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Gyokuro Soup, White-Simmered Mountain Yam

I devised a dish that is unusual yet distinctive enough to make people want to try it, combining a serving style well received as a hot-weather soup…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Chirashi Sushi

This time it's chirashi sushi, the fundamental rice course. For this sushi rice, I wanted a pronounced vinegar aroma, so I make the sushi vinegar…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Edamame Tofu, Corn Surinagashi, Abalone Steamed with Sake, Kuruma Prawn

Wanting guests to enjoy the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a variety of soup courses, I made this dish using summer vegetables just…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Pike conger stuffed with sea urchin, lightly coated in kudzu starch

For 'Hamo Stuffed with Sea Urchin, Yoshino-Style,' the hamo (pike conger eel) is bone-scored, and sea urchin is stuffed into the scored meat to serve…

• Serves 1 · ¥455

• Cook time 1 hr

Suppon rice-flour dumpling in julienned-vegetable broth

This is 'Shiratama Dumpling in Sawani-Style Broth.' I wanted to express the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a soup course. After the…

• Serves 1 · ¥375

• Cook time 2 hr

Sweetfish and taro-stem roll, somen noodle soup

I aimed to let guests enjoy the aromas of summer, especially July's seasonal ingredients, through a variety of soup courses. This soup course is Ayu…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 40 min

Chilled savory black tea water-bead jelly

A tea's flavor matters, but I think its aroma is one of the great pleasures too, and with the idea that a variety of aromas can be enjoyed through…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Reishi sea snail fried in egg yolk batter, tomato deep-fried in white batter, stuffed hollow burdock

This is a fried course. For the Reishi sea snail fried in egg-yolk batter, I deep-fried the sea snail in a batter of rooibos tea, egg yolk, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Tea-fragrant grilled spiny lobster and abalone, miso-glazed baby eggplant

The grilled dish is 'Tea-Fragrant Grilled Spiny Lobster and Abalone.' I used Darjeeling, known for its pale orange color and fruity aroma…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Tender-Simmered Olive Pork

Japanese cuisine built around imported teas Tea used = For the simmered dish Tender-Simmered Olive Pork, I used dark tea, which has a distinctive…

• Serves 5 · ¥400

• Cook time 3 hr

Butterbur miso salad

Though fuki miso salad might be considered a standard dish, at our restaurant we plan to serve it as the sashimi course partway through the meal. For…

• Serves 2 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam in clear seafood broth

Guests enjoy the natural, deeply concentrated umami of Kashimanada clams, carefully drawn out through meticulous preparation, together with crisp…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 45 min

Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke

This is a rice-course dish developed using jasmine tea. (Jasmine tea, 30g: 350 yen.) For Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke, I used heshiko, mackerel cured…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Beef Short Rib Simmered in Sweet Tea, Topped with Strained Runner Bean Purée

This is a simmered dish made with sweet tea. (Sweet tea, 60g: 650 yen.) For Beef Short Rib Simmered in Sweet Tea, I built the simmering liquid on the…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup

For 'Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup,' I treated caffeine-free herbal tea as a dashi drawn with tea. I built it into a soup together with sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Butter tea tofu — ice-cellar style

This is an appetizer course from a set of Japanese dishes built around black tea. (Black tea, 50 g: ¥1,200.) I made 'butter tea,' as drunk in Tibet…

• Serves 9 · ¥40

• Cook time 40 min

Sea Bream Nanban-zuke with Jasmine Fragrance

This is a piece of vinegared-dish development built around jasmine tea. The deep-fried, vinegar-marinated sea bream was devised so guests can enjoy…

• Serves 2 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Kabocha squash manju chawanmushi with an oolong tea aroma

This is a steamed dish made with oolong tea. For the kabocha manju chawanmushi, I used an oolong that's clean and light, without any off-flavors, to…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 30 min

Tajima Chicken Asuka-Nabe — Ceylon Tea Style

This is a small individual hot pot dish built around Ceylon black tea. (Reference: Ceylon black tea, 100 g: ¥570.) For the broth in the Tajima…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Sea bream baked in an Earl Grey salt crust

This is a piece of Japanese cuisine built around Earl Gray tea. (Reference: Earl Gray, 100 g: ¥670.) I hope that pairing black tea — a drink most…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Blanched pike conger with amanatsu-jasmine-tea vinegar gelée

This is a piece of Japanese cuisine built around white tea. (Reference: white tea, Jasmine Silver Needle, 50 g: ¥1,836.) This is a tomezakana, a late…

• Serves 1 · ¥455

• Cook time 2 hr

Black-skinned kabocha squash simmered with lemon, fat greenling and sea urchin simmered together, new burdock root filled with sakura-shrimp shinjo, small eggplant Dutch-style simmered

This dish expresses Japanese cuisine through dark tea (Fu brick tea). For reference, Fu brick tea, 50 g: ¥1,620. This is an assortment of separately…

• Serves 1 · ¥489.5

• Cook time 1 hr

Aromatic Grilled Wagyu

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The tea used this time is 'Anxi Rougui oolong'; for reference, 'Anxi…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,061

• Cook time 30 min

'Seasonal colors on green bamboo': trough shell clam with vinegared myoga and egg-yolk vinegar, young ayu and baby corn wrapped in conger eel and deep-fried fragrant, Yanaka ginger deep-fried in tea leaves, baby octopus simmered in black tea, baby tiger prawn simmered in lemon tea, Japanese whiting grilled with egg yolk, baby turban shell simmered in black tea escargot-style, and two kinds of tea-rice chimaki

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The teas used are 'honey-fragrance black tea, green tea (Cuiluo), dark…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,338

• Cook time 2 hr