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Spiny lobster in kuzu-starch sauce, deep-fried tofu simmered in soup

For the Ise lobster in kuzu-starch sauce, we coat the lobster meat firmly with potato starch. Coating it too many times deadens the lobster's flavor…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 30 min

Hinai-Jidori Kiritanpo Yaki-Bitashi

This time, the theme is "Reimagined Local Cuisine" — a creative reworking of the standard way Akita Prefecture's local cuisine is typically served…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

Kettle-cooked ginger rice with alfonsino

I created this dish under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is the rice course. For this course, we offer a choice of dishes — mainly uni rice —…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

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

“Husband-and-wife tofu” and kintoki carrot, surinagashi-style

This time, I made a winter dish using three-year-old farmed pufferfish from the Seto Inland Sea, the king of winter seafood, prepared with a method…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Dried herring in sansho oil

The only dishes I knew that used dried herring fillets were sweet syrup-simmered preserves and steamed-and-simmered dishes, but it occurred to me…

• Serves 5 · ¥490

• Cook time 15 min

Kawachi duck and whole-roasted Tennoji turnip

As a way to make use of a winter ingredient, this is a dish built around Tennoji turnip in season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod grilled with three flavors

This is a use of the winter ingredient cod. We made cod sanmi-yaki for the enjoyable value of being able to eat three dishes at once. Nagaimo (a type…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam grilled with fermented rice malt, butterfish grilled in a citrus-soy marinade

This is the grilled course. For the clam koji-yaki, simmer the clams in sake. Press Shinnyoji yuba (fresh yuba enriched with soy milk) through a…

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

Pear and ricotta cheese salad, pear and white fungus honey-simmered with yakuzen tea jelly (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is a dessert themed around Japanese cuisine and yakuzen. I chose a pear-based dessert because, once you enter working life, opportunities to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 20 min

Seven treasures simmered dish

This is the simmered-dish course, presented here under celebratory characters meaning "many blessings." The vessel is a Hokkaido ice-cellar-aged…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,250

• Cook time 4 hr

Fugu soup

We fully draw out the umami of fugu bones unique to this season, and pair it with miso for guests to enjoy.

Tamago-jitate egg soup, kneaded chicken wrapped in rice-dumpling dough

The soup course is a chicken-and-egg tamago-jitate (egg-thickened clear soup). For the kneaded chicken wrapped in shiratama, we finely chop and…

Monkfish liver, hakata-style, eel fish cake, end-of-season ayu grilled with its own roe and a fermented soybean condiment, kobako crab ground into a puree soup, smoked salmon, soybean pulp

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

Oyster and Kombu Boat Grill

As the hearty course, this is oyster and kombu boat grill. We put sweet miso, oysters, scallion, and fresh wheat gluten onto a kombu boat and grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

Black Sugar Pudding, Mango Pudding, and Strawberry Santa

This is the final dessert course. For female guests especially, this last dish seems to leave a particularly strong impression. Seeing them delighted…

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

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

Hairy Crab Daikon Mochi and Hikina-mochi

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dishes: hikina-mochi (mochi rice with shredded dried vegetables), akasuji daikon mochi (made from…

• Serves 2 · ¥600

• Cook time 50 min

King crab and sea urchin soy-glazed grill, butterfish saikyo-yaki

The grilled course pairs king crab with a sea-urchin soy glaze and butterfish saikyo-yaki. Combining sea urchin with king crab brings out a rounder…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 9 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

Tender-simmered raw sea cucumber, yellowtail kaburazushi, smoked aigamo duck, and more

This is the pre-course dish. For tender-simmered raw sea cucumber, the important thing is finishing the sea cucumber tender: we slowly bring it up in…