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Corn pureed soup, grilled mochi, quail anpei, thinned mustard

This time, on the 'soup-bowl course,' I learned from technical director Katō (Meguro Gajoen). This time I take up 'surinagashi.'

Warm-Stone Kombu Broth, Tsugaru Duck, Lotus Root Mochi with Mizore Sauce, Diced Yuzu, All-Purpose Scallion

Here I introduce a dish that expresses the warmth distinctive to the season when the weather starts turning cold. Because we use a heated stone, you…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Kagoshima Fava Bean 'Croquette'

This dish is a piece of culinary development built around the rich ingredients Kagoshima Prefecture is known for. Fava beans are a Kagoshima…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Sous-vide North Pacific giant octopus, live-prepared

This one takes time to prepare, so we start with the vinegared dish. It's sous-vide live North Pacific giant octopus. Octopus can carry…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Herring and Eggplant

We proposed a familiar, approachable dish that evokes yaki-zuke (grilled, then marinated), a preparation well loved in Niigata. This is a simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥270

• Cook time 50 min

Ishiyaki Abalone, Liver-Butter Sauce

The firm texture of the meat and the rich flavor of the liver sauce combine to create a dish that i…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Fermented squid sake hot pot

For the cheese tofu in black-tea crystal, I paired the cheese tofu we usually serve at the restaurant with a black tea that pairs well with cheese…

• ¥450

• Cook time 50 min

Ise lobster in kanzuri sauce, quick-simmered rock tripe, roasted venison, miso-marinated Mimolette cheese, rice-bran-pickled figs

Since I'm originally from Niigata, for the Ise lobster in kanzuri sauce I combined kanzuri — a versatile seasoning used widely back home — with a…

• ¥1,150

• Cook time 30 min

The Potential of Charcoal

The theme is charcoal — traditionally used just for grilling ingredients — and what new ways it might be put to use in Japanese cuisine. What kind of…

Charcoal-grilled juvenile sweetfish

This is a dish that uses quite a number of different oils at the preparation stage. The young sweetfish are rinsed in water, vacuum-packed with olive…

• Serves 1 · ¥385

• Cook time 15 min

Iwagaki Rock Oyster with Uni Dashi

As for the iwagaki rock oyster with uni (sea urchin) dashi, iwagaki have thick flesh, come in a range of sizes, and have a rich umami, making them an…

• ¥533

• Cook time 2 hr

Niigata blackthroat seaperch, seared-skin sashimi

This is a sashimi course. I sear the skin of Niigata's nodoguro to give it a seared-and-chilled finish. Letting a little heat into the fish really…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,760

• Cook time 30 min

Cherry-simmered baby octopus, flowering rapeseed steeped in mustard dressing, amago trout fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, bamboo shoot and squid in sansho-leaf miso, young sea bream sushi wrapped in cherry leaf, abalone simmered until tender, aigamo duck colored golden like kerria blossoms, fava beans simmered jade-green, and eel rolled with burdock root

This is the appetizer course. For the cherry-simmered baby octopus, the octopus is simmered in dashi, lifted out and drained, then steeped in the…

Turnip-steamed tilefish (ginkgo nuts, shimeji, wood ear mushroom, Domyoji rice)

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from chef Yamamoto (Azabu-Jūban, Azabu Nagasaka Sarashina Honten). This time I take up 'kabura-mushi.'

Cherry salmon grilled with koji

The flower-cut lotus root is pickled in vinegar, so it's convenient to keep as is. For the domyoji (coarse steamed glutinous rice) grilled with…

Turnip and soft roe tofu

This is a clear-soup course using turnip as an end-of-season winter ingredient. Using both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 30 min

Napa cabbage simmered in its own puree

Napa cabbage tomoni from the 'vegetable work' at Yonemura in Shimbashi. We trim the napa cabbage down to just the core, then simmer it for fifteen to…

• Serves 2 · ¥100

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod lightly salted then grilled, soft roe tofu, and hard roe slow-simmered

This is the soup course. Toasted-rice dashi is a stock we often use for the soup course in fall and winter. It pairs well with fish, and in winter…

Hoshiko fish-paste dumpling, kuzu-dusted clam, daikon

This is a unique winter soup dish that uses Hoshiko dried roe, a luxury delicacy, as the topping, a…

• ¥520

• Cook time 1 hr

Highland Lettuce and Isaki Hakata-Style

For the highland lettuce with threeline grunt hakata — a pressed, layered preparation — I wanted to bring out the pairing of salt-grilled threeline…

• ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Mountain Vegetable Sawani-Wan

You can enjoy two flavors in a single soup bowl. One is a flavor combining vegetables and asari clams. I roast butterbur sprouts and udo at 100°C for…

• Serves 1 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Pike Conger Chakin with Molokheiya Surinagashi

This is a soup course. I designed it with women in their fifties and sixties in mind, as a molokheiya surinagashi. Molokheiya is a vegetable rich in…

• ¥750

• Cook time 2 hr

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