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Matsushima Conger Eel Yōrō-Steamed, Zunda Habutae-Style Broth

This is the soup-course alternative from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. Matsushima Conger Eel Yōrō-Steamed with Zunda Habutae-Style Broth uses conger eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Kombu-Cured Yellowtail with Mountain Yam

The vivid colors of ingredients such as yellowtail, scallion, and quail egg are wonderful.

Juvenile Ayu and Summer Vegetables, Vinegar-Simmered

A device using rice vinegar so that guests will want to drink even the broth.

Kochi Tebako Pheasant 'Zōni'

This is the simmered dish from Kochi's New Year and regional home-style cuisine. Tebako Pheasant Zōni uses 'Tebako pheasant,' raised on Mt. Tebako at…

• Serves 1 · ¥555

• Cook time 40 min

Beltfish and Sweet Potato Oharagi-Age

This time, we learned about "fried dishes" from Master Instructor Maeda (Okunitama Shrine Wedding Hall). We feature "oharagi-age."

Fish Sōmen

From the collection of dishes for beating the summer heat, this is the o-shinogi, a small filling course served partway through the meal. Fish sōmen…

• Serves 4 · ¥0

• Cook time 1 hr

Long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and a shiso flower-spike garnish, dressed with a fish-roe dressing, fig simmered with sweet miso, gourd-shaped cheese and egg, Kai-style cold-smoked salmon sushi roll, Brussels sprouts stuffed with crab, seared early-summer sesame tofu

This is the appetizer course. For the long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and shiso flower spike garnish, since long-arm shrimp are in season and…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Cold-smoked first-catch bonito

For the vinegared course, I designed it with women in their forties in mind, around the concept of “an unfamiliar pairing.” In all my cooking…

• ¥290

• Cook time 1 min

Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, Layered Grill

For Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, I use wild boar belly that has not yet built up much fat. I simmer it until tender, then compensate…

• Serves 1 · ¥452

• Cook time 5 hr

Shinshu Salmon and Asparagus with Egg-Yolk Vinegar, Nagano Mountain Yam Pressed with Kombu, Shinshu Fukumidori Chicken Teriyaki, Cream Cheese Nikogori, Nozawana Pickle Nori Roll, and Vegetables with Sesame Cream

Shinshu salmon and asparagus with egg-yolk vinegar takes Shinshu salmon — usually served in hot pot or as sashimi — and gives it a different…

• ¥50

• Cook time 10 min

Grilled eel roll, local mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper miso, new-harvest sweet potato in salted honey, azuki bean cream cheese terrine, sweetfish Hakata-style pressed sushi, mountain stream crab fried and marinated in vinegar, green plum in a crystal-clear kuzu-starch glaze, and blanched taro stem with salted fish-innard paste

As for the local Mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho miso: our local Mochibuta pigs are raised on feed blended with a high proportion…

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…

Chilled verdant egg custard, sardine simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pumpkin castella sponge cake, coin-cut octopus fragrant fried, white melon tossed with bottarga, asparagus and bacon egg-yolk grilled, cheese tofu, pork belly simmered Yoshino-style with a kuzu-thickened sauce, hydrangea-style egg, and squid two-color grill

This is the appetizers course. For the chilled verdant egg custard, after making an egg tofu, I puree it in a mixer, combine it with gelatin and…

• ¥300

• Cook time 2 days

Seasonal colors (persimmon terrine, potato wrapped in yuba and grilled, stone-wall egg terrine, purple mountain yam nerikiri, roe-bearing ayu simmered and steeped)

This is a seasonal-color course making use of autumn ingredients. For the Persimmon Terrine, I used in-season persimmons to make a persimmon set…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Chicken meatball soup

By November, the morning and evening chill turns sharp, and it becomes a season when warm dishes are especially welcome. This time, I designed a dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 15 min

Salmon milt in dressing, colorful namasu, kumquat cream, folded egg dish, herring roe on kelp in sake lees marinade, fertility-motif shrimp, snow-ring lotus root, cod roe sushi, monkfish deep-fried in soba-flake coating, foie gras steamed in egg custard

For the salmon milt in dressing, since some guests dislike the fishy smell of milt, I aimed to remove that smell while keeping its creaminess, and to…

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Octopus simmered in shio-koji, abalone simmered with rice, Kurosengoku black soybeans and lily bulb chakin, sweet-savory sautéed overwintered burdock

This is an appetizer using Hokkaido's overwintered squash and overwintered burdock. The flavor of the Yukigesho kabocha (a snow-white Hokkaido…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 min

Kisu Grilled with Kabusecha

For Japanese whiting grilled with kabusecha, a shade-grown green tea, since I'm from Shizuoka and tea-based cooking is a specialty of mine, I used…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Yōrō-Dōfu

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

Cod and turnip

This is an early-season appetizer of cod and turnip. I designed this dish for the guests in their forties to seventies who make up most of our…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 40 min

Turban shell with butterbur miso, udo simmered with red plum, chrysanthemum crab roll, Kazusa beef marinated in sweet white miso

Starting with the appetizers. For the sazae with fuki miso, the sazae is prepared, simmered gently for a full day until tender, then topped with fuki…

Sweet Shrimp Shiokara, Sweet Shrimp with Fine-Julienned Nagaimo and Root Mitsuba

Salt-fermented sweet shrimp is something people have traditionally made for a long time, I think. For the sweet shrimp with fine-julienned mountain…

• ¥310

• Cook time 3 hr

Cherry sea bream steamed with festive red rice

This warm small bowl course expresses ‘nostalgia.’ In the present day, festive red rice with azuki beans is nothing special — it can be eaten any…

• Serves 1 · ¥315

• Cook time 1 hr