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Takiawase (braised Jinhua pork belly, potato sauce, new-harvest burdock, spinach, Japanese mustard)

Jinhua pork is a breed known as 'the phantom pig,' characterized by its distinctive umami and richness. The meat is placed whole, still in the block…

• ¥460

• Cook time 14 hr

Kuruma prawn in a white miso broth, new-potato mochi spiral roll, burdock, bracken fern, bamboo shoot, slender daikon, butterbur sprout, bottarga

Shiro-miso-jitate refers to a clear-soup course with a slightly stronger sweetness, finished with a larger measure of white miso such as Saikyo miso…

Oil-steamed fall-run sweetfish, pinecone-cut Pacific saury with almond, whelk risotto in a turnip bowl, beef loin and green bean old-branch-style sticks, Ohara-style deep-fried taro shinjo, color-simmered long eggplant with peanut-kuzu sauce, jade ginkgo cracker with tofu dressing, dried persimmon with lily bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped tricolor sweet potato

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Visual impact that makes you want to take a photo Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 3 hr

Shijimi Clam Chawanmushi, Cauliflower Surinagashi

This appetizer is a dish we also served during our pre-opening. The image is of something like a 'Japanese-style clam chowder.' The potato added to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

Potato, Octopus, and Kabocha Squash, Tender-Simmered Live Octopus

"Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables." The overwintered vegetables used here are Niseko 540 potato and Dark Horse kabocha…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 2 hr

Aromatic Grilled Wagyu

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The tea used this time is 'Anxi Rougui oolong'; for reference, 'Anxi…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,061

• Cook time 30 min

Takiawase: Kinka pork kakuni, potato sauce, new burdock, spinach, Japanese mustard

Kinka pork is a pig breed called "the phantom pig," characterized by a distinctive umami and richness. I place the meat whole, still in a block, into…

• ¥460

• Cook time 14 hr

Corn Fermented Butter, Japanese-Style Soy Milk Panna Cotta, with Shoyu-Kōji Caramel

When I did research for this dish, I found a source stating that "the word koku (body and richness) arose from the aging of grains." So, thinking…

• Serves 14 · ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Suzuki Sea Bass Oil-Marinated, Abalone Slow-Cooked in Oil

Wanting to make a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and since sweetfish is the famous summer fish known for its pairing with smartweed, I decided to…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

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

Kinka pork oil-simmered, fava bean terrine, vinegar-pickled ginger, potato senbei, burdock base, black vinegar tamari

Scallion oil is made by slowly heating finely chopped aromatic vegetables in low-temperature rice oil. Frying for about 15 minutes, until a good…

• ¥480

• Cook time 2 days

Kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-cape coating — young corn

By wrapping the first turn of julienned potato a little firmly and the rest loosely, the potato stays attached to the prawn and fries up beautifully…

Awaji beef, curry-spiced simmer

Awaji Beef Indo-ni (curry-spiced simmer) cooks the Awaji beef slowly at low temperature, leaving it moist and tender while deepening its umami. The…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 2 hr

Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Saroma Black Beef and Potato Cheese Bake

This is a grilled dish using the overwintered vegetable "16-Month-Aged Premium Inca" potato and Saroma black beef. I devised it wanting to let…

• Serves 2 · ¥632

• Cook time 1 hr

Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 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…

Grilled carp with butterbur miso, arrow-fletched mustard lotus root, John Dory two-layer fish-paste dumpling, nemagari bamboo shoot grilled with sansho bud, iris-shaped Shadow Queen potato and cream terrine

This is the grilled course. For the grilled carp with butterbur miso, I take a carp fillet, lightly salt it, score the bones, and deep-fry it plain…

• ¥450

• Cook time 6 hr

New tea-crusted fried beef, sweetfish croquette

This is a fried course. For the new tea-crusted fried beef, I season beef loin with salt, dust it with flour, then coat it with panko that has been…

• ¥250

• Cook time 40 min

Apple Gratin

This is a reimagining of Gunma Prefecture's local cuisine. This is a grilled dish. The Apple Gratin is an attempt to let guests eat the apple…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Braised Fruit Pork Belly, Cheese-Baked '540' Potato

Bringing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables Overwintered vegetables used: '540' potato, overwintered carrot, Kawanishi long yam…

• Serves 1 · ¥390

• Cook time 2 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…