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Juvenile Ayu and Summer Vegetables, Vinegar-Simmered

A device using rice vinegar so that guests will want to drink even the broth.

Fish Sōmen

From the collection of dishes for beating the summer heat, this is the o-shinogi, a small filling course served partway through the meal. Fish sōmen…

• Serves 4 · ¥0

• Cook time 1 hr

Tomato, water shield

You can savor the sweetness and deep, concentrated umami of Tokutani tomatoes, which boast a sugar content of 13 degrees Brix — more than twice that…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

Pan-seared kneaded buckwheat dumpling

This is Pan-Seared Soba-gaki. 'Soba-gaki' usually means a warm dish eaten with buckwheat dough ladled over it, but here I sautéed it to make…

• Serves 1 · ¥319

• Cook time 15 min

Cool breeze salad

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Yamayuri pork harami, fruit-miso grilled

We add blueberries and white peaches to the miso base to give the pork a refreshing sweetness witho…

• ¥650

• Cook time 3 days

Kohaku-dori chicken liver mousse monaka, vinegar-cured mackerel with wild raspberry vinegar jelly, duck marinated in dashi soy sauce with orange flavor, black pork tsukune, chilled tomato takiawase, asparagus and garland chrysanthemum greens ohitashi

I've put together an assortment of drinking dishes that pair with anything — wine, shochu, or sake. Among them, the kohaku-dori liver mousse monaka…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 2 hr

Oil-steamed fall-run sweetfish, pinecone-cut Pacific saury with almond, whelk risotto in a turnip bowl, beef loin and green bean old-branch-style sticks, Ohara-style deep-fried taro shinjo, color-simmered long eggplant with peanut-kuzu sauce, jade ginkgo cracker with tofu dressing, dried persimmon with lily bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped tricolor sweet potato

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Visual impact that makes you want to take a photo Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 3 hr

Tosa Akaushi tataki

This is the palate-cleanser course from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Tosa Akaushi Tataki pairs Tosa's own breed of Japanese red beef, buntan citrus, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

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…

Long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and a shiso flower-spike garnish, dressed with a fish-roe dressing, fig simmered with sweet miso, gourd-shaped cheese and egg, Kai-style cold-smoked salmon sushi roll, Brussels sprouts stuffed with crab, seared early-summer sesame tofu

This is the appetizer course. For the long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and shiso flower spike garnish, since long-arm shrimp are in season and…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Fruit Tomatoes in Hakui Sauce

Fruit tomatoes in white sauce is a dish where you can simply enjoy the flavor of fruit tomatoes while also tasting a sauce with a little something…

• ¥165

• Cook time 15 min

Fruit Tomato and Blue Cheese Chawanmushi

Since we want the micro tomatoes to have a popping texture, we place them on raw and uncooked. We pour over the sweet, nectar-like juice that comes…

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

"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…

Grilled Tomato and Winter Melon Simmered in Consommé

The first course is an appetizer (sakizuke) using vegetables that grow tastier from summer into autumn: grilled tomato and winter melon simmered in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Chilled Tomato Sōmen

This is a dish built on the unusual combination of "plant-based umami and animal-based oil," using oil as something added to the seasoning at the…

• Serves 1 · ¥138

• Cook time 8 min

Duck jibu-ni, sweet-simmered tomato

Being from Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture, I thought it would be nice to have a duck jibu-ni ma…

• Serves 1 · ¥190

• Cook time 20 min

Charcoal-grilled splendid alfonsino and abalone

For the charcoal-grilled kinmedai and abalone, the smoky aroma of the charcoal grilling layers over the flavor of the miso, bringing out the…

• ¥1,385

• Cook time 1 hr

Corn Fermented Butter, Japanese-Style Soy Milk Panna Cotta, with Shoyu-Kōji Caramel

When I did research for this dish, I found a source stating that "the word koku (body and richness) arose from the aging of grains." So, thinking…

• Serves 14 · ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Ōiwana Ginjō-Arai, Stuffed Fruit Tomato

This dish makes use of char in season. What we use here is large char — the difference from regular char is the growing period and size: large char…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 1 hr

Blue Swimmer Crab Autumn-Color Tamaji-Mushi

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: designed with photogenic appeal for guests in their twenties and thirties…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 1 hr

Suzuki Sea Bass Oil-Marinated, Abalone Slow-Cooked in Oil

Wanting to make a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and since sweetfish is the famous summer fish known for its pairing with smartweed, I decided to…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Winter melon steamed parcel, summer bracken rolled in fried tofu skin, tender-simmered beef tongue, lotus root dumpling, summer vegetable deep-fried tofu fritter

This is the lidded-dish course. For the summer warabi shinoda-maki, the warabi is first treated as usual to remove its bitterness and simmered to…