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Cod milt egg-set custard, three-citrus sauce, knotted whiting grilled with egg-yolk soy glaze, jellied pufferfish, walnut tofu, shirabai whelk simmered to absorb the broth, Shanghai hairy crab, vinegar jelly sauce, semi-dried persimmon dressed with tofu, foie gras with eggplant and scallion miso sauce, deep-fried pufferfish, icefish dressed with red and white baby turnips, three delicacies in a sudachi citrus cup, overnight-dried barracuda with grated daikon, oyster deep-fried and served in broth, and mackerel pressed stick sushi

For the appetizer, the cod milt egg-set custard uses a yellow yuzu shell as the cup. Cod milt pressed through a fine sieve is mixed into the…

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…

Tilefish wrapped in woven eggplant

This is the soup course. For the tilefish wrapped in woven eggplant (ajiro), the eggplant is deep-fried once, its skin peeled off under running…

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…

Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Tilefish grilled with a sake-soy glaze, grilled horse meat loin, eggplant tofu, salmon wrapped in napa cabbage, golden lily bulb, fig pickled in lemon, sweet potato twisted-strip deep-fry, raw salmon roe marinated in soy sauce

For the grilled course's tilefish Wakasa-yaki, since the scales were removed from the tilefish, I tried grilling it slowly over low heat so the skin…

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…

Chilled herring with eggplant and baby taro; eggplant cut to stand upright, deep-fried and simmered, with black sesame

To keep the eggplant in simmered dishes from losing its color, it helps to place it into the oil starting from the colored skin side.

Steamed Abalone and Manganji Pepper, Pan-Simmered, Loquat Wrapped in Prosciutto, Hamo and Flowering Wasabi, Eggplant 'Somen', Fukusa-Yaki

This is the appetizer (sakizuke). For the steamed abalone and Manganji pepper, pan-simmered, I sprinkle abalone with ginjō sake and steam it for 1.5…

Matsutake tofu, turnip, eggplant, lotus root, sweet potato, barracuda, and crab

First is the appetizer course. This is matsutake tofu, using the quintessential taste of autumn. It is based on soy milk sold locally, and by adding…

• ¥680

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Stone-wall taro with sesame, Ise spiny lobster simmered in its shell, eggplant simmered to a lapis sheen

For the simmered course, the Ise lobster gusoku-ni is simmered in its shell in a base of dashi, sake, white miso, and ginger, then cut and plated…

Cauliflower mousse, grilled eggplant in dashi aspic, simmered abalone, live tiger prawn color-blanched, crushed okra

This is an appetizer. For the cauliflower mousse, the cauliflower is boiled in a 2% salt-water brine — slightly weaker than seawater — until soft…

Habutae-Mushi, Jade Eggplant Ohitashi, and Liver Simmered Arima-Style

For the first course, a silken steamed custard, sea bream backbones are heavily salted and simmered at a rolling boil for four to five hours to draw…

Shrimp-shaped taro, Tamba-style grilled, fig, millet wheat gluten, and walnut miso-glazed, grilled wheat gluten burdock roll

Grilled Kamo Eggplant, Sesame Tofu, Sea Urchin Surinagashi

Sake-Simmered Kinki, Simmered Egg, Chrysanthemum-Cut Daikon, Shrimp Layered with Fish Paste, Tube-Cut Burdock, Chrysanthemum-Leaf Winter Melon, Deep-Fried Marinated Autumn Eggplant, Maple-Leaf Carrot, Mini Daikon

This is an assorted simmered dish course. For the sake-simmered thornyhead rockfish, the fish is first plain-grilled, then simmered in kombu, sake…

Grilled eggplant pureed soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the grilled eggplant surinagashi, the garnish in the bowl consists of egg tofu cut into small cubes, the mouth and…

Rice-paper-wrapped deep-fry

I took the liberty of naming this dish 'hagoromo-age' myself. Rice paper is often cut into round shapes and used as a serving vessel, but I wondered…

Senryo eggplant stuffed with duck meat

Sesame tofu wrapped in grilled eggplant, Wakasa-style grilled tilefish

For the clear-soup course's sesame tofu wrapped in grilled eggplant, the sesame tofu is made by combining kombu dashi, sake, and Yoshino kuzu starch…

Jade Eggplant Surinagashi Abalone Liver Shinjo

As for the clear-soup course's abalone liver shinjo — many guests dislike and avoid abalone liver, so I devised this as a way to use the liver in…

Winter Melon Bowl and Eggplant Oranda-Style

Like the steamed course, this was developed for couples in their fifties and sixties. The winter melon bowl makes use of the pike conger without any…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Sea bass with potato sauce, organic vegetables grilled with fermented fish innards

This is the grilled course. Since it is a new dish, I plated it on a piece of contemporary Arita ware. As for the green-yuzu sauce for the sea bass…

• ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr