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Grilled barracuda rice-ball ochazuke (young myoga, trefoil, sesame, arare, nori, wasabi)

The ochazuke dashi is poured over only after the grilled rice ball and all the other ingredients have been plated, but it's important not to pour too…

Cod ochazuke

This time, it's the meal course, making use of cod at the end of its season. The cod ochazuke lets us use the late-season cod without wasting any…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Shinshu giant char cylinder roll, char roe in soy marinade, autumn fruit and walnut mousse, Shinshu pork steamed with sansho, grilled maitake with foie gras, chrysanthemum petal salad, Shinshu salmon with egg-yolk mustard sauce

This is an appetizer presented in hassun (seasonal-assortment course) style, using Nagano Prefecture's prized traditional vegetables and, since it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamo and Matsutake Dobin-Mushi

Dobin-mushi made with early-season matsutake and hamo is the classic, standard combination for this time of year, something many Japanese people…

Oyster and matsutake rice (ginkgo nuts, mitsuba, fried tofu)

The meal is "Oyster and Matsutake Rice." Washing the oysters with a daikon grater removes all dirt …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,095

• Cook time 30 min

Sixteen-grain Fukagawa rice, mushroom and egg soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by Ms. Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that sparked my interest in yakuzen. Since…

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 35 min

Champignon pureed soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is the clear-soup course. The Champignon Surinagashi — a ground, strained purée-style…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

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…

Hairy crab, daikon, and clam simmered in milky broth

This is a simmered dish introduced from our restaurant's popular autumn menu. Hairy crab can be harvested year-round, but this is a dish we like to…

• Serves 10 · ¥13,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Female snow crab pot-cooked rice

This is something of a signature dish at our restaurant: the trick is that when you open the pot, charcoal and kobako crab appear, to guests'…

• Serves 12 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 40 min

Dressed with "Dried-Fruit Miso"

Dried persimmon and dried apricot are rich in beta-carotene. Dried mango has one of the highest vitamin A contents of any fruit; dried fig is rich in…

• Serves 3 · ¥380

• Cook time 10 min

Clam, Ezo Abalone

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…

Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke

For the shellfish frills used in the Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke — white mirugai, ark shell, and pen shell — we rub them well with salt to…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Char Steamed in Green Bamboo

This is a dish under the theme of expressing local heritage through cooking. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 1 hr

Making Vegetables Delicious

Since vegan cooking can only use vegetables, and that leaves the flavor feeling somewhat lacking, I thought about whether I could perfect it starting…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,208

• Cook time 20 min

Female snow crab chawanmushi (thin kuzu-thickened style, mitsuba stems, yuzu zest)

For kōbako crab chawanmushi, the dashi is what makes it. Grilling the emptied crab legs and taking dashi from them produces excellent dashi.

Shijimi clam Inaniwa udon (mitsuba, julienned ginger, yuzu)

Boiling the udon and then tightening it once in cold water lets you enjoy a beautiful sheen and firm, springy texture. We select only large shijimi…

Fukushima 'zakuzaku-ni' soup-style, with flower-cut daikon, flower-cut carrot, and chrysanthemum-cut taro

This is a modern arrangement of a local dish. With the wish to pass on the traditional Fukushima local dish zakuzaku-ni into a new era, we thought to…

• Serves 3 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Shingoro, Okoge-Style, with Kozuyu Sauce

This is a modern arrangement of the Fukushima local dishes shingoro (a rice cake glazed with egoma, or perilla) and kozuyu (a dish simmered in dried…

• Serves 1 · ¥140

• Cook time 2 hr

Eel and collagen rice porridge — the synergy of three collagen soups

As part of an effort to cope with rising food costs, the concept behind this meal course is "synergy." When steaming plain-grilled eel, the water in…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Rice course: clay-pot-cooked rice

Generously featuring the flavors of autumn, colorfully.

Sparrow-shaped deep-fried flounder, conger eel rolled in shredded egg and deep-fried, plain deep-fried clam, shrimp deep-fried straw-cape-style, steamed fish cake deep-fried into a rice-bale shape

This is a deep-fried dish. The sparrow-shaped deep-fried flounder is fried to resemble a sparrow. Both fillets are opened out to the fin edge, and…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 15 min

Shellfish Chiri and Plum Rice Porridge

For the Shellfish Chiri and Plum Rice Porridge, simply adding the boiling liquid from asari or shijimi clams lacks originality, so we used surf clam…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Molded quail

This is the soup course. For the molded quail, I take quail meat and bone — delicious in winter — add about 20% duck meat, then combine with Japanese…

• ¥380

• Cook time 2 hr