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White sesame mizu-yokan (fig purée, strained red bean paste, kuzu-starch noodles, toasted sesame)

This confectionery technique is one I learned from Mr. Oguma, who has looked after me since I was young. It was a mizu-yokan (a chilled, lightly set…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

Layered Ayu and Eggplant, Uruka Red Wine Sauce

At Amanemu, where I work, we have many guests from overseas, so I devised this dish with them in mind. Sweetfish, a summer ingredient, is typically…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Giant Pacific octopus grilled and steeped in dashi

This is an appetizer built around the theme of new ways of serving seafood. For the Giant Pacific Octopus Yaki-hitashi, octopus is usually served as…

• Serves 1 · ¥460

• Cook time 1 hr

Freshly Made Sesame Tofu, Sea Urchin, Kombu-Water Jelly Broth

We insist on sesame that's 'freshly toasted, freshly pressed' and tofu that's 'freshly kneaded': we knead it fresh every day, one hour before…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Isaki Deep-Fried with Ume Vinegar

Isaki (threeline grunt) deep-fried with ume vinegar is a fried dish for the height of summer, so I finished it with ume vinegar for a refreshing…

• ¥365

• Cook time 1 hr

Soba Canapé Style

As for Soba Canapé Style, since a lot of meat scraped from the bones after filleting and similar scraps come out of preparing fish, I steam it, flake…

• Serves 1 · ¥172

• Cook time 30 min

Deep-fried somen, salad-style (dried baby sardines, mizuna, daikon, young myoga, shiso, micro tomato, baby leaf greens, olive oil)

For the sōmen dashi, we add a few drops of olive oil for fragrance. This also has the effect of rounding off the sharp edges of the dashi's flavor…

New-season Pacific saury dragon-skin roll sushi, white taro stem, seared and shredded dried sea cucumber roe, fig with white vinegar dressing, new-season ginkgo nuts in the shell, salt-roasted, pureed chamame soybean soup

This is the appetizer course. The plate is an unglazed, high-fired yakishime dish by Rosanjin. The white taro stem is boiled with grated daikon and…

Shisen Cucumber and Aji Kinuta-Maki

I made this a dish where you can enjoy horse mackerel, which reaches its peak deliciousness in summer, together with crunchy Sichuan cucumber, in a…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Edamame Tofu, Corn Surinagashi, Abalone Steamed with Sake, Kuruma Prawn

Wanting guests to enjoy the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a variety of soup courses, I made this dish using summer vegetables just…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Seared Ayu Sushi

I thought of sweetfish, a local Kanagawa ingredient in early summer. I filleted it, salted it light…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 20 min

Rice, Rice, Rice

Rice is an inseparable presence in Japanese cuisine, so as a chef standing in a position connecting producers and consumers, I created this dish with…

• Serves 2 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Aromatic Steamed Eel with Rice Oil

I've approached umami as richness = fat, for a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of ingredients. The steamed dish is…

• ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Beef Low-Temperature Grilled in Charcoal Oil

I made two charcoal oils: sawdust charcoal oil and binchotan oil. For both, heat the charcoal until red-hot on the stove burner, drop it into…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Kisu Grilled with Kabusecha

For Japanese whiting grilled with kabusecha, a shade-grown green tea, since I'm from Shizuoka and tea-based cooking is a specialty of mine, I used…

• ¥800

• Cook time 50 min

Chilled savory black tea water-bead jelly

A tea's flavor matters, but I think its aroma is one of the great pleasures too, and with the idea that a variety of aromas can be enjoyed through…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• 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

Fermented sea bass, grilled in tade oil — from 'Japanese Cuisine Rakushi' in Yokohama, Kanagawa

Hishio has less salt than soy sauce, and this time I use it to season the dressed vegetables. I also make amazake, a sweet fermented rice drink, two…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Seared pike conger, hidden-plum style, Kyoto eggplant, cowpea, end-of-season red Manganji pepper, green yuzu

Tags & categories related to this post : June, July, August, September, striking, elegant, light and refreshing, kaiseki cuisine, lingering…

Roasted Joshu Beef, Grilled Fig and Cheese

This is the grilled course. The roasted Joshu beef with chocolate-miso sauce was devised on the idea that combining the mellowness of miso with the…

• ¥637

• Cook time 1 hr

Japanese-Style Roast Beef

This time it is the additional course. For the Japanese-style roast beef, since many of our guests prefer red, lean meat, this time we use the inner…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Omi beef fillet, silver duck miso, truffle

This is the grilled course. For the vessel, I use a teaburi (charcoal hand-warmer brazier) made by Eiraku Zengorō. Unlike the portable charcoal grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 40 min

Oil-Steamed Sea Bass

This is a steamed course, designed with couples in their fifties and sixties in mind. For the oil-steamed sea bass, since sea bass has little fat and…

• ¥500

• Cook time 50 min

Kisu and Summer Vegetable Kakiage, and Kisu Hasami-Age

For the whiting and summer vegetable kakiage, I wanted to bring out the natural umami of the whiting, so I combined it with shiso, myoga, and corn —…

• ¥560

• Cook time 30 min