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Herb-and-Breadcrumb Baked Oysters, Conger Eel Yawata-maki, Monkfish Liver in Butter-Soy Sauce

This is an introduction of dishes paired with Japanese white wine. This is a grilled dish. For the herb-and-breadcrumb baked oysters, the oysters are…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Marinated grilled longtooth grouper and fragrant grilled Ise lobster

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a grilled dish. Our ryokan has quite a distance between the kitchen and the guest…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 2 days

Salt-plank grilling

As part of "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is the grilled dish Salt-Plank Grilling. The "salt plank" is made by thoroughly kneading salt…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

White Miso Broth, Softshell Turtle Wrapped in Mochi

This is a soup course. This is a technique that Chef Yamamoto, whom I trained under, often used: he would steam cut rice cakes in happō dashi until…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Snow crab shinjo and Tennoji turnip clear soup

I designed this dish around the early-season (hashiri) appearance of Tennoji turnip, as a way to make use of a winter ingredient. It was a transfer…

• Serves 6 · ¥680

• Cook time 40 min

Straw-Grilled Wild Boar

Straw-grilled wild boar is a dish where thicker-cut boar loin is grilled boldly over burning straw, and the savory aroma of the burning straw stirs…

• ¥732

• Cook time 15 min

Seared-skin fugu, sudachi, milt sauce

Fugu has more umami and flavor the more you chew it, so at our restaurant we grill it over charcoal with the skin left on. Grilling firms up the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Charcoal-Scented Tuna Roll

I use charcoal vinegar — red vinegar steeped for about two days with charred brown rice to transfer its aroma. I also grind and mix in some brown…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 15 min

Tilefish, Beautifully Oil-Grilled

This is the grilled dish: tilefish, beautifully oil-grilled. Our head chef, Komatsuzaki, used to do Western-style work, and I thought of this as one…

• ¥770

• Cook time 30 min

Sado pufferfish ball-shaped sushi, Sado yellowtail and turnip fermented sushi, Niigata smoked salmon with mustard-egg-yolk vinegar, and garland chrysanthemum greens with Niigata edible chrysanthemum steeped in ponzu

First is the appetizer course. Using Sado Island's seasonal Niigata ingredients — Sado fugu, Sado salmon, and Sado yellowtail — I prepare each as an…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,311

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Oden-Style Seafood Steamed with Irizake, Hokkaido Overwintered Vegetables Simmered in White Wine

This is a simmered dish of Hokkaido overwintered snow-covered daikon, carrot, and scallion. Both the seafood steamed with irizake, a…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 3 hr

Ise lobster and Tennoji turnip, grilled with ginjo sesame sauce

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

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• 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

'Early spring' new burdock steamed sticky rice

This time, I received an award called Chevalier. Twenty-three years ago in August, I opened my current restaurant, and back then I had almost no…

• Serves 20 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 30 min

Smoked Winter Mackerel, Beef Tongue Temari Sushi, Cod Roe Karasumi, Beni-Fuji Salmon Shira-ae, Tatami Iwashi and Cheese Hakata-maki

This is a dish paired with Japanese white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. This is an appetizer course. For the smoked winter mackerel, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Whelk and surf clam simmered assortment

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. This time it's the fragrance of blended miso…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

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

Charcoal-grilled Spanish mackerel sashimi, nanban shrimp, giant Pacific octopus, red-and-white Korean-style tartare

This is the sashimi course (tsukuri), reconceived from dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine. We add a twist with yukhoe sauce, bringing…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo-leaf sushi, three flavors

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: sasa-zushi Looking back on the history of dishes that have been eaten since long ago, I…

• Serves 4 · ¥174.7

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: Uda-kin burdock pureed soup

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 · ¥445

• Cook time 30 min

Niigata willowy flounder wakasa-yaki

Willowy flounder has an unusually elongated shape among flatfish, and is a prized high-end fish known for its very delicate, subtle flavor. Northern…

• Serves 1 · ¥460

• Cook time 30 min

Roasted green tea jelly