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Scallop and Salmon Hakata-style, Uni Set with Lime Jelly, Hydrangea Small Clam Adductor Temari-zushi, Beef Chigusa-maki, Tomato and Abalone Cream Bake

This uses scallops in season. I thought about what could be made using shellfish with a June feel. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and…

• Serves 5 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 30 min

Blanched pike conger, fried in batter, matsutake, fig, shuto cheese

The shuto cheese served alongside the fried dish is made by adding sake to bonito shuto to draw out a stock, straining it, then adding egg yolk and…

Two-topping deep-fried shrimp shinjo (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is a shrimp shinjo — a fish-paste dumpling — prepared futami-age style, fried two different ways. Here, I used Suzuhiro Kamaboko's "all-purpose…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Young sea bass grilled Rikyū-style with sesame

For the grilled course, I designed it with couples in their forties in mind, around the concept of “an encounter with texture.” Customers in their…

• ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Sweetfish simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance, chestnut kabocha mousse, Kamo eggplant mousse, tomato mousse, pike conger with grated plum sauce

For the ayu simmered in miso and steeped for fragrance: remove the ayu's backbone and stuff the cavity with chopped myoga ginger and ginger, then use…

Wagyu and round eggplant, cold shabu-shabu style

This is a chilled course. Here too we use eggplant. The eggplant is peeled, deep-fried, then steeped in a soy sauce with Chinese-style vinegar and…

Akamachi Steamed with Awamori

For the prized Okinawan deep-sea snapper steamed with awamori, an Okinawan distilled spirit, the key is not to over-steam it. It's a delicately…

• ¥550

• Cook time 1 min

Awaji onion and winter melon pureed potage

Because Awaji Island blooms with flowers through all four seasons and is known as the ‘Island of Flowers,’ I am mindful of how to make use of…

• Serves 1 · ¥787

• Cook time 1 hr

King salmon cold-smoked and vinegar-cured, bottarga cold-smoked and vinegar-cured, small sea bream cured with bamboo grass, butterfish vinegar-cured, barracuda rolled with chrysanthemum, Japanese mountain yam with salmon roe sauce, and vinegar-set yam

Let me start by explaining the vinegared dish course. As for the king salmon ogawa-jime, the king salmon is soaked in a soy sauce saumure…

Corn surinagashi, edamame mochi

This is a clear-soup course. For the corn surinagashi: August is the best time of year to eat corn, and the yellow of the corn against the green of…

Cherry sea bream steamed with festive red rice

This warm small bowl course expresses ‘nostalgia.’ In the present day, festive red rice with azuki beans is nothing special — it can be eaten any…

• Serves 1 · ¥315

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Saroma Black Beef and Potato Cheese Bake

This is a grilled dish using the overwintered vegetable "16-Month-Aged Premium Inca" potato and Saroma black beef. I devised it wanting to let…

• Serves 2 · ¥632

• Cook time 1 hr

Pike conger and lotus root, steamed, chrysanthemum, matsutake

When wrapping the lotus root in hamo, brush on kuzu starch firmly with a pastry brush, but take care — depending on how the fine bone-cutting is…

Kyoto Turnip and Maitake with Crab An, Sea Bream Sogi-Zukuri with Sesame Soy Sauce, Kikuna and Mushroom Nibitashi with Ikura, Kiriboshi Daikon, Hijiki, Carrot, Bite-Size Abalone and Ise Lobster Tempura, Wagyu Shigure-ni

This is from our breakfast menu. From items served year-round to those changed by season, everything we serve is carefully selected from what I…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,150

• Cook time 50 min

Ezo Abalone and Sesame Tofu with Arima Sansho Shark-Fin Sauce

For the Ezo abalone and sesame tofu with Arima sansho shark-fin sauce, raw abalone has a crisp, springy texture, and cooking it makes it tender, but…

• ¥770

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared and Smoked Beef Tataki, Finished with Gyūbishio

Wanting to create an interesting soy sauce, I devised a "beef soy sauce" (gyūbishio) made using beef. Beef is said to be the meat that pairs with red…

• Serves 1 · ¥726

• Cook time 45 min

Hyuganatsu-Scented Grilled Course, Saikyo-Yaki Black Cod, Snow Crab, Yuba and Grated Mountain Yam, Saikyo-Yaki Vegetables

Hyuganatsu, a citrus fruit, has a rare characteristic no other fruit has: even the white pith on the inside can be eaten together with the flesh, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Fried Milt and Scallop, Turnip Mizore Agedashi Style

The key point of 'fried milt and scallop, turnip mizore agedashi style' is adding strong umami to the turnip mizore dashi using a stock taken from…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 min

On an auspicious day (red sea bream flesh and fin)

From "expressing local heritage through cooking," this is the simmered course. Using the flesh and fin of red sea bream from Fukuoka, which boasts…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 50 min

Whole dried blackthroat seaperch, autumn miso yuzu-scented grilled, low-temperature roasted Daisen free-range chicken with yuzu kosho, freshly rolled dashi-maki tamago, tinted grated daikon, kombu, mentaiko

This is from our breakfast menu. The grilled fish is changed with the seasons to whatever is delicious at the time, and the dashi-maki omelet is…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 20 min

Fresh Greens Jelly with Sea Bream Roe

For the fresh-greens jelly topped with sea bream roe, I use Otafuku shungiku, though Kyo-shungiku works just as well. The shirako is salt-boiled…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Octopus, reimagined, deep-fried arrowhead bulb, white shrimp dressed with fermented fish innards, mizuna steeped with nori, sesame tofu with amber sauce, green beans dressed with sesame, deep-fried ginkgo nuts, eel cheese egg, and grilled sea urchin

The dishes themselves haven't changed since before the pandemic, but the plating has changed due to how often each dish is served and demand for…

• ¥1,946

• Cook time 4 hr