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Eel and Tofu, Tender-Simmered Octopus, Stone-Wall-Pattern Baby Taro Chakin, Kabocha Squash Stuffed with Tube-Cut Burdock

This is a simmered dish. Eel and tofu layers grilled eel kabayaki with tofu alone, without adding any vegetables.

• ¥400

• Cook time 2 hr

Herb-and-Breadcrumb Baked Oysters, Conger Eel Yawata-maki, Monkfish Liver in Butter-Soy Sauce

This is an introduction of dishes paired with Japanese white wine. This is a grilled dish. For the herb-and-breadcrumb baked oysters, the oysters are…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: Uda-kin burdock pureed soup

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥445

• Cook time 30 min

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…

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…

Sweet shrimp in a yuzu shell, Ōharagi kisu, Kizuki burdock, saimaki-prawn leaf cracker, pine-nut pinecone-shaped matsukaze

This is the appetizer course. The sweet shrimp in a yuzu shell has sweet shrimp and vinegar-cured turnip diced small inside a hollowed yuzu shell…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 15 hr

Mountain yam and shrimp sandwich with grated daikon, deep-fried; burdock coated in crushed rice cracker, deep-fried; New Zealand spinach in hakusen batter, deep-fried; kofuki-dusted black soybeans, deep-fried; and plum-shaped wheat gluten crisps

Q: Please tell us how to bring out the umami in mountain yam, and how to fry plum-shaped fu crisps so they come out clean. A: Salting mountain yam…

• ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Mock eel raft, snow crab grilled with a grated daikon glaze, coin-shaped salmon and corned beef cheese, five-color potato sushi in a twisted rein shape, petit tomato stuffed and grilled

This is the appetizer course. For the damselfish chimaki-zushi (sushi shaped like a bamboo-leaf-wrapped dumpling), the sushi rice is mixed with a…

Splendid alfonsino lightly simmered, steamed potato dumpling, mountain asparagus simmered pale, butterbur sprout

The golden-eye snapper lightly simmered is also an application of my head chef's technique. My chef often prepared filefish with a light simmer, but…

Mallard grilled with fresh greens, stuffed burdock root, splendid alfonsino and sea urchin grilled rapeseed-style

Grilled dishes. For the mallard new-greenery grill, the duck is steamed at 65°C for about 15 minutes, the fat is trimmed, it is pierced all over with…

• Serves 20 · ¥2,060

• Cook time 20 min

Tomato chakin bundle filled with rich cream, sweet potato morning-glory-shaped dumpling, eel yawata-maki, chilled duck with decorative garnish, physalis egg, seared barracuda sushi, sweetfish grilled with tade

This is the appetizer course. As for the tomato in a rich custard bundle — 'aka-nasu,' literally 'red eggplant,' is the term used here for tomato…

Mount Fuji-shaped abalone, dried red chili pepper, mustard-set eggplant, dried cod rolled in kelp, matsutake mushroom and bonito, bamboo-cut stem lettuce, lily bulb shaped like a plum blossom, yuzu stuffed with fugu milt, flute-cut burdock in vinegar, arrowhead-root miso kinton

The bases are spinach, purple sweet potato, and yamato yam respectively. The matsutake and bonito, the bamboo-cut chisha-to, and the plum-blossom…

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…

Niigata Sake-Lees Soup, Niigata Yellowtail Belly Salt-Grilled

This is a soup course. This time it's a sake-lees soup (sakekasu-jiru), but instead of salmon or the like, I've put in yellowtail with just the right…

• Serves 1 · ¥566

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Yuzu castella, pinecone-shaped fish-paste dumpling, persimmon-style manganji pepper, deep-fried yam bulbils in egg-yolk batter, barracuda persimmon-leaf sushi, smoked autumn duck

These are the appetizers. For the persimmon-style Manganji pepper — a Kyoto sweet pepper — we roll dehydrated cream cheese into a ball. The seeded…

Mackerel sushi, smoked salmon rolled into a cylinder, arabesque-pattern cheese, Izu wild boar rolled around burdock, twist-wrapped sweet potato, butterfish grilled with pine nuts

This is an appetizer course. For the mackerel sushi, the mackerel is filleted into three pieces, salted heavily for two hours, then cured in vinegar…

Five-color grilled squid, shrimp / herring roe on kelp / okra set in jelly, loach-stuffed burdock Owari-style simmered, carrot mousse, summer duck and zucchini sesame-grilled, mini kabocha squash, pike conger cut into icicle strips

For the appetizer's five-color grilled squid, this time I air-dried the thick part of the red squid's flesh a little, cut it into strips, and colored…

Young kuruma prawn grilled with an egg-yolk glaze, duck layered and steamed Hakata-style, ginkgo cracker, tube-cut burdock, grilled turnip bed-pickled, and ginkgo-leaf tofu

For the saimaki kimi-yaki, I take the core removed when making the kuda-gobō and let it absorb a thin happō-dashi. I use raw fish paste mixed with…

Mock tofu, mock sawara yuba, deep-fried stuffed Daitokuji-fu, apricot rings, turnip achara pickle, checkerboard kombu roll, vegetarian tsukune matsukaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho sprout, glazed simmered taro, carrot fritters

The apricot rings were included because eating something sweet brings out the flavor of the other dishes. For the turnip achara pickle, I cut the…

Turban shell with sansho, kōtake mushroom with amber egg, foie gras and lily bulb, green plum and hamo, octopus ogura-ni, saimaki shrimp and white asparagus, eel and burdock

This is the ice tray course. I arranged savory fish aspic in ice water, portioning it out with the image of a summer festival stall's marble-scooping…

Walnut tofu, small abalone steamed with sake, roe-bearing sweetfish simmered and steeped, chrysanthemum petals lightly steeped, Pacific saury rolled with burdock root, crab and tofu skin egg-yolk-batter fried, pine-needle-style skewer

Conger eel two-piece roll with burdock, oil-simmered kuruma prawn, tender-simmered octopus, hijiki wrapped in fried tofu skin

This is a simmered dish. The tender-simmered octopus is made using the very first method I was ever taught. For the hijiki shinoda-maki, I used soft…