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Sea squirt with citrus dressing, shrimp with fennel dressing, surf clam hydrangea-style dressing, sansho herring, beef with egg-yolk dressing

This is the sashimi course. In place of the usual sashimi, I made a five-color namasu. It uses seafood, beef, and sanshō herring, a local dish of…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Sweetfish fermented-dashi soup

At this time of year, we always serve sweetfish salt-grilled with tade vinegar — the classic pairing — but I wondered if there might be another…

• Serves 2 · ¥328

• Cook time 20 min

Iwagaki Rock Oyster with Uni Dashi

As for the iwagaki rock oyster with uni (sea urchin) dashi, iwagaki have thick flesh, come in a range of sizes, and have a rich umami, making them an…

• ¥533

• Cook time 2 hr

Cherry salmon grilled with koji

The flower-cut lotus root is pickled in vinegar, so it's convenient to keep as is. For the domyoji (coarse steamed glutinous rice) grilled with…

Overwintered napa cabbage wrapped in ancient rice, minced raw herring, pickled herring, herring roe

This is the rice course. The overwintered vegetables used are overwintered napa cabbage, overwintered cabbage, overwintered carrot, and overwintered…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 1 min

Steamed Chicken with Nametake Sauce

At our membership-based restaurants, I make a sample using ingredients that can be reliably obtained, and have each restaurant prepare it themselves…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Wagyu roast with okara — rapeseed blossoms, shredded egg crepe, boiled onion

I myself love roast beef, and one time I tried topping roast beef with simmered okara — it was delicious, so I decided to put it on the menu. Okara…

Cedar-plank grilled salmon, tube-rolled willowy flounder, uni-glazed shrimp-shaped taro, egg-yolk-glazed grilled salmon roe

This is a grilled course from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." The burdock sauce is remarkably fragrant and very well…

• Serves 1 · ¥945

• Cook time 40 min

Shimeji mushroom and kishimen hakusen-age, autumn eggplant egg-yolk deep-fry (salmon and mountain yam, checkered egg-yolk deep-fry, leaf-cut sweet potato, pine-needle-cut tea soba, kinzanji miso, tartar sauce, shuto salt, young rakkyō, soy sauce)

When wrapping salmon and Chinese yam in tatami iwashi, lightly steaming the tatami iwashi softens i…

Tender-Simmered Olive Pork

Japanese cuisine built around imported teas Tea used = For the simmered dish Tender-Simmered Olive Pork, I used dark tea, which has a distinctive…

• Serves 5 · ¥400

• Cook time 3 hr

Whitebait and cheese kakiage

As a way of serving seafood, since our restaurant is a casual, mass-appeal restaurant in Kanagawa Prefecture, I proposed this using Kanagawa…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 30 min

Yanagawa Eel and Foie Gras Grill, with Summer Vegetables

For the additional hearty course, ‘Yanagawa Eel and Foie Gras Grill, with Summer Vegetables,’ I pair foie gras with eel from Yanagawa City in Fukuoka…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Pike conger hakusen-age, hydrangea-style, edamame, micro tomato, corn, ume-kombu salt

This time, we will introduce Shirosenage, a fluffy fried food made with a batter made from water-di…

Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi

This is the soup course. For ‘Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi,’ mekaja (Lingula anatina, a lamp-shell brachiopod) is a seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Seared Ise Spiny Lobster, Ise Spiny Lobster Bisque

This is the additional hearty course. For the Ise spiny lobster bisque, I use the lobster heads to make a Western-style Américaine sauce. It's…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: Uda-kin burdock pureed soup

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 · ¥445

• Cook time 30 min

Swimming crab pureed soup

This dish is built around seafood at the end of its winter season. The end-of-season ingredient used here is swimming crab, served as a clear-soup…

• Serves 20 · ¥370

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Mountain Vegetables from Shinshū

The new-onion sauce used to dress the wild mountain vegetables is made by blending new-crop onions and cooking them to bring out their sweetness…

Layered Seafood Treasures

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties The satisfying bite and flavor changes only seafood can give Given this theme, I first…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 40 min

Champion Wagyu Fillet Steak and Abalone Steak

This is a grilled dish. As a child, I have a memory of burning dried branches in a hōroku — an earthenware roasting dish — during the fire that sends…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,300

• Cook time 2 hr

Salmon and pineapple roll, kombu-cured lavender jobfish with flavor pearls, Yoro-style tofu, local octopus and taro stalk, tomato cup, fig and prosciutto roll

From the appetizers. The lavender jobfish (Pristipomoides sieboldii) is lightly kombu-cured under vacuum for about half a day. This time the ruby…

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Berkshire pork steamed with shio-koji

This is a takiawase, an assortment of separately simmered ingredients. For the baby taro simmered in koji and pan-rolled: as the stock in the pot…

Roasted genmaicha tofu, baby octopus simmered cherry-style, cherry-leaf-green kabocha squash, duck simmered with egg yolk, butterbur simmered green

As for the roasted genmaicha tofu, tofu is mostly made up of water, but I think that, turned to advantage, it's an ingredient rich in possible…