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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

Lotus Root Sandwich Deep-Fry, Asparagus Wrapped in Yuba and Deep-Fried

This is the fried course. The lotus root sandwich deep-fry is usually fried with only a thin batter, but this time we mixed dried shiso leaf into the…

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

Suppon Dashi Bursts Out! Soy Meat Tempura

Even when I cooked block-type soy meat as a meat substitute, its distinctive aroma was hard to eliminate no matter how strongly I seasoned it from…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Horse Mackerel Tsumire Soup

This is the soup course. The horse mackerel tsumire soup uses local horse mackerel caught at Hayakawa Fishing Port in Odawara. We normally use ginger…

Barracuda pot-cooked rice (leek, ginger, shiso, chives, sudachi, scallion oil)

This time, on 'the rice course,' I learned from chef Kimizuka (Yoyogi, Shiki no Aji Horikawa). This time I take up 'kama-daki gohan.'

Swordtip squid somen

Added richness with grape-seed oil.

New burdock root pureed soup

For the pike conger with grated plum sauce: this time I used the tail section of the pike conger that isn't used for the quick-blanched preparation…

Squid grilled with sea urchin, rock tripe dressed with sea urchin, kuruma prawns with sea urchin (the way of sea urchin)

This is the Way of Uni course. For squid grilled with sea urchin, a slice of squid is scored with a knife, seared with a torch, and rolled up. Sea…

• ¥3,050

• Cook time 50 min

Small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted

From the theme of heritage dishes, this is "small sardines, simmered and dried." For the sardines, simply remove the heads, guts, and tails, then…

• Serves 1 · ¥52

• Cook time 5 hr

Tea-covered grilled sea bass, giant longarm prawn grilled with golden egg yolk

This is a grilled hassun course. For the tea-covered grilled sea bass, if served at the counter, placing the sea bass on a heated stone, pouring tea…

• ¥590

• Cook time 1 days

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…

Pike Conger and Herb Smoked Japanese-Style Rice Burger

The pike conger and herb smoked Japanese-style rice burger was devised with the fish burger as a starting point. Smoking the pike conger, I think…

Pike Conger Blanched, Local Octopus Seared, Kuruma Prawn Oil-Blanched

For the kuruma prawn oil-blanched, we cook the prawn by passing it briefly through oil. With the pike conger, octopus, and kuruma prawn alike, not…

The blessings of Hyogo's five provinces -- Settsu bamboo shoot grilled in the style of Nada's five sake districts; Harima bamboo shoot in vinegar jelly flavored with its tender inner sheath; Tajima bamboo shoot with firefly squid and egg-yolk vinegar sauce; Tamba bamboo shoot, black bean, and mountain yam wrapped in yuba and deep-fried; Awaji bamboo shoot and needle-cut squid in sansho-leaf miso

We combined the wonderful spring ingredients of the five regions within Hyogo Prefecture -- Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji -- each rich in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,420

• Cook time 2 days

Greater amberjack (akabana) tataki with papaya

Young Sweetfish Oil-Sardine

This is a sauce chosen by color—an expression through color. For this additional course, I came up with 'oil sardine' as a new way to enjoy sweetfish…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Red Shiso Bean Paste and Hakata-Style Warabi-Mochi

The theme was "sauce," and drawing on Western recipes as reference too, I tried to come up with a sauce that's simple and doesn't overpower the…

• Serves 2 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min