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Autumn mackerel pressed into a kimono-shaped sushi, Pacific saury simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pinecone-cut arrowhead bulb, chestnut cracker, yam-bulbil fish-paste dumpling, persimmon wrapped paper-fold-style, persimmon-shaped quail egg, ginkgo-leaf-cut taro, maple-leaf-cut carrot, kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-bundle shape, pine-needle soba

Dashing Ichimatsu-Pattern Box Sushi

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Building excitement for the moment the lid is lifted Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 20 min

White tilefish, rolled and cut into mallet-shaped rounds, local alfonsino in a cloth-wrung purse shape

This is the simmered assortment course. As for the okitsudai kinuta-maki, okitsudai refers to white tilefish. This time, adding the extra step of…

• ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Swimming crab (gazami) mold

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. For Gazami Mold — swimming crab caught in Tosa Bay is called 'gazami' in Kochi Prefecture. I…

• Serves 1 · ¥870

• Cook time 1 hr

Fig Mousse

Since this was for summer, we made dishes that are cold, easy to swallow, and pleasant on the palate. We also aimed for a light sweetness that isn't…

White plum-shaped taro, kuruma prawn simmered shiba-ni style, early-dug bamboo shoot, milt simmered in egg yolk

This proposes a way to use true cod milt at the end of its season (nagori). This is the simmered course. The milt simmered in egg yolk takes milt…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed sushi

This is the rice course, an arrangement of the Fukushima local dishes wappa-meshi, rice served in a bentwood box, and hokkimeshi, surf clam rice. For…

• Serves 3 · ¥780

• Cook time 2 hr

Ark shell clam and pen shell clam

This is the appetizer course. The spring vegetables — hosta shoot, ostrich fern fiddlehead, and usui peas — are boiled to bring out good color. The…

• ¥370

• Cook time 20 min

Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style

This is a grilled dish from a summer set menu. For the Sea Bass Grilled Tropical-Style, I remember this from when I had just joined Tokyo Kaikan, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Physalis with warm-smoked salmon potato sushi, grilled matsutake mushroom soaked in ponzu, miso-marinated foie gras, squid cracker, and eel roll grilled kenchin-style

The physalis with warm-smoked salmon potato sushi contains potato sushi made with smoked salmon inside a physalis husk, along with edible physalis…

Shinshu snow trout in egg-custard aspic

This is a soup course. For the Shinshu Yukimasu egg-custard aspic, I wanted to communicate added value to novelty-loving customers in their forties…

• ¥175

• Cook time 30 min

Japanese mountain yam somen

Ise lobster pine-nut grill, milt cream bake

This makes use of true cod milt at its very first appearance of the season (hashiri). Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring sea bream grilled in layers, in the style of an avocado mille-feuille

This is the grilled course. For the sea bream kasane-yaki with avocado mille-feuille style, the sea bream is cooked in a steam convection oven at…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod milt, steamed tamaji custard

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…

Five-color grilled squid, shrimp / herring roe on kelp / okra set in jelly, loach-stuffed burdock Owari-style simmered, carrot mousse, summer duck and zucchini sesame-grilled, mini kabocha squash, pike conger cut into icicle strips

For the appetizer's five-color grilled squid, this time I air-dried the thick part of the red squid's flesh a little, cut it into strips, and colored…

Koshu-style grilled chicken grunt, tomato baked in white sauce, steamed eel rice

This is the grilled course. For Koshu-style grilled isaki, the isaki is filleted into three pieces, coated with flour, and pan-grilled in olive oil;…

• ¥2,750

• Cook time 2 hr

Kumquat-Tea Grilled Kagoshima Chicken, Kagoshima Chicken Tea-Leaf Miso Pickle

I used Akadori Satsuma, a Kagoshima branded meat chicken. For the kumquat-tea grilled Kagoshima chicken: kumquat skin is delicious on its own, so I…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 6 hr

Cherry salmon grilled roll with julienned vegetables, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf, roast beef three ways

This is the grilled course. For the cherry salmon kenchin-yaki, the cherry salmon is cut lengthwise into 10 cm widths, butterflied open, dusted with…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 30 min

Steeped Malabar spinach, squid dressed with mefun, fermented salmon roe and kidney, rock mozuku in vinegar, conger eel pressed sushi with pickled mibuna greens, mini daikon pickled in fermented mash, new-season ginkgo nuts sake-seared with bottarga and Mimolette cheese, and semi-dried sea-cucumber ovary deep-fried in freshly milled rice flour batter

This is a platter of dishes to accompany sake. Since our restaurant has many women guests, we plate it for two to four people to share and present it…

Hinai-Jidori Kiritanpo Yaki-Bitashi

This time, the theme is "Reimagined Local Cuisine" — a creative reworking of the standard way Akita Prefecture's local cuisine is typically served…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

Ise spiny lobster ice-rinsed sashimi

This is a sashimi course that makes use of Ise spiny lobster as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Ise lobster is a premium ingredient regarded…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 30 min

Kawachi duck and whole-roasted Tennoji turnip

As a way to make use of a winter ingredient, this is a dish built around Tennoji turnip in season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Shrimp sweet rolled omelet, with yuzu sweet rolled omelet and stir-fried simmered mustard greens

This time, on 'bowl dishes,' I learned from instructor Miyata (Kioichō's Hotel New Otani). This time I take up 'date-maki.'