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Egg hōraku-yaki made with all-purpose surimi powder

This is egg hōraku-yaki. Hōraku-yaki is a Japanese dish with a long history, but this time I took a hint from a French fish dish from the Lyon region…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 20 min

Fish somen made with all-purpose surimi powder

This time, I thought about how Suzuhiro Kamaboko Co., Ltd.'s "All-Purpose Surimi Powder" — I'll call it "surimi powder" from here on — could be put…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 15 min

Kamo Eggplant, Foie Gras Kuwayaki

This is a simmered course. As for the foie gras kuwayaki, foie gras has a reputation for being relatively expensive, but it is actually fairly…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 10 min

Oil-grilled pike conger, salt-grilled striped jack

For the grilled course, the salt-grilled shima-aji, we serve the collar of the shima-aji salt-grilled. Then there's the hamo. By September, if we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,160

• Cook time 20 min

Ise lobster shell-simmered, turnip sauce, bottarga kōsen

For the additional course, I use a whole Ise lobster, gorgeously and extravagantly. I express the image of 'brocade autumn' -- yellow maple leaves…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,020

• Cook time 20 min

Striped jack thin-sliced sashimi, flounder chrysanthemum roll

This is a sashimi course. For the shima-aji thin-sliced sashimi, since we have a fish tank at the restaurant, we always keep live, fresh shima-aji on…

• Serves 1 · ¥725

• Cook time 10 min

Steamed Turnip, Dried Shrimp Soup

For the steamed turnip, we normally combine grated turnip with egg white, but since our restaurant serves a large number of guests and needs a…

• Serves 1 · ¥475

• Cook time 12 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish stuffed and steamed, water pepper, fish-bone crackers, lotus root

For the additional course, rather than the standard grilled preparation, I bone the sweetfish, restuff it with lotus root, and steam it back into its…

• Serves 1 · ¥865

• Cook time 15 min

Lily Bulb Manjū with Suppon Poured In, Chrysanthemum-Style, Plum Flesh

For the simmered-soup course, the softshell turtle lily bulb manjū gets a chewy texture and more substance by adding a little mochi flour to the lily…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 10 min

Soft-shell turtle broth

Suppon broth is well received in September, when the summer heat is easing but the lingering warmth still leaves the body tired. We break down the…

• Serves 20 · ¥345

• Cook time 1 hr

Largehead beltfish shin-biki-age, matsutake

This is a deep-fried course in which seasonal ingredients are coated with unconventional coatings such as toasted granulated glutinous-rice coating…

• Serves 1 · ¥495

• Cook time 15 min

Roe-bearing sweetfish, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing

For the roe-bearing ayu, oil-steamed with white vinegar dressing, I could never quite enjoy the dry, mealy texture of the roe, so I thought about how…

• Serves 1 · ¥395

• Cook time 2 days

Egg Yolk Shuto Glaze

As for the appetizer "Egg Yolk Shuto Glaze," egg-yolk shuto (salted, fermented bonito innards) is an all-purpose glaze that tastes good drizzled over…

• Serves 1 · ¥215

• Cook time 2 hr

Abalone and Plum Zenzai

This is an exquisite dish combining the gentle sweetness distinctive to azuki beans, brought out by the plum's acidity; the umami of large pieces of…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 4 hr

Seared sweetfish sushi

As a fresh exploration of aroma, I set out to express ayu's refreshing fragrance and umami by using the whole fish without waste. I thought of ayu as…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Ichigo-Ni Sōmen-Wan

This is a dish that lets you rediscover the deliciousness of 'ichigo-ni,' a local dish handed down along Aomori Prefecture's Pacific coast, made with…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 4 hr

Scents of home — sa-ku-ra shrimp

A fresh exploration of aroma: ‘a quartet of sakura shrimp, played through the layering of four forms.’ The idea began when I caught the scent of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 25 min

Swimming crab, smoked

As part of a fresh exploration of aroma, I set out to drape smoke over swimming crab to bring out its flavor. My restaurant centers on crustaceans…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Odawara oden

For ‘Odawara Kanto-ni,’ since Odawara is synonymous with oden, I used vegetables from Mishima and fish from Odawara port to devise my own take on…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 2 days

Whitefin trevally grilled with kabusecha tea

This is the grilled course. For ‘Kakuaji Grilled with Kabusecha Tea,’ I use kakuaji, a rare local fish also called white trevally, in a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 2 hr

Silver tofu pureed soup

This is the soup course. For ‘Gindofu Surinagashi,’ there is a well-known tofu shop near where I work, and I very much wanted to build a dish around…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 2 days

Wasabi and Cheese Dressing, Odawara Cassata

Two small-bowl dishes built around regional ingredients. For ‘Odawara Cassata,’ I took cassata, the traditional Sicilian sweet, and made it in the…

• Serves 1 · ¥360

• Cook time 2 days

Sole kenchin-style fried roll, shrimp-stuffed mild long green pepper, shrimp and young ginger shoot roll, shrimp-head cracker, fig egg-yolk-batter fried

For the fried course, ‘Kutsuzoko Kenchin-Style Fried Roll’ uses sole as its main ingredient — a fish landed year-round locally, appearing in many…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Yanagawa Eel and Foie Gras Grill, with Summer Vegetables

For the additional hearty course, ‘Yanagawa Eel and Foie Gras Grill, with Summer Vegetables,’ I pair foie gras with eel from Yanagawa City in Fukuoka…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr