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Yellowtail and turnip simmer with snow crab, shiitake, turnip, millet gluten, ginkgo nut, Kujo scallion, and yuzu

This cooking method makes the most of the seafood's flavor. All of the broth is transferred to the …

Aigamo duck jibu-ni with sudare-fu, shiitake, grilled tofu, komatsuna, and wasabi

This time, on 'simmered dishes,' I learned from chef Muraishi (Ginza Kakiyasu). I take up 'jibu-ni.'

"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…

Salmon tawara-style deep-fried, grilled-eggplant batter, chrysanthemum achara pickle

In the tawara-age, besides onion and long onion, I also add taro, and this makes it come through much more clearly as Japanese cuisine. The sticky…

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

Kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-cape coating — young corn

By wrapping the first turn of julienned potato a little firmly and the rest loosely, the potato stays attached to the prawn and fries up beautifully…

Salmon milt in dressing, colorful namasu, kumquat cream, folded egg dish, herring roe on kelp in sake lees marinade, fertility-motif shrimp, snow-ring lotus root, cod roe sushi, monkfish deep-fried in soba-flake coating, foie gras steamed in egg custard

For the salmon milt in dressing, since some guests dislike the fishy smell of milt, I aimed to remove that smell while keeping its creaminess, and to…

Spiny lobster egg-yolk deep-fry — matsutake hakusen-age, sudachi, plain salt

This time, we learned about "agemono" from new master Masaya Tsuji (Wanmiya). We will focus on "Koromoage".

Whiting, hakusen-age, conger eel semolina-fry, tomato salt, shiso salt

The shiso salt served alongside is made by drying shiso leaves — which often go to waste — in the oven until the moisture is gone and they turn into…

Ezo Deer Cutlet

Ezo deer cutlet is a dish that lets you serve venison — meat that's difficult to cook properly — deliciously and without failure. I cleanly remove…

• ¥515

• Cook time 15 min

Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Abalone, Sea Urchin, and Scallop Croquette

The croquette is deep-fried slowly over medium heat for about 4 minutes; once it is about 80% fried, it is placed on the grill stand to cook it…

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

Three Kinds of Sesame Cream

This time I would like to introduce dishes we regularly serve at the restaurant, as well as dishes I hope to serve in the future. Here I introduce…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 20 min

Whiting rolled in mountain yam, pike conger with salted kombu oil, eel and cucumber Hakata-style, small turban shell baked with cream, smoked duck

This is a refreshing course for the season. Whiting rolled in mountain yam: curing the whiting with kombu (kobujime) concentrates its umami, and…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Conger eel roll with spring greens, urui dusted with kuzu starch, sweet shrimp tossed with shuto, three-color cheese terrine, baby turban shell baked with cream

The conger eel roll with spring greens came from wanting to make the most of lettuce's fresh green color, and is an application of our usual…

Cherry salmon grilled with koji

The flower-cut lotus root is pickled in vinegar, so it's convenient to keep as is. For the domyoji (coarse steamed glutinous rice) grilled with…

Grilled spring pancake, duck, cucumber, scallion, cherry leaf, clam simmered Arima-style, sansho peppercorns

If you overcook the clams they turn tough, so I think it's best to just barely warm them through in the marinade. I have the impression that Arima-ni…

Spanish Mackerel Yukimi-Style Grill, Beef Loin Shio-Koji Grill

This is the grilled course. For the Spanish-mackerel yukimi-style grill, we prepare the mackerel, salt it, and top it with a soy-milk béchamel sauce…

• ¥300

• Cook time 3 days

Grilled Daifuku with Strawberry Sauce, Candied Wheel-Shaped Wheat Gluten

Porcini Takikomi Rice

After experimenting with porcini mushrooms in various ways, I found they have a distinctive aroma not found in any Japanese mushroom, and I wondered…

• Serves 3 · ¥380

• Cook time 35 min

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

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

Misaki-gazami Kora-yaki, Grilled in the Shell

Building on autumn ingredients, I used Misaki-gazami, a treasure of the sea from Oita Prefecture, where my workplace is located, to devise a set of…

• Serves 1 · ¥380

• Cook time 1 hr