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Fermented sea bass, grilled in tade oil — from 'Japanese Cuisine Rakushi' in Yokohama, Kanagawa

Hishio has less salt than soy sauce, and this time I use it to season the dressed vegetables. I also make amazake, a sweet fermented rice drink, two…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Seared pike conger, hidden-plum style, Kyoto eggplant, cowpea, end-of-season red Manganji pepper, green yuzu

Tags & categories related to this post : June, July, August, September, striking, elegant, light and refreshing, kaiseki cuisine, lingering…

Roasted Joshu Beef, Grilled Fig and Cheese

This is the grilled course. The roasted Joshu beef with chocolate-miso sauce was devised on the idea that combining the mellowness of miso with the…

• ¥637

• Cook time 1 hr

Eggplant, Turnip, Lotus Root Dumpling, Tomato, Green Beans

This is a simmered dish, prepared as a chilled version. I score the eggplant in a bellows pattern, then soak it for a while in alum water with Bon…

• ¥250

• Cook time 50 min

Japanese-Style Roast Beef

This time it is the additional course. For the Japanese-style roast beef, since many of our guests prefer red, lean meat, this time we use the inner…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 3 hr

Omi beef fillet, silver duck miso, truffle

This is the grilled course. For the vessel, I use a teaburi (charcoal hand-warmer brazier) made by Eiraku Zengorō. Unlike the portable charcoal grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 40 min

Oil-Steamed Sea Bass

This is a steamed course, designed with couples in their fifties and sixties in mind. For the oil-steamed sea bass, since sea bass has little fat and…

• ¥500

• Cook time 50 min

Kisu and Summer Vegetable Kakiage, and Kisu Hasami-Age

For the whiting and summer vegetable kakiage, I wanted to bring out the natural umami of the whiting, so I combined it with shiso, myoga, and corn —…

• ¥560

• Cook time 30 min

Edamame Surinagashi

This chilled pureed soup uses summer edamame, its dashi base rounded out with consommé, milk, and fresh cream. The threeline grunt is salted, dusted…

• ¥420

• Cook time 30 min

Scallop and Broccoli Cool-Breeze Jelly, Giant Pacific Octopus with Plum and Wasabi, Grilled Ayu with Uruka, Eel Wrapped in Manganji Pepper, Mustard-Stuffed Lotus Root

For the cool-accented scallop and broccoli cool-breeze jelly, the scallop sits at the very bottom. Wash the scallop adductor muscles well in a…

Blanched pike conger with amanatsu-jasmine-tea vinegar gelée

This is a piece of Japanese cuisine built around white tea. (Reference: white tea, Jasmine Silver Needle, 50 g: ¥1,836.) This is a tomezakana, a late…

• Serves 1 · ¥455

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Yōrō-Dōfu

A dish perfectly suited for welcoming guests during the hot season.

Isaki and Tomato Aspic

This is an appetizer course. For the isaki and tomato aspic, when making the tomato tofu, the tomato is seeded and blended, then — without squeezing…

• ¥480

• Cook time 40 min

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

Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style

For Domyoji-Wrapped Scallop, Sarashina-Style, I use two kinds of dashi: the soaking liquid from dried scallops and chicken dashi. I add roasted…

• Serves 1 · ¥553

• Cook time 30 min

Abalone Somen

Served coolly in a glass vessel.

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

Eel and Agedashi Tofu

It's important to time the eel's grilling to finish together with the tofu's frying, so guests can enjoy the exquisite tenderness of both the tofu…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 25 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…

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