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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

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

Sake-lees-scented corn pureed soup, abalone

There are two key points to using sake lees. The first is to add a mellow flavor. We add sake lees …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

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

Pumpkin and Seafood Japanese-Style Stew

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…

Burdock Cappuccino

I originally worked abroad, and when I was in Italy I drank cappuccino almost every day. When I think of a Japanese dish using burdock, kinpira-gobō…

• Serves 1 · ¥267

• Cook time 1 hr

Corn Mineoka Tofu with Charcoal-Scented Sauce

Wrap the corn in plastic wrap while still in the husk, steam it for about 20 minutes, and once it's cooled enough to handle, clean it and separate…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 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

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

Corn Minegaoka tofu with charcoal-scented thick sauce

I wrap the corn, still in its husk, in plastic wrap and steam it for about 20 minutes in a steamer; once the residual heat has released, I clean it…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

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

Soba Canapé Style

As for Soba Canapé Style, since a lot of meat scraped from the bones after filleting and similar scraps come out of preparing fish, I steam it, flake…

• Serves 1 · ¥172

• Cook time 30 min

White asparagus tofu, tomato tofu, water shield tofu, corn tofu, pea tofu, mountain yam tofu, black carrot tofu

A chilled appetizer course. The seven seasonal vegetable tofus create a sense of coolness by unifying all seven components around vegetables. For the…

• ¥168

• Cook time 2 hr

Cherry Cheese Tofu

Ingredients from the past are disappearing along with the era. I recall how, where I live in Yamagata, the heavy snow meant that in winter foods were…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,986

• Cook time 45 min

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

• ¥5,040

• Cook time 1 hr

Edamame Surinagashi

This chilled pureed soup uses summer edamame, its dashi base rounded out with consommé, milk, and fresh cream. The threeline grunt is salted, dusted…

• ¥420

• Cook time 30 min

Scallop and Broccoli Cool-Breeze Jelly, Giant Pacific Octopus with Plum and Wasabi, Grilled Ayu with Uruka, Eel Wrapped in Manganji Pepper, Mustard-Stuffed Lotus Root

For the cool-accented scallop and broccoli cool-breeze jelly, the scallop sits at the very bottom. Wash the scallop adductor muscles well in a…

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

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

Cream cheese kuzu tofu, Miura-style chilled scrambled egg, summer vegetable namasu pickled in salt-koji and honey

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. Since there is little seafood available to use in summer, I built the menu around vegetables. Cream cheese kuzu…

• ¥120

• Cook time 1 days

Baked Pear Clafoutis

Hearing "pear" tends to bring to mind something like a compote, so this time I created a clafoutis instead. The key point is adding the batter little…

• Serves 1 · ¥87

• Cook time 40 min

Milk-Washed Punch

This is the sweet course. The Milk-Washed Punch is cocktail-like work: some guests from overseas like to have a little something to drink at the end…

• Serves 1 · ¥396

• Cook time 1 days

Milt Tofu

Today, I have prepared a dish to pair with the white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, where my workplace is located. First, this is the…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr