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Cod Oyako Clear-Soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the Cod Oyako Clear-Soup — oyako meaning "parent and child," pairing cod flesh with cod roe — in the Tohoku region…

• Serves 1 · ¥570

• Cook time 30 min

Monkfish liver rolled like folded paper, quick-blanched crab claw, crab roe with sea urchin, raw cod roe simmered to infuse flavor, snow-ring lotus root vinegar pickle, served in a hollowed yuzu shell

The monkfish liver hosho-maki is a longstanding technique, but I thought pairing it would let guests enjoy not only its rich umami but also the…

• ¥430

• Cook time 20 min

Peach-scented sweet fermented rice drink, clam grilled with potato, crab roll wrapped like ceremonial paper, diamond-shaped tricolor mochi, icefish five-color fritter, dried persimmon with cheese

The peach-scented amazake, inspired by the peach blossoms that bloom in March, we finished as a pale pink, alcohol-free drink with a smooth mouthfeel…

Sado pufferfish ball-shaped sushi, Sado yellowtail and turnip fermented sushi, Niigata smoked salmon with mustard-egg-yolk vinegar, and garland chrysanthemum greens with Niigata edible chrysanthemum steeped in ponzu

First is the appetizer course. Using Sado Island's seasonal Niigata ingredients — Sado fugu, Sado salmon, and Sado yellowtail — I prepare each as an…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,311

• Cook time 1 hr

Tajima Chicken Asuka-Nabe — Ceylon Tea Style

This is a small individual hot pot dish built around Ceylon black tea. (Reference: Ceylon black tea, 100 g: ¥570.) For the broth in the Tajima…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Turnip with monkfish liver in thickened ponzu sauce, red-heart daikon and herring-roe wakame, Stone-wall-style yam bulbils, celtuce with mustard, Aigamo duck nanban roll with leek, kinpira with demi-glace miso sauce, sweet potato simmered with lemon

The appetizer's turnip with monkfish liver in ponzu sauce is made by sandwiching kombu-pressed turnip around steamed monkfish liver, pouring ponzu…

Small turban shell with a seafood-and-barley-miso dressing, octopus ogura-style, crab and yellow chive amber jelly, tomato and egg saikyo-miso pickle, pike conger sushi with sansho pepper, Peach Pine and smoked salmon kombu roll, fava bean and tofu-skin cheese dressing

This is the appetizer course, plated on a leopard plant leaf. For the small turban shell dressed with jinda, sweet egg-yolk miso and olive oil are…

Herring roe marinated in miso, flounder rolled in sweet rice paste and kelp, dried sea-cucumber ovary, pinecone-scored small abalone, bottarga and daikon, black soybean on pine-needle skewers, daikon and dried persimmon namasu

For the herring roe miso-marinated, I salt the herring roe, remove the salt, then marinate it for about 2 days in whole-bean miso with mirin and…

• ¥1,850

• Cook time 30 min

Wind-Dried Broadbanded Thornyhead, Charcoal-Grilled, Sous-Vide Wagyu Sirloin, Curry-Flavored Miso-Marinated Oyster, Sweet-Vinegar Pickled Red Turnip and Snow-Cracked Lotus Root, Lily Bulb Oribe Chakin, Bottarga and Daikon Mochi, Saikyo-Miso-Marinated Cream Cheese

This is the grilled hassun course (assorted grilled items). For the wind-dried kichiji charcoal-grilled, I rinse the kichiji, soak it for about an…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Rolled yellowtail namasu, horse meat wrapped in yuba, taro and mentaiko naruto-roll, chicken liver, cheese, and foie gras terrine in red wine, autumn-leaf tofu, mochi ginkgo nut, fig hakata terrine

These are the appetizers. For the rolled yellowtail namasu, I chop dried persimmon with a knife, knead it by hand, and bind it with a small amount of…

Persimmon and turnip in a binro-style dressing, kabosu-shell cup with seared kombu-cured pufferfish, chestnut-burr mound of white-puffed deep-fried sweet chestnut paste, crab cake baked with a poppy-seed-studded cracked top, roe-bearing ayu kelp roll, stone-wall-arranged yam bulbils, skewered

For the appetizer's seared kombu-cured fugu, I take fugu that has been kombu-cured in the usual way, sear the surface, and serve it together with a…

Yuzu-shell grilled dish, carrot castella, pine-needle-skewered ginkgo nuts, yellowtail wrapped in daikon and grilled, simmered abalone

The appetizer course is plated in the same dish as the grilled course, each item served separately. For the yuzu-shell grilled dish: the milt is…

Asari clams and spring daikon, simmered and steeped

The asari clams and spring daikon simmered and steeped is a dish devised with inspiration from a dish by my mentor, Rokusaburo Michiba. Using the…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Ezo abalone simmered with sansho pepper, Yamashina eggplant and toji-style yuba, both slow-simmered to soak in flavor

This is the entrusted-bowl course. As for the Ezo abalone simmered with sansho pepper, ordinarily green sansho peppercorns are used, but at my…

Hanabira Daikon Platter

For this development, I chose sakura-dai, a spring ingredient. This is a sashimi course. April is when sea bream is at its best, so I thought serving…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,012

• Cook time 30 min

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…

An Assortment of Sake Accompaniments

Among the assortment of sake accompaniments, the burdock shaved to resemble soba noodles has such a good texture that guests often ask for a second…

White tilefish, rolled and cut into mallet-shaped rounds, local alfonsino in a cloth-wrung purse shape

This is the simmered assortment course. As for the okitsudai kinuta-maki, okitsudai refers to white tilefish. This time, adding the extra step of…

• ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Spanish mackerel grilled with a vegetable stuffing and sweet potato, aigamo duck "spring mountain", peeled tomato in a yuzu-citrus vinegar, pufferfish milt in a cloth-wrung purse, sweet shrimp with egg yolk and salted fish innards, roe-bearing ayu simmered with sansho pepper, thin daikon tied into firewood bundles

First, the appetizer is a seven-item assortment. For the Spanish mackerel kenchin-yaki with sweet potato, the Spanish mackerel is prepared…

Ball-shaped deep-fry, octopus crisp, chestnut simmered in the inner skin, matsutake rice-cracker-crumb deep-fry

●Mari-Age: shinjo of choice is hollowed out, filled with a core of daikon radish, shaped into a ball, coated with somen noodles, deep-fried, and…

Milt Persimmon Roll, Butterbur Tossed with Soy Milk Skin, Tofu-Dressed Salad

This is a seasonal assortment course. For the milt persimmon roll, we combine 500 g of fish paste, 200 g of milt, one egg white, and seven shaku of…

• ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Roast Beef

This is a substitute dish. The method for making the roast beef is a little unusual. After searing it once, it is placed in a plastic bag and cooked…

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…

“Husband-and-wife tofu” and kintoki carrot, surinagashi-style

This time, I made a winter dish using three-year-old farmed pufferfish from the Seto Inland Sea, the king of winter seafood, prepared with a method…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 2 hr