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Strawberry Fashioned into Plum Blossoms

Chestnut and fig in basil-sesame cream (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by medicinal-cuisine specialist Momoyo Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Tomato-stuffed water eggplant, pea-stuffed aori squid, bakurai jelly, Mineoka tofu

Made in a style resembling an appetizer course. As for the tomato-stuffed eggplant — a mild, low-acid variety usually eaten raw — since tomato and…

Moon-viewing pumpkin pudding

Tsukimi kabocha pudding is a sweet inspired by the perennially popular smooth custard pudding. It expresses moon-viewing to match the season. I…

Autumn Salmon, Autumn-Brocade Rice Cream Croquette

This is a fried dish. The autumn salmon and autumn-brocade rice cream croquette uses salmon, soy milk skin, and white sauce. Since we run an inn, we…

• Serves 30 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Soybean pulp salad, mountain yam somen, ark shell simmered with strawberry, spring cabbage with fish milt cream, mugwort-and-whitefish mixture, marinated

The shiitake mushroom accompanying the okara salad develops more umami once it has been frozen. For the akagai simmered with strawberry — since I'm…

Fried shirako tofu with asparagus, scallion, and red grated daikon

This time, on 'fried dishes,' I learned from instructor Ohara (Shimbashi's 'Shutei Kikuhime'). This time I take up 'fried shirako tofu.'

Pen shell clam deep-fried in rice cracker crumbs with three-color sauce

Whitefin trevally grilled with kabusecha tea

This is the grilled course. For ‘Kakuaji Grilled with Kabusecha Tea,’ I use kakuaji, a rare local fish also called white trevally, in a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 2 hr

Ise Lobster

This is the grilled course. This time the Ise lobster was cooked sous-vide. The lobster is filleted, salted, and quickly blanched at 80°C using…

• Serves 5 · ¥9,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish Kombu-Cured Red-and-White Namasu, 'Treasure of Children' Shrimp Shinjo, Gourd-Shaped Castella, and More

For tilefish kombu-cured namasu, we kelp-cure the tilefish and serve it namasu-style with white tosazu and grated apple. For 'treasure of children'…

Grilled young sea bass with shuto, stuffed tomato, salt-simmered duck loin, and more

This is the grilled seasonal assortment course. For the grilled young sea bass with shuto: after preparing the young sea bass, thinking about how to…

Cream Tofu with Fruit

Grilled Fruit

For dessert, the grilled fruit: hollow out an iyokan (a Japanese citrus) to make it into a container.

Sea bass with potato sauce, organic vegetables grilled with fermented fish innards

This is the grilled course. Since it is a new dish, I plated it on a piece of contemporary Arita ware. As for the green-yuzu sauce for the sea bass…

• ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-Fried Tuna Steak

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…

Winter individual hot pot, yukimi-style

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…

Snow-viewing dried persimmon

This time I thought up winter-oriented desserts with a free approach. December inevitably brings a strong Christmas image to mind, but since this is…

Persimmon and Kyoho Grape Custard Cream

Ridge-grown soybean, two-way tofu

Salted whole salmon and Danshaku potato, wrapped and baked

The grilled dish aramaki-zake, a salted and dried whole salmon traditionally served at New Year's, and Danshaku-imo wrapped and baked is essentially…

Awaji Onion and Silkie Chicken Egg, Silk-Smooth Steamed Custard

This is the sakizuke course, an appetizer. The Awaji onion and silkie chicken egg silk-smooth steamed custard uses onions grown on Awaji Island…

• ¥4,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Strawberry-and-Cheese Ice Cream with Strawberry Compote

For the strawberry-and-cheese ice cream, you simply put the ingredients into a food processor, blend them, and freeze the mixture in the freezer —…

Smoked salmon mousse, black soybeans sandwiched with cheese, cheese hosho-style roll

As for the course that closes out the sake-paired dishes — the smoked salmon mousse — our restaurant serves both Western and Japanese cuisine. In the…