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Deep-Fried Juvenile Ayu, Sake-Steamed Icefish, Tamagoyaki, Bamboo Shoot Kinpira, Octopus Ogura-Ni

We placed importance on visual beauty and on being a combination that lets guests enjoy their sake.

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

Matsusaka beef, hot-water rinsed, with spring truffle (bianchetto), egg, mountain udo, angelica shoot, and Kyoto Kujō scallion

Since our restaurant handles Matsusaka beef of world-class quality, we think every day about how best to draw out its deliciousness — which…

Cool breeze salad

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Clam and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho-leaf miso, fava bean, Kyoto carrot, and mountain udo

At our restaurant we normally serve three appetizer courses, but through March and April it still gets cold at night, so we serve something warm as…

Oil-grilled sea bass

The conventional oil-grilling method is delicious too, but I wanted to make a grilled dish that brings in the deliciousness of oil from a different…

• Serves 2 · ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Sashimi Assortment, Three Kinds

Extra care taken in the preparation creates a sense of surprise.

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

Mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar, Tamba chestnuts simmered in coffee, autumn ayu with water-pepper miso, walnut tofu wrung in cloth, sea urchin jelly with yam bulbils, young kuruma prawns, thin-sliced burdock, jade-green ginkgo nuts, cuttlefish grilled with salted fish innards, moon-viewing lily-bulb dumplings

This is the appetizer course, and I put particular effort into it. For the abalone in the mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar dressing, it…

Roast Venison Shintama

This is the additional course, making use of autumn ingredients. Roast Venison Shintama uses in-season venison, a lean cut from the hindquarter…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Kisu Grilled with Kabusecha

For Japanese whiting grilled with kabusecha, a shade-grown green tea, since I'm from Shizuoka and tea-based cooking is a specialty of mine, I used…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Ise spiny lobster grilled with golden egg yolk, seared Sendai beef, bottarga, yuzu-grilled winter yellowtail, kombu-cured herring roe, seven-treasure namasu, lantern-shaped herring, miso-marinated winter cod milt, grilled sea urchin, teriyaki monkfish liver

This is the celebratory platter from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. For 'Golden-Grilled Ise Spiny Lobster,' I paid close attention to the heat so the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 1 hr

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

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…

Herring roe and wasabi in tofu dressing, pine-needle skewers, cod grilled with saikyo miso glaze, a twist on namasu, amber-marinated quail egg

For the herring roe and wasabi shira-ae — herring roe is used in New Year's cooking for its meaning of "many children" — this time I bring in a hint…

Beef Loin Sawani-Style Clear Soup

This is a clear-soup course. Beef loin sawani-style clear soup was created for guests who are not fond of fish. I lightly sear the beef loin…

Finely scored abalone, clam with mugwort kuzu noodles and raw sea urchin, beach silvertop, udo

I made mugwort-flavored kuzu strips. I thought about whether I could make something that even guests who visit several times a month wouldn't tire…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Yamanashi corn pureed soup, lotus root dumpling, Fuji Sakura pork, tender-simmered

This is a clear-soup course. As for the Yamanashi corn surinagashi, corn is exceptionally delicious in Yamanashi in June and July — so much is…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea squirt with citrus dressing, shrimp with fennel dressing, surf clam hydrangea-style dressing, sansho herring, beef with egg-yolk dressing

This is the sashimi course. In place of the usual sashimi, I made a five-color namasu. It uses seafood, beef, and sanshō herring, a local dish of…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Wild Mountain Vegetable Sawani-Wan

You can enjoy two flavors in a single soup bowl. One is a flavor combining vegetables and asari clams. I roast butterbur sprouts and udo at 100°C for…

• Serves 1 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Persimmon tofu dressing, bamboo-leaf grilled conger eel, monkfish liver bonito-flavored simmer, bamboo-leaf sushi

This is the hashi-osame, the finishing course before the rice. For the persimmon shira-ae, pour an appropriate amount of salt into thick soymilk and…

• ¥169

• Cook time 30 min

Rabbit and Yuba Spring Roll, Sudachi

For the rabbit and yuba spring roll, I thought some guests might find it too visceral if the shape of the meat were left intact, so I made it into a…

• Serves 1 · ¥196

• Cook time 15 min

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr