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Akita Prefecture "Yuri Beef Roast" with Iburigakko Sauce

The theme is "Reimagined Local Cuisine" — a creative reworking of the standard way local cuisine is typically served. This is an additional course…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 30 min

Takikomi Gohan: Matsutake and Ginkgo Rice

Here I introduce a dish from our restaurant. 'Matsutake and ginkgo rice' is a dish I devised valuing the aroma that conveys the season, arriving the…

Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup

For 'Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup,' I treated caffeine-free herbal tea as a dashi drawn with tea. I built it into a soup together with sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Ginkgo tofu, scallop and avocado wasabi-dressed salad, smoked salmon and watermelon radish kinuta-maki roll, and more

First is the appetizer course. Ginkgo tofu normally uses kombu dashi, but this time soy milk was used instead. It is worked together from a ratio of…

Koya-dofu Beef Liver Steak Style, with Herb Butter Sauce

I wanted to create a health-conscious menu using freeze-dried tofu, which is high in protein. Since I have long experience cooking Western cuisine, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 20 min

Wild Boar Sansho-yaki, Grilled with Japanese Pepper

For Wild Boar Sansho-yaki, I use the neck, a rare cut of wild boar that has begun to develop fat, simply seared and grilled to bring out the…

• Serves 1 · ¥572

• Cook time 40 min

Abalone simmered with soybeans, small clam adductor egg-yolk sushi, kamasu rikyū-yaki, roe-bearing ayu kombu roll, ita-uni momiji, kuwai castella, river shrimp arima-ni, clam hatsushimo-ae, lotus root achara-zuke, ginkgo nut mizore-age

This is the appetizer course. For the tokobushi ōbune-ni, we wash the small abalone and simmer it together with raw soybeans. For the small clam…

The Nightingale's Plum

From the theme of heritage dishes, this is ōshukubai, named after the "nightingale's plum tree" of Heian-era poetry. When I was taught this dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 1 days

Fresh fish, kombu-cured (using "small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted")

Heritage dishes. As a dish that makes use of the "small sardines, simmered and dried" I introduced, this is an introduction of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 3 hr

Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke

This is the rice course from Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke, ayu swim upstream in the rivers of the prefecture, so fishing…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,017

• Cook time 2 hr

Salt-Simmered Moon Bear

Wanting to convey, in a new style, ingredients that have fallen out of use along with changing times, and cooking methods no longer practiced in…

• Serves 4 · ¥14,857

• Cook time 2 hr

Seared cod, grilled cod milt, zoni-style

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. Our restaurant sees many local customers — older guests, young couples, and gatherings of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod Milt Steamed with Grated Turnip, Autumn-Colored Sea Bream, Shrimp

This is a steamed dish. For the cod milt steamed grated turnip, prepped shrimp, cod milt, and other ingredients are mixed inside and steamed. The…

Soft roe with angelica shoot and tosa vinegar

If shirako is dropped straight into already-boiling water, it will burst, so it's put in from cold water and simmered gently at a bare simmer so it…

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

I tried various test versions this time, but with the main focus on preserving the rice's sweetness as much as possible, I decided to use the rice…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled barracuda rice-ball ochazuke (young myoga, trefoil, sesame, arare, nori, wasabi)

The ochazuke dashi is poured over only after the grilled rice ball and all the other ingredients have been plated, but it's important not to pour too…

Kamo eggplant and whale in a small hot pot

This is a hot pot dish. For the Kamo eggplant and whale small hot pot, the Kamo eggplant is deep-fried once and then the excess oil is removed…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 3 hr

Matsutake and Butter-Seared Scallop Takikomi Gohan

This is a 'takikomi gohan rich with the aroma of truffle,' based on truffle rice with the flavor of katsuo dashi brought out, mixed with scallop…

Moray Eel Shio-Koji Grill

This is a regional New Year's dish from Kochi Prefecture. Beyond the nationally famous seared bonito, I wanted to introduce more of Kochi's charm, so…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 5 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

Plain-Grilled Autumn Salmon, Smoked Scallop and Cheese Grill

This is a grilled dish. For the plain-grilled autumn salmon, the autumn salmon is marinated in saikyo miso and grilled, then topped with a mixture of…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsutake, Baby Turnip, Yuzu

For the soup course, our first priority is drawing a delicious dashi. We draw ichiban dashi using Kafuka kombu from Funadomari and katsuobushi from…

Shinshu giant char cylinder roll, char roe in soy marinade, autumn fruit and walnut mousse, Shinshu pork steamed with sansho, grilled maitake with foie gras, chrysanthemum petal salad, Shinshu salmon with egg-yolk mustard sauce

This is an appetizer presented in hassun (seasonal-assortment course) style, using Nagano Prefecture's prized traditional vegetables and, since it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Monkfish tomozu

At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often during its harvest season, from November through March. By…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 40 min