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'Whale' — whale throat cartilage (Onagawa's traditional food culture: 'Whale')

This is the appetizer course. Taking as its theme the 'whale culture' rooted in Onagawa, a town on the eastern side of Miyagi Prefecture, I hoped…

• Serves 1 · ¥398

• Cook time 2 days

Uzaku

This time, we learned about "vinegared dishes" from Master Instructor Oikawa (Nihonbashi, Isesada Main Store). We feature "uzaku."

Charcoal-Grilled Wagyu with Summer Vegetable Japanese-Style Salsa

This is a dish with a magnificent array of vitamin-bright colors woven together by summer vegetables, piled on top of well-grilled wagyu. You can…

Seiko Crab Cold Dish

We have guests enjoy the deliciousness of in-season seiko crab in a light, refreshing way as an appetizer, with crab vinegar jelly. In the course…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 4 hr

Sea Bream Nanban-zuke with Jasmine Fragrance

This is a piece of vinegared-dish development built around jasmine tea. The deep-fried, vinegar-marinated sea bream was devised so guests can enjoy…

• Serves 2 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Crab Tazuna, Kombu-Cured and Seared Tilefish

For the crab tazuna with kombu-cured and seared tilefish, searing the kombu-cured tilefish to roughly 50% doneness lets the crab and tilefish bring…

• ¥958

• Cook time 40 min

Sajima Octopus, Pear Vinegar

‘Pear vinegar’ is a technique with a long history, but pairing it with octopus reveals a fresh appeal. This is a mukozuke dish, a sashimi course…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Bonito and Pen Shell Clam Marinated in Lavender-Garlic Oil

For the bonito and pen shell clam marinated in lavender-garlic oil, we bottle lavender, sliced garlic, olive oil, and salt and pepper and let it rest…

Shisen Cucumber and Aji Kinuta-Maki

I made this a dish where you can enjoy horse mackerel, which reaches its peak deliciousness in summer, together with crunchy Sichuan cucumber, in a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Aromatic Steamed Eel with Rice Oil

I've approached umami as richness = fat, for a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of ingredients. The steamed dish is…

• ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Ise spiny lobster grilled with golden egg yolk, seared Sendai beef, bottarga, yuzu-grilled winter yellowtail, kombu-cured herring roe, seven-treasure namasu, lantern-shaped herring, miso-marinated winter cod milt, grilled sea urchin, teriyaki monkfish liver

This is the celebratory platter from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. For 'Golden-Grilled Ise Spiny Lobster,' I paid close attention to the heat so the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 1 hr

Walnut tofu, whelk with vinegar-miso, sea cucumber intestines, savory egg parcel, rolled cured salmon, jellied small abalone, bottarga with daikon, aromatic deep-fried tiger prawn

The appetizer course begins with walnut tofu. We roast the walnuts, puree them, thin the paste with kombu dashi, and knead in sake, Yoshino kuzu…

• Serves 100 · ¥920

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish nanban-zuke and shrimp nanban-zuke with accordion-cut cucumber, freeze-dried tofu achara pickle, Fushimi pepper, and mixed scallion

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from instructor Nakamura (Ryōtei Chiyoda). I take up 'nanban-zuke.'

Chirashi Sushi

This time it's chirashi sushi, the fundamental rice course. For this sushi rice, I wanted a pronounced vinegar aroma, so I make the sushi vinegar…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Jellied deep-sea eelpout, whitefin trevally egg-yolk sushi, yellow sea bream pressed sushi, baby spear squid, sea sculpin, and salmon roe salad, goatfish fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, bracken fern shoots wrapped in a thin kombu sheet, and daikon radish dressed with bottarga

Under the theme of coping with rising food costs, I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata. The wide variety of inexpensive fish caught by…

• Serves 1 · ¥432

• Cook time 2 hr

Ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, arrow-fletching-cut mountain yam grilled with egg yolk, tree-ring-cut spring daikon, new water shield, abalone steamed with sake, matcha tofu, bamboo-wrapped sea bream sushi, black-tea-smoked salt-cured pork

For the accompanying dishes, I used green tea and black tea. For the ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, I hold the mountain leek in a…

Kagoshima kurobuta pork and snap pea, ginger-flavored, kombu-cured amberjack, green tea shinjo skewer, baby shrimp, baby turban shell with herbs, mallet-rolled kokanee salmon, young rakkyo prosciutto roll

Kagoshima Kurobuta Pork and Snap Pea, Ginger-Flavored is made by rolling snap peas in Kagoshima kurobuta pork as a vegetable-in-meat roll and…

• ¥606

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Molded ark shell, baby turban shell grilled with wakame, whiting sushi wrapped chimaki-style, Hakata-style duck white loin, pale-poached, dried shrimp and tomato, lightly marinated, sea bream roe jelly

This is the appetizers course. For the baby turban shell grilled with wakame, I bring out the color of the wakame and blend it in a mixer, then blend…

Tateshina Beef Tenderloin, Deep-Fried with Aromatics

For the Tateshina beef tenderloin deep-fried with aromatics, I normally prepare Tateshina beef tenderloin — delicious even as a crossbred cattle — as…

• ¥850

• Cook time 20 min

Kisu and Summer Vegetable Temari

This kisu (Japanese whiting) and summer vegetable ball-shaped dish is beautiful to look at as well; I thought that combining kombu-cured kisu with…

• ¥590

• Cook time 45 min

Whiting rolled in mountain yam, pike conger with salted kombu oil, eel and cucumber Hakata-style, small turban shell baked with cream, smoked duck

This is a refreshing course for the season. Whiting rolled in mountain yam: curing the whiting with kombu (kobujime) concentrates its umami, and…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Isaki Yawata-Maki

The threeline grunt yawata-maki, a roll named for Yawata and traditionally wrapped around burdock root, uses the trim left over from slicing sashimi…

• ¥570

• Cook time 1 hr

Oil-grilled sea bass, butter-soy sea bass

This is a grilled course. Oil-grilled sea bass is a dish suited to older guests. I fillet the sea bass into three pieces, cut it into lengths of…

• ¥350

• Cook time 50 min