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Autumn-leaf assortment: pine-cone-grilled tilefish, chestnut, ginkgo nuts on a pine-needle skewer, eggplant dengaku, baby taro steamed in its skin, Fushimi pepper grilled and dashi-steeped, maple-leaf wheat gluten, sweet potato chips, lotus root chips, sudachi

At our restaurant, Nihombashi Oikawa, we're mindful of theater and presentation in front of the guest, offering a comprehensive dining experience…

• ¥8,000

• Cook time 30 min

Turnip steamed dish, tilefish, mitsuba, ginkgo nuts, wood ear mushroom, shimeji mushroom, wasabi, silver sauce

This is a dish, somehow comforting, where guests enjoy steamed tilefish and turnip with a silver sauce poured over. Since we mainly serve tempura…

• Serves 1 · ¥975

• Cook time 30 min

Late-season pike conger and early matsutake teapot-steamed soup

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: the pairing of two luxury ingredients, pike conger and matsutake…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Shark fin and fish-paste dumpling, rolled in yuba — crab-and-chrysanthemum thin kuzu sauce, saimaki prawn, carrot, ginkgo-leaf cut, wood ear mushroom

When boiling the chrysanthemum petals, we add a very small amount of vinegar to stop discoloration and keep the color vivid. We bring out the ginkgo…

Egg hōraku-yaki made with all-purpose surimi powder

This is egg hōraku-yaki. Hōraku-yaki is a Japanese dish with a long history, but this time I took a hint from a French fish dish from the Lyon region…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 20 min

Tilefish and Tennoji turnip, steamed with a foie gras filling

This makes use of Tennoji turnip at the end of its season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani Osaka, and getting to know the…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Turnip-steamed tilefish (ginkgo nuts, shimeji, wood ear mushroom, Domyoji rice)

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from chef Yamamoto (Azabu-Jūban, Azabu Nagasaka Sarashina Honten). This time I take up 'kabura-mushi.'

Gekko Lily Bulb and Yumepirika Rice-Steamed Manju

This is the rice course made with Gekko lily bulb, a Hokkaido overwintered vegetable known as the "miracle lily bulb." Gekko lily bulb and Hokkaido…

• Serves 1 · ¥220

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Pike conger and matsutake, gently simmered

This is what's known as a 'deai-mono' — a dish pairing two ingredients that come into season together — for autumn. It's a simple dish you often see…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 20 min

Tofu-Wrapped Grilled Offal — a Favorite of the Boss

I used offal, which the boss at the dojo I've long been indebted to is fond of, and named the dish accordingly. I rehydrate the offal in a pressure…

• Serves 2 · ¥110

• Cook time 20 min

Pike conger karaage

This is the prep work for hamo. At my restaurant we process hamo by boiling it whole, so when I source hamo, I ask the supplier not to remove the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 min

Smoked Winter Mackerel, Beef Tongue Temari Sushi, Cod Roe Karasumi, Beni-Fuji Salmon Shira-ae, Tatami Iwashi and Cheese Hakata-maki

This is a dish paired with Japanese white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. This is an appetizer course. For the smoked winter mackerel, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Hassun, Shojin Tempura, Shojin Sushi

For the yuba dengaku, I placed sakura-miso — sweet miso kneaded with sugar — on top of opened yuba sheets. For the grilled Chinese yam with plum…

Matsutake Mushroom and Shamo Chicken Teriyaki

This is a popular autumn grilled dish at our restaurant. For the "Matsutake Mushroom and Shamo Chicken Teriyaki," we use "Amagi Shamo," a shamo…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Plain-grilled moray eel, Arima-style moray eel

"Nadabo" is fishermen's slang for moray eel. In Kochi Prefecture it's a high-end ingredient, but in Tokyo it's almost never seen at market. I was…

• Serves 3 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Western-style steamed grated turnip with tilefish, sea urchin, cream cheese, ginkgo nuts, olives, shimeji mushroom, and plum-shaped wheat gluten cake

We use olive oil in place of wasabi. Adding a generous amount, salad-style, enhances the flavor. Thinking about what would appeal to female guests…

Steamed grated turnip

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…

Jūhaku-Style Rolled Omelet, Chamame Akatsuchi-age, Maki-Grade Prawn Mino-age, Tilefish Sake-Salt-Grilled, Abalone Hakata-age, Ginkgo-Nut Yose-age, Roasted Chestnut, Chirimen-Jako Rice, Aka-Dashi, Shijimi Clams

This dish brings together a colorful array of small individual preparations. For the maki-grade prawn mino-age, we wrap julienned burdock around the…

Niigata Noppe

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Niigata noppe Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since long ago for a…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: crispy black-purple rice

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥575

• Cook time 20 min

Wagyu roast, low-temperature cooked, marinated in fermented seasoning paste and soy sauce

This is the additional course. For the wagyu roast, I used hishio, miso-damari with garlic, and miso-damari with garlic and soy sauce to draw out the…

Porcini Takikomi Rice

After experimenting with porcini mushrooms in various ways, I found they have a distinctive aroma not found in any Japanese mushroom, and I wondered…

• Serves 3 · ¥380

• Cook time 35 min

Takikomi Gohan: Matsutake and Ginkgo Rice

Here I introduce a dish from our restaurant. 'Matsutake and ginkgo rice' is a dish I devised valuing the aroma that conveys the season, arriving the…