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Mallard grilled with fresh greens, stuffed burdock root, splendid alfonsino and sea urchin grilled rapeseed-style

Grilled dishes. For the mallard new-greenery grill, the duck is steamed at 65°C for about 15 minutes, the fat is trimmed, it is pierced all over with…

• Serves 20 · ¥2,060

• Cook time 20 min

Minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail

This is the vinegared dish course. For the minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail, mozuku is placed inside, a bonito-flavored vinegar is softly set…

• ¥1,350

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon and pineapple roll, kombu-cured lavender jobfish with flavor pearls, Yoro-style tofu, local octopus and taro stalk, tomato cup, fig and prosciutto roll

From the appetizers. The lavender jobfish (Pristipomoides sieboldii) is lightly kombu-cured under vacuum for about half a day. This time the ruby…

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

Salmon skin-and-roe dumplings, soup course

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: sake kogawa-ni (simmered salmon skin) Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down…

• Serves 4 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Vegetable achara pickle with Chinese yam, baby cucumber, Fushimi pepper, Corinky squash, dried daikon, frozen konjac, firm tofu, tomato cup, scallion sprouts, and olive oil and white vinegar

Freezing the konnyaku once creates air pockets inside it, making it easier for the seasoning to soak in and giving it a pleasantly popping texture in…

Sea bream spring aspic, kombu-cured Shinshu salmon with vinegar dressing, simmered abalone, prawn with caviar, walnut tofu

First, we come to the five appetizer dishes. I added volume and plated them showily. For the sea bream spring aspic, I worked characters chosen for…

Japanese mountain yam somen

Herring Roe, Thinly Sliced and Pickled, Japanese Mountain Yam Wrapped in Beef, Scallop and Kumquat Sandwiched and Grilled

These are three appetizer dishes. For the herring roe senmai-zuke-style, the herring roe is soaked overnight in rice-rinsing water, then the membrane…

• ¥850

• Cook time 20 min

Yōrō Tofu

Sunomono, true to its title 'Melody of the Rain' — a bit of fun. The base: yōrō tofu, mountain yam and lily bulb sieved together, seasoned with milk…

Cod grilled with three flavors

This is a use of the winter ingredient cod. We made cod sanmi-yaki for the enjoyable value of being able to eat three dishes at once. Nagaimo (a type…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Salted pollock roe sunrise roll, conger eel naruto-style spiral roll, tender-simmered octopus, glossy simmered dried cod

This is a celebratory New Year tiered box. It was designed to be colorful and to keep well, so that families gathered together could enjoy a relaxed…

• ¥3,000

• Cook time 2 days

Roasted Bryde's Whale with Aromatic Vegetables

This is a grilled dish, built on the concept of "protecting the ocean environment." For the roasted Bryde's whale with aromatic vegetables, the idea…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 50 min

Hokki Clam, New Potato, and Japanese Parsley Tofu Dressing, Cockle, Seared Pen Shell, Tender-Simmered Abalone

This is the sakizuke course, a trio of shellfish for the fragrance of spring. For the surf clam, new potato, and Japanese parsley tofu dressing: the…

• ¥620

• Cook time 1 hr

Low-Temperature Simmered Abalone, Melting Sesame Tofu, Seared Sea Bass

As a dish meant to help beat the summer heat, I focused above all on practicality while designing it around the theme of "unconventional cold…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,775

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Eel simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper

This is a simmered dish. For the Eel Arima-ni, normally you'd remove the sliminess from the eel, cut it into tube sections, sear it, steam it, then…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Sea bream, pen shell clam, and bluefin tuna straw-seared

From the dishes I created under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today," this time it's the sashimi course. Within this menu, I often split the sashimi into…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 1 hr

Sailfin sandfish, kombu-cured

This is a palate-settling course themed around Akita Prefecture's local cuisine. For the Sailfin Sandfish Kombu-Cured, I wanted people to enjoy every…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 12 hr

Making Vegetables Delicious

Since vegan cooking can only use vegetables, and that leaves the flavor feeling somewhat lacking, I thought about whether I could perfect it starting…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,208

• Cook time 20 min

Turnip in grated-daikon broth: seared tilefish, matsutake with grilled leaf-shaped mountain yam, maple-leaf-cut carrot, and Edona greens; garnish of pine-needle-cut yuzu

This time, we learned about "Gowan" from Master Teiichi Hiratsuka (Kappoya Mitsuto). We will focus on "Kabushosuri" (a type of sushi rice).

Baby hairy crab

This is a steamed dish. Small hairy crab, sold at under 300 yen apiece and normally used just for stock or miso soup, are actually packed full of…

• Serves 1 · ¥721

• Cook time 2 hr

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