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Zucchini blossom stuffed with scallop fish-paste dumpling and monkfish liver

This is the fried course. Once a little food or beer is in your stomach, your appetite really picks up, and I think fried food tastes better eaten a…

• ¥510

• Cook time 40 min

Quail meatball

This is an introduction of a dish paired with the white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, where my own workplace is located. This is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Kaikyo Salmon Hakata-Oshi

This is the first dish. Salmon salads are common in Italian cuisine, and I wondered whether one could be arranged in a Japanese style. Using onion…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 20 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

Low-Temperature Cooked Kurosatsuma Chicken

Rolled Nishiki Vegetables

The sesame jelly: season sesame ponzu with olive oil and yuzu-kosho, set with gelatin, then pound firm enough for chopsticks.

Toya Sasaki Farm Ice-Cellar-Aged Sapporo-ki Onion Soup Ochazuke

For the rice course, I developed an ice-cellar-aged Sapporo-ki onion soup ochazuke. Under the theme of drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's…

• Serves 4 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-Fried Oysters, Novelty Style; New Bamboo Shoot Wrapped in Prosciutto

• ¥5,040

• Cook time 1 hr

Western-style seared bonito, herb-wrapped flounder, skin-seared whiting, Odawara horse mackerel tataki stuffed in mountain yam

This is a sashimi course. I prepared three types of sauce: a tart sauce, a salt-based sauce, and soy sauce. The amaranth has a beautiful purple…

Brown rice coffee, charred tea snack

Charring is an old technique in Japan; I first learned of it back when I studied macrobiotics. Carbonizing ingredients in a Vermicular oven takes…

• ¥180

• Cook time 5 min

Gizzard shad, white-wine-cured

Its charm is a unique sweetness, different from the kohada served in sushi.

Sesame Soy-Milk Sōmen with 'Macro Tare' Sauce

'Macro tare,' the key point of this dish, is usually used as a dipping sauce or dressing for meat and fish. This time I thought about whether this…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

Yonezawa beef simmered Takahata-style

Robust Yonezawa beef paired with a wine concentrated with grape flavor. Savor Yamagata's dynamic ingredients to the fullest.

Aizu Horse Meat Tataki, Sango-hachi-zuke

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Aizu raw horse meat Fukushima Prefecture covers a large area, comprising the Aizu…

• Serves 2 · ¥850

• Cook time 30 min

Mamekozou Peas Steamed Kishu-Style

Sakura shrimp fritter with tea leaves mixed in

For the fried dish, I used green tea. As for the sakura shrimp kakiage, I've never seen a kakiage with tea mixed in, so I think guests will find it…

Seafood tomato clear soup, Boso kaibi and asari clams

Two clear-soup courses. The seafood tomato clear soup is a Japanese take on bouillabaisse. Since the local area is a well-known tomato-growing…

• Serves 6 · ¥6,580

• Cook time 30 min

Awaji Onion and Silkie Chicken Egg, Silk-Smooth Steamed Custard

This is the sakizuke course, an appetizer. The Awaji onion and silkie chicken egg silk-smooth steamed custard uses onions grown on Awaji Island…

• ¥4,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Japanese-style bagna càuda

Using a fermented paste made from salted sea bream innards in the sauce creates a Japanese flavor profile.

Greater amberjack (akabana) with aromatic black vinegar dressing

Tomo-sankaku grilled with cilantro

This is the grilled course. As for the rump cap (ichibo) grilled with cilantro — I present this roast-beef technique every time; it's become quite a…

• ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Japanese Sea Bass Jinta-Age

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…

Greater amberjack (akabana) tataki with papaya

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…