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Spanish mackerel grilled in a spring-mountain style, clam grilled with tofu skin, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf, apricot wafer confection

The Spanish mackerel grilled in a spring-mountain style expresses a scene from my hometown. As for the clam grilled with yuba, if you simply grill…

Seared cod, grilled cod milt, zoni-style

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. Our restaurant sees many local customers — older guests, young couples, and gatherings of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoot in sansho-leaf miso dressing, icefish sushi, wasabi flower stalks and daikon radish steeped in tosa vinegar

This is course five. For the bamboo shoot dressed with kinome miso, I make an egg-yolk-enriched sweet miso and tint it green with spinach. For the…

Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Kinome; Diamond-Shaped Kamaboko; Clam and Rapeseed-Flower Sushi; Bamboo Shoot Simmered in Shirozake; Icefish, Bonbori-Style Grilled; Lily Bulb and Tachibana Citrus Chakin; Halfbeak, Cherry-Blossom Dried; Three-Colored Dango

Titled "Appetizers, Grilled and Simmered Dishes for Early Spring," this begins with the appetizer course. I prepared a single warm dish, a dish tied…

Five kinds of ball-shaped sushi, scattered sushi for the Doll Festival

This is the rice course. Since it is March, I made five kinds of temari-zushi and a slightly unconventional Hina Matsuri chirashi-zushi. At my hotel…

Dashi-marinated spring vegetables

Free-range chicken Kansai-style seasoned rice with bamboo shoot, carrot, burdock, thin fried tofu, shiitake, and mitsuba

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

Fan-cut golden eye snapper deep-fried with gyokuro tea, shiitake and almond deep-fry, fan-cut bamboo shoot deep-fry

I devised the fan-cut kinmedai deep-fried with gyokuro thinking that adding the tea's color and aroma to kinmedai, which is delicious and vividly…

Fat greenling kenchin-style roll, drum-cut bamboo shoot, broad beans

The simmered dish is a fat greenling kenchin-style roll. I fillet the fat greenling into three pieces, remove the larger bones, and make fine scoring…

Parsley-flavored warm tofu with colorful vegetables in a thickened soy-milk-skin sauce, mugwort rice cake in shoyu-koji hot pot

This is the appetizer. For the parsley warm tofu: parsley holds its color well even when heated, so I use it to give the warm tofu a pale young-grass…

Eel and cheese terrine, bamboo shoots simmered with bonito flakes, butterbur simmered green, flower-cut shrimp

The eel and cheese terrine is made by cutting kabayaki-style grilled eel (glazed in a sweet soy sauce) into strips and steaming it in a…

Mirror-cut daikon simmered to infuse flavor, kuruma shrimp quick soy-simmered, fan-cut bamboo shoot simmered with bonito flavor, pinecone-scored small abalone simmered, plum-shaped carrot, early butterbur simmered green, arrowhead bulb richly simmered

The simmered dishes are meant to evoke pine, bamboo, and plum. For the mirror-cut daikon simmered to infuse flavor, I carve the daikon into a plum…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo Shoot Tofu

For the appetizer, the bamboo shoot tofu is made by simmering bamboo shoot trimmings with a fresh addition of bonito flakes partway through so the…

Twisted-rein-grilled sea bream and bamboo shoot, freeze-dried konjac sake-lees pickle, dried persimmon and cheese coin-cut, clam wrapped in new potato mousse, butterbur sprout simmered and steeped

For the large-plate course, the freeze-dried konjac narazuke: slice the konjac thin, freeze it into shimi-konnyaku, then thaw it and turn it into…

Ise lobster simmered with sea urchin, comma-shaped shrimp-taro fukume-ni, bamboo shoot simmered Tosa-style, purple sweet potato crisp, flower-cut carrot, and bok choy

For the tosa-style bamboo shoot, the bamboo shoot is simmered once, then simmered again with a generous amount of added bonito flakes. It's then…

Sesame-crusted grilled wagyu, butter-grilled bamboo shoot

For the sesame-crusted grilled wagyu, season the wagyu with salt and pepper, and finish the first roasting to medium in a convection oven — the same…

Yamagata's four seasons in a bowl — Spring (wild mountain vegetable soup)

This time, wanting to convey Yamagata's local ingredients to the whole country, I expressed Yamagata's four seasons — spring, summer, autumn, and…

Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke

For the shellfish frills used in the Shellfish Frill Tempura Ochazuke — white mirugai, ark shell, and pen shell — we rub them well with salt to…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Ise Lobster Simmered in Yuzu-Scented Egg Yolk, Winter Bamboo Shoot Simmered in Shaoxing Wine, Thick Burdock Root Stuffed with Akagi Chicken and Wrapped in Napa Cabbage, Ichimatsu-Pattern Shiitake Mushroom Simmered in Coffee

For the Ise lobster simmered in yuzu-scented egg yolk, I mix chopped yuzu into the egg-yolk batter and simmer it in a sake-based happō dashi (an…

• ¥1,100

• Cook time 2 hr

Cherry-blossom bamboo shoot with naruto-rolled wakame, simmered octopus, long Japanese parsley and icefish rolls, and more

For the cherry-blossom-shaped bamboo shoot with Naruto-rolled wakame, I prepared bamboo shoots shaped and colored like cherry blossoms, alongside…

Akashi octopus cherry-simmered, icefish cherry-blossom sushi, warm-smoked salmon and papaya, broad bean grilled with bottarga powder, bamboo shoot, simmered abalone

This time, this is a dish meant to be enjoyed around the time the first cherry blossoms are announced to be opening. This is the tray course. We…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Simmered bamboo shoot and rockfish with butterbur and sansho leaf

After filleting the mebaru, blanch it briefly for about five seconds. Afterward, remove the surface sliminess — doing this thoroughly keeps any fishy…

Bamboo shoot rolled with duck loin, double-battered roll with a stream-like pattern, fresh yuba with sea urchin sauce, ball-shaped fugu sushi, pine-needle skewer

In the Nikko area, New Year's osechi always includes three things — a soft sweet red-bean jelly, fresh yuba, and a simmered dish of grated daikon…