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Salt-Boiled Dōman-Gani

Found in a renowned lake, the Doman mud crab is said to be a phantom crab; its official name is the serrated mud crab. It's characterized by firm…

Eel simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper

This is a simmered dish. For the Eel Arima-ni, normally you'd remove the sliminess from the eel, cut it into tube sections, sear it, steam it, then…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Squid-ink croquette, purple beans simmered in coffee, coffee cream sandwich, and more

For the squid-ink croquette: I mix squid-ink paste into breadcrumbs to make squid-ink breadcrumbs, mash the delicious, in-season Inca no Mezame…

River trout oil-smoked and steamed, salmon chakin shaped like ground cherries, Kurakake bean and rock tripe steeped in dashi, Shinshu grape dressed in daigo, curved bamboo shoot with plum-shiso dressing

Right now, we're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so I'd like to…

• Serves 5 · ¥220

• Cook time 20 min

Vegan kakuni (wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut shiro-uri melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, potato mustard)

Thinking of veganism as also a matter of religion, I wanted guests to be able to taste the best qualities of animal-derived ingredients through a…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Ise lobster and daikon man'nen-ni

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, I’ll introduce a dish featuring Ise lobster in season. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥930

• Cook time 3 days

Eel Clear Soup — Chilled Style

This is a chilled clear soup made with eel. The eel is cut into rounds while still live, grilled, then steamed and de-boned, and briefly simmered in…

• Serves 3 · ¥320

• Cook time 40 min

Stone-wall taro with sesame, Ise spiny lobster simmered in its shell, eggplant simmered to a lapis sheen

For the simmered course, the Ise lobster gusoku-ni is simmered in its shell in a base of dashi, sake, white miso, and ginger, then cut and plated…

Blended Miso Broth, Char Wrapped in Lotus Root

My workplace is in Karuizawa, Nagano, so I think of the four seasons of Shinshu's clear mountain streams as four kinds of warmth, and I used char…

• Serves 1 · ¥780

• Cook time 40 min

Rock Oyster Grilled with Rice Flour, Tomato Simmered with Thyme, Corn Shinjo, Edamame Simmered with Herbs

For the tomato simmered with thyme: after combining the dashi and seasonings, it's important to first draw out the thyme's fragrance thoroughly by…

Making Vegetables Delicious

Since vegan cooking can only use vegetables, and that leaves the flavor feeling somewhat lacking, I thought about whether I could perfect it starting…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,208

• Cook time 20 min

Spiny lobster, kuzu-dusted and grilled, dressed with roe

• ¥1,650

• Cook time 1 hr

Rice-bran-pickled pork, crispy roasted; large scallop and eel, oil-steamed

For the nuka-pickled pork crispy roast, the surface skin is blasted at high heat until it puffs up and turns crackling crisp. For the grilled…

Pike conger, water-peony style

The soup course is pike conger mizu-botan. Mizu-botan is a season word for July, and it's also well known as a summer wagashi — white bean paste dyed…

Beef Sirloin Saikyo-Zuke

Pricier, but wagyu sirloin marinated in saikyo-zuke (miso marinade) and grilled.

Tomato and Mozzarella, Hakata-Style; Cucumber Rolled with King Crab

A salad-like vinegared course. We sieve grilled tomato, add agar, layer it hakata-style with sieved mozzarella, then torch it for toasty aroma. The…

Small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted

From the theme of heritage dishes, this is "small sardines, simmered and dried." For the sardines, simply remove the heads, guts, and tails, then…

• Serves 1 · ¥52

• Cook time 5 hr

Threeline Grunt Steamed with Sake, Thyme Sauce

With the threeline grunt steamed with sake, salting the fish first to remove its odor is essential. Taking away the excess odor lets the fragrance of…

Nakijin Agu Pork Rafute

For the Nakijin Agu pork rafute, an Okinawan braised pork belly, when boiling the Agu pork — a rare, purebred island breed — it's important to skim…

• ¥850

• Cook time 4 hr

Wagyu sukiyaki

I made this mindful of the name "Yurikamome," the new transit line that runs through Odaiba - taking "yuri" from the yurine, or lily bulb, sauce…

Clear-Soup Hamo Yoshino-Uchi

Clear soup with pike conger eel dusted in Yoshino kuzu starch. For the obaike (whale tail-fluke skin and blubber) tofu, we use jarred obaike: soak to…

Yashonma

We're operating in a very tough environment, with a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour constraints, so let me introduce how our…

• Serves 3 · ¥3,200

• Cook time 30 min

Young Sea Bass Pan-Seared in Oil, Manganji Peppers Tossed with Bonito Powder, Fig Wrapped in Prosciutto

For the young sea bass pan-seared in oil: young sea bass has little natural fat, so adding richness with olive oil makes for a more satisfying dish…

Eel temari sushi

This is the rice course of the summer menu. This time we chose eel temari-zushi. The hotel where I work receives many guests from overseas, so…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min