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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

Ōboshi scallop, new-crop nameko mushroom

This is the vinegared course. Ōboshi scallop, nameko mushroom, and cucumber are dressed together and topped with chrysanthemum petals. The grated…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 20 min

Flame-Seared Kisu, Nuta-Style Kisu, and Oil-Blanched Kisu

Flame-seared whiting is a dish for enjoying whiting in a rich, thickened kombu dashi. Rather than a richly seasoned dashi or a pale starch sauce, I…

• ¥200

• Cook time 50 min

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr

Sea bream takikomi chirashi rice — Flavor Signs (The Spread of Flavor)

I consider the value of dining out to be dishes that only our restaurant can serve, and service that stays close to the guest. This time, taking a…

• Serves 2 · ¥490

• Cook time 30 min

Eel and cucumber in vinegar

This is a vinegared dish. We always include one eel dish in the summer course. This time we made it as the classic unagi-zaku, shaped into an eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 40 min

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Monkfish liver rolled like folded paper, quick-blanched crab claw, crab roe with sea urchin, raw cod roe simmered to infuse flavor, snow-ring lotus root vinegar pickle, served in a hollowed yuzu shell

The monkfish liver hosho-maki is a longstanding technique, but I thought pairing it would let guests enjoy not only its rich umami but also the…

• ¥430

• Cook time 20 min

Chicken grunt, skin seared yakishimo-style

This was created with couples in their thirties and forties in mind. For the skin-seared isaki, the skin is often discarded, but it is actually…

• ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled spring pancake, duck, cucumber, scallion, cherry leaf, clam simmered Arima-style, sansho peppercorns

If you overcook the clams they turn tough, so I think it's best to just barely warm them through in the marinade. I have the impression that Arima-ni…

Grilled Eggplant Tartare-Style

For the grilled eggplant tartare-style, the moisture is drawn out of the grilled eggplant, which is then finely minced and worked until sticky, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Conger Eel Shirayaki, Hakata-Style Pressed

I proposed this as a way of serving seafood, using Kanagawa ingredients while exploring the prefecture's local cuisine. This is a vinegared dish. For…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 40 min

Sliced Abalone with Summer Vegetables in Abalone-Liver Sauce

For the sliced abalone with summer vegetables in abalone-liver sauce, I prepare the abalone by slow-simmering it whole, cut the summer vegetables to…

• ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Motobu Beef Chateaubriand

The charcoal-grilled Motobu beef chateaubriand is a dish featuring Motobu beef, which has a higher unsaturated-fat content than the average for…

• ¥1,250

• Cook time 10 min

Truffle sea bream chazuke — red sea bream, truffle, wasabi, sesame sauce, shredded nori, shiso, layered kombu, pickled cucumber, pickled turnip

Making the sesame sauce starts with toasting polished sesame seeds ourselves, since that lets us control the level of toasting to our own liking…

Temari Kisu, Kisu Nishiki-Maki, and Seared Kisu in Ume Vinegar Marinade

For temari kisu (Japanese whiting), I cut kombu-cured kisu into fine strips — with an eye to how easily chopsticks can pick it apart — and layer them…

• ¥520

• Cook time 50 min

Duck yawata-maki, shrimp simmered shiba-ni style, taro and sea bream miso dengaku, kabocha squash, egg-yolk glaze-grilled squid

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 30 min

Vegetable achara pickle with Chinese yam, baby cucumber, Fushimi pepper, Corinky squash, dried daikon, frozen konjac, firm tofu, tomato cup, scallion sprouts, and olive oil and white vinegar

Freezing the konnyaku once creates air pockets inside it, making it easier for the seasoning to soak in and giving it a pleasantly popping texture in…

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing uses raw konjac tuber. If you blend it into a paste with the skin left on, you get black konjac; if you…

Sea Urchin Tofu

This is an appetizer course. Sea urchin tofu is not served in the conventional savory dashi. I made it using a tomato purée prepared from fruit…

• ¥656

• Cook time 30 min

Steamed Abalone, Crab and Cheese Terrine Wrapped in Prosciutto

Two starter dishes. The steamed abalone is salt-steamed with salt and sake. The taro stem is color-set, cut into thin lengths, and bundled. The…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Water namasu, Daiō char minced with miso

As for Water Namasu, I'm told that in the region where I was born and raised, sailors used to eat it this way aboard ship. Wanting guests to taste…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 20 min

Five-color namasu

This time, we learned about the vinegared course from Master Instructor Okawara (Hotel Suigetsu Ogaiso). We feature sweet vinegar.

Takuan and lightly pickled cucumber

This is the kōonomono (pickles course). For the takuan and lightly pickled cucumber, I make fine kesa-style diagonal cuts on the front of the takuan…