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Keiju egg mousse, sea urchin, shrimp with savory dashi sauce and wasabi

This is a signature dish of sorts at our restaurant, served year-round and well received by guests. The eggs we use are called Keiju-tamago, produced…

• Serves 20 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Kohaku-dori chicken liver mousse monaka, vinegar-cured mackerel with wild raspberry vinegar jelly, duck marinated in dashi soy sauce with orange flavor, black pork tsukune, chilled tomato takiawase, asparagus and garland chrysanthemum greens ohitashi

I've put together an assortment of drinking dishes that pair with anything — wine, shochu, or sake. Among them, the kohaku-dori liver mousse monaka…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 2 hr

Shijimi Clam Chawanmushi, Cauliflower Surinagashi

This appetizer is a dish we also served during our pre-opening. The image is of something like a 'Japanese-style clam chowder.' The potato added to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Kuroge wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, sake-simmered abalone, and Malabar spinach yuba roll

For the Kuroge Wagyu beef tenderloin with apple egg-yolk vinegar, meat is rarely used in a vinegared dish, so I thought I would take this opportunity…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Chilled Corn Chawanmushi

For the season when the heat increases, I devised a dish that lets you savor, with a smooth, pleasant swallow, the aroma and gentle sweetness of…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

White asparagus mold — clam clear-broth sauce, spicy-simmered wasabi flower, soy-marinated salmon roe, shiso flower spike

Once the clams have opened, add kudzu and chill the pot, but be careful not to let the flesh get to…

Salmon grilled with a dawn-pink egg-yolk glaze, kumquats simmered in honey, chicken baked into a ground-meat cake, pine-cone-scored ark shell daisen-ni, and more

Kumquats simmered in honey: since kumquats with their leaves attached turn bitter, they are first left overnight, leaves still attached, in a fairly…

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…

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

Salmon Roe in Golden Marinade, Hairy Crab Spring Rolls, Amigasa Yuzu, Shrimp Kōsen-age, King Oyster Mushroom Age-ni, Lotus Root Itoko-ni, Senpōshi Oyster Slow-Poached in Oil

Taking aroma as the theme, I present these by building on my everyday work. These are sake accompaniments expressing 'the scent of winter.' For ikura…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 min

Red sea bream, turnip-steamed and topped with silver sauce

We cut the kuruma prawn into about 5 small pieces, keeping the balance with the other ingredients in mind. For the turnip combined with meringue, the…

Kuroge wagyu simmered sukiyaki-style

The signature dish is the Kuroge Wagyu Sukiyaki-Style Simmer. Under the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," where meat dishes used to be…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Roast beef kimiage, somen noodles, truffle salt

This time I introduce kimiage. The batter, made by adding water to egg yolk and mixing in flour, turns a vivid yellow color, which is why it's also…

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…

Chawanmushi

This time, we learned about "steamed dishes" from Technical Director Hiratsuka (Hattori Nutrition College). We feature "chawanmushi."

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

Blue Swimmer Crab Autumn-Color Tamaji-Mushi

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: designed with photogenic appeal for guests in their twenties and thirties…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Turban shell with liver dressing, roe-bearing shrimp, spring cabbage Hakata-style, pressed chicken terrine with fava bean aspic, angelica-tree shoot smoked salmon roll, burdock wrapped in conger eel, icefish plum uiro, lotus root stuffed with orange, rapeseed blossom and prosciutto roll

Celebratory dishes. The sazae with liver dressing: the sazae is steamed with sake, then its liver is combined with a tofu-based white dressing to…

• ¥590

• Cook time 2 hr

Winter melon steamed parcel, summer bracken rolled in fried tofu skin, tender-simmered beef tongue, lotus root dumpling, summer vegetable deep-fried tofu fritter

This is the lidded-dish course. For the summer warabi shinoda-maki, the warabi is first treated as usual to remove its bitterness and simmered to…

Kabocha squash manju chawanmushi with an oolong tea aroma

This is a steamed dish made with oolong tea. For the kabocha manju chawanmushi, I used an oolong that's clean and light, without any off-flavors, to…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 30 min

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

Egg Yolk Shuto Glaze

As for the appetizer "Egg Yolk Shuto Glaze," egg-yolk shuto (salted, fermented bonito innards) is an all-purpose glaze that tastes good drizzled over…

• Serves 1 · ¥215

• Cook time 2 hr