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Clam shinjo, turnip simmered with a hint of plum

With the presentation in mind, I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. For the clear-soup course, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 40 min

White sesame blancmange (grilled fig, Japanese bayberry, lotus root crackers, black sugar syrup)

I made this dish centered on sesame and other Japanese ingredients, based on 'blancmange,' a dessert born in France. Since it's traditionally made…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoot manjū, baby octopus rice cracker, two-color icefish fritters

This is a deep-fried dish designed with the presentation in mind. The bamboo shoot manjū uses a butterbur-sprout sauce to bring out the "faintly…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Spring baby sea bream grilled with a rapeseed-blossom glaze, fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam shinjo

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Splendid alfonsino mago-chazuke

This is the rice course, devised with the presentation in mind. Kinmedai mago-chazuke was finished under the concepts of "nostalgic" and "gentle." It…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell

This is a simmered dish built around the presentation. Spiny lobster simmered in its own shell was given a bold, high-impact plating under the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Turban shell, grilled in the shell

This is a grilled dish designed with the presentation in mind. Turban shell tsubo-yaki (grilled in the shell) expresses old-fashioned "nostalgia."…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Spanish mackerel namerō

This is a dish devised as a substitute for the sashimi course, with the presentation carefully considered. Sawara namerō (a minced raw-fish dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Baby hairy crab

This is a steamed dish. Small hairy crab, sold at under 300 yen apiece and normally used just for stock or miso soup, are actually packed full of…

• Serves 1 · ¥721

• Cook time 2 hr

Black-skin flounder Tōji-style deep-fried, sea sculpin and skate Tatsuta-style deep-fried, roe-bearing sailfin sandfish deep-fried with ponzu

These are three deep-fried dishes devised as a way to cope with rising food costs. I introduce four kinds of inexpensive fish using different…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-sea scorpionfish skewer-grilled with scallion, blackthroat seaperch skewer-grilled, Sado Lake Kamo oyster baked with avocado mayonnaise

The reason I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata, under the theme of coping with rising food costs, is that the wide variety of…

• Serves 1 · ¥760

• Cook time 2 hr

Jellied deep-sea eelpout, whitefin trevally egg-yolk sushi, yellow sea bream pressed sushi, baby spear squid, sea sculpin, and salmon roe salad, goatfish fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, bracken fern shoots wrapped in a thin kombu sheet, and daikon radish dressed with bottarga

Under the theme of coping with rising food costs, I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata. The wide variety of inexpensive fish caught by…

• Serves 1 · ¥432

• Cook time 2 hr

Monkfish tomozu

At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often during its harvest season, from November through March. By…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 40 min

Deep-fried and simmered monkfish

At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often during its harvest season, from November through March. By…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 40 min

Monkfish hot pot

Monkfish hot pot is usually made with bonito or kombu dashi, but this time I roast the monkfish bones and simmer them in a pressure cooker to draw…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 50 min

Monkfish liver, monkfish jellied broth

This is part of an effort to cope with rising food costs. At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Torigai and Mizunasu Clear Soup

This dish combines ark shell, a prized ingredient known as a springtime-to-early-summer delicacy, with mizunasu (a mild, juicy eggplant variety from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 days

Eel and collagen rice porridge — the synergy of three collagen soups

As part of an effort to cope with rising food costs, the concept behind this meal course is "synergy." When steaming plain-grilled eel, the water in…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Akagai and Urui with Tosa-Vinegar Jelly

This dish allows you to fully enjoy the unique soft and crunchy texture of ark shell and the crispn…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 12 hr

The ultimate sea squirt, crisp-fried in light white batter

This is a fried dish devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. The concept is 'innovative.' Sea squirt, a specialty product of coastal…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• 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

Spring green dressed salad (iced kombu-dashi tea style)

As part of my effort to work around rising ingredient costs, this dish introduces something my staff and I devised together — during the aftermath of…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr