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Chilled Kamo eggplant, Saikyo-miso-simmered

A confident signature dish that has been on the menu since the restaurant first opened.

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

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

Whole-Grilled Kamo Eggplant

Appealing to the eye: rich billows of steam from charcoal grilling. A whole, large Kamo eggplant (a large, round Kyoto heirloom variety) is…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,300

• Cook time 15 min

Eggplant, deep-fried and marinated in dashi

This is eggplant agebitashi. I use Kumamoto's 'aka-nasu' (a red-skinned Kumamoto eggplant variety) because it's easy to work with. I peel the skin…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

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

Jade-simmered eggplant with beef jibu-ni, topped with an aromatic sesame sauce

For the eggplant, we poke a hole through the center of the flesh with chopsticks so the oil can reach all the way through, and cook it while turning…

Small Eggplant Jelly

We slowly steep the grilled eggplant in a broth with a touch of consommé added, until it becomes soft and infused with flavor.

Fish somen made with all-purpose surimi powder

This time, I thought about how Suzuhiro Kamaboko Co., Ltd.'s "All-Purpose Surimi Powder" — I'll call it "surimi powder" from here on — could be put…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 15 min

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

Tosa Akaushi tataki

This is the palate-cleanser course from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Tosa Akaushi Tataki pairs Tosa's own breed of Japanese red beef, buntan citrus, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Charcoal-Grilled Wagyu with Summer Vegetable Japanese-Style Salsa

This is a dish with a magnificent array of vitamin-bright colors woven together by summer vegetables, piled on top of well-grilled wagyu. You can…

Olive beef rib, loin shabu-shabu in a bowl, water shield, jute mallow, jade eggplant, julienned ginger

"Olive Beef," a premium Kagawa Prefecture Kuroge Wagyu, has a rich body while still tasting refreshingly clean. This is a dish for savoring that beef…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 40 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

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

Isaki Marinated in Ishiru

For isaki (threeline grunt) in ishiru marinade, I take the flesh left over from making tataki, skin still on, and marinate it in ishiru — a…

• ¥399

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon tawara-style deep-fried, grilled-eggplant batter, chrysanthemum achara pickle

In the tawara-age, besides onion and long onion, I also add taro, and this makes it come through much more clearly as Japanese cuisine. The sticky…

Grilled Conger Eel with Red Miso, and Shibazuke Butter Sauce

For the grilled conger eel (anago) with red miso, I wanted a sauce that would suit not just meat but fish and vegetables too, which is how I arrived…

• ¥190

• Cook time 35 min

Grilled Eggplant with Gelée

This is an appetizer designed to let guests fully savor eggplant at its peak season, when its umami is at its most concentrated. Here, we grill the…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Crab Tazuna, Kombu-Cured and Seared Tilefish

For the crab tazuna with kombu-cured and seared tilefish, searing the kombu-cured tilefish to roughly 50% doneness lets the crab and tilefish bring…

• ¥958

• Cook time 40 min

Wagyu Sansho-Yaki, Eggplant Butter-Soy Grill

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: takes the flavor of yakiniku up a notch. I thought that many people in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Oil-cured Pacific saury, duck cutlet sandwich, monkfish liver in a hollowed yuzu shell, and saikyo-miso-cured monkfish

This is the winter course. The Oil-Cured Pacific Saury is made the way oil-sardines are made, but using saury instead of sardine. Soaking it once in…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled Aigamo Duck Loin

For aigamo duck loin with Kamo eggplant and black vinegar, the umami of the aigamo, the tartness of the black vinegar, and the distinctive aroma of…

• ¥495

• Cook time 45 min