July
The inn where I work is a hot-spring ryokan founded in Meiji 23 (1890), and nearly 80% of our guests come from overseas. Guests rarely ask us for…
Serves 1 · ¥750
Cook time 3 hr
Grand Exiv Nasu-Shirakawa, where I currently work, is the only facility in the Tōhoku region within our group, and we build our menus around locally…
Serves 1 · ¥550
Cook time 10 min
From the proposal of dishes using the seafood that represents Hokkaido in early summer, this is the grilled course (yakizakana). For the hairy crab…
Serves 1 · ¥1,200
Cook time 30 min
This time, in keeping with our restaurant's theme of using many ingredients from Tōhoku and Hokkaido, I'd like to propose dishes using the seafood…
Serves 1 · ¥450
Cook time 1 hr
This time, in keeping with the restaurant's theme, I'd like to propose dishes using the seafood that represents Hokkaido in early summer. This is the…
Serves 1 · ¥380
Cook time 1 hr
Grand Exiv Nasu-Shirakawa, where I currently work, is the only facility in the Tōhoku region within our group, and we build our menus around locally…
Serves 4 · ¥430
Cook time 30 min
From the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat, under the theme "the cool taste of midsummer," I wanted diners to savor…
Serves 4 · ¥1,500
Cook time 1 days
This is the shiizakana, an additional hearty course, from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. For the chilled beef…
Serves 4 · ¥900
Cook time 1 hr
Green asparagus steeped in kombu dashi and white asparagus steeped in bonito dashi bring two different flavors, and the contrast in their textures is…
Serves 4 · ¥1,200
Cook time 40 min
The ayu is first filleted and de-boned, then its innards — soaked in sake and wind-dried — are carefully returned to the fish. It's a labor-intensive…
Serves 4 · ¥1,200
Cook time 20 min
This is the meal course (shokuji), from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. I took the hand-cut soba we normally…
Serves 1 · ¥2,290
Cook time 1 days
This is a vinegared dish (sunomono), continuing from the collection of cold-cuisine techniques for beating the summer heat. For the kombu-cured sweet…
Serves 1 · ¥1,418
Cook time 2 hr
While focusing above all on practicality, I designed this around the theme of "unconventional cold cuisine." This is the chilled chawanmushi (savory…
Serves 1 · ¥1,067
Cook time 1 hr
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
From the theme of the technique of cold cuisine, this is a vinegared dish. For the eel and cucumber Hakata-style press, I took 'uzaku'—normally a…
Serves 1 · ¥419
Cook time 40 min
Shiodome Conrad Tokyo Japanese Restaurant "Kazahana"
Katsuhiro Tamura
This is the palate-bridging course. It is sea urchin rice. Raw sea urchin is dipped in a thin batter and dropped into oil for a quick tempura. It is…
Yoyogi, Four Seasons Taste Horikawa
This is the rice course's ayu kamameshi. Normally the ayu is basted and grilled with salt and sake and topped with scattered water pepper leaves, but…
The amago simmered in moromi miso is cooked in moromi-miso to mask the smell distinctive to river fish.
Served in a physalis husk is the hamo roe marinated in konowata. When marinating the hamo's roe sac, be sure to stir it with chopsticks 2-3 times a…
Hamo (pike conger) is at its best this time of year. This time, I wrapped it around winter melon, secured the shape with a toothpick, and let it…
Serves 4 · ¥800
Cook time 30 min
By deliberately setting the dashi gelée soft and loose rather than firm, the beltfish (tachiuo) and kuruma prawns take on the seasoning fully while…
Serves 4 · ¥1,200
Cook time 20 min
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
From the theme of cold cuisine, this is a chilled bowl dish. For the winter melon manju, I put soft-shelled turtle (suppon) inside a winter melon, in…
Serves 1 · ¥87
Cook time 2 hr
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
From the themes of a heat-relief dish for summer and cold cuisine, this is an appetizer. For the abalone somen, since abalone prices have been rising…
Serves 1 · ¥358
Cook time 1 hr
KKR Hotel Tokyo Japanese Restaurant Takehashi
In keeping with the theme of cold cuisine, I took a dish I myself would want to eat in summer, gave it a slight twist as a 'heat-relief dish,' and…
Serves 1 · ¥328
Cook time 30 min
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