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Sea bream baked in an Earl Grey salt crust

This is a piece of Japanese cuisine built around Earl Gray tea. (Reference: Earl Gray, 100 g: ¥670.) I hope that pairing black tea — a drink most…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Motobu Beef Chateaubriand

The charcoal-grilled Motobu beef chateaubriand is a dish featuring Motobu beef, which has a higher unsaturated-fat content than the average for…

• ¥1,250

• Cook time 10 min

Rolled shrimp and foie gras aspic, pork in green terrine, scallop shinjo with egg-yolk glaze, Yoro tofu with sea urchin, baby turban-shell aspic

This is the appetizer course. As it is Tanabata, we wanted to tie the dishes to tanzaku (paper strips for wishes). We made five terrine-style dishes…

Blanched pike conger

This is a vinegared course. For the blanched hamo, what is laid underneath is grated yamato yam mixed with pickled-plum flesh, so it can be enjoyed…

Potato Kuwayaki — with Tanna Foie Gras Cream —

My hometown is Kannami, a town next to Atami, which includes the Tanna area, known for its thriving dairy farming, so I wanted to spotlight the milk…

• Serves 1 · ¥487

• Cook time 40 min

Scents of home — sa-ku-ra shrimp

A fresh exploration of aroma: ‘a quartet of sakura shrimp, played through the layering of four forms.’ The idea began when I caught the scent of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 25 min

Pure White Surinagashi, Summer Kōbako Crab with Kinome Jelly, Seared Hamo and Grilled Crab Meringue, Hidori Ayu with Grated Daikon Dressing, and Hairy Crab with Summer Vegetables on a Kombu Dashi Chip

Within the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "getting people to eat…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Temari Kisu, Kisu Nishiki-Maki, and Seared Kisu in Ume Vinegar Marinade

For temari kisu (Japanese whiting), I cut kombu-cured kisu into fine strips — with an eye to how easily chopsticks can pick it apart — and layer them…

• ¥520

• Cook time 50 min

Salmon and pineapple roll, kombu-cured lavender jobfish with flavor pearls, Yoro-style tofu, local octopus and taro stalk, tomato cup, fig and prosciutto roll

From the appetizers. The lavender jobfish (Pristipomoides sieboldii) is lightly kombu-cured under vacuum for about half a day. This time the ruby…

Champion Wagyu Fillet Steak and Abalone Steak

This is a grilled dish. As a child, I have a memory of burning dried branches in a hōroku — an earthenware roasting dish — during the fire that sends…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,300

• Cook time 2 hr

Eggplant and eel, simmered with grated daikon

This is a simmered dish. For the eggplant and eel simmered with grated daikon: both eggplant and eel are ingredients guests are glad to see served in…

• ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Sea Bass Grilled with Turmeric, Summer Duck Grilled with Sansho Pepper, Fig Roasted with Tamari Soy Sauce, Manganji Peppers Stuffed with Crab

For the sea bass grilled with turmeric, we gave sea bass in season a turmeric flavor so that even guests without much appetite can enjoy it. Staging…

• ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Winter melon simmered to absorb the broth

This is a summer simmered dish. For the winter melon simmered to absorb the broth, since winter melon has a relatively delicate flavor, I simmer it…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Kombu soup bowl, made with salted kombu

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is a kombu soup bowl. It is a simple dish in which a delicious clear-soup stock is poured over…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 20 min

Duck yawata-maki, shrimp simmered shiba-ni style, taro and sea bream miso dengaku, kabocha squash, egg-yolk glaze-grilled squid

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 30 min

Silver tofu pureed soup

This is the soup course. For ‘Gindofu Surinagashi,’ there is a well-known tofu shop near where I work, and I very much wanted to build a dish around…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 2 days

Abalone tororo, miso-pickled swordtip squid, cheese egg, white melon pressed into a cylinder, and more

The abalone tororo is made by rubbing blue-tinged abalone with salt until the flesh is very firm, then grating it on the fine side of the grater and…

Simmered Kuetama, Wakasa-Yaki Style

This is the simmered course, conceived around the concept of "protecting the ocean environment." Kuetama is a farmed fish — a cross between kue, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 50 min

Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Tomato Soba

Tomato Soba is a menu item I've served during this season for some time. Perhaps because of Karuizawa's local character, many guests enjoy Western…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Glossy rice wrapped in egg yolk, liver nori senbei, turban shell congee dip

This time, with the main focus on preserving the rice's sweetness as much as possible, I decided to use the rice just as it is. I used Tsuyahime rice…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 30 min

Colorful assortment of freshly sliced fish

The colors of freshly sliced fish were devised from the idea that eating sashimi with soy sauce alone gets monotonous, and that it would be more…

• ¥1,100

• Cook time 40 min

Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke

This is a rice-course dish developed using jasmine tea. (Jasmine tea, 30g: 350 yen.) For Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke, I used heshiko, mackerel cured…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing uses raw konjac tuber. If you blend it into a paste with the skin left on, you get black konjac; if you…