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Deep-Fried Juvenile Ayu, Sake-Steamed Icefish, Tamagoyaki, Bamboo Shoot Kinpira, Octopus Ogura-Ni

We placed importance on visual beauty and on being a combination that lets guests enjoy their sake.

Clam and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho-leaf miso, fava bean, Kyoto carrot, and mountain udo

At our restaurant we normally serve three appetizer courses, but through March and April it still gets cold at night, so we serve something warm as…

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

Miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, fava bean and kuruma prawn sandwiched and deep-fried, and young corn grilled with fermented fish-innards paste

For the miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, beltfish is in season in summer and quite fatty, yet has a fluffy texture and a relatively light flavor…

• ¥500

• Cook time 40 min

"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…

Red sea bream, turnip-steamed and topped with silver sauce

We cut the kuruma prawn into about 5 small pieces, keeping the balance with the other ingredients in mind. For the turnip combined with meringue, the…

Okoze, kuzu-thickened simmered, sakura shrimp, simmered white taro stem, ibaragani roe sauce, fava beans, sansho blossom

For the white taro stem steeped in dashi, the taro stem is left soaking in dashi, and piping-hot toasted rice is added. This lends the dish the…

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

Turban shell with liver dressing, roe-bearing shrimp, spring cabbage Hakata-style, pressed chicken terrine with fava bean aspic, angelica-tree shoot smoked salmon roll, burdock wrapped in conger eel, icefish plum uiro, lotus root stuffed with orange, rapeseed blossom and prosciutto roll

Celebratory dishes. The sazae with liver dressing: the sazae is steamed with sake, then its liver is combined with a tofu-based white dressing to…

• ¥590

• Cook time 2 hr

Kabocha squash manju chawanmushi with an oolong tea aroma

This is a steamed dish made with oolong tea. For the kabocha manju chawanmushi, I used an oolong that's clean and light, without any off-flavors, to…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 30 min

Fava Bean Shinjo

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

Kinka pork oil-simmered, fava bean terrine, vinegar-pickled ginger, potato senbei, burdock base, black vinegar tamari

Scallion oil is made by slowly heating finely chopped aromatic vegetables in low-temperature rice oil. Frying for about 15 minutes, until a good…

• ¥480

• Cook time 2 days

Scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried scallop sauce

For the scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried-scallop sauce, scallop is thick-fleshed and full of flavor, but…

• ¥620

• Cook time 30 min

Tempura with asparagus and fava bean

This time, on 'tempura,' I learned from AAJ technical director Hirano (Tokyo Prince Hotel's 'Tempura Fukusa'). I take up 'seasonal tempura.'

Wagyu Sirloin

This is a grilled dish introduced as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the wagyu sirloin charcoal-grilled with bamboo shoot, wagyu is…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Spanish mackerel and turnip

This is a steamed dish. Sawara and turnip is a dish where, on top of the elegant sweetness of sawara — a fish with no unpleasant edge to its flavor —…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Kisu Grilled with Kabusecha

For Japanese whiting grilled with kabusecha, a shade-grown green tea, since I'm from Shizuoka and tea-based cooking is a specialty of mine, I used…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Oil-Steamed Sea Bass

This is a steamed course, designed with couples in their fifties and sixties in mind. For the oil-steamed sea bass, since sea bass has little fat and…

• ¥500

• Cook time 50 min

Isaki and Tomato Aspic

This is an appetizer course. For the isaki and tomato aspic, when making the tomato tofu, the tomato is seeded and blended, then — without squeezing…

• ¥480

• Cook time 40 min

Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Hyuganatsu-Scented Grilled Course, Saikyo-Yaki Black Cod, Snow Crab, Yuba and Grated Mountain Yam, Saikyo-Yaki Vegetables

Hyuganatsu, a citrus fruit, has a rare characteristic no other fruit has: even the white pith on the inside can be eaten together with the flesh, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo shoot 'tofu,' bamboo shoot simmered in miso, and sweet-savory simmered mallard duck

This is a dish that expresses local heritage. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled carp with butterbur miso, arrow-fletched mustard lotus root, John Dory two-layer fish-paste dumpling, nemagari bamboo shoot grilled with sansho bud, iris-shaped Shadow Queen potato and cream terrine

This is the grilled course. For the grilled carp with butterbur miso, I take a carp fillet, lightly salt it, score the bones, and deep-fry it plain…

• ¥450

• Cook time 6 hr

Rice-flour and fava-bean manju wrapped in cherry leaf, topped with silver sauce, carrot, udo, wasabi, cherry leaf

When you lift the lid of the soup bowl, the spring fragrance of fava beans drifts up along with a gentle scent of cherry blossom, creating what I…