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Shinshu giant char cylinder roll, char roe in soy marinade, autumn fruit and walnut mousse, Shinshu pork steamed with sansho, grilled maitake with foie gras, chrysanthemum petal salad, Shinshu salmon with egg-yolk mustard sauce

This is an appetizer presented in hassun (seasonal-assortment course) style, using Nagano Prefecture's prized traditional vegetables and, since it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamo, Eggplant and White Melon

This is the appetizer course. The hamo (pike conger eel) is filleted, its fine bones scored, salted, left to rest a while, and boiled. It is then set…

Sansai and cockle vinegared dish, warm and smoke-finished (urui, nobiru, warabi, kogomi, diluted ponzu, red grated daikon)

To add a touch of red to the dish, we've added red grated daikon. To make it, you bore a hole firmly into the daikon and push a dried red chili all…

Shiso rice porridge

Rice porridge has been served at the end of our course meals since the beginning. By washing the ri…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min

Parsley-flavored warm tofu with colorful vegetables in a thickened soy-milk-skin sauce, mugwort rice cake in shoyu-koji hot pot

This is the appetizer. For the parsley warm tofu: parsley holds its color well even when heated, so I use it to give the warm tofu a pale young-grass…

Akashi sea bream, spring-haze steamed

This is a warm dish timed to the season when the cherry blossoms open. As for the Akashi tai harugasumi-mushi, this is normally a dish made with…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Striped jack thin-sliced sashimi, flounder chrysanthemum roll

This is a sashimi course. For the shima-aji thin-sliced sashimi, since we have a fish tank at the restaurant, we always keep live, fresh shima-aji on…

• Serves 1 · ¥725

• Cook time 10 min

Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke

For the shellfish frills used in the Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke — white mirugai, ark shell, and pen shell — we rub them well with salt to…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Pufferfish cured in kombu

For the fugu kombu-cured hand-rolled sushi, to let guests enjoy the aroma and flavor of the fugu itself, I slice it thin at an angle and cure it in…

• ¥155

• Cook time 5 min

Tomato and Mozzarella, Hakata-Style; Cucumber Rolled with King Crab

A salad-like vinegared course. We sieve grilled tomato, add agar, layer it hakata-style with sieved mozzarella, then torch it for toasty aroma. The…

Kurosatsuma chicken, Kaga-style simmered dish

Toya Sasaki Farm Ice-Cellar-Aged Sapporo-ki Onion Soup Ochazuke

For the rice course, I developed an ice-cellar-aged Sapporo-ki onion soup ochazuke. Under the theme of drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's…

• Serves 4 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Tade-grilled sweetfish, wasabi-grilled beef, Kamo eggplant with foie gras

This is a grilled course. This time I used ayu from Lake Biwa to make the tade-grilled ayu. For the wasabi-grilled beef, I grill it over a net with a…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo Shoot Simmered Tosa-Style, Tilefish Chakin-Simmered, Tied Bracken Fern

This is the mixed simmered assortment course. The bamboo shoot simmered Tosa-style has its bitterness removed and is simmered with bonito flakes. New…

• ¥380

• Cook time 1 days

Salmon Roe Marinated in Soy Sauce

This is the rice course. Our restaurant usually serves tai chazuke, but since we use a lot of sea bream in the grilled and sashimi courses, I chose…

Tea-covered grilled sea bass, giant longarm prawn grilled with golden egg yolk

This is a grilled hassun course. For the tea-covered grilled sea bass, if served at the counter, placing the sea bass on a heated stone, pouring tea…

• ¥590

• Cook time 1 days

Western-style seared bonito, herb-wrapped flounder, skin-seared whiting, Odawara horse mackerel tataki stuffed in mountain yam

This is a sashimi course. I prepared three types of sauce: a tart sauce, a salt-based sauce, and soy sauce. The amaranth has a beautiful purple…

Sea Bream Kombu-Cured, Layered with Salt-Cured Roe

The sashimi course is sea bream kombu-jime layered with shio-ko. We don't want to make guests do the work of dipping into a small cup to eat, so…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish, Snow-Flower Steamed

The third is tilefish snow-flower steamed. We grate the turnip, bind it with egg yolk, and steam it. We then top it with whipped meringue to…

• ¥360

• Cook time 6 hr

Kombu-Cured Ise Lobster, Ise Lobster Roe Mochi, Lily Bulb Oribe-Style Chakin, Snow-Ring Lotus Root with Yam Sushi

This is the appetizer course. For the kombu-cured Ise lobster, we shell the Ise lobster, slice the meat thinly, salt it, and press it between kombu…

• ¥950

• Cook time 12 hr

Yonezawa beef simmered Takahata-style

Robust Yonezawa beef paired with a wine concentrated with grape flavor. Savor Yamagata's dynamic ingredients to the fullest.

Pike Conger Blanched, Local Octopus Seared, Kuruma Prawn Oil-Blanched

For the kuruma prawn oil-blanched, we cook the prawn by passing it briefly through oil. With the pike conger, octopus, and kuruma prawn alike, not…

Tilefish, kombu-cured and koji-marinated, with kombu-cured white melon, needle-cut wasabi, and seasoned soy sauce

For the tilefish kombu-cured kōji-pickle, the vinegar-cured tilefish is rolled with kombu and vegetables, then marinated in amazake for about a week…

Bigfin reef squid sake-simmered, blanched taro stem dressed with shiso, seared and blanched flounder

For the blanched taro stem dressed with shiso: I bruise the shiso and let it sit in water so the color doesn't change, then dress it right in front…

• ¥780

• Cook time 1 hr