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Salmon tatsuta-style deep-fried, fan-cut eggplant, chrysanthemum thin-batter fry, ginger salt, sudachi

This time, we learned about fried food from Master Toru Sugai (Tokyo Kaikan Mitsubishi Club). We will cover the basic "Tatsutaage" dish.

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Aromatic Steamed Eel with Rice Oil

I've approached umami as richness = fat, for a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of ingredients. The steamed dish is…

• ¥700

• Cook time 30 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

Seared pike conger, hidden-plum style, Kyoto eggplant, cowpea, end-of-season red Manganji pepper, green yuzu

Tags & categories related to this post : June, July, August, September, striking, elegant, light and refreshing, kaiseki cuisine, lingering…

Eggplant, Turnip, Lotus Root Dumpling, Tomato, Green Beans

This is a simmered dish, prepared as a chilled version. I score the eggplant in a bellows pattern, then soak it for a while in alum water with Bon…

• ¥250

• Cook time 50 min

Round eggplant oil-steamed with burnt sesame-soy sauce

The origin of Japanese cuisine lies in enjoying the aroma and taste of ingredients and the passing of the seasons. However, as diversification of…

• Serves 5 · ¥980

• Cook time 30 min

Malabar spinach and chrysanthemum, blanched in dashi (white eggplant, scallop cream sauce, okra blanched in dashi)

Malabar spinach is a summer vegetable that's highly nutritious and has a bit of natural stickiness. As autumn approaches, the stems grow tough, so…

Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style

For Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style, I use two kinds of dashi: the soaking liquid from dried scallops and chicken dashi. I add roasted…

• Serves 1 · ¥553

• Cook time 30 min

Pike conger and shrimp Yoshino-ni, furofuki winter melon

The hamo (pike conger) and shrimp yoshino-ni is a dish where each ingredient's flavor layers with the eggplant and corn, so every individual taste…

• ¥695

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo eggplant pureed soup

This dish uses no seasonings whatsoever. I thought that if a cook can draw out an ingredient's own character — its five tastes and aroma — to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥482

• Cook time 40 min

Shironasu and Fig Dengaku

White eggplant, despite its appearance, has a surprisingly firm skin, yet inside it's meltingly soft, and it's characterized by a stronger flavor…

Torigai and Mizunasu Clear Soup

This dish combines ark shell, a prized ingredient known as a springtime-to-early-summer delicacy, with mizunasu (a mild, juicy eggplant variety from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 days

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…

Akamachi Steamed with Awamori

For the prized Okinawan deep-sea snapper steamed with awamori, an Okinawan distilled spirit, the key is not to over-steam it. It's a delicately…

• ¥550

• Cook time 1 min

Eggplant Sōmen-Cut

Smooth and easy to swallow, with a refreshing finish.

Kamo eggplant, mansion-style platter: miso-glazed grilled Kamo eggplant, salt-steamed aigamo duck, aze-mame edamame, shrimp simmered in sake, thread-cut flower garnish, and pickled ginger shoot

This time, we learned about pottery from Technical Director Yoshiteru Iwata (Royal Park Hotel). We will focus on Shigi-yaki.

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

Matsutake rice wrapped in magnolia leaf, pickles

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: the classic autumn takikomi rice. I thought that many people in their…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Kisu and Summer Vegetable Temari

This kisu (Japanese whiting) and summer vegetable ball-shaped dish is beautiful to look at as well; I thought that combining kombu-cured kisu with…

• ¥590

• Cook time 45 min

Herring and eggplant

Herring and eggplant is a classic summer combination in Kyoto. I finish it thoroughly and carefully, without trying anything gimmicky. In particular…

• Serves 6 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 50 min

Herring and Eggplant

We proposed a familiar, approachable dish that evokes yaki-zuke (grilled, then marinated), a preparation well loved in Niigata. This is a simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥270

• Cook time 50 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

Whole eggplant simmered in broth, topped with yuba sauce

This time, under the theme "Early-Autumn Eggplant Dishes, a Variety," -- eggplant is generally thought of as a summer vegetable, but by presenting it…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr