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Tomato in aromatic marinade

This is the tomato in aromatic marinade we make at Yonemura, where I work. We char bell peppers well over charcoal until the skin turns completely…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Malabar spinach and chrysanthemum, blanched in dashi (white eggplant, scallop cream sauce, okra blanched in dashi)

Malabar spinach is a summer vegetable that's highly nutritious and has a bit of natural stickiness. As autumn approaches, the stems grow tough, so…

Pike conger and shrimp Yoshino-ni, furofuki winter melon

The hamo (pike conger) and shrimp yoshino-ni is a dish where each ingredient's flavor layers with the eggplant and corn, so every individual taste…

• ¥695

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo eggplant pureed soup

This dish uses no seasonings whatsoever. I thought that if a cook can draw out an ingredient's own character — its five tastes and aroma — to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥482

• Cook time 40 min

Filet Truffle Sukiyaki

This is Obune's signature truffle sukiyaki. This time I wanted the finish to be light and refreshing, so I used filet. I've prepared a special…

Shironasu and Fig Dengaku

White eggplant, despite its appearance, has a surprisingly firm skin, yet inside it's meltingly soft, and it's characterized by a stronger flavor…

Sake Lees Risotto

This is a sake lees risotto, devised as a dish that is easy to eat even during the season when the summer heat leaves the body fatigued. Here, we…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 50 min

Awaji beef, curry-spiced simmer

Awaji Beef Indo-ni (curry-spiced simmer) cooks the Awaji beef slowly at low temperature, leaving it moist and tender while deepening its umami. The…

• Serves 1 · ¥730

• Cook time 2 hr

Milk-Washed Punch

This is the sweet course. The Milk-Washed Punch is cocktail-like work: some guests from overseas like to have a little something to drink at the end…

• Serves 1 · ¥396

• Cook time 1 days

Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Roe-bearing sweetfish stuffed and steamed, water pepper, fish-bone crackers, lotus root

For the additional course, rather than the standard grilled preparation, I bone the sweetfish, restuff it with lotus root, and steam it back into its…

• Serves 1 · ¥865

• Cook time 15 min

Deep-sea snapper kenchin-style grilled, sweetfish grilled with water pepper leaf, pike conger grilled with plum-scented meringue, scallop and sea urchin grilled, king oyster mushroom wrapped in pork

This is the grilled course. For the onagadai kenchin-style grilled, rinse the onagadai, butterfly it open, salt it, and marinate it in light soy…

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

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

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…

Akamachi Steamed with Awamori

For the prized Okinawan deep-sea snapper steamed with awamori, an Okinawan distilled spirit, the key is not to over-steam it. It's a delicately…

• ¥550

• Cook time 1 min

Awaji onion and winter melon pureed potage

Because Awaji Island blooms with flowers through all four seasons and is known as the ‘Island of Flowers,’ I am mindful of how to make use of…

• Serves 1 · ¥787

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Seared and Smoked Beef Tataki, Finished with Gyūbishio

Wanting to create an interesting soy sauce, I devised a "beef soy sauce" (gyūbishio) made using beef. Beef is said to be the meat that pairs with red…

• Serves 1 · ¥726

• Cook time 45 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