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Softshell Turtle and Lotus Root Shinjo

The softshell turtle's simmering liquid is drawn out with sake and water for 30 minutes, skimming off the scum as it goes, then seasoning is added…

• Serves 20 · ¥6,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel Hot Pot

Throughout the year, our restaurant serves a hot-pot-style dish within the tasting menu that focuses on seasonal ingredients. This time it's a hot…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Barracuda grilled Matsumae-style, abalone dressed with liver, shrimp in crystal aspic, duck steamed in wine, goldfish-shaped rice-flour dumplings, chilled asparagus garnish, watermelon and small melon

This is the appetizer course for a summer set menu. For the Abalone Liver Ae, after cleaning the abalone, I gently simmer it in the shell. I press…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,050

• Cook time 2 hr

Roasted Hakata Wagyu

What I look for in beef is that the meat itself has a firm sense of umami. For the roasted Hakata wagyu served this time, we used rump meat, cooking…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 3 hr

Jumbo Kuruma Prawn, Shark Fin

This is kuruma prawn tempura, but the jumbo kuruma prawn is served fried to about a half-cooked doneness, not quite fully cooked through, and I've…

• Cook time 10 min

Herring and eggplant

Herring and eggplant is a classic summer combination in Kyoto. I finish it thoroughly and carefully, without trying anything gimmicky. In particular…

• Serves 6 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 50 min

Corn pureed soup, grilled mochi, quail anpei, thinned mustard

This time, on the 'soup-bowl course,' I learned from technical director Katō (Meguro Gajoen). This time I take up 'surinagashi.'

Wasabi and Cheese Dressing, Odawara Cassata

Two small-bowl dishes built around regional ingredients. For ‘Odawara Cassata,’ I took cassata, the traditional Sicilian sweet, and made it in the…

• Serves 1 · ¥360

• Cook time 2 days

Hamo Abura-Shimo Sashimi, Water Spinach, and Powdered Soy Sauce

As a way of serving seafood, I devised a new combination of refreshingly summery aromas, flavors, and ingredients. Also, thinking of umami's richness…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Ayu Nibitashi Spring Roll

Gently simmering ingredients in a seasoned broth is a technique with a long history, and I think it makes a very delicious dish that many people…

• Serves 10 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 3 hr

Abalone Shabu-Shabu, 'Shuto Sauce,' 'Liver Soy Sauce'

By slicing the abalone extremely thin and preparing it shabu-shabu style, heat is added in a way that increases the original texture and umami…

Wagyu grilled with miso

From the summer course menu, this is the wagyu miso hot pot (gyū-nabe). We get many overseas guests at our restaurant, and sukiyaki is often…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 2 hr

Joshu Black Wagyu Low-Temperature Roast Beef

This is a shiizakana, a hearty course. This dish is themed around Gunma Prefecture's Tomioka Silk Mill, famous for sericulture. By braiding Joshu…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,120

• Cook time 1 hr

Whole eggplant simmered in broth, topped with yuba sauce

This time, under the theme "Early-Autumn Eggplant Dishes, a Variety," -- eggplant is generally thought of as a summer vegetable, but by presenting it…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Tea-fragrant grilled spiny lobster and abalone, miso-glazed baby eggplant

The grilled dish is 'Tea-Fragrant Grilled Spiny Lobster and Abalone.' I used Darjeeling, known for its pale orange color and fruity aroma…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Abalone shinjo

This is the simmered soup bowl course. The dried sea cucumber ovary isn’t fully dried — it’s more of a half-dried, still somewhat raw state. At the…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Steam-Simmered Taro

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at Yonemura, where I work. Steam-simmered taro is a dish we include in our osechi (New…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 1 weeks

Ayu Namerou with Finger Lime

I devised this dish as a new way of serving seafood. My focus is on a new, refreshingly summery aroma and flavor, and a new combination of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Corn Potage

This is our small team's version of work that would normally take 300 to 400 covers, done amid a labor shortage, rising food costs, and working-hour…

• Serves 5 · ¥620

• Cook time 20 min

Suppon rice-flour dumpling in julienned-vegetable broth

This is 'Shiratama Dumpling in Sawani-Style Broth.' I wanted to express the aroma of July's seasonal ingredients through a soup course. After the…

• Serves 1 · ¥375

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed Chicken with Nametake Sauce

At our membership-based restaurants, I make a sample using ingredients that can be reliably obtained, and have each restaurant prepare it themselves…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Spring turnip and Date chicken wings takiawase

As May approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Tomato, cheese, and baby sardine salad

Under the theme of heritage dishes. I previously introduced "chirimen sansho simmer," and this is a dish that makes use of it. Here it is finished…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 15 min

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr