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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

Assorted platter: nanban-style grilled barracuda, kabosu simmered in light syrup, Uda-kin burdock, tilefish with black rice, avocado baked in its shell, three kinds of rolled deep-fry

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,570

• Cook time 50 min

Smoked Scallop, Autumn Cloud

These days we welcome a wide variety of guests, foreign guests included. I have been working on how a dish is staged and served, and I would like to…

• Serves 1 · ¥447

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Arigato Gobo Manju with Sarobetsu Duck

This is the Arigato gobo manju filled with Sarobetsu duck. Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables — here, Arigato gobo, a…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Housemade-miso sukiyaki-style (shaved burdock, Kujō scallion, grated yam dumpling, spicy condiment, truffle)

The meat course, 'housemade-miso sukiyaki-style,' is cooked and finished right in front of the guest; the smell of the beef grilling and the savory…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 10 min

Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style

This time I'll introduce a dish made with buckwheat flour: Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style. Gozen soba, a refined, fine-milled soba, won't hold together…

• Serves 1 · ¥565

• Cook time 10 min

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…

Kuroge wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, sake-simmered abalone, and Malabar spinach yuba roll

For the Kuroge Wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, meat is rarely used in a vinegared dish, so I thought I would take this opportunity…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Simmered conger eel — burdock purée, green asparagus

Wanting to bring some Japanese character into the burdock purée, I added not just onion but also long green onion as an ingredient. I add fresh cream…

"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…

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

Burdock Cappuccino

I originally worked abroad, and when I was in Italy I drank cappuccino almost every day. When I think of a Japanese dish using burdock, kinpira-gobō…

• Serves 1 · ¥267

• Cook time 1 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

Isaki Deep-Fried with Ume Vinegar

Isaki (threeline grunt) deep-fried with ume vinegar is a fried dish for the height of summer, so I finished it with ume vinegar for a refreshing…

• ¥365

• Cook time 1 hr

Whiting tokusa-age — conger eel yawata-age, rich dashi, myoga

This time, I learned about "agemono" from Master Toru Sugai (Tokyo Kaikan Mitsubishi Club). I will be focusing on "Tokusaage."

Seared Ayu Sushi

I thought of sweetfish, a local Kanagawa ingredient in early summer. I filleted it, salted it light…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Walnut tofu / early-summer salmon, Edo-style soy-cured and grilled / abalone and ginkgo nut takikomi rice

Even for a veteran master chef, there are many dishes whose preparation can't be understood just by hearing about them or seeing them once. That's…

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

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

Squid and Egg-Yolk Yawata-maki, Saltleaf Tazuna Potato Sushi

For the appetizer squid and egg-yolk yawata-maki, we roll it up yawata-style, simmer it in egg yolk, and then lightly torch the surface to add a…

Smoked Soy-Glazed Grilled Yellowtail

This dish uses yellowtail as an end-of-season ingredient in March. Yellowtail is most often served as sashimi or in yellowtail simmered with daikon…