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Deep-fried somen, salad-style (dried baby sardines, mizuna, daikon, young myoga, shiso, micro tomato, baby leaf greens, olive oil)

For the sōmen dashi, we add a few drops of olive oil for fragrance. This also has the effect of rounding off the sharp edges of the dashi's flavor…

New-season Pacific saury dragon-skin roll sushi, white taro stem, seared and shredded dried sea cucumber roe, fig with white vinegar dressing, new-season ginkgo nuts in the shell, salt-roasted, pureed chamame soybean soup

This is the appetizer course. The plate is an unglazed, high-fired yakishime dish by Rosanjin. The white taro stem is boiled with grated daikon and…

Grilled beef sirloin with fragrant soy sauce, and steamed turnip in butter-soy sauce

Q: Please tell us a delicious Japanese-style sauce that can stand up to meat. A: The Hosokawa soy sauce I learned from my teacher is a Japanese-style…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Tempura with asparagus and fava bean

This time, on 'tempura,' I learned from AAJ technical director Hirano (Tokyo Prince Hotel's 'Tempura Fukusa'). I take up 'seasonal tempura.'

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Yuan-yaki, Lotus Root Mochi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is the grilled course. For the yellowtail sake-lees yuan-yaki, the yellowtail is filleted…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 days

Shisen Cucumber and Aji Kinuta-Maki

I made this a dish where you can enjoy horse mackerel, which reaches its peak deliciousness in summer, together with crunchy Sichuan cucumber, in a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

The Possibilities of Rice

Rice is indispensable to Japanese cuisine. We ask the chefs to present a dish that showcases their ingenuity in how they use rice, turning it into an…

White asparagus tofu, tomato tofu, water shield tofu, corn tofu, pea tofu, mountain yam tofu, black carrot tofu

A chilled appetizer course. The seven seasonal vegetable tofus create a sense of coolness by unifying all seven components around vegetables. For the…

• ¥168

• Cook time 2 hr

Simmered and steeped — white asparagus, clam, wasabi flower, soy-marinated salmon roe, shiso flower spike

This time, we learned about "sakizuke" (the appetizer course) from Technical Director Yoshiaki Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank Meguro Branch Office). We…

Edamame Tofu, Corn Surinagashi, Abalone Steamed with Sake, Kuruma Prawn

Wanting guests to enjoy the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a variety of soup courses, I made this dish using summer vegetables just…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Cold-season yellowtail teriyaki

For the warm dish of cold-season yellowtail teriyaki, we add five kinds of daikon to balance the five flavors. The sweetness of the Yukinoshita…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 min

Wagyu Sirloin

This is a grilled dish introduced as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the wagyu sirloin charcoal-grilled with bamboo shoot, wagyu is…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Seared Ayu Sushi

I thought of sweetfish, a local Kanagawa ingredient in early summer. I filleted it, salted it light…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Seiko Crab, Grilled in the Shell

The deliciousness of the seasonal Seiko crab is served in the course as an appetizer with a refresh…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 10 min

Spanish mackerel and turnip

This is a steamed dish. Sawara and turnip is a dish where, on top of the elegant sweetness of sawara — a fish with no unpleasant edge to its flavor —…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Cockle and spring cabbage

This is the vinegared-dish course. For the torigai and spring cabbage, torigai becomes wonderfully fragrant when seared, so trimmed spring cabbage…

• ¥660

• Cook time 2 hr

Walnut tofu / early-summer salmon, Edo-style soy-cured and grilled / abalone and ginkgo nut takikomi rice

Even for a veteran master chef, there are many dishes whose preparation can't be understood just by hearing about them or seeing them once. That's…

Crystal aspic

For the chilled simmered course, I designed it with couples in their thirties in mind, around the concept of “a refreshing concentration of dashi's…

• ¥180

• Cook time 40 min

Bottarga and cheese sandwich, deep-fried

For the bottarga (karasumi) and cheese sandwich, deep-fried, karasumi is usually paired with something light and refreshing like daikon, but this…

• ¥320

• Cook time 20 min

Rice, Rice, Rice

Rice is an inseparable presence in Japanese cuisine, so as a chef standing in a position connecting producers and consumers, I created this dish with…

• Serves 2 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Duck tataki with sansho pepper

When cooking duck, I think it's best to heat it aiming for a core temperature of 56°C. When I asked French chefs, many of them said a core…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 15 min

Butterfish Saikyo-Yaki, Scallop in Sake-Lees and Shuto Marinade, Kuruma Shrimp

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 smoke. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 min

Aromatic Steamed Eel with Rice Oil

I've approached umami as richness = fat, for a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of ingredients. The steamed dish is…

• ¥700

• Cook time 30 min