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Lily Bulb Manjū with Suppon Poured In, Chrysanthemum-Style, Plum Flesh

For the simmered-soup course, the softshell turtle lily bulb manjū gets a chewy texture and more substance by adding a little mochi flour to the lily…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 10 min

Pike conger eel wakasa-yaki

Next is a soup course. For the hamo wakasa-yaki, when grilling the hamo, I dust it lightly with potato starch before grilling. Adding the potato…

• ¥25,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring greens and firefly squid

We value the green fragrance and refreshing texture of the wild mountain vegetables.

Jade-simmered eggplant with beef jibu-ni, topped with an aromatic sesame sauce

For the eggplant, we poke a hole through the center of the flesh with chopsticks so the oil can reach all the way through, and cook it while turning…

Autumn Truffle and Foie Gras Soba

No matter how well soba is kneaded, it has no fat, so when people want more umami, there's a tendency to pair it with tempura, fried tofu, and the…

Crab Miso Gratin

For the red snow crab gratin, I combine rustic country miso and white miso, and add crab miso — the crab's own tomalley — to finish a richly flavored…

• Serves 10 · ¥151

• Cook time 50 min

Wagyu Lean-Meat Namerō

This is a dish perfect alongside a drink, its summery, colorful use of a Japanese-style salsa sauce stirring the appetite. So guests can tell what's…

Year-End Tsugani Soba

This is the noodle course from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Year-End Tsugani Soba is a richly flavorful dish that uses the whole of the tsugani — a…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style

This time I'll introduce a dish made with buckwheat flour: Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style. Gozen soba, a refined, fine-milled soba, won't hold together…

• Serves 1 · ¥565

• Cook time 10 min

Spanish Mackerel Yuan-Yaki, A New Twist

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…

Matsusaka beef, hot-water rinsed, with spring truffle (bianchetto), egg, mountain udo, angelica shoot, and Kyoto Kujō scallion

Since our restaurant handles Matsusaka beef of world-class quality, we think every day about how best to draw out its deliciousness — which…

Shirokane Pork and Apple, Steamed

Wanting to use a seasonal fruit, I experimented and came up with the idea of pairing pork's umami with apple, to see whether I could create a new…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Keiju egg mousse, sea urchin, shrimp with savory dashi sauce and wasabi

This is a signature dish of sorts at our restaurant, served year-round and well received by guests. The eggs we use are called Keiju-tamago, produced…

• Serves 20 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Kansai-style seasoned rice with salted pork, onion, tomato, Usui pea, baby corn, shiitake, and fried scallion

Kayaku gohan is written as "kayaku" and originally refers to supplementary medicines added to enhan…

Mushroom shira-ae, sweetfish oil-steamed, shrimp kimi-zushi, abalone sansho-ni, apricot naruto, kazunoko-konbu kan, ginkgo tamago

This is an appetizer course. Since it's a September menu, I plated it in a round silver vessel meant to evoke the moon. For the mushroom shira-ae, I…

• ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish in bancha tea

The sound at the moment the dashi is poured in stirs the appetite.

Soba shinjo, quail dumplings, late-season matsutake

This is the soup course. The soba shinjo uses soba, mochi flour, and Japanese mountain yam, so it uses every part that makes up the character for…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Hand-lifted yuba steamed with sea cucumber intestines, grilled eggplant with sesame cream, roe-bearing sweetfish simmered kurama-style, sweet shrimp marinated in Shaoxing wine, thick rolled omelet, sea bream and chrysanthemum sushi, autumn assortment, swimming crab and chrysanthemum salad

Under the theme 'Colors of the Month of Autumn Showers,' we begin with the appetizers. For the grilled eggplant with sesame cream, I make a base from…

Kuruma prawn in a white miso broth, new-potato mochi spiral roll, burdock, bracken fern, bamboo shoot, slender daikon, butterbur sprout, bottarga

Shiro-miso-jitate refers to a clear-soup course with a slightly stronger sweetness, finished with a larger measure of white miso such as Saikyo miso…

Tilefish and karasumi clear-soup, finished with more karasumi and a yuzu crowning garnish

The balance between the saltiness of the karasumi and the flavor of the tilefish is superb.

Butter tea tofu — ice-cellar style

This is an appetizer course from a set of Japanese dishes built around black tea. (Black tea, 50 g: ¥1,200.) I made 'butter tea,' as drunk in Tibet…

• Serves 9 · ¥40

• Cook time 40 min

Fish somen made with all-purpose surimi powder

This time, I thought about how Suzuhiro Kamaboko Co., Ltd.'s "All-Purpose Surimi Powder" — I'll call it "surimi powder" from here on — could be put…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 15 min

Salt-cured yellowtail and daikon, oil-simmered abalone, maple-leaf carrot, fallen-leaf mushroom, green garnish, finely shredded ginger, pine-needle-cut yuzu, a thickened sauce from its own broth

For the salt-buri daikon, salting the yellowtail heavily and letting it rest overnight draws out excess moisture from the flesh, removing off-odors…

• ¥950

• Cook time 5 hr

Salt-fermented fugu milt, monkfish liver and yuzu achara-style pickle roll, pine-cone-scored turban shell simmered into a dark, long-cooked glaze, sea urchin-wrapped grilled halfbeak, pond smelt nanban-style soy-pulp salad

Salt-cured, fermented blowfish milt: soak the milt in a salt-water brine to draw out the blood, peel off the thin membrane, salt it firmly, and rest…