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Swimming crab, smoked

As part of a fresh exploration of aroma, I set out to drape smoke over swimming crab to bring out its flavor. My restaurant centers on crustaceans…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Mineoka milk-and-kuzu tofu, winter melon and vegetable sushi, eel and turban shell uzaku, oil-seared Fushimi peppers, deep-fried eel with roe, sake-steamed eel

This is the appetizer course. Mineoka tofu is said to originate from Mineoka Ranch in Chiba, where milk is kneaded with kuzu starch to resemble tofu…

Sea bass pureed soup, potage-style

As a new way of serving seafood, I've approached umami as richness = fat, so all four dishes I developed in this series incorporate added fat. This…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Beef Short Rib Simmered in Sweet Tea, Topped with Strained Runner Bean Purée

This is a simmered dish made with sweet tea. (Sweet tea, 60g: 650 yen.) For Beef Short Rib Simmered in Sweet Tea, I built the simmering liquid on the…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi

This is the soup course. For ‘Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi,’ mekaja (Lingula anatina, a lamp-shell brachiopod) is a seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Tajima Chicken Asuka-Nabe — Ceylon Tea Style

This is a small individual hot pot dish built around Ceylon black tea. (Reference: Ceylon black tea, 100 g: ¥570.) For the broth in the Tajima…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Sea bass rinsed in ice water, threeline grunt blanched with hot oil, tuna seared on the skin, live kuruma prawn

This is the sashimi course. Both the octopus arai and the sea bass arai taste refreshing served with wasabi and a plum-flesh vinegar-miso. For the…

Buckwheat dumpling with shark fin in thick sauce

I created this dish to satisfy both heart and stomach, combining soba-gaki achieving a crispy-outside, fluffy-inside texture with a luxurious thick…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 40 min

Steamed Kisu and Corn Shinjo

For the steamed whiting and corn shinjo, a fish-paste dumpling: pairing shrimp shinjo, which has strong umami, with the delicate whiting makes for a…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 45 min

Fukushima yeast-fed wagyu sango-hachi sous-vide, miso-glazed herring and sansho-leaf skewers, and red-miso-glazed tofu skewers

This is a shiizakana, an additional hearty course that is a modern arrangement of a local dish, newly developed based on the Fukushima local pickling…

• Serves 3 · ¥890

• Cook time 3 hr

White asparagus pureed soup

This is the soup course. The white asparagus surinagashi is a dish we are actually serving at our restaurant this month; in the shop it is served in…

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.'

Rice, Rice, Rice

Rice is inseparable from Japanese cuisine, so as a cook standing between producers and consumers, I designed this dish with the wish to pass on the…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Baby sardines simmered with sansho pepper

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is baby sardines simmered with sansho pepper. For shirasu-boshi — dried baby sardines — first…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 5 hr

Grilled Eggplant Tartare-Style

For the grilled eggplant tartare-style, the moisture is drawn out of the grilled eggplant, which is then finely minced and worked until sticky, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Sea bream (uni, shiso flower spike, wasabi)

We want guests to feel how just the way you grate it can make the wasabi's aroma stronger. Whether it's a seasoning or an ingredient, we want to hold…

Eel Steamed Shinshu-Style, Gourd-Cut Carrot, Maple-Cut Winter Melon, Leaf-Cut Kabocha, Soba-Fu

For the eel steamed Shinshu-style, we top it with soba-gaki — a buckwheat dumpling — to bring out a character distinctive to a soba restaurant…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Conger Eel Shirayaki, Hakata-Style Pressed

I proposed this as a way of serving seafood, using Kanagawa ingredients while exploring the prefecture's local cuisine. This is a vinegared dish. For…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 40 min

Barracuda steamed with chopped tofu and vegetables

This is a devised way of serving seafood. Since our restaurant is a casual, mass-appeal restaurant in Kanagawa Prefecture, I proposed this using…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 30 min

Kombu-cured Spanish mackerel

This time it is the sashimi course. For the sawara kombu-jime, the sawara is filleted into three pieces and the pin bones removed, then lightly…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Kisu Senbei, Kuruma Prawn Kimi-Age, and Young Rakkyo Kimi-Age

Kisu (Japanese whiting) senbei is kisu deep-fried into a cracker shape and served with matcha salt, finished to feel light and fresh, fitting for…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsumae kelp-wrapped steamed dish

A steamed dish built around regional ingredients. For Matsumae-mushi, I had in mind a Tanzawa-mountains version of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Conger Eel Tosa-Age, Ayu Steamed in Aromatic Oil

Let's get right into the menu explanation. The conger eel bonito-flake deep-fry for the 37th micro-season is a technique I learned from a senior…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 20 min

Winter melon steamed dumpling

This is a chilled dish. For the winter melon manjū, the winter melon is peeled, salted, then blanched and refreshed in hot water. After that, it is…