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Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Soft-shell turtle clear soup with steamed abalone, Kamo eggplant, winter melon, julienned ginger, and nail-cut myoga

President Mita has said things to me like, 'Crab is delicious on its own, but let's think about it a bit more rather than just serving it as-is.' You…

Steamed Abalone, Crab and Cheese Terrine Wrapped in Prosciutto

Two starter dishes. The steamed abalone is salt-steamed with salt and sake. The taro stem is color-set, cut into thin lengths, and bundled. The…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Whole Simmered Round Eggplant

From "Early-Autumn Eggplant Dishes, a Variety," this is a simmered dish. Whole Simmered Round Eggplant is a dish in which the round eggplant is…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Chilled herring with eggplant and baby taro; eggplant cut to stand upright, deep-fried and simmered, with black sesame

To keep the eggplant in simmered dishes from losing its color, it helps to place it into the oil starting from the colored skin side.

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell with egg yolk

This is the simmered course. The menu lists it as shiradatsu — the taro stem also known as zuiki — but blanched taro shoots can be used in its place…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsutake tofu, turnip, eggplant, lotus root, sweet potato, barracuda, and crab

First is the appetizer course. This is matsutake tofu, using the quintessential taste of autumn. It is based on soy milk sold locally, and by adding…

• ¥680

• Cook time 2 hr

Odawara oden

For ‘Odawara Kanto-ni,’ since Odawara is synonymous with oden, I used vegetables from Mishima and fish from Odawara port to devise my own take on…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 2 days

Crossbred duck with fruit miso

Aigamo duck with fruit miso can be vacuum-sealed for storage, and in a pinch it can be plated with whatever vegetables are on hand to serve as an…

Kamo eggplant and whale in a small hot pot

This is a hot pot dish. For the Kamo eggplant and whale small hot pot, the Kamo eggplant is deep-fried once and then the excess oil is removed…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 3 hr

Niigata Beef Miso-Grilled, Niigata Grilled Eggplant, and Green Chili Peppers Seared in Fat

This is a traditional Niigata seasoning made with local chili peppers as its base, along with kōji (rice malt), yuzu, and salt as the other raw…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamo, Eggplant and White Melon

This is the appetizer course. The hamo (pike conger eel) is filleted, its fine bones scored, salted, left to rest a while, and boiled. It is then set…

Low-Temperature Simmered Abalone, Melting Sesame Tofu, Seared Sea Bass

As a dish meant to help beat the summer heat, I focused above all on practicality while designing it around the theme of "unconventional cold…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,775

• Cook time 2 hr

Cod milt soup, autumn eggplant, duck meatballs, shrimp

This is the clear-soup course. For the kumoko soup, a plain white-miso preparation would not be very interesting, so I mixed in sieved shirako (soft…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Long hijiki seaweed simmered wrapped in fried tofu skin, baby octopus simmered cherry-pink, shrimp glossy-simmered, shrimp-shaped taro, and small eggplant fried then simmered Dutch-style

This is the simmered dish course. For the long hijiki shinoda-ni, deep-fried tofu pouches are blanched to remove excess oil, opened, and spread with…

Kuruma Prawn and Summer Vegetables Dressed with Sudachi

A dish where the refreshing fragrance of sudachi tickles the nose.

Making Vegetables Delicious

Since vegan cooking can only use vegetables, and that leaves the flavor feeling somewhat lacking, I thought about whether I could perfect it starting…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,208

• Cook time 20 min

Spiny lobster, kuzu-dusted and grilled, dressed with roe

• ¥1,650

• Cook time 1 hr

Threeline Grunt Steamed with Sake, Thyme Sauce

With the threeline grunt steamed with sake, salting the fish first to remove its odor is essential. Taking away the excess odor lets the fragrance of…

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

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

Abalone and Kamo eggplant, grilled with fermented sweetfish-innards glaze, with sweet green pepper and myoga bud

Since we've seen more guests from overseas lately, we'd love for them to enjoy truly authentic Japanese cuisine.

Sake-Simmered Kinki, Simmered Egg, Chrysanthemum-Cut Daikon, Shrimp Layered with Fish Paste, Tube-Cut Burdock, Chrysanthemum-Leaf Winter Melon, Deep-Fried Marinated Autumn Eggplant, Maple-Leaf Carrot, Mini Daikon

This is an assorted simmered dish course. For the sake-simmered thornyhead rockfish, the fish is first plain-grilled, then simmered in kombu, sake…

Kamo eggplant clear-soup course — golden eye snapper, red shrimp, water shield, sudachi

For the soup course, it's important to time the preparation of each ingredient so that the dish tastes best at the moment the soup ingredients are…