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Shrimp, Sea Urchin, and Okra Terrine, Tender-Simmered Abalone, Simmered Kabocha Squash, Shiitake Mushroom, Winter Melon Simmered in Soup

This is a chilled simmered dish. Wanting to offer something refreshing, I set shrimp, sea urchin, and okra together into a terrine. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Blanched pike conger and grilled eggplant in amber jelly, kuruma prawn and udo rolled in a parchment-style wrap, aigamo duck wrapped and grilled with matsutake, Pacific saury with motte-giku chrysanthemum in an apple vinegar dressing, small turnip simmered in all-purpose dashi, bonito skin simmered in tamari, whiting grilled jade-green, and pumpkin and cheese moon-viewing dumplings

For the appetizer's pike conger and grilled eggplant set in amber jelly, the pike conger has been quickly blanched, but since it can be eaten as…

Burdock wrapped in conger eel, baked kabocha cake with poppy seed, scallop in spicy vinegared miso dressing, Daikoku shimeji simmered with ginger, crab wrapped in nori, Pacific saury simmered with sansho peppercorns, oyster set in salted dashi jelly, tender-simmered abalone, salmon with land caviar

This is the seasonal assortment course. For the scallop in mustard-vinegar dressing, the scallop adductor muscles are soaked in 50°C water for about…

Hassun, Shojin Tempura, Shojin Sushi

For the yuba dengaku, I placed sakura-miso — sweet miso kneaded with sugar — on top of opened yuba sheets. For the grilled Chinese yam with plum…

Duck yawata-maki, shrimp simmered shiba-ni style, taro and sea bream miso dengaku, kabocha squash, egg-yolk glaze-grilled squid

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 30 min

Roasted genmaicha tofu, baby octopus simmered cherry-style, cherry-leaf-green kabocha squash, duck simmered with egg yolk, butterbur simmered green

As for the roasted genmaicha tofu, tofu is mostly made up of water, but I think that, turned to advantage, it's an ingredient rich in possible…

Good-Fortune Cod Milt Nuta in a Yuzu Shell, Monkfish Liver and Celtuce Kinuta-Maki, Yorou Smoked Salmon Hakata-Style, Fugu Cracker, Sake-Grilled Squid Bonbori-Style

This is the seasonal course. The good-fortune cod milt vinegared-miso dressing served in a yuzu shell uses seven ingredients, following the tradition…

Wheel-Shaped Wheat Gluten and Nanban Shrimp Shinjo, Hakata-Style

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: simmered wheel-shaped wheat gluten Looking back on the history of dishes that have been…

• Serves 4 · ¥298.6

• Cook time 1 hr

Hakata-style layered freeze-dried tofu, carp burdock roll, glazed leaf-cut squash, and lightly simmered kuruma prawns

We have arranged the Fukushima local dishes carp umani and freeze-dried tofu for a new era. This time it is a takiawase. Hakata-style freeze-dried…

• Serves 3 · ¥950

• Cook time 2 hr

Habutae Tofu, Oyster, Persimmon, and Greens Dressed with White Wood-Ear Mushroom and Walnuts, Potato Somen, Pumpkin-and-Cheese Two-Tone Terrine with Crab Kinuta-Maki, Stone Flounder, Maitake, and Jikuna Greens Dressed with Chrysanthemum, Salmon-and-Turnip Sushi with Lily-Bulb Monaka, Pacific Saury Kombu Roll with Ginkgo-Leaf Sweet Potato and Shibukawa-Age Chestnut

This is a dish to accompany sake. For the habutae tofu, ground pike conger surimi is combined with scallop, and grated yamato-imo and whipped egg…

Salmon and kiwi layered roll, eel mallet-shaped roll, kabocha variation, tomato and scallop stuffed and cream-baked, abalone and broad bean lime jelly

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. The wasabi-yogurt vinegar used in the salmon-and-kiwi Hakata is a sauce made by blending plain yogurt and…

Mock kabayaki, novelty pumpkin, mock abalone shiitake, shojin egg, mustard lotus root

For the mock kabayaki, I spread tofu paste flat on nori, wrap it in a single turn of yuba, and grill it with a glaze while sprinkling on sansho…

• ¥30

• Cook time 20 min

Whole small ayu sushi, flower-shaped lotus root, sweet-simmered runner beans deep-fried in new-tea-leaf batter, tender-simmered summer octopus, sirloin grilled with sweet white miso, skin-on Japanese flying squid grilled with sansho pepper, Naruto-swirled whiting fried in a toasted rice-cracker crumb coating, taro boiled in its skin, chopped vegetables, grilled chicken tenderloin, half-ground white sesame

This appetizer course is what our restaurant serves once June arrives. It is served stacked when plated. Use seasonal vegetables for the chopped…

Tilefish grilled with a sake-lees glaze, small abalone simmered in a sweet-savory sauce, yam bulbils molded in a stone-wall pattern, stuffed baby onion, camellia sushi, kabocha shaped like yuzu, burdock fried karinto-style

For the yaki-hassun (grilled assortment course), the tilefish ginjō-yaki has sake lees mixed in at forty percent of the Saikyo miso. Using a generous…

Spring Vegetable Jelly Terrine, Mugwort Sesame Tofu

Titled 'Hospitality for the Fourth Month,' this menu features dishes we serve in the restaurant. We begin with the appetizer. The sesame cream laid…

Wind-Dried Kisu

For the wind-dried Japanese whiting, I paired it with a mixture of cream cheese, vegetables, and tofu — an ingredient I rarely use in the dishes I…

• ¥725

• Cook time 45 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

Five kinds of ball-shaped sushi, scattered sushi for the Doll Festival

This is the rice course. Since it is March, I made five kinds of temari-zushi and a slightly unconventional Hina Matsuri chirashi-zushi. At my hotel…

Yellowtail Yuan-Yaki

These are the two grilled dishes. Here too I aimed to keep the steps to a minimum and finish everything as quickly as possible. For the yellowtail…

Japanese whiting, okyuto, and hama-bofu, edamame-cheese kan, hasu-imo set in soy milk, warm-smoked checkerboard, kabocha castella, chicken and raisin nikogori, bottarga with shallot, styled as marimo

The edamame-cheese kan with shuto (salted fermented fish innards) topping: boil the edamame until nicely colored and remove the skins. Then steam…

Cod milt soup, autumn eggplant, duck meatballs, shrimp

This is the clear-soup course. For the kumoko soup, a plain white-miso preparation would not be very interesting, so I mixed in sieved shirako (soft…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Crab deep-fried tofu fritter, matsutake mushroom in light batter, autumn eggplant fried and then simmered, millet wheat-gluten cake deep-fried and simmered, leaf-shaped kabocha squash simmered to soak in the broth

This is a simmered dish. The crab hiryōzu is made from a base of pressed tofu, fish paste (surimi), and grated mountain yam mixed together, into…

Snow urui nanban, chocolate vine fruit grilled with sea urchin, monkfish liver and yukina Hakata, winter-solstice stone-wall-style kabocha, beef and potato Murayama-style dumpling

For the appetizer's monkfish liver and yukina hakata: yukina is a local Yonezawa vegetable with a texture similar to napa cabbage, and rather than…

Moon-viewing pumpkin pudding

Tsukimi kabocha pudding is a sweet inspired by the perennially popular smooth custard pudding. It expresses moon-viewing to match the season. I…