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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

Simmered monkfish liver with deep-fried shrimp-shaped taro, soaked in broth

The prep method for the ankimo is one I learned at a restaurant I worked at previously. Vacuum-sealing the ankimo to draw out the blood results in a…

Cypress-scented miso-marinated butterfish from a deep forest, shrimp-shaped taro stuffed with Jōshū jidori chicken liver

This grilled dish uses butterfish, burdock, and lotus root as end-of-season winter ingredients. The facility where I work in Kusatsu, Gunma is…

• Serves 1 · ¥965

• Cook time 40 min

Blackthroat seaperch salt-and-sake grilled, shrimp-shaped taro dengaku, persimmon and walnut tofu-dressed salad, pine-cone-cut ginkgo nuts, chrysanthemum grated daikon

Among four dishes I'd like guests to enjoy in the cold season, I've prepared this nodoguro dish. Not only in this dish but in all of them, while…

• Serves 1 · ¥890

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr

Ise Lobster in Sesame Miso

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. This time it's the fragrance of sesame. This is…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 30 min

Marinated grilled longtooth grouper and fragrant grilled Ise lobster

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a grilled dish. Our ryokan has quite a distance between the kitchen and the guest…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 2 days

Hida Beef and Seasonal Vegetable Sukiyaki, Topped with Uni — Kazahana Style

A fermented soybean sauce that brings these powerful ingredients together.

Shrimp-shaped taro manju

Using ebi-imo as an end-of-season winter ingredient, along with both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that would warm guests during…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Crab Yoro-age, Ebi-imo Hakusen-age, Daikoku Shimeji Egg-Yolk Fry, Paprika Su-age

From dishes paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, this is a fried dish. For the yam-bound crab deep-fry, grated mountain yam is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

White tilefish, rolled and cut into mallet-shaped rounds, local alfonsino in a cloth-wrung purse shape

This is the simmered assortment course. As for the okitsudai kinuta-maki, okitsudai refers to white tilefish. This time, adding the extra step of…

• ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Soup, Yellowtail Turnip Sushi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. When it comes to winter ingredients, there is also fugu and cod, but we chose yellowtail, which is…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Shrimp-shaped taro manju (crab yoshino-ni, spinach, dewdrop-cut ginger)

For the ebi-imo steeped in dashi, it's important to press it through a sieve while it's still warm. If it cools down, the starch in the taro hardens…

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

Saikyo Miso-Koji Marinade: Inatori Golden Eye Snapper, Izu Log-Grown Dried Shiitake, Oyster, Scallion

The grilled course is the saikyo miso-koji marinade. The miso-koji marinade bed is made by combining 500 g of saikyo miso, 90 cc of sake, 90 cc of…

• ¥730

• Cook time 4 hr

Shrimp-shaped taro fukume (maki-grade prawn umani, garland chrysanthemum greens, yuzu)

This time, on 'simmered dishes,' I learned from chef Ohara (Shimbashi's 'Shutei Kikuhime'). This time I take up steeped simmered dishes.

Long hijiki seaweed simmered wrapped in fried tofu skin, baby octopus simmered cherry-pink, shrimp glossy-simmered, shrimp-shaped taro, and small eggplant fried then simmered Dutch-style

This is the simmered dish course. For the long hijiki shinoda-ni, deep-fried tofu pouches are blanched to remove excess oil, opened, and spread with…

Ise lobster simmered with sea urchin, comma-shaped shrimp-taro fukume-ni, bamboo shoot simmered Tosa-style, purple sweet potato crisp, flower-cut carrot, and bok choy

For the tosa-style bamboo shoot, the bamboo shoot is simmered once, then simmered again with a generous amount of added bonito flakes. It's then…

Softshell turtle soba-gaki, vinegar-simmered turtle, deep-fried turtle, egg-thickened turtle

This is a variety of softshell turtle dishes — maru for short. This time I use two kinds of softshell turtle: one simmered for an hour and a half to…

Alfonsino in a kuzu-thickened simmer, shark fin in a sweet-savory simmer

This is the simmered assortment course. For the kinmedai yoshino-ni, using kombu-cured kinmedai keeps the flesh from falling apart. For the shark fin…

• ¥650

• Cook time 2 hr

Kurosatsuma chicken, Kaga-style simmered dish

Tortoiseshell-cut shrimp-shaped taro, clam shinjo

With the tortoiseshell-cut ebi-imo and the crane-shaped daikon, I express the crane and tortoise, and with the sunrise carrot I express the year's…

• ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish kenchin-style grilled, shrimp-shaped taro serving bowl, scallion sprout, aka-koshō, crab sauce, roasted chestnut

Kenchin-yaki is a dish in which tofu and vegetables that have been sautéed and simmered are wrapped in white fish, chicken, or the like, and grilled…