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Nanzenji-style steamed Spanish mackerel with tofu, wood ear mushroom, carrot, lily bulb, ginkgo nut, and wasabi

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from chef Miyabe (Palace Hotel Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Wadakura'). I take up 'Nanzenji-mushi.'

Shinshu-style steamed dish

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…

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

Spring sea bream grilled with cherry blossom fragrance, saimaki prawn temari sushi, bamboo shoot in sansho-leaf dressing

A lively presentation is the charm of this grilled-course hassun. "Since this was meant as a menu for cherry-blossom-viewing season, I decided to go…

Pinecone-cut tokobushi, bamboo-cut asparagus and salmon roll, plum-shaped noshi with a naruto twist, black soybean wine jelly

We'd like to propose a way to make the most of true cod milt in season, a winter ingredient. Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot Manju

This is a dish where you can fully enjoy the aroma and deliciousness of bamboo shoot, a representative ingredient of spring. So that you can fully…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 20 min

Yuzu Vessel: Niigata Red Snow Crab, Lily Bulb, and Ginkgo Nut Grilled with Yuzu Miso

I serve Niigata's 'red snow crab' presented in a yuzu vessel (yuzu-gama — a hollowed-out yuzu peel used as a serving bowl), to bring out the…

• Serves 1 · ¥468

• Cook time 40 min

Zuiki tōji-maki with conger eel in a shinjo coating, lily bulb simmered in happō dashi

This is the simmered course. For the zuiki tōji-maki with conger eel in a shinjo coating, the obvious approach would be to simply add simmered conger…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Lily Bulb Manjū with Suppon Poured In, Chrysanthemum-Style, Plum Flesh

For the simmered-soup course, the softshell turtle lily bulb manjū gets a chewy texture and more substance by adding a little mochi flour to the lily…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 10 min

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

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

Cherry-Blossom Sea Bream and Rapeseed Blossom Kombu-Cured, Butterbur Kosode Sushi, Sardine and Snap Pea Nanban-Marinade, Icefish and Shirataki Noodles with Kinome Miso Dengaku, Cherry-Leaf and Lily Bulb Squeeze, Bamboo-Leaf Mugwort Sesame Tofu, Baby Octopus and Sea Bream Roe Simmered with Cherry Blossom

This is the appetizer course, seven dishes for a spring evening. The cherry-blossom sea bream and rapeseed blossom kombu-cured dish is plated…

• ¥580

• Cook time 2 hr

Chilled verdant egg custard, sardine simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pumpkin castella sponge cake, coin-cut octopus fragrant fried, white melon tossed with bottarga, asparagus and bacon egg-yolk grilled, cheese tofu, pork belly simmered Yoshino-style with a kuzu-thickened sauce, hydrangea-style egg, and squid two-color grill

This is the appetizers course. For the chilled verdant egg custard, after making an egg tofu, I puree it in a mixer, combine it with gelatin and…

• ¥300

• Cook time 2 days

Nanzenji-style steamed tofu with hand-scooped yuba, sea urchin, lily bulb, mitsuba, and silver sauce

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from chef Yamamoto (Azabu Nagasaka Sarashina Honten). I take up 'Nanzenji-mushi.'

Mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar, Tamba chestnuts simmered in coffee, autumn ayu with water-pepper miso, walnut tofu wrung in cloth, sea urchin jelly with yam bulbils, young kuruma prawns, thin-sliced burdock, jade-green ginkgo nuts, cuttlefish grilled with salted fish innards, moon-viewing lily-bulb dumplings

This is the appetizer course, and I put particular effort into it. For the abalone in the mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar dressing, it…

Ginkgo tofu, roe-bearing ayu kombu roll, persimmon tofu-dressed salad, Pacific saury sushi in a kimono-sleeve shape, beef rolled and grilled with leek, cream cheese with salted fish-innard sauce, seasonal vegetables with blanched chrysanthemum

This is the appetizer course. For the ginkgo tofu, I was particular about bringing out the green color of the ginkgo nuts well, so I chose ginkgo…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed Turnip, Dried Shrimp Soup

For the steamed turnip, we normally combine grated turnip with egg white, but since our restaurant serves a large number of guests and needs a…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 12 min

Spanish mackerel miso-marinated and grilled with citrus flavor, butterbur sprout grilled with miso glaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. The grilled course…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 2 days

Charcoal-grilled wild mallard (lily bulb)

After quickly deep-frying just the surface of the wild mallard breast at high temperature, we apply low-temperature cooking, and finish it by smoking…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom rolled in thin overlapping apple slices, spiral-rolled young bamboo shoot, sakura lily bulb pressed into a sheet, halfbeak vegetable sushi, bush-warbler-green lotus root, sea snail spring-fragrance fritter, and pistol shrimp glazed simmer

A springtime array of color. For the sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom apple senmaki roll, the rapeseed blossoms are boiled in mustard water and…

• Serves 30 · ¥960

• Cook time 40 min

Bamboo shoot miso-glazed and grilled three ways -- sansho-leaf miso, dengaku miso, and yuzu miso, cornetfish and celtuce stem dressed with fish roe, icefish sushi wrapped in a cherry leaf, baby turban shell coated with sea urchin, foie gras in an amber jelly, salmon rolled in a brocade pattern

The grilled hassun course is bamboo shoot dengaku, three ways. The bamboo shoot is rehydrated with rice bran and dried chili, then peeled, cleaned…

• ¥1,340

• Cook time 40 min

Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Sweetfish simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance, chestnut kabocha mousse, Kamo eggplant mousse, tomato mousse, pike conger with grated plum sauce

For the ayu simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance: remove the ayu's backbone and stuff the cavity with chopped myoga ginger and ginger, then use…