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Walnut Tofu with Sea Urchin Poured In, Crab Meat, Savory Dashi, Wasabi, Chestnut Shibukawa-Ni Bed, Beef Loin Miso-Marinated, Smoked Egg, Needle-Scored Shishito, Foie Gras and Daikon Mochi, Yuba Dressed in Truffle Wine Sauce, Enoki Mushroom, Spinach Stems, Persimmon, Salmon Roe Crowning Garnish

We are conscious of the surprise that our guests will feel when the dish is first served, and have …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,550

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsuwa Mackerel, Sesame-Miso Cream Bake

‘Sesame-Miso Cream Bake’ is a grilled dish built around regional ingredients, stylishly fusing simmered miso-mackerel with miso-fried eggplant — a…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Blackthroat seaperch grilled in a miso-yuzu marinade (chestnut, maitake, black fig)

Rather than the method of marinating the blackthroat seaperch in the seasoning broth, preparing it by grilling it and finishing with the sauce poured…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Yellowtail simmered to a glossy sheen, yellowtail liver, white-simmered turnip, chrysanthemum-cut lotus root, maple-leaf carrot, roasted chestnut, green chili, julienned ginger, sansho leaf

This time, we learned about side dishes from Master Teruaki Mochizuki (The New Okura). He came up with dishes that look delicious and catch your…

• ¥720

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, Layered Grill

For Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, I use wild boar belly that has not yet built up much fat. I simmer it until tender, then compensate…

• Serves 1 · ¥452

• Cook time 5 hr

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

Autumn-leaf assortment: oyster and persimmon miso gratin, shrimp and water caltrop grilled with yuzu, scallop autumn-color pickle, small clam adductor in apple vinegar, shuto cheese, persimmon and salmon, rolled dried persimmon, matcha red bean paste with skin-on chestnut

As a reconception of dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine, this evokes a late-autumn medley. We designed each dish with an eye to color…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,475

• Cook time 1 hr

Largehead beltfish shin-biki-age, matsutake

This is a deep-fried course in which seasonal ingredients are coated with unconventional coatings such as toasted granulated glutinous-rice coating…

• Serves 1 · ¥495

• Cook time 15 min

Baked Pear Clafoutis

Hearing "pear" tends to bring to mind something like a compote, so this time I created a clafoutis instead. The key point is adding the batter little…

• Serves 1 · ¥87

• Cook time 40 min

Snow crab cedar-plank bake, duck roast with black pepper, tilefish ponzu jelly, clam kuzu simmer, sake-simmered saimaki prawn, rolled plum sheet and sake lees, Hakata-style, sweet chestnut mash, apple and dried persimmon in tofu dressing

For the snow crab cedar-plank bake, I use snow crab at its best during the Minor Cold season, in early January, and steam-bake it on a cedar plank to…

• ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Japanese Chestnut Ice Cream

I make a very fragrant house-made vanilla ice cream using Tasmanian vanilla beans, on the advice of a French chef, and combine it with seasonal…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

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

Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, Deep-Fried in Mochi-Rice Batter

For Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, since the crab's umami grows weaker in its nagori period — the last-of-the-season stretch — I thought it would work…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Layered Seafood Treasures

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties The satisfying bite and flavor changes only seafood can give Given this theme, I first…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 40 min

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…

Matsutake and pike conger grilled with fragrant onion soy

This is the grilled course. For the matsutake and hamo grilled with fragrant onion soy, we first make an onion soy sauce and baste the fish with it…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish and matsutake wrapped and grilled, spiny lobster grilled with sea urchin

This is the grilled course. For the tilefish and matsutake wrapped and grilled dish, I put a good sear on both the tilefish and the matsutake, but if…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Shinshu giant char cylinder roll, char roe in soy marinade, autumn fruit and walnut mousse, Shinshu pork steamed with sansho, grilled maitake with foie gras, chrysanthemum petal salad, Shinshu salmon with egg-yolk mustard sauce

This is an appetizer presented in hassun (seasonal-assortment course) style, using Nagano Prefecture's prized traditional vegetables and, since it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Blackthroat seaperch and kuruma prawn, grilled and topped with aromatic seaweed, with roasted chestnut and asparagus

Nodoguro is a fish with delicate flesh, so handle it gently when filleting so it doesn't break apart.

Chestnut and fig in basil-sesame cream (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by medicinal-cuisine specialist Momoyo Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Dressed with "Dried-Fruit Miso"

Dried persimmon and dried apricot are rich in beta-carotene. Dried mango has one of the highest vitamin A contents of any fruit; dried fig is rich in…

• Serves 3 · ¥380

• Cook time 10 min

Tanba Black Soybeans in Sweet Syrup, Tosa-Style Herring Roe, Lily Bulb Chakin, Korin-Pine Lotus Root Stuffed with Spicy Cod Roe

This is a celebratory New Year tiered box. It was designed to be colorful and to keep well, so that families gathered together could enjoy a relaxed…

• ¥2,800

• Cook time 3 days

Kaikyo Salmon Kenchin Roll

This is the Kaikyo Salmon Kenchin Roll. First, press pressed tofu through a fine sieve. For one block of tofu, add 10g potato starch, one egg white…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min