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Kansai-style seasoned rice with salted pork, onion, tomato, Usui pea, baby corn, shiitake, and fried scallion

Kayaku gohan is written as "kayaku" and originally refers to supplementary medicines added to enhan…

Miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, fava bean and kuruma prawn sandwiched and deep-fried, and young corn grilled with fermented fish-innards paste

For the miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, beltfish is in season in summer and quite fatty, yet has a fluffy texture and a relatively light flavor…

• ¥500

• Cook time 40 min

Kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-cape coating — young corn

By wrapping the first turn of julienned potato a little firmly and the rest loosely, the potato stays attached to the prawn and fries up beautifully…

Cream cheese kuzu tofu, Miura-style chilled scrambled egg, summer vegetable namasu pickled in salt-koji and honey

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. Since there is little seafood available to use in summer, I built the menu around vegetables. Cream cheese kuzu…

• ¥120

• 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…

Hyuganatsu-Scented Grilled Course, Saikyo-Yaki Black Cod, Snow Crab, Yuba and Grated Mountain Yam, Saikyo-Yaki Vegetables

Hyuganatsu, a citrus fruit, has a rare characteristic no other fruit has: even the white pith on the inside can be eaten together with the flesh, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Wasabi and Cheese Dressing, Odawara Cassata

Two small-bowl dishes built around regional ingredients. For ‘Odawara Cassata,’ I took cassata, the traditional Sicilian sweet, and made it in the…

• Serves 1 · ¥360

• Cook time 2 days

Isaki Yawata-Maki

The threeline grunt yawata-maki, a roll named for Yawata and traditionally wrapped around burdock root, uses the trim left over from slicing sashimi…

• ¥570

• Cook time 1 hr

Chicken grunt, skin seared yakishimo-style

This was created with couples in their thirties and forties in mind. For the skin-seared isaki, the skin is often discarded, but it is actually…

• ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

(Opening hassun) Gion Festival

I was born and raised in Tokyo. After graduating high school I spent five years at a sushi restaurant in Shinbashi, and I joined a mikoshi…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Ise lobster steamed with sake, roasted rice green tea cream sauce

For the Ise lobster steamed with sake and genmaicha cream sauce, I often make a cream sauce with green peas, so this time I wanted to try making one…

Octopus Rice-Bran Pickle

For the octopus nukazuke: octopus cured in rice bran becomes pleasantly tender and takes on the bran's flavor, making it a dish that goes well with…

Free-range chicken Kansai-style seasoned rice with bamboo shoot, carrot, burdock, thin fried tofu, shiitake, and mitsuba

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

Kuruma Prawn and Summer Vegetables Dressed with Sudachi

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

Tomato and Mozzarella, Hakata-Style; Cucumber Rolled with King Crab

A salad-like vinegared course. We sieve grilled tomato, add agar, layer it hakata-style with sieved mozzarella, then torch it for toasty aroma. The…

Deep-fried sweetfish with corn

This is a fried dish from the summer course menu. For the deep-fried sweetfish with corn, we butterfly open the sweetfish, dry it lightly, stuff it…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 40 min

Pike conger naruto-age

This time, we learned about "fried dishes" from Master Instructor Maeda (Okunitama Shrine). This time we feature "naruto-age," prized for its…

Abalone Somen

From the themes of a heat-relief dish for summer and cold cuisine, this is an appetizer. For the abalone somen, since abalone prices have been rising…

• Serves 1 · ¥358

• Cook time 1 hr