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Surf clam julienned-vegetable clear broth

This is a clear soup devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the surf clam sawani soup, I control cost by adjusting the amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Clear soup, 'Fukuoka Spring' (Ariake nori, bamboo shoot, and Muromi River icefish)

I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table from my childhood. This is a clear soup…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Fragrance of Peach Blossoms

This expresses Fukuoka through cooking. I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Spanish mackerel pot-cooked rice

We propose 24 pleasures across a single year. The cool, refreshing aroma of watercress stimulates the appetite.

Small turban shell dressed with sansho leaf, egg-filled baby octopus simmered to a cherry-pink hue, eel-filled sweet rolled omelet, cherry-blossom carrot, small abalone simmered Kōshū-style in wine, caviar-filled shrimp, icefish grilled with egg yolk, firefly squid deep-fried in a nori coating, young sea bream fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, and cherry-blossom lotus root

An appetizer course — all of these are dishes actually served at the restaurant. For the duck coated in golden egg yolk, named for the yamabuki…

Hida Beef and Seasonal Vegetable Sukiyaki, Topped with Uni — Kazahana Style

A fermented soybean sauce that brings these powerful ingredients together.

Fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf, bamboo shoot grilled in sweet white miso, mugwort fish-paste dumpling, kombu simmered in a rich broth and miso-pickled, lily-bulb wafer confection, chilled roast beef

This is the grilled course. The lily bulb monaka is said to be an old technique, in which we use an egg-yolk paste as the filling for the monaka…

Bamboo shoot dressed with sansho leaf, squid cherry-blossom sushi, Japanese halfbeak and asparagus roll, strawberry-style ark clam egg-yolk sushi, small kuruma prawn marinated in red-yeast-rice miso, taro stem pickled in rice-starch liquid, green pea jelly, sakura-scented lily bulb twisted into a bundle, purple sweet-potato sakura mochi, and lily-bulb petals

For the strawberry-style akagai egg-yolk sushi, rinsing the akagai briefly in warm water at about 50°C and then firming it in ice makes the sliminess…

Shrimp-shaped taro manju

Using ebi-imo as an end-of-season winter ingredient, along with both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that would warm guests during…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, clam fried in egg-yolk batter, kuruma prawn Shiba-style simmered

As for the bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, they are normally simmered with bonito dashi and wakame to make wakatake-ni (bamboo shoots and…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Okutone Trout and Spring Vegetable Carpaccio

This is a sashimi course dish that expresses local heritage. For the Okutone trout and spring vegetable carpaccio, I paired Okutone trout, a branded…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 30 min

Wild mountain vegetables, miso-flavored, yogurt-topped: mountain udo, bracken fern, mountain garlic, bamboo shoot, fava bean, radish, crumbled fried egg, plain yogurt, strained white miso

This time we've knife-cut the radish into a janome (bull's-eye) pattern, but depending on the dish, we vary the knife-work — sometimes simply slicing…

Clam shinjo

Julienned vegetable clear soup with mitsuba, udo, shiitake, bamboo shoot, pork back fat, and pepper

For the vegetables in sawani-wan, adding them in order starting with the ones that take longest to cook gives the dish a better balance of textures.

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…

Niigata Noppe

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: Niigata noppe Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since long ago for a…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Nori-Grilled Tiger Pufferfish Milt, New Bamboo Shoot and Jidori Chicken

“Knorr® Chicken Consommé” makes generous use of extract from fresh, domestic mature hens (“rōkei”), together with chicken meat and chicken fat…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 5 hr

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

Wakasa flounder with sansho-leaf vinegar, tilefish grilled Arashiyama-style, beef tongue set into a square, kuruma prawn simmered shiba-style, smoked salmon and cucumber rolled in kombu

This is the grilled-dish hassun course. For the Wakasa flounder with kinome vinegar, I grind kinome in a suribachi mortar and mix it with grated…

Beef-Wrapped Grilled Bamboo Shoot, Cherry-Blossom-Viewing Skewers, and More

For the appetizer's morel mushroom stuffed with crab: the morel rehydrates quite well just by soaking it in lukewarm water. I think it's best to…

Prized abalone with spring vegetables and shark fin

As for the fukura awabi with spring vegetables and shark fin, it was made in a small hot-pot style. Abalone has a sense of luxury and refined umami…

• ¥933

• Cook time 2 hr

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…

Cherry salmon grilled roll with julienned vegetables, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf, roast beef three ways

This is the grilled course. For the cherry salmon kenchin-yaki, the cherry salmon is cut lengthwise into 10 cm widths, butterflied open, dusted with…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo shoot, imperial-ox-cart-wheel style; spring mebuki-yaki Spanish mackerel

This is the grilled hassun course. The Gosho-guruma bamboo shoot, in a nod to March, is shaped to resemble the wheel of a Gosho-guruma, an imperial…