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Tomato chakin bundle filled with rich cream, sweet potato morning-glory-shaped dumpling, eel yawata-maki, chilled duck with decorative garnish, physalis egg, seared barracuda sushi, sweetfish grilled with tade

This is the appetizer course. As for the tomato in a rich custard bundle — 'aka-nasu,' literally 'red eggplant,' is the term used here for tomato…

Eel steamed with lotus root

This is a steamed dish. June is the season when lotus root is at its best, so we steamed it together with eggplant and eel, which pair well with it…

Deep-Fried Conger Eel with Burdock and Yuba

The fried course is deep-fried conger eel with burdock and yuba. I cut the burdock, bake it dry in a convection oven, wrap yuba and conger eel inside…

Cloudy duck nanban

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Yuzu-shell grilled dish, carrot castella, pine-needle-skewered ginkgo nuts, yellowtail wrapped in daikon and grilled, simmered abalone

The appetizer course is plated in the same dish as the grilled course, each item served separately. For the yuzu-shell grilled dish: the milt is…

Grilled Daifuku with Strawberry Sauce, Candied Wheel-Shaped Wheat Gluten

Bracken fern wrapped in Japanese halfbeak, and kombu-cured halfbeak

For the appetizer course — warabi wrapped in halfbeak and halfbeak kombu-jime — we butterfly the halfbeak and wrap the warabi in it, but because…

Potato Kuwayaki — with Tanna Foie Gras Cream —

My hometown is Kannami, a town next to Atami, which includes the Tanna area, known for its thriving dairy farming, so I wanted to spotlight the milk…

• Serves 1 · ¥487

• Cook time 40 min

Plain-grilled moray eel, Arima-style moray eel

"Nadabo" is fishermen's slang for moray eel. In Kochi Prefecture it's a high-end ingredient, but in Tokyo it's almost never seen at market. I was…

• Serves 3 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Venison Corned Beef

Crop damage from deer and wild boar is a problem nationwide. I devised a summery dish that lets people enjoy venison, sourcing it this time from…

Suppon and Napa Cabbage Takiawase

You can savor a rich, deeply flavored softshell turtle dashi, drawn out by slow-simmering it in sake, along with the sweetness and silky, melting…

• Serves 20 · ¥500

• Cook time 2 hr

The ultimate sea squirt, crisp-fried in light white batter

This is a fried dish devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. The concept is 'innovative.' Sea squirt, a specialty product of coastal…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Asari clams and spring daikon, simmered and steeped

The asari clams and spring daikon simmered and steeped is a dish devised with inspiration from a dish by my mentor, Rokusaburo Michiba. Using the…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam shinjo

Autumn Brocade Sashimi

This is an o-tsukuri, sashimi course, whose presentation and manner of serving I have worked to refine. I used an enzyme called transglutaminase…

• Serves 1 · ¥658

• Cook time 3 hr

Bear Meat

Bear meat is considered the finest among the meats taken in the mountains. I think there's an image of it having a strong gamey smell, but whether…

Ezo abalone simmered with sansho pepper, Yamashina eggplant and toji-style yuba, both slow-simmered to soak in flavor

This is the entrusted-bowl course. As for the Ezo abalone simmered with sansho pepper, ordinarily green sansho peppercorns are used, but at my…

Scents of home — sa-ku-ra shrimp

A fresh exploration of aroma: ‘a quartet of sakura shrimp, played through the layering of four forms.’ The idea began when I caught the scent of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 25 min

Koshu Wagyu Beef Wasabi Roll

• ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail

This is the vinegared dish course. For the minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail, mozuku is placed inside, a bonito-flavored vinegar is softly set…

• ¥1,350

• Cook time 1 hr

Hiryozu and herring simmered in a rich sweet sauce

This is the simmered course. When deep-frying tofu fritters, putting three or four pieces into the pot at once causes them to stick together and…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 12 hr

Konowata Tofu, Grilled Fig, Late-Season Deboned Pike Conger Kombu-Cured, Smoked Salmon and Fresh Soy-Milk-Skin Naruto Roll

For the konowata (salted sea cucumber intestines) tofu, mountain yam is combined with konowata and set with kuzu starch. It is garnished with…

• Serves 80 · ¥600

• Cook time 10 min

Winter Solstice Bath

This is the additional hearty course. Since it's December, I've titled this "Winter Solstice Bath" and prepared simmered tofu in a bath-shaped…

Julienned vegetable clear soup with mitsuba, udo, shiitake, bamboo shoot, pork back fat, and pepper

For the vegetables in sawani-wan, adding them in order starting with the ones that take longest to cook gives the dish a better balance of textures.