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Yamayuri pork miso-marinated harami, grilled matsutake, pike conger senbei, rice porridge senbei, kuruma prawn senbei

The additional hearty course is a dish meant to be enjoyed with a drink partway through the course. This time, I devised a dish using delicious pork…

• ¥870

• Cook time 3 days

Bottarga and cheese sandwich, deep-fried

For the bottarga (karasumi) and cheese sandwich, deep-fried, karasumi is usually paired with something light and refreshing like daikon, but this…

• ¥320

• Cook time 20 min

Manganji pepper stuffed with bottarga and sticky rice

For the Manganji pepper stuffed with bottarga and steamed glutinous rice, delicacies like this also work well as a side dish with a meal, so I mixed…

• ¥140

• Cook time 1 hr

Abalone shiokara, fish roe Matsumae-style pickle, bottarga, squid shiokara variation, salted sea urchin, konowata

Abalone shiokara is a delicacy I learned from the first head chef I trained under. I make it by jarring live abalone liver. It has a distinctive…

• ¥1,500

Two Kinds of Garlic Chives and Onogawa Bean Sprouts with Squid-Liver Sauce

For the two kinds of garlic chives and Onogawa bean sprouts with squid-liver sauce, thinning the Japanese common squid liver with the starchy liquid…

• ¥150

• Cook time 1 days

Sweet Shrimp Shiokara, Sweet Shrimp with Fine-Julienned Nagaimo and Root Mitsuba

Salt-fermented sweet shrimp is something people have traditionally made for a long time, I think. For the sweet shrimp with fine-julienned mountain…

• ¥310

• Cook time 3 hr

Fresh Greens Jelly with Sea Bream Roe

For the fresh-greens jelly topped with sea bream roe, I use Otafuku shungiku, though Kyo-shungiku works just as well. The shirako is salt-boiled…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Sliced Abalone with Summer Vegetables in Abalone-Liver Sauce

For the sliced abalone with summer vegetables in abalone-liver sauce, I prepare the abalone by slow-simmering it whole, cut the summer vegetables to…

• ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Hell-pickled blue crab, blue crab roe tossed with sansho leaf

This is blue crab hell pickle. It gets this name because the crab is pickled while still alive. I adapted Korean ganjang-gejang into a Japanese-style…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 days

Fugu shirako soup bowl

This is a winter dish that combines the delicious, rich flavor of pufferfish milt with snow crab, w…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,280

• Cook time 20 min

December sashimi selection: tiger fugu, bluefin tuna, blackthroat seaperch, truffle, finger lime, nori tsukudani

I generously use luxury fresh fish whose umami increases in the cold of winter, plating it in a showy way — mindful of visual impact — without being…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,450

• Cook time 15 min

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

Ezo Abalone and Sesame Tofu with Arima Sansho Shark-Fin Sauce

For the Ezo abalone and sesame tofu with Arima sansho shark-fin sauce, raw abalone has a crisp, springy texture, and cooking it makes it tender, but…

• ¥770

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared Hokkigai and Torigai, New Onion Blancmange, Usui-Mame Surinagashi

For the seared surf clam and cockle, both kinds of shellfish taste sweeter raw, so I lightly smoke them to about a quick-blanch degree to add aroma…

• ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

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

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

Loose-Style Chirashi Sushi with Black Vinegar

For this loose-style chirashi sushi made with black vinegar — black vinegar is good for the body and carries good umami, so I made a sushi vinegar…

• ¥386

• Cook time 2 hr

Green Tea-Roasted Kagoshima Kurobuta

For the green tea-roasted Kagoshima kurobuta, I first sear the pork in a frying pan to give it color, then rub it with Chiran green tea and roast it…

• ¥154

• Cook time 4 hr

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

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

Deep-Fried Amberjack

For the deep-fried kanpachi (amberjack), I lightly salt the kanpachi, coat it in potato starch, and deep-fry it. In place of the lemon-soy sauce…

• ¥355

• Cook time 10 min

Seared Kanpachi, Lemon-Flavored

For the Seared Amberjack, Lemon-Flavored, in order to let guests enjoy amberjack alongside sour pomelo, we brushed on the liquid formed as rock salt…

• ¥274

• Cook time 15 min

Kagoshima kurobuta pork and snap pea, ginger-flavored, kombu-cured amberjack, green tea shinjo skewer, baby shrimp, baby turban shell with herbs, mallet-rolled kokanee salmon, young rakkyo prosciutto roll

Kagoshima Kurobuta Pork and Snap Pea, Ginger-Flavored is made by rolling snap peas in Kagoshima kurobuta pork as a vegetable-in-meat roll and…

• ¥606

• Cook time 1 hr

Green Tea-Style Soup

For the Green Tea-Style Soup, we used Chiran tea from Kagoshima in place of a clear soup. The garnish is dried chicken tenderloin and knotted kombu…

• ¥16

• Cook time 10 min