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Sea bass pureed soup, potage-style

As a new way of serving seafood, I've approached umami as richness = fat, so all four dishes I developed in this series incorporate added fat. This…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Oden-Style Seafood Steamed with Irizake, Hokkaido Overwintered Vegetables Simmered in White Wine

This is a simmered dish of Hokkaido overwintered snow-covered daikon, carrot, and scallion. Both the seafood steamed with irizake, a…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 3 hr

Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi

This is the soup course. For ‘Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi,’ mekaja (Lingula anatina, a lamp-shell brachiopod) is a seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Ise lobster and Tennoji turnip, grilled with ginjo sesame sauce

This makes use of the winter ingredient Tennoji turnip in season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani Osaka, and getting to know the…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Tajima Chicken Asuka-Nabe — Ceylon Tea Style

This is a small individual hot pot dish built around Ceylon black tea. (Reference: Ceylon black tea, 100 g: ¥570.) For the broth in the Tajima…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

'Early spring' new burdock steamed sticky rice

This time, I received an award called Chevalier. Twenty-three years ago in August, I opened my current restaurant, and back then I had almost no…

• Serves 20 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 30 min

Whelk and surf clam simmered assortment

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. This time it's the fragrance of blended miso…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Sea bass rinsed in ice water, threeline grunt blanched with hot oil, tuna seared on the skin, live kuruma prawn

This is the sashimi course. Both the octopus arai and the sea bass arai taste refreshing served with wasabi and a plum-flesh vinegar-miso. For the…

Fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf, bamboo shoot grilled in sweet white miso, mugwort fish-paste dumpling, kombu simmered in a rich broth and miso-pickled, lily-bulb wafer confection, chilled roast beef

This is the grilled course. The lily bulb monaka is said to be an old technique, in which we use an egg-yolk paste as the filling for the monaka…

Smoked Winter Mackerel, Beef Tongue Temari Sushi, Cod Roe Karasumi, Beni-Fuji Salmon Shira-ae, Tatami Iwashi and Cheese Hakata-maki

This is a dish paired with Japanese white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. This is an appetizer course. For the smoked winter mackerel, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Buckwheat dumpling with shark fin in thick sauce

I created this dish to satisfy both heart and stomach, combining soba-gaki achieving a crispy-outside, fluffy-inside texture with a luxurious thick…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 40 min

Charcoal-grilled Spanish mackerel sashimi, nanban shrimp, giant Pacific octopus, red-and-white Korean-style tartare

This is the sashimi course (tsukuri), reconceived from dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine. We add a twist with yukhoe sauce, bringing…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo-leaf sushi, three flavors

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: sasa-zushi Looking back on the history of dishes that have been eaten since long ago, I…

• Serves 4 · ¥174.7

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared Ise Spiny Lobster, Ise Spiny Lobster Bisque

This is the additional hearty course. For the Ise spiny lobster bisque, I use the lobster heads to make a Western-style Américaine sauce. It's…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Fukuoka Corn Puree Sauce, Soy Milk Corn Tofu

This is the sakizuke course. For the Fukuoka corn puree sauce, the kernels are removed from the corn and the cobs are placed in a tray with…

• ¥249

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed Kisu and Corn Shinjo

For the steamed whiting and corn shinjo, a fish-paste dumpling: pairing shrimp shinjo, which has strong umami, with the delicate whiting makes for a…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 45 min

Grilled spring pancake, duck, cucumber, scallion, cherry leaf, clam simmered Arima-style, sansho peppercorns

If you overcook the clams they turn tough, so I think it's best to just barely warm them through in the marinade. I have the impression that Arima-ni…

Fukushima yeast-fed wagyu sango-hachi sous-vide, miso-glazed herring and sansho-leaf skewers, and red-miso-glazed tofu skewers

This is a shiizakana, an additional hearty course that is a modern arrangement of a local dish, newly developed based on the Fukushima local pickling…

• Serves 3 · ¥890

• Cook time 3 hr

Pike conger simmered with egg yolk

This is the prep work for hamo. At my restaurant we process hamo by boiling it whole, so when I source hamo, I ask the supplier not to remove the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 5 min

Grilled eel, steamed lotus root in chakin-shibori

This is the soup course. This time, I used lotus root and eel to create a lotus-themed dish. The green-simmered sansho flower buds on top get their…

• ¥925

• Cook time 40 min

White asparagus pureed soup

This is the soup course. The white asparagus surinagashi is a dish we are actually serving at our restaurant this month; in the shop it is served in…

Dual-purpose ingredient dish: Uda-kin burdock pureed soup

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥445

• Cook time 30 min

Burdock wrapped in conger eel, baked kabocha cake with poppy seed, scallop in spicy vinegared miso dressing, Daikoku shimeji simmered with ginger, crab wrapped in nori, Pacific saury simmered with sansho peppercorns, oyster set in salted dashi jelly, tender-simmered abalone, salmon with land caviar

This is the seasonal assortment course. For the scallop in mustard-vinegar dressing, the scallop adductor muscles are soaked in 50°C water for about…

Aperitif: chrysanthemum sake, prime hairy crab, steamed salted sea cucumber intestines from Kaneko, conger eel grilled with tofu skin, soy pulp, seared-and-chilled surf clam in white vinegar dressing, bottarga, eel liver in walnut vinegar

This is the sake-pairing course. In keeping with the theme, the aperitif is also chrysanthemum sake. Chrysanthemum dew is said to promote longevity…