Tai [Sea Bream] and Cherry-Blossom Dōmyōji-Mushi, Iburi-Gakko Potato Salad with Colorful Akita Vegetables, Snow Crab Tomo-Ae Kinuta-Maki, Aigamo Duck Skewer with Egg-Yolk Soy Sauce and Sansho)

For the tai and cherry-blossom dōmyōji-mushi, the dōmyōji rice flour is reconstituted in dashi and dyed cherry-blossom pink, making for a dish with…

Beef Tenderloin Stone-Grilled, Sea Urchin

This is a yakimono. Tenderloin Stone-Grilled is built on the concept of eating meat with in-season shiomizu uni, salt-water sea urchin, as the…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 3 min

Tilefish and Tennoji turnip, steamed with a foie gras filling

This makes use of Tennoji turnip at the end of its season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani Osaka, and getting to know the…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Niigata blackthroat seaperch, seared-skin sashimi

This is a sashimi course. I sear the skin of Niigata's nodoguro to give it a seared-and-chilled finish. Letting a little heat into the fish really…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,760

• Cook time 30 min

Joshu Black Wagyu Low-Temperature Roast Beef

This is a shiizakana, a hearty course. This dish is themed around Gunma Prefecture's Tomioka Silk Mill, famous for sericulture. By braiding Joshu…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,120

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled Matsutake, Seared Hamo

Appealing to the eye — watching it grill is a feast for the eyes. Matsutake mushroom and hamo (pike conger), two premium autumn ingredients, being…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 30 min

Eggplant Hakata Set in Jelly, Grilled Two-Color Asparagus, Wagyu Mineoka-Style Shabu-Shabu Wrapped in Lettuce, Saimaki Shrimp with Okutama Wasabi Pickle

This is the hassun course. For the eggplant Hakata-style set in jelly, the eggplant is peeled, cut, and slowly deep-fried in 150°C oil, then the oil…

• ¥716

• Cook time 1 hr