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Cherry salmon grilled with koji

The flower-cut lotus root is pickled in vinegar, so it's convenient to keep as is. For the domyoji (coarse steamed glutinous rice) grilled with…

Ayu Nibitashi Spring Roll

Gently simmering ingredients in a seasoned broth is a technique with a long history, and I think it makes a very delicious dish that many people…

• Serves 10 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 3 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

Ayu Namerou with Finger Lime

I devised this dish as a new way of serving seafood. My focus is on a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Whitebait and cheese kakiage

As a way of serving seafood, since our restaurant is a casual, mass-appeal restaurant in Kanagawa Prefecture, I proposed this using Kanagawa…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 30 min

'Seasonal colors on green bamboo': trough shell clam with vinegared myoga and egg-yolk vinegar, young ayu and baby corn wrapped in conger eel and deep-fried fragrant, Yanaka ginger deep-fried in tea leaves, baby octopus simmered in black tea, baby tiger prawn simmered in lemon tea, Japanese whiting grilled with egg yolk, baby turban shell simmered in black tea escargot-style, and two kinds of tea-rice chimaki

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The teas used are 'honey-fragrance black tea, green tea (Cuiluo), dark…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,338

• Cook time 2 hr

Pure White Surinagashi, Summer Kōbako Crab with Kinome Jelly, Seared Hamo and Grilled Crab Meringue, Hidori Ayu with Grated Daikon Dressing, and Hairy Crab with Summer Vegetables on a Kombu Dashi Chip

Within the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "getting people to eat…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Deep-fried young sweetfish in new-tea batter, sea urchin deep-fried hosho-style

This is a fried dish course. For the young sweetfish in new tea batter, since new tea (shincha) comes out in May, I grind the new tea leaves and…

• ¥600

• Cook time 15 min

Sweetfish and taro-stem roll, somen noodle soup

I aimed to let guests enjoy the aromas of summer, especially July's seasonal ingredients, through a variety of soup courses. This soup course is Ayu…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 40 min

Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke

This is the rice course from Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke, ayu swim upstream in the rivers of the prefecture, so fishing…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,017

• Cook time 2 hr

Small Melon Pureed Soup

This soup lets you enjoy the whole ayu just as its season opens. Ayu cured with kombu can be frozen, so it's versatile — useful for an appetizer, a…

Grilled sweetfish with bitter uruka

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥260

• Cook time 40 min

Sweetfish grilled with a rice-starch glaze

For the ayu oneba-yaki, we grill the reverse side until crisp.

Roe-Bearing Ayu Simmered and Steeped, Claypot Rice

I designed this as a repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. The reason it resonates with that generation is the value proposition of…

• ¥1,140

• Cook time 40 min

Ayu clear broth, grilled ayu, winter melon, wood ear mushroom, water shield, baby melon, a touch of yuzu

For the sweetfish in clear seafood broth, we draw the dashi using dried sweetfish. This adds a deep sweetfish umami to the soup broth, different from…

Sweetfish and Kamo eggplant, Dutch-style fried

This is the aiko course, an additional dish inserted into the menu. For ayu and Kamo eggplant, Oranda-style, since I wanted to include a fried dish…

• ¥1,240

• Cook time 50 min

Young sweetfish deep-fried wrapped in shredded potato, river crab in egg-yolk batter

The fried course is young sweetfish (ayu) deep-fried in a potato sudare wrap. Pairing young ayu with potato may seem unusual, but the contrast…

• ¥320

• Cook time 40 min

Deep-fried sweetfish with corn

This is a fried dish from the summer course menu. For the deep-fried sweetfish with corn, we butterfly open the sweetfish, dry it lightly, stuff it…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 40 min

Seared sweetfish sushi

As a fresh exploration of aroma, I set out to express ayu's refreshing fragrance and umami by using the whole fish without waste. I thought of ayu as…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Tade-grilled sweetfish, wasabi-grilled beef, Kamo eggplant with foie gras

This is a grilled course. This time I used ayu from Lake Biwa to make the tade-grilled ayu. For the wasabi-grilled beef, I grill it over a net with a…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Miso-style, Chikuma River roe-bearing ayu-koku

This focuses on ingredients from Nagano. Koi-koku is a rich miso soup and simmered dish made by long-simmering carp cut into rounds in miso, and it…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 2 hr

Sweetfish takikomi gohan

This is the rice course. Ayu takikomi gohan is often made with the fish left whole, but the bones make it hard to eat, so this time I fillet the ayu…

Ayu Arai, Octopus and Summer-Vegetable Nanban Jelly, Chilled Scallop-and-Cauliflower Purée

Naturally I wanted diners to savor the season, but I also wanted to offer a kind of psychological healing — settling summer fatigue and bringing a…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Sweetfish, butterflied and white-fan fried

This is the fried dish course. For the sweetfish, butterflied and white-fan fried, I butterfly the sweetfish along its back, carefully remove the…

• ¥500

• Cook time 30 min