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River trout oil-smoked and steamed, salmon chakin shaped like ground cherries, Kurakake bean and rock tripe steeped in dashi, Shinshu grape dressed in daigo, curved bamboo shoot with plum-shiso dressing

Right now, we're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so I'd like to…

• Serves 5 · ¥220

• Cook time 20 min

Vegan kakuni (wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut shiro-uri melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, potato mustard)

Thinking of veganism as also a matter of religion, I wanted guests to be able to taste the best qualities of animal-derived ingredients through a…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

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

Beef Sirloin Saikyo-Zuke

Pricier, but wagyu sirloin marinated in saikyo-zuke (miso marinade) and grilled.

Young sweetfish deep-fried wrapped in shredded potato, river crab in egg-yolk batter

The fried course is young sweetfish (ayu) deep-fried in a potato sudare wrap. Pairing young ayu with potato may seem unusual, but the contrast…

• ¥320

• Cook time 40 min

Baked Apple, Tsugaru-Style

This is a shiizakana, an additional hearty course. For the apple Tsugaru-style, we hollow out an apple and fill it with scallop, mochi, and shimeji…

• ¥325

• Cook time 1 days

Seaweed Parfait

Served in a glass for a colorful, showy presentation.

Sea bass with potato sauce, organic vegetables grilled with fermented fish innards

This is the grilled course. Since it is a new dish, I plated it on a piece of contemporary Arita ware. As for the green-yuzu sauce for the sea bass…

• ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Loach and young burdock simmered with sansho pepper, simmered rolled shrimp, golden-simmered new potatoes, udo simmered with bonito flakes

This is a simmered dish course. For the loach and young burdock simmered Arima-style, I split larger loach open and quick-blanch the skin side in…

• ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Sparrow-shaped deep-fried flounder, conger eel rolled in shredded egg and deep-fried, plain deep-fried clam, shrimp deep-fried straw-cape-style, steamed fish cake deep-fried into a rice-bale shape

This is a deep-fried dish. The sparrow-shaped deep-fried flounder is fried to resemble a sparrow. Both fillets are opened out to the fin edge, and…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 15 min

Shrimp-shaped taro grilled with foie gras miso; scallop grilled with anchovy mayonnaise

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Simmered dried skate

Next is the simmered course. Karakai-ni uses karakai — a long-standing dried skate preserve made in Yamagata's landlocked interior, far from the sea…

Fushimi pepper stuffed with swimming crab, deep-fried star-cut potato, Ishikawa-wase taro fried in egg yolk batter

This is a fried course. For the Fushimi pepper stuffed with swimming crab, I use swimming crab in season. Swimming crab has a rich flavor and is…

• ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Toji-Style Yuba-Wrapped Deep-Fried Eel

This is the fried course for the theme "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). "Toji-Style Yuba-Wrapped Deep-Fried Eel" takes sauce-grilled eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Lattice-Grilled Tilefish

From the theme "sauces chosen by color," or ways of expressing color, this is the grilled course (yakizakana). For the lattice-grilled tilefish…

• Serves 1 · ¥950

• Cook time 45 min