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Chilled Eel and White Eggplant

This is a chilled simmered dish. For "Chilled Eel and White Eggplant," I finished the eel using the same method sushi restaurants use for simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Eel Inro-Zushi

This is the in-between course for the theme "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). "Eel Inro-Zushi" is my attempt to adapt inro-zushi — a style…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 20 min

Eel and Fresh-Greenery Tofu in a Soy Milk Broth

I work at a restaurant whose main offering is sushi, so I don't often get the chance to work with eel, but I'd like to introduce a dish from among…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 45 min

Grilled White Tilefish and Matsutake Roll, with Marinated Manganji Peppers

White tilefish (shiro-amadai) is wonderful for its rich fattiness and the clear, pale beauty of its scales when scored into a pinecone pattern, so…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Ishikawa Taro Dumpling Wrapped Around Foie Gras, Deep-Fried in Rice Flour, with Swimming Crab and Chrysanthemum Sauce

In honor of the Chrysanthemum Festival (Chōyō no Sekku) in September, I devised a vividly colored dish built around a delicate amber kuzu sauce made…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Eel and Winter Melon, Hakata-Style

This is the simmered dish for new-style eel cuisine. "Eel and Winter Melon, Hakata-Style" was inspired by gisei-dofu (mock tofu), with eel folded…

• Serves 10 · ¥4,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Heshiko-Style Grilled Eel, Nigari-Cured Overnight-Dried Eel, Sansho and Herb-Flavored Grilled Eel

These are three grilled dishes for "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). Under the theme "Japan's Preserved Foods," I devised three grilled…

• Serves 1 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Red Wine-Braised Eel in Aspic

At the restaurant where I work, we're used to handling freshwater fish, so I felt this theme, "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine), was…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Toji-Style Yuba-Wrapped Deep-Fried Eel

This is the fried course for the theme "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). "Toji-Style Yuba-Wrapped Deep-Fried Eel" takes sauce-grilled eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Eel and Vegetables with Yuzu-Kosho Sauce

This is the warm dish for the theme "Shin Unagi-ryori" (new-style eel cuisine). For "Eel and Vegetables with Yuzu-Kosho Sauce," I took on the…

• Serves 1 · ¥490

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel with Spicy Tomato Sauce

This is the grilled course, from the new-style eel cuisine theme. For "Eel with Spicy Tomato Sauce," I took a hint from the Italian salsa pomodoro…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 40 min

Eel Hakata-Style, Eel and Mountain Yam Griddle Cake, Eel with Curry Miso

These are three sake-pairing dishes for new-style eel cuisine. For "Eel Hakata-Style," I personally love the combination of narazuke (sake-lees…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 40 min

Eel and Avocado, Checkerboard-Fried

Nearly 80% of the guests at my workplace come from overseas. Guests rarely ask us for eel, but I came up with four eel dishes that feel distinctly…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 15 min

Eel Tree-Ring Roll

Under the theme of new-style eel cuisine, I came up with four eel dishes that feel distinctly Japanese while also being new. We're also often asked…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel and Summer-Vegetable Aspic

The inn where I work is a hot-spring ryokan founded in Meiji 23 (1890), and nearly 80% of our guests come from overseas. Guests rarely ask us for…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 3 hr

Hairy Crab and New Lotus Root, Molded and Oven-Baked (Funka Bay, Hokkaido)

From the proposal of dishes using the seafood that represents Hokkaido in early summer, this is the grilled course (yakizakana). For the hairy crab…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

'Kasube' Aspic (from Wakkanai, Hokkaido)

This time, in keeping with our restaurant's theme of using many ingredients from Tōhoku and Hokkaido, I'd like to propose dishes using the seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Tokishirazu Ruibe-Zuke from Nemuro, Hokkaido, with Miso-Cheese Tofu

This time, in keeping with the restaurant's theme, I'd like to propose dishes using the seafood that represents Hokkaido in early summer. This is the…

• Serves 1 · ¥380

• Cook time 1 hr

Flash-Fried Botan Shrimp in Salt-Kōji Marinade (Funka Bay, Hokkaido)

Grand Exiv Nasu-Shirakawa, where I currently work, is the only facility in the Tōhoku region within our group, and we build our menus around locally…

• Serves 4 · ¥430

• Cook time 30 min

Chilled Herring and Colorful Vegetables (Adapted from Nishin-Nasu, Herring and Eggplant)

From the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat, under the theme "the cool taste of midsummer," I wanted diners to savor…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 days

Chilled Beef and Baby Corn

This is the shiizakana, an additional hearty course, from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. For the chilled beef…

• Serves 4 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Black Abalone in Asparagus Sauce, with Abalone Liver

Green asparagus steeped in kombu dashi and white asparagus steeped in bonito dashi bring two different flavors, and the contrast in their textures is…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Charcoal-Grilled Ayu with Aonori and Clam Porridge

The ayu is first filleted and de-boned, then its innards — soaked in sake and wind-dried — are carefully returned to the fish. It's a labor-intensive…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Molokheiya Hand-Cut Soba

This is the meal course (shokuji), from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. I took the hand-cut soba we normally…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,290

• Cook time 1 days