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Abalone with liver soy sauce, chamame beans simmered with sansho, bottarga sushi, vinegar-pickled myoga, kuruma prawn tofuyo-style, tonburi, Kaga lotus root with pike conger roe, layered chrysanthemum petals

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Hakata Wagyu Sukiyaki Rice Bowl

This time, we developed a dish featuring Hakata wagyu. For the sukiyaki rice bowl, mindful of the time between cooking and serving, we use rib roast…

• Serves 2 · ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Blanched pike conger, fried in batter, matsutake, fig, shuto cheese

The shuto cheese served alongside the fried dish is made by adding sake to bonito shuto to draw out a stock, straining it, then adding egg yolk and…

Two-topping deep-fried shrimp shinjo (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is a shrimp shinjo — a fish-paste dumpling — prepared futami-age style, fried two different ways. Here, I used Suzuhiro Kamaboko's "all-purpose…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 min

Whole dried blackthroat seaperch, autumn miso yuzu-scented grilled, low-temperature roasted Daisen free-range chicken with yuzu kosho, freshly rolled dashi-maki tamago, tinted grated daikon, kombu, mentaiko

This is from our breakfast menu. The grilled fish is changed with the seasons to whatever is delicious at the time, and the dashi-maki omelet is…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 20 min

Charcoal-Grilled Hida Beef, with Grilled Mushroom Thickened Sauce

For the charcoal grilled Hida beef, we take a lean cut of meat called "togarashi," which is soaked …

Reishi sea snail fried in egg yolk batter, tomato deep-fried in white batter, stuffed hollow burdock

This is a fried course. For the Reishi sea snail fried in egg-yolk batter, I deep-fried the sea snail in a batter of rooibos tea, egg yolk, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Dessert (three persimmon preparations): persimmon mousse, persimmon compote, persimmon ice cream

Our guests are mostly somewhat older women visiting on pilgrimage during the day, and business parties such as client entertaining in the evening…

Ise lobster shell-simmered, turnip sauce, bottarga kōsen

For the additional course, I use a whole Ise lobster, gorgeously and extravagantly. I express the image of 'brocade autumn' -- yellow maple leaves…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,020

• Cook time 20 min

Autumn Raw Seafood Hassun

The dry-ice presentation contributes to the excitement of the banquet.

Yakuzen salmon, sake-lees grilled, with moistening shira-ae (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by yakuzen specialist Ms. Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that sparked my interest…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 35 min

Brandy-Steeped Grilled Persimmon

This is the fresh-fruit dessert (mizugashi) course. For the Brandy-Steeped Grilled Persimmon, grilling the persimmon brings out more sweetness and…

• Serves 4 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Dried purslane simmered with mixed vegetables (Yamagata Prefecture)

This is the first course. This purslane dish, hyo-boshi gomoku-ni, is one of the local dishes handed down in the Murayama region of Yamagata…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 40 min

Soft-shell turtle broth

Suppon broth is well received in September, when the summer heat is easing but the lingering warmth still leaves the body tired. We break down the…

• Serves 20 · ¥345

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn-leaf assortment: pine-cone-grilled tilefish, chestnut, ginkgo nuts on a pine-needle skewer, eggplant dengaku, baby taro steamed in its skin, Fushimi pepper grilled and dashi-steeped, maple-leaf wheat gluten, sweet potato chips, lotus root chips, sudachi

At our restaurant, Nihombashi Oikawa, we're mindful of theater and presentation in front of the guest, offering a comprehensive dining experience…

• ¥8,000

• Cook time 30 min

Fried Hamo and Shark Fin, White Miso Stew

This time I thought I'd try using shark fin. Shark fin is a signature ingredient of Chinese cuisine, and I think people picture dishes with a color…

• Serves 4 · ¥480

• Cook time 35 min

Sushi, sushi, sushi, sushi — the incoming boat, the outgoing boat

As an innovation for the rice course, I devised this from chirashi-zushi. Between layers of sushi rice, I press in dry-roasted items — dry-scrambled…

• Serves 4 · ¥12,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Oyster lightly salted then sun-dried

The deep-fried dish is overnight-dried oyster. We rarely used to use oysters in the past, but advances in fisheries technology have made it possible…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 20 min

Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, Deep-Fried in Mochi-Rice Batter

For Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, since the crab's umami grows weaker in its nagori period — the last-of-the-season stretch — I thought it would work…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish grilled with three flavors, hairy crab, late-season matsutake wrapped in Joshu pork, Joshu pork spare ribs, Joshu pork heart and liver

For the grilled course, I tried smoke-grilling using an Iga-nabe (Iga pot). This Iga-nabe has a distinctive shape and a very strong far-infrared…

Shark fin and fish-paste dumpling, rolled in yuba — crab-and-chrysanthemum thin kuzu sauce, saimaki prawn, carrot, ginkgo-leaf cut, wood ear mushroom

When boiling the chrysanthemum petals, we add a very small amount of vinegar to stop discoloration and keep the color vivid. We bring out the ginkgo…

Enoki mushroom, seasoned and simmered

This is a dish under the theme of traditional heritage cuisine. Lately there has been less work involving the simmering station, so I'd like to focus…

• Serves 1 · ¥40

• Cook time 1 hr