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Spring Three-Kind Assortment — Spring Vegetable Ohitashi, Kinome Miso, Hassaku and Snow Pea Shira-ae

This is a three-item assortment using wild mountain vegetables, vegetables, and fruit that grow more delicious in spring. With the freshness of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring greens and firefly squid

We value the green fragrance and refreshing texture of the wild mountain vegetables.

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

Fava Bean Shinjo

Made to evoke the image of budding sprouts, in the season when many wild mountain vegetables appear.

Grilled firefly squid with white asparagus, fiddlehead fern, and egg-yolk shuto vinegar

This is a warm vinegared dish prepared on the iron griddle. We bring out the umami of spring's seasonal ingredients by steaming them with a seared…

Sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom rolled in thin overlapping apple slices, spiral-rolled young bamboo shoot, sakura lily bulb pressed into a sheet, halfbeak vegetable sushi, bush-warbler-green lotus root, sea snail spring-fragrance fritter, and pistol shrimp glazed simmer

A springtime array of color. For the sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom apple senmaki roll, the rapeseed blossoms are boiled in mustard water and…

• Serves 30 · ¥960

• Cook time 40 min

On an auspicious day (red sea bream flesh and fin)

From "expressing local heritage through cooking," this is the simmered course. Using the flesh and fin of red sea bream from Fukuoka, which boasts…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 50 min

Wild Mountain Vegetable Sawani-Wan

You can enjoy two flavors in a single soup bowl. One is a flavor combining vegetables and asari clams. I roast butterbur sprouts and udo at 100°C for…

• Serves 1 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Clam shinjo, turnip simmered with a hint of plum

With the presentation in mind, I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. For the clear-soup course, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 40 min

Napa cabbage pureed soup, sea bream milt mochi

For the napa cabbage surinagashi, since the core of the napa cabbage is sweet and a treasure trove of dashi, we make the broth together with…

Okutone Trout and Spring Vegetable Carpaccio

This is a sashimi course dish that expresses local heritage. For the Okutone trout and spring vegetable carpaccio, I paired Okutone trout, a branded…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 30 min

Clam shinjo

Yamagata Beef Cold Roast Beef with Wild Mountain Vegetable Salad

I sous-vide Yamagata beef, a branded beef from Yamagata Prefecture, to make a cold roast beef that keeps well refrigerated. Meat dishes are popular…

Cabbage mochi, miso kanpura, and deep-fried simmered maple salmon with angelica shoots

This is a modern arrangement of a Fukushima local dish. The original local dish consists of "cabbage mochi, miso kanpura, and maple salmon." We…

• Serves 2 · ¥200

• Cook time 50 min

Japanese mountain yam somen

Clam and wild mountain vegetable takikomi rice — wasabi leaf, fiddlehead fern, butterbur sprout, angelica-tree shoots

They order delicious varieties of rice from all over Japan depending on the season. At the time of …

Sansai and cockle vinegared dish, warm and smoke-finished (urui, nobiru, warabi, kogomi, diluted ponzu, red grated daikon)

To add a touch of red to the dish, we've added red grated daikon. To make it, you bore a hole firmly into the daikon and push a dried red chili all…

Taro deep-fried, coated in hailstone-like dice

The taro deep-fried arare-style takes its cue from the Doll's Festival: small dice of purple sweet potato and orange sweet potato are pressed onto…

Mugwort tofu coated in brown rice and deep-fried, grated-daikon style, leaf onion, angelica-tree shoots, ostrich fern fiddlehead, saxifrage, butterbur sprout, ginger

When kneading, we add mugwort, which has moisture, so we knead it even more and pack it in tightly …

Whale dressed in mustard vinegar-miso, whale tongue

This is a vinegared dish. For the mustard vinegar-miso dressing, I use momohiro and saezuri. Momohiro is the small intestine, and saezuri is the…

• ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Wild mountain vegetables and egg rice porridge with bamboo shoot, udo, bracken fern, koshiabura, fiddlehead fern, myoga, and grated ginger

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

Helmet crab miso grilled in the shell, and helmet crab

This is a grilled dish, using Aomori ingredients to arrange the Aomori local dish hotate kayaki-miso (scallop grilled in its shell with miso). For…

• Serves 1 · ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Turban shell, grilled in the shell

This is a grilled dish designed with the presentation in mind. Turban shell tsubo-yaki (grilled in the shell) expresses old-fashioned "nostalgia."…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min