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Young ayu egg-yolk sushi, eel and pressed dried soybean salad, glazed small river crab, young burdock bundled raft-style, tozan-style grilled abalone, watermelon radish wrapped paper-fold-style, summer octopus rice cracker, long-armed shrimp fried in matcha

The first hassun course. For the young ayu yolk sushi, thin sheet kombu is wiped with sake, folded, and laid in a pan. Simmering it with equal parts…

Grilled splendid alfonsino with butterbur-shoot miso, roasted wagyu loin

A grilled hassun course. The roasted wagyu loin is a small portion, about 40 to 50 g per guest. These days many guests request both meat and fish, so…

Ishikawa taro simmered with plum, foie gras jelly, hoshiko temari sushi, scallop castella, Hakata-style suizenji nori, okra and egg-yolk sushi, green-simmered fava beans

Next is an assembled platter in a mixed-assortment style. These days you really have to watch food costs, so I've made this from ingredients that are…

Crystal aspic

For the vinegared dish, the crystal aspic sets each ingredient in a very loose jelly made from a light, dashi-based vinegar, and is served just as it…

Roasted Bryde's Whale with Aromatic Vegetables

This is a grilled dish, built on the concept of "protecting the ocean environment." For the roasted Bryde's whale with aromatic vegetables, the idea…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 50 min

Peony-cut pike conger kuzu-tataki, clear-soup style, with burdock root, water shield, baby melon, and green yuzu

For the clear-soup course, straining and bringing the soup stock to a boil, then adding a small amount of sake, gives the flavor a rounder, softer…

Chilled somen (abalone, okra, young myoga, shredded egg crepe, chives, ginger)

This time, we learned about "food" from Koji Kimizuka (Yoyogi・Shiki no Aji Horikawa). This time, we will be looking at "somen noodles."

Lotus-root dumpling

Renkon manju is served as part of a simmered assortment course, or arranged as a single item for the appetizer course. Normally I shape one serving…

"Cool flavors": summer crab shinjo, small-grade kuruma prawn, oil-simmered tuna, fresh yuba, blanched pike conger, kinjiso jelly, piped anchovy cheese

The appetizer, which I named "Cool Flavors," was designed to give guests a sense of coolness. The saimaki prawn and avocado dashi-soy jelly is made…

• Serves 3 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Sakura shrimp soba (green laver tempura crumbs and egg, scallion)

This is a dish that could be called our restaurant's signature. We serve it as something you can only eat here. It's a sakura shrimp soba: sakura…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Pike conger eel, lightly seared

This is the soup course. For the seared hamo, I bone-score it and cure it in kombu before searing, which removes its fishy odor and draws out its…

Grilled sweetfish with bitter uruka

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥260

• Cook time 40 min

Shiso rice porridge

Rice porridge has been served at the end of our course meals since the beginning. By washing the ri…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min

Sea bream sashimi, seared tuna tataki, seared-skin pike conger sashimi

The conger eel sashimi is served charcoal-grilled, as is typical of a counter restaurant. It is imp…

Low-Temperature Simmered Abalone, Melting Sesame Tofu, Seared Sea Bass

As a dish meant to help beat the summer heat, I focused above all on practicality while designing it around the theme of "unconventional cold…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,775

• Cook time 2 hr

Wagyu Fillet Side, Saikyo-Miso Grill

Meat course. Wagyu fillet side saikyo-miso grill: lightly trim the side cut from the wagyu fillet, season with salt and pepper, grill until the core…

Beltfish with fragrant vinegar, orange-flavored sweetfish nanban-zuke

This is the vinegared dish course. For the beltfish with fragrant vinegar, a white balsamic vinegar jelly serves as the fragrant vinegar. A…

Sweetfish grilled with a rice-starch glaze

For the ayu oneba-yaki, we grill the reverse side until crisp.

Koban-Shaped Pen Shell and Fava Bean Chakin

This is a seasonal assortment course proposal built around the last of the pen shell season. For the gold-coin-shaped pen shell and fava bean chakin…

• Serves 5 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Green-tea soba with simmered herring

This is freshly hand-cut cha-soba, made with particular care for both matcha and buckwheat flour. It's a dish enjoyed with a fragrant dashi made by…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

Scallop Ganmodoki, Curry-Flavored

This is the simmered course, another new way of serving seafood. For the Scallop Ganmodoki, Curry-Flavored, I took a hint from seafood curry and…

• Serves 1 · ¥485

• Cook time 40 min

Arare tofu, hakata-fried tofu, avocado shira-ae

The story of tofu. I recently visited a tofu village in Shanghai, China, and tracing the story of tofu back far enough, it leads to China. For the…

Summer Duck Steamed with Sake

We sear the aigamo duck's skin to medium-rare, then steam it with sake. Into a center cut we tuck mustard and shiraga-negi, fine white scallion…