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Oil-steamed fall-run sweetfish, pinecone-cut Pacific saury with almond, whelk risotto in a turnip bowl, beef loin and green bean old-branch-style sticks, Ohara-style deep-fried taro shinjo, color-simmered long eggplant with peanut-kuzu sauce, jade ginkgo cracker with tofu dressing, dried persimmon with lily bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped tricolor sweet potato

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Visual impact that makes you want to take a photo Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 3 hr

Kohaku-dori chicken liver mousse monaka, vinegar-cured mackerel with wild raspberry vinegar jelly, duck marinated in dashi soy sauce with orange flavor, black pork tsukune, chilled tomato takiawase, asparagus and garland chrysanthemum greens ohitashi

I've put together an assortment of drinking dishes that pair with anything — wine, shochu, or sake. Among them, the kohaku-dori liver mousse monaka…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 2 hr

Crispy deep-fried tilefish with bottarga sauce

The small tilefish is deep-fried in high-temperature oil so that its scales stand up crisply, conveying a sense of crunchiness at a single glance…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 30 min

Tilefish fried in its own scales, grilled eggplant, mogusa ginger, fried fresh yuba, shiso flower spike, thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, within Japanese cuisine, a proposal from head chef Honda (Ginza U Noki) on the basic dishes of fried food. In cooking, scales are, in…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 30 min

Wagyu Fillet, Fragrant Soy-Grilled — Watercress, Red Paprika, Fresh Uni, Wasabi

Since my family used to run a butcher shop, I serve meat with real particularity and care. I use carefully selected fillet, and I'm mindful of…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,250

• Cook time 45 min

Lotus Root Manju, Soybean Dashi Style

Vegetarian and vegan guests come to the restaurant maybe two or three parties a month, and sometimes make requests about dishes, so I thought it…

• Serves 4 · ¥532

• Cook time 20 min

The Original Truffle Rice

A songwriter and regular customer, Yasushi Akimoto, gave me an idea after he told me, "It's not eno…

Zuwai crab and seared matsutake layered, raw salmon roe skein, grated yuzu

Tags & categories related to this post : October, November, striking, elegant, snow crab, matsutake, salmon roe skein (sujiko), yuzu, kaiseki…

Fruit Tomato and Blue Cheese Chawanmushi

Since we want the micro tomatoes to have a popping texture, we place them on raw and uncooked. We pour over the sweet, nectar-like juice that comes…

Sake-lees-scented corn pureed soup, abalone

There are two key points to using sake lees. The first is to add a mellow flavor. We add sake lees …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, Layered Grill

For Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, I use wild boar belly that has not yet built up much fat. I simmer it until tender, then compensate…

• Serves 1 · ¥452

• Cook time 5 hr

Kagoshima kuroge wagyu roast beef manju sandwich

This is a Kagoshima Kuroge Wagyu (Japanese Black cattle) roast beef manju sandwich. I made the roast beef from the shintama cut — a lean cut from the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 4 hr

Low-Temperature Charcoal-Oil-Grilled Beef

I made two charcoal oils: sawdust charcoal oil and binchotan oil. For both, I heat the charcoal until red-hot on the gas burner, drop it into…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Fugu deep-fried in a Bubu-arare coating

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a Japanese-style version of fried chicken karaage. I thought that many…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Julienned vegetable and pork broth

For sawani soup, drying the maitake mushrooms once beforehand keeps their crisp texture. Black maitake also releases color, and drying it brings out…

Sea Bream Nanban-zuke with Jasmine Fragrance

This is a piece of vinegared-dish development built around jasmine tea. The deep-fried, vinegar-marinated sea bream was devised so guests can enjoy…

• Serves 2 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled nut tofu, salt-fermented Ise lobster roe, a preparation shaped to resemble chestnuts, bottarga with squid and cheese Ohara-me style, Otafuku garland chrysanthemum greens with scallop and sea urchin

This is the sake accompaniment course. For the grilled nut tofu, I started with a base of sesame tofu and added walnuts and chestnuts, which are in…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 40 min

Salmon tawara-style deep-fried, grilled-eggplant batter, chrysanthemum achara pickle

In the tawara-age, besides onion and long onion, I also add taro, and this makes it come through much more clearly as Japanese cuisine. The sticky…

Ezo Deer Saikyo-yaki — Daikon Simmered in Consommé, Watercress-Wasabi Sauce

After marinating overnight in Saikyo miso, it's cooked at low temperature in a convection oven, then finished with a seared color on the surface. For…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Kuroge wagyu simmered sukiyaki-style

The signature dish is the Kuroge Wagyu Sukiyaki-Style Simmer. Under the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," where meat dishes used to be…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Roast beef kimiage, somen noodles, truffle salt

This time I introduce kimiage. The batter, made by adding water to egg yolk and mixing in flour, turns a vivid yellow color, which is why it's also…

Grilled Eggplant with Gelée

This is an appetizer designed to let guests fully savor eggplant at its peak season, when its umami is at its most concentrated. Here, we grill the…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Corn Fermented Butter, Japanese-Style Soy Milk Panna Cotta, with Shoyu-Kōji Caramel

When I did research for this dish, I found a source stating that "the word koku (body and richness) arose from the aging of grains." So, thinking…

• Serves 14 · ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Wagyu rock-salt grill, wagyu vinegar pickle

Under the theme 'counter work that creates repeat guests,' I introduce simple dishes with a playful touch that please guests already well accustomed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500