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Salted pollock roe sunrise roll, conger eel naruto-style spiral roll, tender-simmered octopus, glossy simmered dried cod

This is a celebratory New Year tiered box. It was designed to be colorful and to keep well, so that families gathered together could enjoy a relaxed…

• ¥3,000

• Cook time 2 days

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell

This is a simmered dish built around the presentation. Spiny lobster simmered in its own shell was given a bold, high-impact plating under the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared cod, grilled cod milt, zoni-style

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. Our restaurant sees many local customers — older guests, young couples, and gatherings of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed fugu

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a clear-soup course. For the Fugu-fukashi, I first simmer fugu bones and trimmings…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 5 hr

Fan-cut golden eye snapper deep-fried with gyokuro tea, shiitake and almond deep-fry, fan-cut bamboo shoot deep-fry

I devised the fan-cut kinmedai deep-fried with gyokuro thinking that adding the tea's color and aroma to kinmedai, which is delicious and vividly…

Fat greenling kenchin-style roll, drum-cut bamboo shoot, broad beans

The simmered dish is a fat greenling kenchin-style roll. I fillet the fat greenling into three pieces, remove the larger bones, and make fine scoring…

Cherry salmon grilled Oribe-style with matcha, Shimanto turkey smoked with black tea, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper

As for the cherry salmon Oribe-style matcha grill, sakuramasu, as the name suggests, comes into season during cherry-blossom time, but since it has…

Eel and cheese terrine, bamboo shoots simmered with bonito flakes, butterbur simmered green, flower-cut shrimp

The eel and cheese terrine is made by cutting kabayaki-style grilled eel (glazed in a sweet soy sauce) into strips and steaming it in a…

Mirror-cut daikon simmered to infuse flavor, kuruma shrimp quick soy-simmered, fan-cut bamboo shoot simmered with bonito flavor, pinecone-scored small abalone simmered, plum-shaped carrot, early butterbur simmered green, arrowhead bulb richly simmered

The simmered dishes are meant to evoke pine, bamboo, and plum. For the mirror-cut daikon simmered to infuse flavor, I carve the daikon into a plum…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

River trout oil-smoked and steamed, salmon chakin shaped like ground cherries, Kurakake bean and rock tripe steeped in dashi, Shinshu grape dressed in daigo, curved bamboo shoot with plum-shiso dressing

Right now, we're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so I'd like to…

• Serves 5 · ¥220

• Cook time 20 min

Ise lobster simmered with sea urchin, comma-shaped shrimp-taro fukume-ni, bamboo shoot simmered Tosa-style, purple sweet potato crisp, flower-cut carrot, and bok choy

For the tosa-style bamboo shoot, the bamboo shoot is simmered once, then simmered again with a generous amount of added bonito flakes. It's then…

Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke

For the shellfish frills used in the Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke — white mirugai, ark shell, and pen shell — we rub them well with salt to…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Ise Lobster Simmered in Yuzu-Scented Egg Yolk, Winter Bamboo Shoot Simmered in Shaoxing Wine, Thick Burdock Root Stuffed with Akagi Chicken and Wrapped in Napa Cabbage, Ichimatsu-Pattern Shiitake Mushroom Simmered in Coffee

For the Ise lobster simmered in yuzu-scented egg yolk, I mix chopped yuzu into the egg-yolk batter and simmer it in a sake-based happō dashi (an…

• ¥1,100

• Cook time 2 hr

Bamboo shoot, katsura-cut (rolling in spring)

This is one of our creative dishes using bamboo shoots. Here, we use the outer part of the bamboo shoot. Since we wrap other ingredients in bamboo…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Akashi octopus cherry-simmered, icefish cherry-blossom sushi, warm-smoked salmon and papaya, broad bean grilled with bottarga powder, bamboo shoot, simmered abalone

This time, this is a dish meant to be enjoyed around the time the first cherry blossoms are announced to be opening. This is the tray course. We…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Simmered bamboo shoot and rockfish with butterbur and sansho leaf

After filleting the mebaru, blanch it briefly for about five seconds. Afterward, remove the surface sliminess — doing this thoroughly keeps any fishy…

Fat greenling, Yoshino-style kuzu-dusted

For the fat greenling yoshino-style kuzu-dusted dish, I use ainame, which becomes delicious heading into early summer, along with udo (mountain…

Deep-Fried Oysters, Novelty Style; New Bamboo Shoot Wrapped in Prosciutto

• ¥5,040

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot Simmered Tosa-Style, Tilefish Chakin-Simmered, Tied Bracken Fern

This is the mixed simmered assortment course. The bamboo shoot simmered Tosa-style has its bitterness removed and is simmered with bonito flakes. New…

• ¥380

• Cook time 1 days

Ise Lobster

This is the grilled course. This time the Ise lobster was cooked sous-vide. The lobster is filleted, salted, and quickly blanched at 80°C using…

• Serves 5 · ¥9,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoot, pen shell, bigfin reef squid, bracken fern, and sansho leaf in sansho-leaf miso dressing

This time, on 'sakizuke,' I learned from chef Matsubara (Roppongi's 'Kasumitei Matsubara'). I take up 'kinome-miso-ae.'

Wild mountain vegetables and egg rice porridge with bamboo shoot, udo, bracken fern, koshiabura, fiddlehead fern, myoga, and grated ginger

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

Tilefish, sake-scented; sansho-grilled bamboo shoot

From our creative dishes using bamboo shoots, this is the grilled course. We used young sansho leaf, which pairs so well with bamboo shoot…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr