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Tomato Soba

Tomato Soba is a menu item I've served during this season for some time. Perhaps because of Karuizawa's local character, many guests enjoy Western…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Simmered Beef in Miso

For the simmered beef chuck-eye roll (kata-rosu), I use several kinds of miso along with chicken-bone broth and other ingredients to build a…

• Serves 1 · ¥215

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Tomato and Onion Droplet

I devised this as the zatsuke (the first dish served at the start of a banquet) within a summer set menu. This is a chilled soup course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Sea bream spring aspic, kombu-cured Shinshu salmon with vinegar dressing, simmered abalone, prawn with caviar, walnut tofu

First, we come to the five appetizer dishes. I added volume and plated them showily. For the sea bream spring aspic, I worked characters chosen for…

Koshu-style grilled chicken grunt, tomato baked in white sauce, steamed eel rice

This is the grilled course. For Koshu-style grilled isaki, the isaki is filleted into three pieces, coated with flour, and pan-grilled in olive oil;…

• ¥2,750

• Cook time 2 hr

(Opening hassun) Gion Festival

I was born and raised in Tokyo. After graduating high school I spent five years at a sushi restaurant in Shinbashi, and I joined a mikoshi…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Dried herring in sansho oil

The only dishes I knew that used dried herring fillets were sweet syrup-simmered preserves and steamed-and-simmered dishes, but it occurred to me…

• Serves 5 · ¥490

• Cook time 15 min

Koya-dofu Beef Liver Steak Style, with Herb Butter Sauce

I wanted to create a health-conscious menu using freeze-dried tofu, which is high in protein. Since I have long experience cooking Western cuisine, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 20 min

Spanish mackerel grilled in a spring-mountain style, clam grilled with tofu skin, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf, apricot wafer confection

The Spanish mackerel grilled in a spring-mountain style expresses a scene from my hometown. As for the clam grilled with yuba, if you simply grill…

Awaji Numashima Pike Conger, ‘Skin-Beauty’ Hot Pot

A small hot pot built around hamo (pike conger) in season. Hamo from Numashima on Awaji Island is characterized by soft bones and thin skin, carries…

• Serves 1 · ¥875

• Cook time 1 hr

Lettuce, celery, and tomato Hakata-roll, bracken fern and prosciutto wrapped in bamboo paper, shark fin in savory jelly

This is a vinegared dish course. For the lettuce, celery, and tomato hakata-roll, I pass the lettuce through oil, then through hot water, and drop it…

• ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Sesame Soy-Milk Somen -- Using "Macro Tare"

We thought about "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine" by making use of a sauce that delivers impact without any animal-derived ingredients. The "Macro…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

End-of-season pufferfish and wagyu, assorted preparations: miso-bed-pickled rib-eye grilled over a wire net, seared rib-eye, pufferfish flesh-and-skin roll pintxos, cold-smoked pufferfish nigiri sushi, translucent-sliced pufferfish skin with cream cheese, saimaki shrimp marinated with spring citrus

The miso-bed-pickled rib-eye grilled over a wire net and the seared rib-eye both use the same single rib-eye; cooking it before pickling in miso…

Agu pork simmered with shell ginger, Okinawan rakkyo pickled in miso, mountain udo and river shrimp steeped in genmaicha

Here I use many ingredients from Okinawa, such as Agu pork, shima-rakkyo, and gettō tea. I'm originally from Okinawa Prefecture, and this dish came…

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

Eel simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper

This is a simmered dish. For the Eel Arima-ni, normally you'd remove the sliminess from the eel, cut it into tube sections, sear it, steam it, then…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Kaikyo Salmon Hakata-Oshi

This is the first dish. Salmon salads are common in Italian cuisine, and I wondered whether one could be arranged in a Japanese style. Using onion…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 20 min

Kuruma Prawn and Summer Vegetables Dressed with Sudachi

A dish where the refreshing fragrance of sudachi tickles the nose.

Rock Oyster Grilled with Rice Flour, Tomato Simmered with Thyme, Corn Shinjo, Edamame Simmered with Herbs

For the tomato simmered with thyme: after combining the dashi and seasonings, it's important to first draw out the thyme's fragrance thoroughly by…

Beef Sirloin Saikyo-Zuke

Pricier, but wagyu sirloin marinated in saikyo-zuke (miso marinade) and grilled.

Tomato and Mozzarella, Hakata-Style; Cucumber Rolled with King Crab

A salad-like vinegared course. We sieve grilled tomato, add agar, layer it hakata-style with sieved mozzarella, then torch it for toasty aroma. The…

Salt-seared bonito with Takaoka fruit-tomato salad, vinegared moray eel, juvenile conger eel with garlic nuta

This is the vinegared dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. As for the salt-seared bonito — katsuo no tataki, Kochi's signature dish, is usually eaten…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 40 min