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Grilled Clam Jelly with Wild Mountain Vegetable Salad

For the grilled clam jelly with wild mountain vegetable salad, clams are usually made into a clear soup, where the broth carries a lot of nutrition…

• ¥520

• Cook time 30 min

Cherry-Blossom Sea Bream and Rapeseed Blossom Kombu-Cured, Butterbur Kosode Sushi, Sardine and Snap Pea Nanban-Marinade, Icefish and Shirataki Noodles with Kinome Miso Dengaku, Cherry-Leaf and Lily Bulb Squeeze, Bamboo-Leaf Mugwort Sesame Tofu, Baby Octopus and Sea Bream Roe Simmered with Cherry Blossom

This is the appetizer course, seven dishes for a spring evening. The cherry-blossom sea bream and rapeseed blossom kombu-cured dish is plated…

• ¥580

• Cook time 2 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

Kabocha Manju with Scallion-Ginger Sauce

For the kabocha manju with scallion sauce, I braise Kagoshima kurobuta (a prized black-pig pork breed) pork belly until tender and use it, along with…

• Serves 20 · ¥196

• Cook time 1 hr

Fava Bean Shinjo

Made to evoke the image of budding sprouts, in the season when many wild mountain vegetables appear.

Bonito and Pen Shell Clam Marinated in Lavender-Garlic Oil

For the bonito and pen shell clam marinated in lavender-garlic oil, we bottle lavender, sliced garlic, olive oil, and salt and pepper and let it rest…

Kinka pork oil-simmered, fava bean terrine, vinegar-pickled ginger, potato senbei, burdock base, black vinegar tamari

Scallion oil is made by slowly heating finely chopped aromatic vegetables in low-temperature rice oil. Frying for about 15 minutes, until a good…

• ¥480

• Cook time 2 days

Bamboo shoot manjū, baby octopus rice cracker, two-color icefish fritters

This is a deep-fried dish designed with the presentation in mind. The bamboo shoot manjū uses a butterbur-sprout sauce to bring out the "faintly…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• 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

Grilled firefly squid with white asparagus, fiddlehead fern, and egg-yolk shuto vinegar

This is a warm vinegared dish prepared on the iron griddle. We bring out the umami of spring's seasonal ingredients by steaming them with a seared…

Scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried scallop sauce

For the scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried-scallop sauce, scallop is thick-fleshed and full of flavor, but…

• ¥620

• Cook time 30 min

Nanatsuboshi sardine dressed with okara, fava bean and cherry-blossom fragrance jelly, udo deep-fried Tosa-style

Three spring-color dishes. First, nanatsuboshi ("seven stars") dressed with okara: nanatsuboshi is another name for sardine, so called for the spots…

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

Salted sweet potato kan

For the salted sweet potato kan, I slowly steam Beni Haruka sweet potatoes at low temperature, season with salt alone, and combine them with flour…

• ¥59

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Spanish mackerel and turnip

This is a steamed dish. Sawara and turnip is a dish where, on top of the elegant sweetness of sawara — a fish with no unpleasant edge to its flavor —…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Cockle and spring cabbage

This is the vinegared-dish course. For the torigai and spring cabbage, torigai becomes wonderfully fragrant when seared, so trimmed spring cabbage…

• ¥660

• Cook time 2 hr

Spanish mackerel miso-marinated and grilled with citrus flavor, butterbur sprout grilled with miso glaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. The grilled course…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 2 days

Wild scallop, pressed into a ball

This dish came from wondering whether there might be a delicious way to eat scallop that offers something a little different from the standard…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

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

Japanese-Style Roast Beef

This time it is the additional course. For the Japanese-style roast beef, since many of our guests prefer red, lean meat, this time we use the inner…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Butterbur-miso salad, sea urchin, bamboo shoot, sprouted scallion, salted cherry blossom, toasted sesame

This time, we learned about the appetizer course from Technical Director Masumoto (Norinchukin Bank, Meguro Annex). We feature fuki miso salad.

Tomato in aromatic marinade

This is the tomato in aromatic marinade we make at Yonemura, where I work. We char bell peppers well over charcoal until the skin turns completely…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Turban shell and spring vegetables

As for the sazae and spring vegetables with amanatsu citrus sorbet, every ingredient is locally sourced, making it a dish that conveys the sense of…

• ¥1,755

• Cook time 2 hr