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New Onion with Parmigiano

As June approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Walnut Tofu with Sea Urchin Poured In, Crab Meat, Savory Dashi, Wasabi, Chestnut Shibukawa-Ni Bed, Beef Loin Miso-Marinated, Smoked Egg, Needle-Scored Shishito, Foie Gras and Daikon Mochi, Yuba Dressed in Truffle Wine Sauce, Enoki Mushroom, Spinach Stems, Persimmon, Salmon Roe Crowning Garnish

We are conscious of the surprise that our guests will feel when the dish is first served, and have …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,550

• Cook time 1 hr

Kuruma Prawn Checkerboard, Kinko and Scallop Shinjo Wrap, Mountain Yam and Salmon Roe, Sesame Daigo, Warm-Smoked Salmon Kinuta-Maki, Early Bamboo Shoot in Habutae Kinome Coating

These are the appetizers. For the kinko (a traditional dried sea cucumber) and scallop fish-paste dumpling wrap: when I was young I was taught to…

Spanish Mackerel Yuan-Yaki, A New Twist

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…

Shirokane Pork and Apple, Steamed

Wanting to use a seasonal fruit, I experimented and came up with the idea of pairing pork's umami with apple, to see whether I could create a new…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Yamayuri pork harami, fruit-miso grilled

We add blueberries and white peaches to the miso base to give the pork a refreshing sweetness witho…

• ¥650

• Cook time 3 days

Oil-steamed fall-run sweetfish, pinecone-cut Pacific saury with almond, whelk risotto in a turnip bowl, beef loin and green bean old-branch-style sticks, Ohara-style deep-fried taro shinjo, color-simmered long eggplant with peanut-kuzu sauce, jade ginkgo cracker with tofu dressing, dried persimmon with lily bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped tricolor sweet potato

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Visual impact that makes you want to take a photo Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 3 hr

Grilled Matsutake Steeped with Chrysanthemum Petals, Black Olive Coating Salad, Celeriac Mousse, Grilled Chicken White Liver with Toast, Sado Shrimp with Caviar, Wagyu Tongue Simmered Tender, Salmon and Lotus Root Roll with Process Cheese

This is the seasonal-vegetable course. We'll go through it in order. First is the grilled matsutake steeped with chrysanthemum petals. We simply boil…

Long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and a shiso flower-spike garnish, dressed with a fish-roe dressing, fig simmered with sweet miso, gourd-shaped cheese and egg, Kai-style cold-smoked salmon sushi roll, Brussels sprouts stuffed with crab, seared early-summer sesame tofu

This is the appetizer course. For the long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and shiso flower spike garnish, since long-arm shrimp are in season and…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Butterfish grilled on a cedar plank, autumn salmon and roe grilled together, pine-cone-scored squid teriyaki, pressed dried sardine grilled autumn-leaf style

Fruit Tomato and Blue Cheese Chawanmushi

Since we want the micro tomatoes to have a popping texture, we place them on raw and uncooked. We pour over the sweet, nectar-like juice that comes…

Shinshu Salmon and Asparagus with Egg-Yolk Vinegar, Nagano Mountain Yam Pressed with Kombu, Shinshu Fukumidori Chicken Teriyaki, Cream Cheese Nikogori, Nozawana Pickle Nori Roll, and Vegetables with Sesame Cream

Shinshu salmon and asparagus with egg-yolk vinegar takes Shinshu salmon — usually served in hot pot or as sashimi — and gives it a different…

• ¥50

• Cook time 10 min

Shrimp, pumpkin, fu, and green beans in tofu dressing

This is about pumpkin (kabocha). Looking into the literature, there are fairly well-established temperatures and times at which pectin sets, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Parcel-grilled beltfish, Spanish mackerel rolled with shredded vegetable filling and grilled, eel-fin rolls

For the grilled course's eel-fin rolls: there is a variety of sweet pepper that's thick, long, and not very spicy, which I cut into thin strips…

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…

Charcoal-grilled splendid alfonsino and abalone

For the charcoal-grilled kinmedai and abalone, the smoky aroma of the charcoal grilling layers over the flavor of the miso, bringing out the…

• ¥1,385

• Cook time 1 hr

Crab Tazuna, Kombu-Cured and Seared Tilefish

For the crab tazuna with kombu-cured and seared tilefish, searing the kombu-cured tilefish to roughly 50% doneness lets the crab and tilefish bring…

• ¥958

• Cook time 40 min

Buckwheat-dumpling-style Tanba steamed dish, saury simmered in vinegar, oyster grilled with sansho pepper, crystal ginkgo, butterfish salt-grilled, sweet potato simmered in bitter orange, mushroom marinade, persimmon and muscat grape cream-cheese shira-ae, fig dengaku

This is a nine-item appetizer assortment. For the soba-gaki-style tamba-mushi, the sweetness of the chestnuts varies considerably by season, so the…

Suzuki Sea Bass Oil-Marinated, Abalone Slow-Cooked in Oil

Wanting to make a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and since sweetfish is the famous summer fish known for its pairing with smartweed, I decided to…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Chilled verdant egg custard, sardine simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pumpkin castella sponge cake, coin-cut octopus fragrant fried, white melon tossed with bottarga, asparagus and bacon egg-yolk grilled, cheese tofu, pork belly simmered Yoshino-style with a kuzu-thickened sauce, hydrangea-style egg, and squid two-color grill

This is the appetizers course. For the chilled verdant egg custard, after making an egg tofu, I puree it in a mixer, combine it with gelatin and…

• ¥300

• Cook time 2 days

Tilefish and early matsutake sandwiched and grilled, beltfish tazuna-yaki, shrimp shinjo naruto, and other dishes

The tachiuo tazuna-yaki: weave the tachiuo into a rein shape, sandwich burdock inside, and salt-grill it. The squid kimi-yaki: salt bigfin reef squid…

Ginkgo tofu, roe-bearing ayu kombu roll, persimmon tofu-dressed salad, Pacific saury sushi in a kimono-sleeve shape, beef rolled and grilled with leek, cream cheese with salted fish-innard sauce, seasonal vegetables with blanched chrysanthemum

This is the appetizer course. For the ginkgo tofu, I was particular about bringing out the green color of the ginkgo nuts well, so I chose ginkgo…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Autumn brocade platter: kogarashi-yose, smoked autumn duck, oil-simmered roe-bearing ayu, and pike conger and matsutake ōharagi-age

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a large shared platter that makes people want to take a photo. I designed…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 20 min

Yuba-coated salad, jellied monkfish, smoked pufferfish in vinegar pickle, Yamato yam grilled with nori, yuzu mochi, kokera-zushi, namasu, seared julienned dried squid, and arrowhead crackers

The appetizers are plated as separate individual items so each one can also be served on its own. The uni in the yuba-coated salad is fine to use…