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Seared cod, grilled cod milt, zoni-style

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. Our restaurant sees many local customers — older guests, young couples, and gatherings of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Soft roe with angelica shoot and tosa vinegar

If shirako is dropped straight into already-boiling water, it will burst, so it's put in from cold water and simmered gently at a bare simmer so it…

Yellowtail and daikon

For the buri daikon, the daikon is first parboiled and rehydrated, then placed on kombu. The yellowtail is marinated in sandō-wari and grilled. The…

Turnip light-snow jelly

Snow-view okara coating

Since the shrimp is live, it's fine if the inside is left about half-raw. Coat each prepared ingredient with okara (soy pulp) that has been…

Steamed fugu

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a clear-soup course. For the Fugu-fukashi, I first simmer fugu bones and trimmings…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 5 hr

Morikuchi daikon rolled in fried tofu, eggplant deep-fried and simmered, turnip stir-simmered

For the Morikuchi daikon shinoda-maki, I simmer the Morikuchi daikon, which pairs well with shinoda-maki and is at its seasonal best, in…

• ¥300

• Cook time 30 min

Moray Eel Shio-Koji Grill

This is a regional New Year's dish from Kochi Prefecture. Beyond the nationally famous seared bonito, I wanted to introduce more of Kochi's charm, so…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 5 hr

Niigata Beef Miso-Grilled, Niigata Grilled Eggplant, and Green Chili Peppers Seared in Fat

This is a traditional Niigata seasoning made with local chili peppers as its base, along with kōji (rice malt), yuzu, and salt as the other raw…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 1 hr

Snow crab, Kyoto shungiku tossed in sesame, and fermented crucian-carp sushi

As the menu approaches its final stretch, I serve a course designed to encourage more drinking, made with seasonal ingredients, to let guests enjoy a…

• Serves 1 · ¥20,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Cod ochazuke

This time, it's the meal course, making use of cod at the end of its season. The cod ochazuke lets us use the late-season cod without wasting any…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Taro Dumpling, Herring Simmered with Sansho Pepper, Early-Season Bamboo Shoot Simmered in Broth, Rapeseed Blossom Wasabi Pickle

This is a simmered course. For the taro dumpling, we peel the taro with a six-sided cut, press it through a sieve, and freeze it. We season the…

• ¥150

• Cook time 2 hr

Kuruma Prawn Checkerboard, Kinko and Scallop Shinjo Wrap, Mountain Yam and Salmon Roe, Sesame Daigo, Warm-Smoked Salmon Kinuta-Maki, Early Bamboo Shoot in Habutae Kinome Coating

These are the appetizers. For the kinko (a traditional dried sea cucumber) and scallop fish-paste dumpling wrap: when I was young I was taught to…

Tuna cut lengthwise into long strips, corner-folded flounder, thread-cut cuttlefish

This is the sashimi course. This is something I first served when I led a training seminar for AAJ, and this time I've made it again with a fresh…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 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

Herring Simmered Arima-Style with Sansho Pepper

The deep-fried tofu fritter was something our head chef, Komatsuzaki, used to serve as a takeaway gift at the end of the course. I grind sesame in a…

• ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Rump cap beef marinated in soy-koji, tilefish baked in a snow-like coating

This is the grilled course. All of these dishes are firmly seasoned but not heavy-handed, so I think they pair well with white wine or junmai ginjo…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Clear soup with a fluffy cod-and-milt fish dumpling, thin-ice-style daikon

For the clear soup with a fluffy cod-and-milt fish dumpling, I whip the binder into a meringue-like foam, much like a shinjo base, to give it a…

• ¥350

• Cook time 40 min

Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled with yuzu miso, kettle-boiled shrimp grilled with sesame salt, chicken tenderloin rolled with burdock, chrysanthemum-cut yam grilled with golden egg yolk, chrysanthemum-leaf-cut yam grilled with uni

For the grilled fish course's Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled dish, mackerel landed at Matsuwa fishing port is famous under the…

Sixteen-grain Fukagawa rice, mushroom and egg soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by Ms. Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that sparked my interest in yakuzen. Since…

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 35 min

Yellowtail Shabu-Shabu

Guests enjoy seasonal yellowtail, with just the right amount of fat, as "tsuyu-shabu," shabu-shabu cooked in a seasoned broth rather than plain hot…

• Serves 1 · ¥380

• Cook time 30 min

Champignon pureed soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is the clear-soup course. The Champignon Surinagashi — a ground, strained purée-style…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 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

Tōyama-Style Hunter's Hot Pot Tōji-Soba

For the Tōyama-style hunter's hot pot tōji-soba, I used bear loin, whose meat is comparatively tender. Following the principle of dosan-dohō —…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,186

• Cook time 1 hr