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Shinshu-style steamed tilefish with tea soba, shredded scallion, wasabi, and thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from instructor Shimada (Ginza Kasuga). I take up 'Shinshū-mushi.'

Shinshu-style steamed dish

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…

Light kuzu-thickened broth with tilefish and lotus-root mochi, bracken fern, carrot, and fava bean

This time, on the 'clear-soup course,' I learned from chef Igawa (Nihonbashi's 'Nihon Ryōri Kafū'). This time I take up 'usu-kuzu-jitate.'

Assorted platter: nanban-style grilled barracuda, kabosu simmered in light syrup, Uda-kin burdock, tilefish with black rice, avocado baked in its shell, three kinds of rolled deep-fry

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,570

• Cook time 50 min

Tilefish in bancha tea

The sound at the moment the dashi is poured in stirs the appetite.

Tilefish and karasumi clear-soup, finished with more karasumi and a yuzu crowning garnish

The balance between the saltiness of the karasumi and the flavor of the tilefish is superb.

Crispy deep-fried tilefish with bottarga sauce

The small tilefish is deep-fried in high-temperature oil so that its scales stand up crisply, conveying a sense of crunchiness at a single glance…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish fried in its own scales, grilled eggplant, mogusa ginger, fried fresh yuba, shiso flower spike, thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, within Japanese cuisine, a proposal from head chef Honda (Ginza U Noki) on the basic dishes of fried food. In cooking, scales are, in…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish, kombu-cured and pinecone-grilled, sudachi, clear seafood broth

This is a dish I devised so that guests could enjoy the full deliciousness of tilefish, which comes into season in the cold months. I prepare…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 40 min

Crab Tazuna, Kombu-Cured and Seared Tilefish

For the crab tazuna with kombu-cured and seared tilefish, searing the kombu-cured tilefish to roughly 50% doneness lets the crab and tilefish bring…

• ¥958

• Cook time 40 min

Kisu Grilled with Kabusecha

For Japanese whiting grilled with kabusecha, a shade-grown green tea, since I'm from Shizuoka and tea-based cooking is a specialty of mine, I used…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Guji and Matsutake Clear-Soup Course, Sous-Vide

This is a proposal for matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. I myself have long experience studying Kyoto cuisine, and I like the philosophy…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 10 min

Tilefish Grilled with Shuto-Koji, New Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Sake and Salt

For the tilefish grilled with shuto-koji, I use amazake (fermented sweet rice drink). To make the amazake, I cook rice porridge at a ratio of three…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish nanban-zuke and shrimp nanban-zuke with accordion-cut cucumber, freeze-dried tofu achara pickle, Fushimi pepper, and mixed scallion

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from instructor Nakamura (Ryōtei Chiyoda). I take up 'nanban-zuke.'

Snow crab cedar-plank bake, duck roast with black pepper, tilefish ponzu jelly, clam kuzu simmer, sake-simmered saimaki prawn, rolled plum sheet and sake lees, Hakata-style, sweet chestnut mash, apple and dried persimmon in tofu dressing

For the snow crab cedar-plank bake, I use snow crab at its best during the Minor Cold season, in early January, and steam-bake it on a cedar plank to…

• ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Autumn-leaf assortment: pine-cone-grilled tilefish, chestnut, ginkgo nuts on a pine-needle skewer, eggplant dengaku, baby taro steamed in its skin, Fushimi pepper grilled and dashi-steeped, maple-leaf wheat gluten, sweet potato chips, lotus root chips, sudachi

At our restaurant, Nihombashi Oikawa, we're mindful of theater and presentation in front of the guest, offering a comprehensive dining experience…

• ¥8,000

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish Matsukasa-age, with Sweet-and-Sour Thickened Sauce

Pine-cone-style fried tilefish is a classic dish, but I wanted to add a bit of a twist to the flavor. Wanting to serve it in the style of the Chinese…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 20 min

Turnip steamed dish, tilefish, mitsuba, ginkgo nuts, wood ear mushroom, shimeji mushroom, wasabi, silver sauce

This is a dish, somehow comforting, where guests enjoy steamed tilefish and turnip with a silver sauce poured over. Since we mainly serve tempura…

• Serves 1 · ¥975

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish and Tennoji turnip, steamed with a foie gras filling

This makes use of Tennoji turnip at the end of its season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani Osaka, and getting to know the…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Turnip-steamed tilefish (ginkgo nuts, shimeji, wood ear mushroom, Domyoji rice)

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from chef Yamamoto (Azabu-Jūban, Azabu Nagasaka Sarashina Honten). This time I take up 'kabura-mushi.'

Tilefish, kombu-cured, with Yamato-style fresh nori terrine, kombu-cured white melon, flower-cut cucumber, needle-cut myoga, and kombu-vinegar sauce

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from chef Nakamura (Ryōtei Chiyoda). This time I take up 'kombu-jime.'

Cherry-blossom turnip, tilefish sakura-steamed, ball-shaped potato

Three small simmered dishes. For the cherry-blossom turnip, the turnip is carved with a knife into a cherry-blossom shape, filled with sakura shrimp…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 40 min

Blended-dashi clear soup: autumn-brocade tilefish and turnip, habutae-steamed; matsutake with sprouted scallion; garnish of hail-cut yuzu

When folding the grated turnip into the meringue, it's important not to overmix — I think it's best to fold it in loosely, leaving the fluffy texture…