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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

Spring Three-Kind Assortment — Spring Vegetable Ohitashi, Kinome Miso, Hassaku and Snow Pea Shira-ae

This is a three-item assortment using wild mountain vegetables, vegetables, and fruit that grow more delicious in spring. With the freshness of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-fried and simmered monkfish

At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often during its harvest season, from November through March. By…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 40 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

Grated Daikon Pickle

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at 'Yonemura.' For the grated daikon pickle, we grate the daikon along with its juice, add…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 days

Winter Melon Manju

For a light, fluffy sauce, we add well-drained tofu.

Yellowtail simmered to a glossy sheen, yellowtail liver, white-simmered turnip, chrysanthemum-cut lotus root, maple-leaf carrot, roasted chestnut, green chili, julienned ginger, sansho leaf

This time, we learned about side dishes from Master Teruaki Mochizuki (The New Okura). He came up with dishes that look delicious and catch your…

• ¥720

• Cook time 1 hr

Duck jibu-ni, sweet-simmered tomato

Being from Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture, I thought it would be nice to have a duck jibu-ni ma…

• Serves 1 · ¥190

• Cook time 20 min

Potato, Octopus, and Kabocha Squash, Tender-Simmered Live Octopus

"Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables." The overwintered vegetables used here are Niseko 540 potato and Dark Horse kabocha…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 2 hr

Grilled eel roll, local mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper miso, new-harvest sweet potato in salted honey, azuki bean cream cheese terrine, sweetfish Hakata-style pressed sushi, mountain stream crab fried and marinated in vinegar, green plum in a crystal-clear kuzu-starch glaze, and blanched taro stem with salted fish-innard paste

As for the local Mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho miso: our local Mochibuta pigs are raised on feed blended with a high proportion…

Cherry-Blossom Sea Bream and Rapeseed Blossom Kombu-Cured, Butterbur Kosode Sushi, Sardine and Snap Pea Nanban-Marinade, Icefish and Shirataki Noodles with Kinome Miso Dengaku, Cherry-Leaf and Lily Bulb Squeeze, Bamboo-Leaf Mugwort Sesame Tofu, Baby Octopus and Sea Bream Roe Simmered with Cherry Blossom

This is the appetizer course, seven dishes for a spring evening. The cherry-blossom sea bream and rapeseed blossom kombu-cured dish is plated…

• ¥580

• Cook time 2 hr

Hell-pickled blue crab, blue crab roe tossed with sansho leaf

This is blue crab hell pickle. It gets this name because the crab is pickled while still alive. I adapted Korean ganjang-gejang into a Japanese-style…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 days

Octopus simmered in shio-koji, abalone simmered with rice, Kurosengoku black soybeans and lily bulb chakin, sweet-savory sautéed overwintered burdock

This is an appetizer using Hokkaido's overwintered squash and overwintered burdock. The flavor of the Yukigesho kabocha (a snow-white Hokkaido…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 min

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

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

Clam in clear seafood broth

Guests enjoy the natural, deeply concentrated umami of Kashimanada clams, carefully drawn out through meticulous preparation, together with crisp…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 45 min

Bamboo shoot 'tofu,' bamboo shoot simmered in miso, and sweet-savory simmered mallard duck

This is a dish that expresses local heritage. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-Fried Amberjack

For the deep-fried kanpachi (amberjack), I lightly salt the kanpachi, coat it in potato starch, and deep-fry it. In place of the lemon-soy sauce…

• ¥355

• Cook time 10 min

Spring baby sea bream grilled with a rapeseed-blossom glaze, fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip and soft roe tofu

This is a clear-soup course using turnip as an end-of-season winter ingredient. Using both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 30 min

Clam shinjo

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Nanohana Espuma Sauce, Herring Umani, Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Pine-Cone-Cut Kuwai, Shogoin Daikon,

This is a dish paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. For the simmered Shogoin daikon, it is cut, peeled, boiled in rice-rinsing…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 hr

Black-skinned kabocha squash simmered with lemon, fat greenling and sea urchin simmered together, new burdock root filled with sakura-shrimp shinjo, small eggplant Dutch-style simmered

This dish expresses Japanese cuisine through dark tea (Fu brick tea). For reference, Fu brick tea, 50 g: ¥1,620. This is an assortment of separately…

• Serves 1 · ¥489.5

• Cook time 1 hr