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Whale and mizuna hot pot, head meat, prized tail-fin fat, whale belly skin

This is a small hot pot. For the harihari nabe, I use head meat with a little marbling in it; this meat is also delicious done as sukiyaki. The white…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 30 min

Red Meat and Asparagus Roll, Stuffed Shiitake

This is the deep-fried course. For the red meat and asparagus roll, I marinate cut red meat in the same whale marinade as before. For tatsuta-age…

• ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Whale belly cut in sweet-savory simmer

This is a simmered dish. Rather than red meat, I make it with unesu, the cut normally used for bacon. With bacon, it's common to remove the skin…

• ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Whale red meat, grilled with golden egg yolk

This is the grilled course. The marinade for the whale red meat used in the golden-glazed grilling combines dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, mirin…

• ¥2,000

• Cook time 2 hr

New Year's mochi soup

This is the clear-soup course. With whale, the difficulty lies in how to rehydrate it and how to remove its odor. I take a block of whale hongawa…

• ¥700

• Cook time 3 hr

Whale belly cut and Japanese parsley, sesame-dressed

This is a small side dish. The unesu used in the unesu and nagaseri sesame dressing is the cut spanning from the jaw to the belly. I use it salted…

• ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Omi beef, sea urchin, and bamboo shoot roll, grilled, topped with the aroma of sansho flower

The harmony of aromas conducted on the iron griddle is outstanding. Ōmi beef with just the right marbling, bamboo shoot wrapped in the flavor of…

Grilled firefly squid with white asparagus, fiddlehead fern, and egg-yolk shuto vinegar

This is a warm vinegared dish prepared on the iron griddle. We bring out the umami of spring's seasonal ingredients by steaming them with a seared…

Burdock and shrimp shinjo stuffed with shark fin in thickened sauce, fan-cut Miura daikon, pinecone-cut arrowhead bulb, plum-cut carrot, frost-simmered flower-bud greens

This is a simmered assortment. For the burdock and shrimp shinjo stuffed with shark fin in thickened sauce, since I wanted to express a strong plant…

• ¥5,370

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-Fried Oysters, Novelty Style; New Bamboo Shoot Wrapped in Prosciutto

• ¥5,040

• Cook time 1 hr

Snow-Viewing Presentation, Tilefish Wrapped in Sea Urchin, Sesame Tofu

For the tilefish wrapped in sea urchin, I normally avoid using bracken-starch mochi at exhibitions, since it hardens and loses its clarity over time…

• ¥5,640

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon milt in dressing, colorful namasu, kumquat cream, folded egg dish, herring roe on kelp in sake lees marinade, fertility-motif shrimp, snow-ring lotus root, cod roe sushi, monkfish deep-fried in soba-flake coating, foie gras steamed in egg custard

For the salmon milt in dressing, since some guests dislike the fishy smell of milt, I aimed to remove that smell while keeping its creaminess, and to…

Salmon Roe Marinated in Soy Sauce

This is the rice course. Our restaurant usually serves tai chazuke, but since we use a lot of sea bream in the grilled and sashimi courses, I chose…

Simmered Assortment

This is a simmered assortment. For the ebi-imo (a shrimp-shaped taro), I peel it thickly and simmer it directly, without pre-boiling, in a mixture of…

• ¥570

• Cook time 30 min

Raising the Added Value of Ingredients

We add value to ingredients rarely used in high-end dining and develop dishes that can be served at fine restaurants without any sense of compromise…

Baby Sea Bream Yuan-Yaki

This is the grilled course. For the baby sea bream yuan-yaki, I source small sea bream of about 150 to 180 grams each, scale them, and use split…

• ¥570

• Cook time 30 min

Porcini Takikomi Rice

After experimenting with porcini mushrooms in various ways, I found they have a distinctive aroma not found in any Japanese mushroom, and I wondered…

• Serves 3 · ¥380

• Cook time 35 min

Porcini Mushroom Chawanmushi

I was taught that porcini mushrooms differ in texture and flavor depending on the part, so I put the crisp, crunchy stem into the savory steamed egg…

• Serves 6 · ¥895

• Cook time 3 hr

The Potential of Porcini Mushrooms in Japanese Cuisine

Porcini mushrooms are a popular ingredient in Western cooking. Can this fragrant mushroom also be used to create new dishes in Japanese cuisine? Two…

White Miso Style

This is the simmered-dish soup course. Since it's the New Year, I've made it in a white miso style. The fugu milt is skewered and grilled. The…

• ¥1,850

• Cook time 30 min

Herring roe marinated in miso, flounder rolled in sweet rice paste and kelp, dried sea-cucumber ovary, pinecone-scored small abalone, bottarga and daikon, black soybean on pine-needle skewers, daikon and dried persimmon namasu

For the herring roe miso-marinated, I salt the herring roe, remove the salt, then marinate it for about 2 days in whole-bean miso with mirin and…

• ¥1,850

• Cook time 30 min

Monkfish liver rolled like folded paper, quick-blanched crab claw, crab roe with sea urchin, raw cod roe simmered to infuse flavor, snow-ring lotus root vinegar pickle, served in a hollowed yuzu shell

The monkfish liver hosho-maki is a longstanding technique, but I thought pairing it would let guests enjoy not only its rich umami but also the…

• ¥430

• Cook time 20 min

Fuku deep-fried in egg-yolk batter, clam deep-fried in a freshly milled rice-flour coating, black soybean deep-fried in a fawn-spotted coating

This is the deep-fried course. For the fuku deep-fried in egg-yolk batter, since it's the New Year I call the fugu "fuku" — a play on the word for…

• ¥560

• Cook time 20 min

Splendid alfonsino grilled with shio-koji, layered with plum-blossom sheet sake lees, plum-flavored egg, shrimp-shaped taro in a plum-crest bowl

For the kinmedai grilled with shio-koji, I tried to plate it with a sense of dimension. Marinating and grilling it in Saikyo miso tends to make the…

• ¥750

• Cook time 20 min