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Steamed abalone, sea urchin and wakame

This is single dish course three: steamed abalone, uni and wakame. I use farmed abalone from Hokkaido, steaming it for around eight to ten minutes…

• ¥690

• Cook time 15 min

Tawara-shaped shrimp taro, eel kombu roll, apple and egg-batter grill, bottarga rusk, abalone, chicken in fan shape, twist-cut konjac, salmon cut in plum-blossom shape, grilled sea cucumber dressed with vinegar served in a yuzu cup, pine nut kinton, stem lettuce in mustard-koji pickle

Starting with the appetizers. In the mallet-shaped vessel I've arranged a "pine-bamboo-plum" motif. There's the tawara-shaped ebi-imo taro, chicken…

Tamagawa raw abalone

A soup-course variation built around regional ingredients. ‘Tamagawa Namagai’ takes its name from a play on words: I poured tama-dashi (a rich…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Kishū-style steamed dish with Ezo abalone, pickled ume, silver sauce, and aromatic tachibana citrus peel

Since it's February, this is a chawanmushi made with plum. For the pickled ume, we use a low-salt type of nankō ume, and use only about a quarter of…

Kuruma prawn in a bottarga crystal jelly, steamed abalone with sansho-leaf miso, halfbeak curled bracken-style, octopus fermented sushi wrapped in domyoji rice, sake-lees tofu-dressed salad, fava bean, pickled plum, and cheese, three-color mugwort wheat gluten rolled around burdock

Starting with the appetizers. For the kuruma prawn in karasumi crystal jelly, the prawn goes into water salted heavily enough that it seems it won't…

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…

Tomato Served in Its Own Shell, Steamed Abalone, Jade Eggplant

For the steamed abalone, we tried sandwiching it between daikon and rosemary and steaming it, but since abalone already has a strong scent of the…

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…

Layered Seafood Treasures

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties The satisfying bite and flavor changes only seafood can give Given this theme, I first…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 40 min

Abalone sansho cream, beef cured with kombu, three kinds of jelly, turban shell simmered in savory broth, white asparagus in an early-summer coating

This is the appetizer course. For the abalone sansho cream: add sake with the alcohol boiled off to the abalone, vacuum-seal it, and reconstitute it…

• ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

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…

Champion Wagyu Fillet Steak and Abalone Steak

This is a grilled dish. As a child, I have a memory of burning dried branches in a hōroku — an earthenware roasting dish — during the fire that sends…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,300

• Cook time 2 hr

White asparagus and abalone tofu-dressed dish, fava bean, twisted carrot

This time, on 'sakizuke,' I learned from chef Matsubara (Roppongi's 'Kasumitei Matsubara'). I take up 'shira-ae.'

Steamed Abalone, Crab and Cheese Terrine Wrapped in Prosciutto

Two starter dishes. The steamed abalone is salt-steamed with salt and sake. The taro stem is color-set, cut into thin lengths, and bundled. The…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bream spring aspic, kombu-cured Shinshu salmon with vinegar dressing, simmered abalone, prawn with caviar, walnut tofu

First, we come to the five appetizer dishes. I added volume and plated them showily. For the sea bream spring aspic, I worked characters chosen for…

Spot Prawn and Oyster Saikyo-Zuke, Shell-and-Leg Confit Shinshu-Age, Shrimp Pâté

These are the appetizers. For the spot prawn and oyster marinated in white miso: I wanted to use a large shrimp, so I used spot prawn, and added an…

Chilled Manganji Pepper Surinagashi, Hairy Crab and Tender Abalone in Kagen-zu Jelly

This is two appetizer dishes. For the chilled Manganji pepper pureed soup — Manganji is a mild Kyoto chili — the peppers are seeded and deep-fried…

Abalone dressed with its own liver, stone-grilled

A dish that makes it easy to order another drink. The aroma of butter makes it easy for women to enjoy as well.

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

Beef fillet, steamed abalone

This is the additional hearty course. I had originally intended to serve the beef fillet with a sea urchin sauce, but for the sake of the plating…

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…

Abalone steak with liver dressing, Japan whiting baked with sea urchin, eel-rolled egg, chicken baked matsukaze-style, deep-fried long-armed prawn, edamame fried in roasted grain flour, sweet long pepper fried and marinated, and Japanese bayberry wine jelly

This is the grilled hassun course. For the abalone steak with liver dressing, the abalone is removed from its shell, rinsed, and slowly simmered for…

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…