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Miso-pickled tofu dusted with bottarga, pressed crab terrine, asparagus egg roll, quail with Japanese chives, shrimp-shaped taro with foie gras, grilled

The appetizer's quail with Japanese chives is made by butterflying the quail open into one flat piece, spreading ground chicken on the thinner part…

Sea Bream Chrysanthemum-Flower Roll

For the vinegared dish, sea bream chrysanthemum-flower roll (kikka-maki) uses the top fillet of sea bream: pare it into a thin sheet, salt it, then…

Lily Bulb Kan, Steamed Abalone, Petal-Cut Lily Bulb, Hakata-Style Shrimp Shinjo, Foie Gras Set in Red Wine Jelly, Deep-Fried Hoshiko, Deep-Fried Broad Beans, Overnight-Dried Icefish, Whiting Rolled in Shiraita Kombu, and Green Pea Jelly

What is placed inside the lantern-shaped stand for the appetizer is a lily bulb terrine and steamed abalone. The steamed abalone is served topped…

Horse Mackerel Bone Senbei, Conger Eel Bone Senbei, Prawn Head Senbei, Coin-Shaped Bonito, Horse Mackerel Sasa-Zushi, Chicken Skin Nikogori, Steamed Abalone with Junsai, Hakata-Style Shiro-uri and Smoked Salmon, and Okra Pickled in Moromi

For the horse mackerel bone senbei, the bones left over from making the aji sasa-zushi — sushi wrapped in a bamboo leaf — are washed in a…

Pen shell sprout-wrapped roll, fig wine jelly

For the vinegared dish's fig wine jelly, I used canned figs this time. Water, sugar, and wine are combined and reduced by about a tenth, then the…

Snow crab and fresh yuba roll

(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Okitsu-style grilled tilefish, Nanban-style grilled fugu, egg-yolk glaze-grilled squid

For the grilled course's Okitsu-style tilefish, I skewer the scaled fish and grill it from a distance over charcoal, on a genuinely low flame, until…

Sea Bream Roe and Milt with Grated Daikon in Shuto Sauce

For the sea bream roe and milt with grated daikon in shuto sauce: heat freshly grated raw daikon, combine it with shuto (salted bonito innards)…

Bamboo shoot grilled in a tofu wrap

Lemon-cup assortment / vegetables dressed with sansho leaf / oil-cured kuruma shrimp / freshwater gudgeon in sweet glaze / kombu-cured flounder and crab roll / squid grilled with konoko / glossy simmered fava beans

For the appetizer's lemon-cup assortment, this season's delicious ark shell and gaper clam are arranged in a lemon cup, served with a citrus jelly…

Echizen Crab and Napa Cabbage

The vinegared dish has a Western feel, you might say: I pickle napa cabbage and celery in a Chinese-style sweet vinegar, then use a ring mold to set…

Spiny lobster, oyster, and sea urchin and milt, grilled

For the additional course — ise-ebi, oyster, uni, and shirako, grilled — I salt the shirako lightly and boil it, bind it just slightly with premium…

Swimming Crab Shinjo

As for the swimming crab shinjo in the simmered-soup bowl course, to keep a handmade feel we mostly use portions scooped by hand at the restaurant…

Rice-paper-wrapped deep-fry

I took the liberty of naming this dish 'hagoromo-age' myself. Rice paper is often cut into round shapes and used as a serving vessel, but I wondered…

Fat greenling grilled with a golden egg-yolk glaze, and more

For the grilled course, the Cantonese-style grilled beef (gyu Kanton-yaki) is a technique we learned from our hotel's Chinese-cuisine chef; since it…

Koji-Grilled Trout

For the koji-grilled trout: rinse the cherry salmon, fillet it into three pieces, season it lightly with salt, marinate it in a three-way equal…

Tofu-dressed salad

For the steamed course, the tilefish dish steamed to evoke new spring growth is made by grinding every one of the tilefish's bones, down to the…

Cod steamed with grated turnip, grilled cod milt

Sweet-vinegar-pickled onion, crab wrapped in thin-sliced turnip, mountain asparagus pickled plum-blossom style, snow-flower-cut lotus root, arrowhead bulb sweet-vinegar pickle, grilled octopus

For the vinegared dish this time, I did use shrimp and octopus, but the idea was to see whether it would be interesting to make a vinegared course…

Grilled Sea Cucumber

Sansho-leaf miso topping, fresh tofu skin topped with sea urchin, herring roe marinated in a seasoned bed, eel rolled with burdock, shrimp and fava beans, rapeseed blossoms and grilled egg, egg-filled baby octopus, flounder ball-shaped sushi, steamed lily bulb

Usui pea pureed soup, flower-cut spiny lobster

Sakura-chaya was founded in Showa 8 — 1933 — and is the third-oldest established ryotei, a traditional Japanese restaurant, in Mukojima, a district…

Fat greenling grilled with egg yolk, duck and bamboo shoot sandwich-grilled

For the grilled course's ainame nataneyaki, the usual approach is simply to brush on sieved egg yolk and grill it, but here I add a little…

Soba tofu

As for the soba tofu, when people say 'Shinshu soba,' they usually think of soba noodles, a buckwheat dumpling, or a steamed soba preparation, but…