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Clear beef broth soup

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a small luxury using wagyu loin. I thought that many people in their…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

The Potential of Sake Lees, The Potential of Soy Meat

Two themes: soy meat and sake lees. Both are ingredients drawing attention now, as food diversification continues to advance, and the question is how…

Sake-lees-scented corn pureed soup, abalone

There are two key points to using sake lees. The first is to add a mellow flavor. We add sake lees …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn Mackerel Ichimatsu Sushi

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: designed with photogenic appeal for guests in their twenties and thirties…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Blue Swimmer Crab Autumn-Color Tamaji-Mushi

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: designed with photogenic appeal for guests in their twenties and thirties…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 1 hr

Medicinal cuisine style, suppon shiratama-wrapped dumpling

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: adopting yakuzen (medicinal cuisine), currently a boom among young women…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn brocade platter: kogarashi-yose, smoked autumn duck, oil-simmered roe-bearing ayu, and pike conger and matsutake ōharagi-age

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a large shared platter that makes people want to take a photo. I designed…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 20 min

Roe-Bearing Ayu Simmered and Steeped, Claypot Rice

I designed this as a repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. The reason it resonates with that generation is the value proposition of…

• ¥1,140

• Cook time 40 min

Three kuroge wagyu beef dishes: smoked tenderloin, red miso-braised round, and sirloin grilled with sake lees

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: generous use of multiple cuts of wagyu beef. Under the motto "what's…

• Serves 1 · ¥670

• Cook time 40 min

Kinki Wakasa-Yaki, Fukiyose Style

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: an expression that lets guests feel the season. Under the motto "what's…

• Serves 1 · ¥885

• Cook time 30 min

Late-season pike conger and early matsutake teapot-steamed soup

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: the pairing of two luxury ingredients, pike conger and matsutake…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamo Confit

Pike conger, an ingredient in season in summer and indispensable to Japanese cuisine, prompted me to look for a new flavor. Pike conger has many fine…

• Serves 4 · ¥300

• Cook time 30 min

Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Ayu and Eggplant Terrine, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, guests from overseas have declined, but I designed this menu anticipating that they will eventually return, Sweetfish, a…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Tsukune Yam Consommé Jelly Mold

This is a vinegared dish, a molded preparation using tsukune-imo, a yam whose appeal lies in its stronger stickiness and denser, clingier texture…

• ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled Tomato and Winter Melon Simmered in Consommé

The first course is an appetizer (sakizuke) using vegetables that grow tastier from summer into autumn: grilled tomato and winter melon simmered in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Winter melon steamed parcel, summer bracken rolled in fried tofu skin, tender-simmered beef tongue, lotus root dumpling, summer vegetable deep-fried tofu fritter

This is the lidded-dish course. For the summer warabi shinoda-maki, the warabi is first treated as usual to remove its bitterness and simmered to…

The Potential of Charcoal

The theme is charcoal — traditionally used just for grilling ingredients — and what new ways it might be put to use in Japanese cuisine. What kind of…

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

Corn Minegaoka tofu with charcoal-scented thick sauce

I wrap the corn, still in its husk, in plastic wrap and steam it for about 20 minutes in a steamer; once the residual heat has released, I clean it…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Charcoal-Scented Tuna Roll

I use charcoal vinegar — red vinegar steeped for about two days with charred brown rice to transfer its aroma. I also grind and mix in some brown…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 15 min

Brown rice coffee, charred tea snack

Charring is an old technique in Japan; I first learned of it back when I studied macrobiotics. Carbonizing ingredients in a Vermicular oven takes…

• ¥180

• Cook time 5 min

Deep-sea snapper kenchin-style grilled, sweetfish grilled with water pepper leaf, pike conger grilled with plum-scented meringue, scallop and sea urchin grilled, king oyster mushroom wrapped in pork

This is the grilled course. For the onagadai kenchin-style grilled, rinse the onagadai, butterfly it open, salt it, and marinate it in light soy…