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Butterfish grilled in a miso-citrus marinade, beltfish grilled with chili and leek, autumn salmon grilled with a vegetable-filled roll, taro grilled with sea urchin

This is the grilled course. The butterfish used in the miso yuan-yaki is a fish in season in summer; as frozen food distribution has improved its…

• ¥835

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed Chicken with Nametake Sauce

At our membership-based restaurants, I make a sample using ingredients that can be reliably obtained, and have each restaurant prepare it themselves…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Yellowtail and Turnip Hot Pot

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a hot pot dish. The yellowtail and turnip hot pot is a dish we always include in our…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 40 min

Spring turnip and Date chicken wings takiawase

As May approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Shiba shrimp mino-age (oyster shin-biki-age, fried root vegetable with cheese, ginkgo-leaf-cut sweet potato, dead-branch-cut burdock, rice-ear garnish, sudachi)

This time, we learned about "agemono" from new master Masaya Tsuji (Wanmiya, Shibadaimon). We will focus on "tsukuage".

Wagyu roast with okara — rapeseed blossoms, shredded egg crepe, boiled onion

I myself love roast beef, and one time I tried topping roast beef with simmered okara — it was delicious, so I decided to put it on the menu. Okara…

Filefish, Grilled Matsutake Mushroom, Cauliflower Mushroom

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. Rather than the bold, assertive fragrance of…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Bream Grilled with Western Vegetables

This is an introduction to a grilled dish using sea bream. For the sea bream grilled with Western vegetables, since sea bream past its season after…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,050

• Cook time 30 min

Surf clam julienned-vegetable clear broth

This is a clear soup devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the surf clam sawani soup, I control cost by adjusting the amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Shrimp and baby bamboo shoots grilled in hōjicha, pen shell with young greens, stream trout, young sweetfish simmered matsumae-style, beef in cherry-leaf wrap, matcha tofu

This is an appetizer course. For the halfbeak in white-vinegar dressing, the tofu is scalded in kōfuki-cha and drained. Kōfuki-cha is a fermented tea…

Apple Mousse

Round Eggplant Simmered with Lemon, Conger Eel Teriyaki, Glazed Simmered Shrimp, Tomato Simmered in Honey, White-Simmered Lotus Root, Savory Okra, Corn Cut into a White Fan, Honey Lemon

For the corn cut into a white fan, peeling the corn kernels off straight away makes them come apart, but letting the steamed corn rest overnight lets…

• ¥550

• Cook time 20 min

Tofu-Wrapped Grilled Offal — a Favorite of the Boss

I used offal, which the boss at the dojo I've long been indebted to is fond of, and named the dish accordingly. I rehydrate the offal in a pressure…

• Serves 2 · ¥110

• Cook time 20 min

Snow camellia and sake lees risotto, squid nori-wrapped sushi

The palate-refresher (o-shinogi) is a risotto built around Yukitsubaki and sake lees, a pairing also used by many high-end, well-known restaurants in…

• Serves 1 · ¥870

• Cook time 50 min

Pike conger and matsutake, gently simmered

This is what's known as a 'deai-mono' — a dish pairing two ingredients that come into season together — for autumn. It's a simple dish you often see…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 20 min

Raw salmon roe in soy marinade, monkfish liver neatly rolled in thin-sliced turnip, saimaki shrimp hot-oil-blanched, and deep-fried shrimp heads

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 30 min

Misaki-gazami in Kabosu Crystal Jelly

Building on autumn ingredients, I used Misaki-gazami, a treasure of the sea from Oita Prefecture, known in the classical era as Toyo-no-kuni, where…

• Serves 1 · ¥135

• Cook time 1 hr

Flame-Seared Kisu, Nuta-Style Kisu, and Oil-Blanched Kisu

Flame-seared whiting is a dish for enjoying whiting in a rich, thickened kombu dashi. Rather than a richly seasoned dashi or a pale starch sauce, I…

• ¥200

• Cook time 50 min

Porcini Mushroom Chawanmushi

I was taught that porcini mushrooms differ in texture and flavor depending on the part, so I put the crisp, crunchy stem into the savory steamed egg…

• Serves 6 · ¥895

• Cook time 3 hr

Turnip cup with monkfish liver and carrot in beef-shank dashi sauce, beef tendon and persimmon namasu, inner thigh beef cured in squid shiokara, seared outer thigh beef with crab miso sauce, fried beef shank coated in maitake mushroom and bottarga, oysters wrapped in beef belly

Since the toast at the start of the meal is often beer or chilled sake even in winter, I wanted something warm that lets you feel the umami. For the…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Fully ripe persimmon and Kyoho grape with yogurt, honey, pomegranate

Tags & categories related to this post : October, November, August, September, light and refreshing, crisp and refreshing, simple, fruity, recipes…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 5 min

Alfonsino grilled with miso-marinated tofu, flat baked tofu cake

For the kinmedai grilled with miso-marinated tofu, I deliberately avoided marinating the kinmedai itself in miso, and instead sandwiched it with…

• ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Diamond-shaped shinjo

This is a clear-soup course. Since it is March, mindful of the Doll Festival, I made a diamond-shaped shinjo inspired by diamond rice cakes. Of the…

Crab and Potato with Daikon, Hairy Crab Grilled in the Shell

Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables. The overwintered vegetables used here are Niseko 540 potato, snow-covered daikon, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr