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Juvenile Ayu and Summer Vegetables, Vinegar-Simmered

A device using rice vinegar so that guests will want to drink even the broth.

Fish Sōmen

From the collection of dishes for beating the summer heat, this is the o-shinogi, a small filling course served partway through the meal. Fish sōmen…

• Serves 4 · ¥0

• Cook time 1 hr

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.

Oil-steamed fall-run sweetfish, pinecone-cut Pacific saury with almond, whelk risotto in a turnip bowl, beef loin and green bean old-branch-style sticks, Ohara-style deep-fried taro shinjo, color-simmered long eggplant with peanut-kuzu sauce, jade ginkgo cracker with tofu dressing, dried persimmon with lily bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped tricolor sweet potato

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Visual impact that makes you want to take a photo Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 3 hr

Ayu Grilled with Yuzu-Kosho Soy Sauce

Sweetfish is a hallmark of summer. Since food connoisseurs often have the chance to eat it whenever they dine out, I deliberately steer away from…

Tempura (juvenile sweetfish, Beni Haruka sweet potato (with a butterfly-shaped sweet potato garnish), new ginger deep-fried in tamari)

Coating the juvenile ayu's fins with flour, the way you would apply a decorative pinch of salt, is done to spread the fins out. Dropping the fish…

Grilled eel roll, local mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper miso, new-harvest sweet potato in salted honey, azuki bean cream cheese terrine, sweetfish Hakata-style pressed sushi, mountain stream crab fried and marinated in vinegar, green plum in a crystal-clear kuzu-starch glaze, and blanched taro stem with salted fish-innard paste

As for the local Mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho miso: our local Mochibuta pigs are raised on feed blended with a high proportion…

Juvenile ayu deep-fried with sansho leaf buds

These days, I think the restaurant industry is having a hard time due to a labor shortage. On top of that, we're operating in a very tough…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 20 min

Mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar, Tamba chestnuts simmered in coffee, autumn ayu with water-pepper miso, walnut tofu wrung in cloth, sea urchin jelly with yam bulbils, young kuruma prawns, thin-sliced burdock, jade-green ginkgo nuts, cuttlefish grilled with salted fish innards, moon-viewing lily-bulb dumplings

This is the appetizer course, and I put particular effort into it. For the abalone in the mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar dressing, it…

Seasonal colors (persimmon terrine, potato wrapped in yuba and grilled, stone-wall egg terrine, purple mountain yam nerikiri, roe-bearing ayu simmered and steeped)

This is a seasonal-color course making use of autumn ingredients. For the Persimmon Terrine, I used in-season persimmons to make a persimmon set…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 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

Autumn brocade platter: kogarashi-yose, smoked autumn duck, oil-simmered roe-bearing ayu, and pike conger and matsutake ōharagi-age

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a large shared platter that makes people want to take a photo. I designed…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 20 min

Ayu and Eggplant Terrine, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, guests from overseas have declined, but I designed this menu anticipating that they will eventually return, Sweetfish, a…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing

For the roe-bearing ayu, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing, I could never quite enjoy the dry, mealy texture of the roe, so I thought about how…

• Serves 1 · ¥395

• Cook time 2 days

Layered Ayu and Eggplant, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, we have many guests from overseas, so I devised this dish with them in mind. Sweetfish, a summer ingredient, is typically…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Seared Ayu Sushi

I thought of sweetfish, a local Kanagawa ingredient in early summer. I filleted it, salted it light…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish stuffed and steamed, water pepper, fish-bone crackers, lotus root

For the additional course, rather than the standard grilled preparation, I bone the sweetfish, restuff it with lotus root, and steam it back into its…

• Serves 1 · ¥865

• Cook time 15 min

Deep-sea snapper kenchin-style grilled, sweetfish grilled with water pepper leaf, pike conger grilled with plum-scented meringue, scallop and sea urchin grilled, king oyster mushroom wrapped in pork

This is the grilled course. For the onagadai kenchin-style grilled, rinse the onagadai, butterfly it open, salt it, and marinate it in light soy…

Sweetfish simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance, chestnut kabocha mousse, Kamo eggplant mousse, tomato mousse, pike conger with grated plum sauce

For the ayu simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance: remove the ayu's backbone and stuff the cavity with chopped myoga ginger and ginger, then use…

Deep-fried wild sweetfish

This is a dish unique to summer: wild sweetfish from the Ado River, which flows through Kyoto and Shiga, are kept alive and then ice-stunned, and…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 20 min

New tea-crusted fried beef, sweetfish croquette

This is a fried course. For the new tea-crusted fried beef, I season beef loin with salt, dust it with flour, then coat it with panko that has been…

• ¥250

• Cook time 40 min

Mamekozō pea purée, overnight-dried ayu, and lotus root aspic

For the Mamekozō pea purée, I used “Mamekozō,” a new Kagoshima variety of usui-mame pea, so guests could enjoy the taste and aroma unique to this…

• ¥450

• Cook time 40 min

Sweetfish fermented-dashi soup

At this time of year, we always serve sweetfish salt-grilled with tade vinegar — the classic pairing — but I wondered if there might be another…

• Serves 2 · ¥328

• Cook time 20 min

Charcoal-grilled juvenile sweetfish

This is a dish that uses quite a number of different oils at the preparation stage. The young sweetfish are rinsed in water, vacuum-packed with olive…

• Serves 1 · ¥385

• Cook time 15 min