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Low-Temperature Charcoal-Oil-Grilled Beef

I made two charcoal oils: sawdust charcoal oil and binchotan oil. For both, I heat the charcoal until red-hot on the gas burner, drop it into…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 15 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

House-made ponzu monkfish liver, grated turnip, amigasa yuzu, squid kombu-jime, sweet shrimp kombu-jime, salt ponzu, bottarga

We have prepared a selection of homemade delicacies that are sure to please customers who enjoy dri…

• ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Ezo Deer Saikyo-yaki — Daikon Simmered in Consommé, Watercress-Wasabi Sauce

After marinating overnight in Saikyo miso, it's cooked at low temperature in a convection oven, then finished with a seared color on the surface. For…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Whale meat pickled in miso, bottarga, sardines simmered with sansho pepper, chicken liver and cheese crackers, banded coral shrimp steeped in rice porridge, black konjac grilled in fragrant soy sauce, fava-bean dumpling shaped like a paper lantern, seared thick Kyoto-style fried tofu with butterbur miso, and crunchy pickled plum and crunchy udo, a mountain vegetable, on pine-needle skewers

Whale blubber loses its fat cleanly when you use Sado's 'Saigetsu' aged miso. For the whale meat pickled in miso, we parboil whale blubber in…

• ¥2,550

• Cook time 3 hr

Wagyu rock-salt grill, wagyu vinegar pickle

Under the theme 'counter work that creates repeat guests,' I introduce simple dishes with a playful touch that please guests already well accustomed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

Nodoguro Salad, Charcoal-Seared, with Charcoal-Scented Dressing

In front of the guest, burning-hot charcoal is placed into the dressing to transfer its aroma, and the dressing is then poured over the dish and…

• Serves 1 · ¥560

• Cook time 40 min

Burdock Cappuccino

I originally worked abroad, and when I was in Italy I drank cappuccino almost every day. When I think of a Japanese dish using burdock, kinpira-gobō…

• Serves 1 · ¥267

• 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

Dōman-Gani, Taro Manjū

So that the flavor of Dōman crab -- said to be a phantom crab -- comes through firmly, I wrap the crab meat in taro that's been pressed through a…

Sesame tofu

The appetizer is sesame tofu. Normally we'd serve the ingredients laid out across separate vessels, but this time I arranged steamed abalone, caviar…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,650

• Cook time 2 days

Pacific Cod and Snow-Covered Daikon Mizore-Mushi

This is a steamed dish, using Hokkaido overwintered snow-covered daikon and scallion. The Pacific cod and grated snow-covered daikon steamed dish is…

• Serves 1 · ¥190

• Cook time 1 hr

Nanzenji-style steamed tofu with hand-scooped yuba, sea urchin, lily bulb, mitsuba, and silver sauce

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

Steamed Abalone, Lotus Root Mochi, Baby Mustard Greens

By steaming the abalone with absolutely no seasoning at all, I concentrate the umami the ingredient naturally has. I shave katsuobushi right in front…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 10 min

Oil-cured Pacific saury, duck cutlet sandwich, monkfish liver in a hollowed yuzu shell, and saikyo-miso-cured monkfish

This is the winter course. The Oil-Cured Pacific Saury is made the way oil-sardines are made, but using saury instead of sardine. Soaking it once in…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Cucumber with Soy pulp, Abalone Liver with Butter, Black Sesame Egg with a Touch of Rin Glaze, Arihei-Style Squid, Yellowtail and Bettarazuke Hakata-Style, Plum Monaka, Matcha Kinton with Budou-mame, Herring Roe Namasu

This is the course preceding the hassun course. For the sea cucumber with soy pulp, I put the sea cucumber in a bamboo colander together with round…

• Serves 1 · ¥830

• Cook time 1 hr

Spanish mackerel steamed in scallion oil (firefly squid sauce)

This is a steamed-dish proposal devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the Spanish mackerel steamed in scallion oil with…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Hairy crab wrapped in lettuce (ginger gelée, sea grapes, shiso flower spikes, white asparagus)

At our restaurant, we focus on cooking that draws out the umami and flavor of the ingredients themselves. We're always thinking about the menu, and…

Freshly Made Sesame Tofu, Sea Urchin, Kombu-Water Jelly Broth

We insist on sesame that's 'freshly toasted, freshly pressed' and tofu that's 'freshly kneaded': we knead it fresh every day, one hour before…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip and Duck Jibu-ni

This is a dish we've served since our restaurant's opening, out of my wish to 'preserve the excellent dishes that have existed since long ago.' It's…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 2 hr

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Yuan-yaki, Lotus Root Mochi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is the grilled course. For the yellowtail sake-lees yuan-yaki, the yellowtail is filleted…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 days

Grilled beef sirloin with fragrant soy sauce, and steamed turnip in butter-soy sauce

Q: Please tell us a delicious Japanese-style sauce that can stand up to meat. A: The Hosokawa soy sauce I learned from my teacher is a Japanese-style…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Cold-season yellowtail teriyaki

For the warm dish of cold-season yellowtail teriyaki, we add five kinds of daikon to balance the five flavors. The sweetness of the Yukinoshita…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 min

Wagyu Sirloin

This is a grilled dish introduced as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the wagyu sirloin charcoal-grilled with bamboo shoot, wagyu is…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min