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Ayu Grilled with Yuzu-Kosho Soy Sauce

Sweetfish is a hallmark of summer. Since food connoisseurs often have the chance to eat it whenever they dine out, I deliberately steer away from…

Awaji Island Goshiki-Torikai Spanish mackerel, smoked using low-temperature sous-vide

For the smoked sawara from Goshiki-Torikai on Awaji Island, I sous-vide the sawara (Spanish mackerel) with smoking salt at low temperature to keep…

• Serves 4 · ¥513

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn brocade platter: kogarashi-yose, smoked autumn duck, oil-simmered roe-bearing ayu, and pike conger and matsutake ōharagi-age

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a large shared platter that makes people want to take a photo. I designed…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 20 min

Ayu and Eggplant Terrine, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, guests from overseas have declined, but I designed this menu anticipating that they will eventually return, Sweetfish, a…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing

For the roe-bearing ayu, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing, I could never quite enjoy the dry, mealy texture of the roe, so I thought about how…

• Serves 1 · ¥395

• Cook time 2 days

Layered Ayu and Eggplant, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, we have many guests from overseas, so I devised this dish with them in mind. Sweetfish, a summer ingredient, is typically…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Seared Ayu Sushi

I thought of sweetfish, a local Kanagawa ingredient in early summer. I filleted it, salted it light…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Fermented sea bass, grilled in tade oil — from 'Japanese Cuisine Rakushi' in Yokohama, Kanagawa

Hishio has less salt than soy sauce, and this time I use it to season the dressed vegetables. I also make amazake, a sweet fermented rice drink, two…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish stuffed and steamed, water pepper, fish-bone crackers, lotus root

For the additional course, rather than the standard grilled preparation, I bone the sweetfish, restuff it with lotus root, and steam it back into its…

• Serves 1 · ¥865

• Cook time 15 min

Sweetfish simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance, chestnut kabocha mousse, Kamo eggplant mousse, tomato mousse, pike conger with grated plum sauce

For the ayu simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance: remove the ayu's backbone and stuff the cavity with chopped myoga ginger and ginger, then use…

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

Charcoal-grilled juvenile sweetfish

This is a dish that uses quite a number of different oils at the preparation stage. The young sweetfish are rinsed in water, vacuum-packed with olive…

• Serves 1 · ¥385

• Cook time 15 min

Sea bass, oil-seared, Manganji green pepper grilled and dashi-steeped, kofuki-dusted ginger, vinegared myoga bud, tade vinegar

This time, on 'grilled dishes,' I learned from technical director Iwata (Royal Park Hotel). I take up 'abura-yaki.'

Ayu Namerou with Finger Lime

I devised this dish as a new way of serving seafood. My focus is on a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Small Melon Pureed Soup

This soup lets you enjoy the whole ayu just as its season opens. Ayu cured with kombu can be frozen, so it's versatile — useful for an appetizer, a…

Low-Temperature Simmered Abalone, Melting Sesame Tofu, Seared Sea Bass

As a dish meant to help beat the summer heat, I focused above all on practicality while designing it around the theme of "unconventional cold…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,775

• Cook time 2 hr

Sea bass seared in sansho oil, with crisped fish-skin cracker, Manganji green pepper, vinegared myoga bud, tade vinegar dressing, fried sansho berries, and sansho oil powder

I used a fragrant oil made from fresh sansho berries and rice bran oil, and finished the dish through low-temperature cooking for a plump, moist…

Sweetfish and Kamo eggplant, Dutch-style fried

This is the aiko course, an additional dish inserted into the menu. For ayu and Kamo eggplant, Oranda-style, since I wanted to include a fried dish…

• ¥1,240

• Cook time 50 min

Seared sweetfish sushi

As a fresh exploration of aroma, I set out to express ayu's refreshing fragrance and umami by using the whole fish without waste. I thought of ayu as…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Tade-grilled sweetfish, wasabi-grilled beef, Kamo eggplant with foie gras

This is a grilled course. This time I used ayu from Lake Biwa to make the tade-grilled ayu. For the wasabi-grilled beef, I grill it over a net with a…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Lapis-blue eggplant, eggplant with pounded-soybean dressing, vine-ripened pickled eggplant (the eggplant myth)

This is the Eggplant Myth course. Lapis-blue eggplant is simmered together with pickled plum to drive off its moisture, becoming a color-set simmered…

• ¥760

• Cook time 25 min

Sweetfish, butterflied and white-fan fried

This is the fried dish course. For the sweetfish, butterflied and white-fan fried, I butterfly the sweetfish along its back, carefully remove the…

• ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Young sweetfish three-color sushi, sweetfish pressed in layers, tade-dried sweetfish (tale of the aromatic fish)

This is the Tale of the Aromatic Fish course. These days, it seems pure wild ayu can no longer be obtained. For young ayu three-color sushi, small…

• ¥1,850

• Cook time 1 days

Charcoal-Grilled Ayu with Aonori and Clam Porridge

The ayu is first filleted and de-boned, then its innards — soaked in sake and wind-dried — are carefully returned to the fish. It's a labor-intensive…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min