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Cypress-scented miso-marinated butterfish from a deep forest, shrimp-shaped taro stuffed with Jōshū jidori chicken liver

This grilled dish uses butterfish, burdock, and lotus root as end-of-season winter ingredients. The facility where I work in Kusatsu, Gunma is…

• Serves 1 · ¥965

• Cook time 40 min

Shrimp-shaped taro manju

Using ebi-imo as an end-of-season winter ingredient, along with both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that would warm guests during…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled thornyhead rockfish with sea urchin

This grilled dish uses kinki as an end-of-season winter ingredient. Grilled kinki with sea urchin is a dish meant to let guests enjoy two kinds of…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 40 min

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

Monkfish with liver-miso sauce in a hollowed Kōgyoku apple

This appetizer uses monkfish and monkfish liver as end-of-season ingredients for March. In this monkfish tomo-miso in a hollowed Kōgyoku apple, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Alfonsino grilled with an egg-yolk glaze, wagyu Noda-yaki

This grilled dish uses kinmedai as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Kinmedai is a premium fish prized for its clean flavor and well-balanced…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 30 min

Ise spiny lobster ice-rinsed sashimi

This is a sashimi course that makes use of Ise spiny lobster as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Ise lobster is a premium ingredient regarded…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 30 min

Teapot-steamed soup of peak season and first harvest, kuzu-dusted Ise lobster, abalone, matsutake, spinach, julienned yuzu

This is a dish where you can enjoy together the deliciousness of Ise ebi lobster and abalone, whose umami increases as the cold season approaches…

• Serves 1 · ¥8,000

• Cook time 30 min

Autumn-leaf assortment: pine-cone-grilled tilefish, chestnut, ginkgo nuts on a pine-needle skewer, eggplant dengaku, baby taro steamed in its skin, Fushimi pepper grilled and dashi-steeped, maple-leaf wheat gluten, sweet potato chips, lotus root chips, sudachi

At our restaurant, Nihombashi Oikawa, we're mindful of theater and presentation in front of the guest, offering a comprehensive dining experience…

• ¥8,000

• Cook time 30 min

Pufferfish soft roe mochi, napa cabbage pureed soup, bamboo shoot flower-raft garnish

Fugu shirako is a prized, expensive ingredient valued for its creamy, rich flavor; in season it is typically served as grilled shirako or in fugu…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Monkfish liver and turnip terrine

This is monkfish liver and turnip terrine, an appetizer (sakizuke) that makes use of monkfish liver as an end-of-season ingredient for March. Ankimo…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Oil-steamed smelt

With the wish for guests to experience, with all five senses, the seasonal feeling of spring as the breeze turns warm, we devised a way to use…

• Serves 10 · ¥170

• Cook time 2 hr

Smoked Soy-Glazed Grilled Yellowtail

This dish uses yellowtail as an end-of-season ingredient in March. Yellowtail is most often served as sashimi or in yellowtail simmered with daikon…

Swimming crab pureed soup

This dish is built around seafood at the end of its winter season. The end-of-season ingredient used here is swimming crab, served as a clear-soup…

• Serves 20 · ¥370

• Cook time 1 hr

Cauliflower Mousse, "When Spring Begins to Scent the Air"

This appetizer (sakizuke) spotlights cauliflower, an ingredient at the end of its winter season. The cauliflower mousse is meant to convey a sense of…

• Serves 10 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Triangular bamboo-leaf-wrapped rice dumpling

This is triangular chimaki, from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." It is a Niigata local dish, and we present this…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 50 min

Noppe, Reimagined

A reconstruction of noppe, a Niigata local dish, from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." It is finished as a deep, rich…

• Serves 1 · ¥326

• Cook time 40 min

Tomato, water shield

You can savor the sweetness and deep, concentrated umami of Tokutani tomatoes, which boast a sugar content of 13 degrees Brix — more than twice that…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

Deep-fried wild sweetfish

This is a dish unique to summer: wild sweetfish from the Ado River, which flows through Kyoto and Shiga, are kept alive and then ice-stunned, and…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 20 min

Cedar-plank grilled salmon, tube-rolled willowy flounder, uni-glazed shrimp-shaped taro, egg-yolk-glazed grilled salmon roe

This is a grilled course from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." The burdock sauce is remarkably fragrant and very well…

• Serves 1 · ¥945

• Cook time 40 min

Autumn-leaf assortment: oyster and persimmon miso gratin, shrimp and water caltrop grilled with yuzu, scallop autumn-color pickle, small clam adductor in apple vinegar, shuto cheese, persimmon and salmon, rolled dried persimmon, matcha red bean paste with skin-on chestnut

As a reconception of dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine, this evokes a late-autumn medley. We designed each dish with an eye to color…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,475

• 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

Charcoal-grilled Spanish mackerel sashimi, nanban shrimp, giant Pacific octopus, red-and-white Korean-style tartare

This is the sashimi course (tsukuri), reconceived from dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine. We add a twist with yukhoe sauce, bringing…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Hamo Confit, Mousse

I sought a new flavor from hamo, an ingredient indispensable to Japanese cuisine that's in season in summer. Hamo has many small bones, and while…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 30 min