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Black Wagyu Lean Meat, Scallop Arare, and Daikon Mochi

I created this dish under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a simmered dish. To let guests enjoy a variety of ingredients, I've woven them…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 3 hr

Roasted wagyu fillet, bottarga sauce

I consider it the value of dining out at our restaurant to create theater in serving dishes that lets guests feel something out of the ordinary…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 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

Housemade-miso sukiyaki-style (shaved burdock, Kujō scallion, grated yam dumpling, spicy condiment, truffle)

The meat course, 'housemade-miso sukiyaki-style,' is cooked and finished right in front of the guest; the smell of the beef grilling and the savory…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 10 min

Autumn Truffle and Foie Gras Soba

No matter how well soba is kneaded, it has no fat, so when people want more umami, there's a tendency to pair it with tempura, fried tofu, and the…

Crab Miso Gratin

For the red snow crab gratin, I combine rustic country miso and white miso, and add crab miso — the crab's own tomalley — to finish a richly flavored…

• Serves 10 · ¥151

• Cook time 50 min

Year-End Tsugani Soba

This is the noodle course from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Year-End Tsugani Soba is a richly flavorful dish that uses the whole of the tsugani — a…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Shirokane Pork and Apple, Steamed

Wanting to use a seasonal fruit, I experimented and came up with the idea of pairing pork's umami with apple, to see whether I could create a new…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Keiju egg mousse, sea urchin, shrimp with savory dashi sauce and wasabi

This is a signature dish of sorts at our restaurant, served year-round and well received by guests. The eggs we use are called Keiju-tamago, produced…

• Serves 20 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Butter tea tofu — ice-cellar style

This is an appetizer course from a set of Japanese dishes built around black tea. (Black tea, 50 g: ¥1,200.) I made 'butter tea,' as drunk in Tibet…

• Serves 9 · ¥40

• Cook time 40 min

Salt-cured yellowtail and daikon, oil-simmered abalone, maple-leaf carrot, fallen-leaf mushroom, green garnish, finely shredded ginger, pine-needle-cut yuzu, a thickened sauce from its own broth

For the salt-buri daikon, salting the yellowtail heavily and letting it rest overnight draws out excess moisture from the flesh, removing off-odors…

• ¥950

• Cook time 5 hr

Salt-fermented fugu milt, monkfish liver and yuzu achara-style pickle roll, pine-cone-scored turban shell simmered into a dark, long-cooked glaze, sea urchin-wrapped grilled halfbeak, pond smelt nanban-style soy-pulp salad

Salt-cured, fermented blowfish milt: soak the milt in a salt-water brine to draw out the blood, peel off the thin membrane, salt it firmly, and rest…

Pan-seared kneaded buckwheat dumpling

This is Pan-Seared Soba-gaki. 'Soba-gaki' usually means a warm dish eaten with buckwheat dough ladled over it, but here I sautéed it to make…

• Serves 1 · ¥319

• Cook time 15 min

Grated Daikon Pickle

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at 'Yonemura.' For the grated daikon pickle, we grate the daikon along with its juice, add…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 days

Tosa Akaushi tataki

This is the palate-cleanser course from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Tosa Akaushi Tataki pairs Tosa's own breed of Japanese red beef, buntan citrus, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Yellowtail simmered to a glossy sheen, yellowtail liver, white-simmered turnip, chrysanthemum-cut lotus root, maple-leaf carrot, roasted chestnut, green chili, julienned ginger, sansho leaf

This time, we learned about side dishes from Master Teruaki Mochizuki (The New Okura). He came up with dishes that look delicious and catch your…

• ¥720

• Cook time 1 hr

Shijimi Clam Chawanmushi, Cauliflower Surinagashi

This appetizer is a dish we also served during our pre-opening. The image is of something like a 'Japanese-style clam chowder.' The potato added to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Soy milk yuba tofu with tortoiseshell glaze, wasabi

Tags & categories related to this post : December, January, February, elegant, creamy, simple, comforting, kaiseki cuisine, traditional, sakizuke —…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 10 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

Tilefish, kombu-cured and pinecone-grilled, sudachi, clear seafood broth

This is a dish I devised so that guests could enjoy the full deliciousness of tilefish, which comes into season in the cold months. I prepare…

• Serves 1 · ¥750

• Cook time 40 min

The Original Truffle Rice

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

Salmon grilled with a dawn-pink egg-yolk glaze, kumquats simmered in honey, chicken baked into a ground-meat cake, pine-cone-scored ark shell daisen-ni, and more

Kumquats simmered in honey: since kumquats with their leaves attached turn bitter, they are first left overnight, leaves still attached, in a fairly…