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Misaki-gazami Yoro-mushi, Steamed with Grated Mountain Yam

Building on autumn ingredients, this is a nimono-gawari, a dish that stands in for the simmered course, featuring Misaki-gazami. For Misaki-gazami…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Ginkgo tofu, roe-bearing ayu kombu roll, persimmon tofu-dressed salad, Pacific saury sushi in a kimono-sleeve shape, beef rolled and grilled with leek, cream cheese with salted fish-innard sauce, seasonal vegetables with blanched chrysanthemum

This is the appetizer course. For the ginkgo tofu, I was particular about bringing out the green color of the ginkgo nuts well, so I chose ginkgo…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Alfonsino steamed with a white, elder-style finish

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 30 min

Kyoto Turnip and Maitake with Crab An, Sea Bream Sogi-Zukuri with Sesame Soy Sauce, Kikuna and Mushroom Nibitashi with Ikura, Kiriboshi Daikon, Hijiki, Carrot, Bite-Size Abalone and Ise Lobster Tempura, Wagyu Shigure-ni

This is from our breakfast menu. From items served year-round to those changed by season, everything we serve is carefully selected from what I…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,150

• Cook time 50 min

Fresh Greens Jelly with Sea Bream Roe

For the fresh-greens jelly topped with sea bream roe, I use Otafuku shungiku, though Kyo-shungiku works just as well. The shirako is salt-boiled…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled Matsutake, Seared Hamo

Appealing to the eye — watching it grill is a feast for the eyes. Matsutake mushroom and hamo (pike conger), two premium autumn ingredients, being…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 30 min

Sake-steamed abalone marinated in hishio and soy sauce, abalone-liver somen, saimaki prawn with ginkgo nut, yellow chrysanthemum and garland chrysanthemum greens dressed in hishio, roe-bearing sweetfish overnight-dried, aigamo duck simmered in hishio and soy sauce, chicken tenderloin in a tartare-style dressing

I prepared five drinking accompaniments to go with sake. For the sake-steamed abalone marinated in hishio and soy sauce, the abalone is steamed with…

• ¥300

• Cook time 40 min

Fugu and monkfish liver with ponzu jelly, scallion, garland chrysanthemum greens, red grated daikon

Among four dishes I'd like guests to enjoy in the cold season, I've prepared this fugu dish. Not only in this dish but in all of them, while letting…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Three Japanese-Style Canapes on a Plum-Blossom Plate

For this recommended-snack course, I titled it "Three Japanese-Style Canapes on a Plum-Blossom Plate," and made three kinds of Japanese-style canapes…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 4 hr

Monkfish hot pot

Monkfish hot pot is usually made with bonito or kombu dashi, but this time I roast the monkfish bones and simmer them in a pressure cooker to draw…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 50 min

King crab shinjo napa cabbage roll, simmered, with snow-ring lotus root, twisted colorful vegetables, garland chrysanthemum sauce, and bok choy

As an accompaniment we've added yukiwa-cut lotus root; fewer chefs take the time to do this kind of decorative knifework these days, so we decided to…

Horse meat jibu-ni, herring rolled in fried tofu skin, carp fluffy steamed fish dumpling, and Hakata-style layered napa cabbage

This is a modern arrangement of three representative Fukushima local dishes, presented as a takiawase using horse meat, sansho-pickled herring, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

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…

Shrimp-shaped taro fukume (maki-grade prawn umani, garland chrysanthemum greens, yuzu)

This time, on 'simmered dishes,' I learned from chef Ohara (Shimbashi's 'Shutei Kikuhime'). This time I take up steeped simmered dishes.

Soy Milk Hot Pot — Using Fish Maw

Swim bladder is a luxury ingredient in Chinese cuisine, but we came up with this dish with the idea…

• Serves 3 · ¥740

• Cook time 15 min

Late-season pike conger, matsutake

This is served in place of the simmered dish course. Late-season pike conger, fattened before spawning, pairs superbly with matsutake. Taking the new…

• ¥700

• Cook time 40 min

Steeped soybeans with herring roe, herring simmered in sweet glaze with vinegared soy pulp, dried hyō greens simmered with vegetables

The steeped soybeans with herring roe are made by soaking green soybeans in water overnight, then simmering them without letting the liquid boil…

Shogoin Daikon, Snow Crab Kintsuba

This is a shared side dish. For the garland chrysanthemum "snow-covered" dish, raw garland chrysanthemum leaves are spread with pounded fish paste…

• Serves 5 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip in Lingering Snow

This is the simmered course. For the turnip in lingering snow, we freeze and reuse the hollowed-out turnip trimmings left over from making the…