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Sansho-leaf miso topping, fresh tofu skin topped with sea urchin, herring roe marinated in a seasoned bed, eel rolled with burdock, shrimp and fava beans, rapeseed blossoms and grilled egg, egg-filled baby octopus, flounder ball-shaped sushi, steamed lily bulb

Tilefish, sake-scented; sansho-grilled bamboo shoot

From our creative dishes using bamboo shoots, this is the grilled course. We used young sansho leaf, which pairs so well with bamboo shoot…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Tender bamboo shoot sheath, vinegar-pickled; turban shell, styled 'spring haze' in celebration of spring shellfish

This is one of our creative dishes using bamboo shoots. Playfully punning on the word for spring haze, a seasonal term for spring, we named the dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Butterbur in salad dressing, clam sushi, bamboo shoot inner lining with salted seafood dressing

This is course one. As for the clam sushi — at our restaurant we always include sushi in the first course. Guests generally start drinking around six…

Potato and egg rice porridge with seasoned ground chicken, udo, carrot, shiitake, butterbur-sprout miso, and fried onion

In the old days, zosui was written as "masu-sui" (large amount of water), and was made by adding wa…

Shrimp-shaped taro deep-fried with cherry blossom and filled with butterbur miso, icefish deep-fried in golden batter, angelica-tree shoot deep-fried in a hail-like crumb coating

This is the deep-fried course. For the ebi-imo deep-fried with cherry blossom and filled with butterbur miso, we take butterbur miso — which pairs…

Green pea dressing

For the aomame-ae, early-season vegetables such as snow peas and broad beans — prized as hashiri, the first of the season — are passed through a fine…

Soy milk and wakame Hakata-style layered terrine, hot-oil-blanched maki-grade prawn

For the soy milk and wakame Hakata-style layered terrine, I blanch fresh wakame to bring out its color, simmer it in clear-soup base until completely…

Young Bamboo Shoot Tofu

For the appetizer (sakizuke): since evening guests are often here for business entertaining, I basically keep it as something that pairs well with…

Grilled Fruit

For dessert, the grilled fruit: hollow out an iyokan (a Japanese citrus) to make it into a container.

Vinegared duck

For the vinegared dish's duck namasu, much like the salt-cured pork common in Okinawa, salt is well rubbed into the duck's fat and flesh; five to six…

Sea bream roe deep-fried in egg-yolk batter

From Hyogo cuisine for the cherry-blossom season, this is the deep-fried course. For the sea bream roe kimi-age, since the flesh of the Akashi tai is…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Three kinds of eel skewers (kurikara-yaki, grilled eel head, and fin cutlet)

As a way to work around rising ingredient costs, the concept behind this presentation-stand course (dai-no-mono) is 'new value.' When eel prices…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Helmet crab miso grilled in the shell, and helmet crab

This is a grilled dish, using Aomori ingredients to arrange the Aomori local dish hotate kayaki-miso (scallop grilled in its shell with miso). For…

• Serves 1 · ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Taro and butterbur miso steamed bun, hijiki wrapped in fried tofu

This is the simmered dish. I garnish it with wheel-shaped wheat gluten that has been deep-fried and simmered, rapeseed blossom, and kabocha squash…

Three-Color Diamond Tofu

This is the clear-soup course. The three-color diamond tofu is an egg tofu, a steamed egg custard. The bottom-most green layer uses parsley — parsley…

Spring baby turnip pureed soup

For the clear-soup course, the spring baby turnip surinagashi is made in a style closer to a Western soup, for overseas guests. Turnip, onion, and…

Rolled egg, steamed bamboo shoot, water-dumpling bundle, glazed baby kuruma prawn

The rolled egg can be described as "waste-not work", devised as a way to make use of scraps of fish flesh. The fukuzutsumi in the simmered assortment…

Shrimp and zenmai in green-herb dressing; sea bream shiokara with nagaimo somen; squid and raw bottarga dressing; halfbeak; ark shell with Suizenji nori

These are five types of dressed dishes. The shrimp and fern shoot in green-herb dressing is finished in the manner of a tofu-based dressing. For the…

Grilled fat greenling milt, Berkshire pork grilled with shio-koji

Ainame, or fat greenling, grilled with shirako: the ainame is filleted into three pieces, the center bone is removed, and decorative scoring cuts are…

Beef Loin Saikyo-yaki

This course, meant to encourage drinking, is beef loin grilled after marinating in sweet white miso. We hope you'll enjoy it together with miso —…

Spanish mackerel, butterbur-miso grilled, wagyu grilled and wrapped around burdock, bamboo shoot and sea bream roe stuffed and grilled

I'd call this an orthodox arrangement, I suppose — I plated it without much decoration so that the tableware itself would stand out. For the sawara…

Bamboo shoot fried futami-style with a snow-white coating / icefish deep-fried in a roasted-flour coating

For the accompanying dish's icefish fried in a roasted-grain coating, the icefish is soaked in a strong standing brine and drained, dusted with…

Grilled Bamboo Shoot Hasami-Yaki / Himekawa Dorayaki

For the grilled bamboo shoot hasami-yaki, I used the leftover himekawa to make dorayaki. I make a dorayaki batter with reduced sugar, flavor it with…