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Pinecone-cut tokobushi, bamboo-cut asparagus and salmon roll, plum-shaped noshi with a naruto twist, black soybean wine jelly

We'd like to propose a way to make the most of true cod milt in season, a winter ingredient. Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

White sesame blancmange (grilled fig, Japanese bayberry, lotus root crackers, black sugar syrup)

I made this dish centered on sesame and other Japanese ingredients, based on 'blancmange,' a dessert born in France. Since it's traditionally made…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn Truffle and Foie Gras Soba

No matter how well soba is kneaded, it has no fat, so when people want more umami, there's a tendency to pair it with tempura, fried tofu, and the…

Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi

This is the soup course. For ‘Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi,’ mekaja (Lingula anatina, a lamp-shell brachiopod) is a seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Butter tea tofu — ice-cellar style

This is an appetizer course from a set of Japanese dishes built around black tea. (Black tea, 50 g: ¥1,200.) I made 'butter tea,' as drunk in Tibet…

• Serves 9 · ¥40

• Cook time 40 min

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 Pork Fillet with Herbs, and Shibazuke Butter

For grilled pork fillet with herbs, I wanted a dish that, in the heat of summer, lets you feel the refreshing aroma and tartness of shiso, and stays…

• ¥260

• Cook time 1 hr

Cauliflower Mousse, "When Spring Begins to Scent the Air"

This appetizer (sakizuke) spotlights cauliflower, an ingredient at the end of its winter season. The cauliflower mousse is meant to convey a sense of…

• Serves 10 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, Layered Grill

For Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, I use wild boar belly that has not yet built up much fat. I simmer it until tender, then compensate…

• Serves 1 · ¥452

• Cook time 5 hr

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

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

Corn Fermented Butter, Japanese-Style Soy Milk Panna Cotta, with Shoyu-Kōji Caramel

When I did research for this dish, I found a source stating that "the word koku (body and richness) arose from the aging of grains." So, thinking…

• Serves 14 · ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Wagyu Sansho-Yaki, Eggplant Butter-Soy Grill

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: takes the flavor of yakiniku up a notch. I thought that many people in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Cucumber with Soy pulp, Abalone Liver with Butter, Black Sesame Egg with a Touch of Rin Glaze, Arihei-Style Squid, Yellowtail and Bettarazuke Hakata-Style, Plum Monaka, Matcha Kinton with Budou-mame, Herring Roe Namasu

This is the course preceding the hassun course. For the sea cucumber with soy pulp, I put the sea cucumber in a bamboo colander together with round…

• Serves 1 · ¥830

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn-leaf assortment: oyster and persimmon miso gratin, shrimp and water caltrop grilled with yuzu, scallop autumn-color pickle, small clam adductor in apple vinegar, shuto cheese, persimmon and salmon, rolled dried persimmon, matcha red bean paste with skin-on chestnut

As a reconception of dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine, this evokes a late-autumn medley. We designed each dish with an eye to color…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,475

• Cook time 1 hr

Walnut tofu / early-summer salmon, Edo-style soy-cured and grilled / abalone and ginkgo nut takikomi rice

Even for a veteran master chef, there are many dishes whose preparation can't be understood just by hearing about them or seeing them once. That's…

Alfonsino grilled with an egg-yolk glaze, wagyu Noda-yaki

This grilled dish uses kinmedai as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Kinmedai is a premium fish prized for its clean flavor and well-balanced…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 30 min

Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style

For Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style, I use two kinds of dashi: the soaking liquid from dried scallops and chicken dashi. I add roasted…

• Serves 1 · ¥553

• Cook time 30 min

Pike conger and shrimp Yoshino-ni, furofuki winter melon

The hamo (pike conger) and shrimp yoshino-ni is a dish where each ingredient's flavor layers with the eggplant and corn, so every individual taste…

• ¥695

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn sakura shrimp pureed soup

From the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is a clear-soup course. The Autumn Sakura-Shrimp Puree Soup uses the juvenile sakura shrimp…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Sushi, sushi, sushi, sushi — the incoming boat, the outgoing boat

As an innovation for the rice course, I devised this from chirashi-zushi. Between layers of sushi rice, I press in dry-roasted items — dry-scrambled…

• Serves 4 · ¥12,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Apple Gratin

This is a reimagining of Gunma Prefecture's local cuisine. This is a grilled dish. The Apple Gratin is an attempt to let guests eat the apple…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Braised Fruit Pork Belly, Cheese-Baked '540' Potato

Bringing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables Overwintered vegetables used: '540' potato, overwintered carrot, Kawanishi long yam…

• Serves 1 · ¥390

• Cook time 2 min

Barracuda grilled Matsumae-style, abalone dressed with liver, shrimp in crystal aspic, duck steamed in wine, goldfish-shaped rice-flour dumplings, chilled asparagus garnish, watermelon and small melon

This is the appetizer course for a summer set menu. For the Abalone Liver Ae, after cleaning the abalone, I gently simmer it in the shell. I press…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,050

• Cook time 2 hr