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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

Kisarazu — Japanese-Style Noodles from the Banzu Tidal Flat

The hotel I work for is in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, and since many guests come from outside the prefecture, I wanted to use appealing local Chiba…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 50 min

Chilled green tea and chicken (Mt. Fuji ice-drawn dashi, green tea, Suruga shamo chicken soup, avocado jade, eggplant wrap)

Thinking afresh about dashi in Japanese cuisine, I realized it's created through the synergy between glutamic acid and inosinic acid, the umami…

• Serves 10 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Abalone tempura, Inaniwa udon, grated daikon, aromatics

This time, the basic rice course is 'Inaniwa udon.' We have guests eat it simply, with grated daikon and aromatics, but the temperature and time used…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Misaki-gazami Yoro-mushi, Steamed with Grated Mountain Yam

Building on autumn ingredients, this is a nimono-gawari, a dish that stands in for the simmered course, featuring Misaki-gazami. For Misaki-gazami…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Lotus Root Manju

This is a dish making use of autumn ingredients. Sanko-yasoku refers to delicious foods gathered from mountains and open fields, a phrase meaning the…

• Serves 1 · ¥105

• Cook time 30 min

Pan-seared kneaded buckwheat dumpling

This is Pan-Seared Soba-gaki. 'Soba-gaki' usually means a warm dish eaten with buckwheat dough ladled over it, but here I sautéed it to make…

• Serves 1 · ¥319

• Cook time 15 min

Kohaku-dori chicken liver mousse monaka, vinegar-cured mackerel with wild raspberry vinegar jelly, duck marinated in dashi soy sauce with orange flavor, black pork tsukune, chilled tomato takiawase, asparagus and garland chrysanthemum greens ohitashi

I've put together an assortment of drinking dishes that pair with anything — wine, shochu, or sake. Among them, the kohaku-dori liver mousse monaka…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 2 hr

Crimson-Fuji Inaniwa udon, cloud-white abalone, tempura bits, aromatics

So that it's clear the tanuki — the shape-shifting trickster of folklore — has transformed itself into Crimson Fuji, I scattered tenkasu, the fried…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Sakura shrimp and Malabar spinach ohitashi

This is a dish where the savory aroma of fried sakura shrimp and the crisp crunch of the vegetables combine exquisitely. The tsurumurasaki is boiled…

• Serves 7 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish fried in its own scales, grilled eggplant, mogusa ginger, fried fresh yuba, shiso flower spike, thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, within Japanese cuisine, a proposal from head chef Honda (Ginza U Noki) on the basic dishes of fried food. In cooking, scales are, in…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 30 min

Miso-Marinated Crab Roe, Nagori Grilled Eggplant

The appetizer, since it's October, is nagori, last-of-the-season, grilled eggplant: I grill only the cap end of the eggplant over charcoal and top it…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed and simmered shark fin (Kesennuma's traditional food culture: 'Shark')

This is the simmered dish. Taking as its theme 'shark,' the food culture of Kesennuma City — Japan's top producer of shark fin — I've proposed this…

• Serves 1 · ¥987

• Cook time 2 days

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

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

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

Kamo Eggplant, Foie Gras Kuwayaki

This is a simmered course. As for the foie gras kuwayaki, foie gras has a reputation for being relatively expensive, but it is actually fairly…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 10 min

Cypress-scented miso-marinated butterfish from a deep forest, shrimp-shaped taro stuffed with Jōshū jidori chicken liver

This grilled dish uses butterfish, burdock, and lotus root as end-of-season winter ingredients. The facility where I work in Kusatsu, Gunma is…

• Serves 1 · ¥965

• Cook time 40 min

Eel and Agedashi Tofu

It's important to time the eel's grilling to finish together with the tofu's frying, so guests can enjoy the exquisite tenderness of both the tofu…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 25 min

Salt-Seared Bonito Tataki

We often serve this as one of our restaurant's standard dishes: after filleting the bonito into blocks, we give it an appetite-stirring aroma by…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 3 hr

Beef Tongue Wrapped in Shiso

Next, I bring out the fried dish. I think fried food tastes best once the sake has kicked in a bit, or when you're hungry. For the beef tongue…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Chirashi Sushi

This time it's chirashi sushi, the fundamental rice course. For this sushi rice, I wanted a pronounced vinegar aroma, so I make the sushi vinegar…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Ishinomaki nameta-garei flounder, Kesennuma shark fin takiawase

This is the takiawase course from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. Ishinomaki nameta-garei — a flounder prized for its glossy skin — is one of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 45 min

Soft-shell turtle broth

Suppon broth is well received in September, when the summer heat is easing but the lingering warmth still leaves the body tired. We break down the…

• Serves 20 · ¥345

• Cook time 1 hr