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Kaikyo Salmon Kenchin Roll

This is the Kaikyo Salmon Kenchin Roll. First, press pressed tofu through a fine sieve. For one block of tofu, add 10g potato starch, one egg white…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Silky fugu milt, spring-herb style

This is the clear-soup course. The silky fugu milt in shunsō-jitate style is also made sous-vide: the fugu milt is placed in kombu dashi and steamed…

• ¥2,800

• Cook time 2 hr

Turnip simmered in dashi, zenmai wrapped in yuba, Simmered Hakata-style freeze-dried tofu, candied sweet potato, tube-cut burdock root, maple-leaf carrot, green beans

This is a course of assorted simmered vegetables. For the turnip simmered in dashi, the turnip is cooked in a mixture of bonito dashi, salt, white…

Sakura okra jelly terrine, checkerboard Agu pork, twisted-rein sushi with ruby snapper and bitter melon, and more

For the sakura okra jelly terrine, gelatin is bloomed for about 15 minutes and seasoned with sake, light soy sauce, and mirin; about 400cc is warmed…

Kindling-style grilled potato, sandwich-grilled deep-fried tofu, and yam bulbils grilled with miso glaze spilling over the dish, and more

This is the second tier. For the deep-fried tofu sandwich-grilled dish, since it's a shojin (Buddhist vegetarian) dish, the white part of the maitake…

Ginkgo Nut Tofu

Calico-patterned tofu, avocado dumpling, duck and scallion, yuba, snap peas

The simmered course's sarasa-dofu is made by heating tofu that has been simmered to absorb flavor, breaking it apart while mixing in the other…

Ball-shaped fritters with carrot, Japanese trefoil, and sakura shrimp, vinegar-cured barracuda deep-fried in a lattice of dried noodle strands, colorful fritter of long hijiki seaweed

This is the fried course. Frying the temari-age so it puffs up light and airy with air trapped inside takes skill, but if you fixate on getting a…

Shingoro, Okoge-Style, with Kozuyu Sauce

This is a modern arrangement of the Fukushima local dishes shingoro (a rice cake glazed with egoma, or perilla) and kozuyu (a dish simmered in dried…

• Serves 1 · ¥140

• Cook time 2 hr

Sake-Simmered Kinki, Simmered Egg, Chrysanthemum-Cut Daikon, Shrimp Layered with Fish Paste, Tube-Cut Burdock, Chrysanthemum-Leaf Winter Melon, Deep-Fried Marinated Autumn Eggplant, Maple-Leaf Carrot, Mini Daikon

This is an assorted simmered dish course. For the sake-simmered thornyhead rockfish, the fish is first plain-grilled, then simmered in kombu, sake…

Winter Solstice Kabocha Manju

This is the steamed course. For the winter solstice kabocha-squash manju, in keeping with the winter solstice custom I fill it with ingredients whose…

Tilefish grilled, wrapped in yuba with kenchin-style vegetables, end-of-season matsutake

This is the grilled course. For the tilefish yuba-kenchin grill, kenchin is normally made with tofu, but here we combine mashed, seasoned yuba with…

Abalone Duo, Layered

This is the clear-soup course. The usual method for green plums is to prick them all over with a needle and soak them in salt water, but the key here…

Swimming Crab Shinjo

As for the swimming crab shinjo in the simmered-soup bowl course, to keep a handmade feel we mostly use portions scooped by hand at the restaurant…

Fat greenling grilled with a golden egg-yolk glaze, and more

For the grilled course, the Cantonese-style grilled beef (gyu Kanton-yaki) is a technique we learned from our hotel's Chinese-cuisine chef; since it…

Sweetfish milt in autumn-leaf dressing, persimmon namasu with tofu dressing, and amigasa daikon

For the ayu shirako in autumn-leaf dressing, we desalt the ayu shirako while leaving a little salt in, then steep it in a base of salt-fermented…

Matsusaka beef rare shoulder cut, seared sashimi

This is the sashimi course. Since the restaurant is a steakhouse, I thought the sashimi course, too, should be beef, and designed the menu around…

Maple-hued monkfish-liver tofu with a wasabi-thickened sauce, Izu red-spotted masu trout cured in kombu

This is a hashitsuke (a small dish served with the first course). For the momiji-dofu, monkfish-liver tofu is shaped to suit the season. Since many…

Sesame tofu wrapped in grilled eggplant, Wakasa-style grilled tilefish

For the clear-soup course's sesame tofu wrapped in grilled eggplant, the sesame tofu is made by combining kombu dashi, sake, and Yoshino kuzu starch…

Sea bass with potato sauce, organic vegetables grilled with fermented fish innards

This is the grilled course. Since it is a new dish, I plated it on a piece of contemporary Arita ware. As for the green-yuzu sauce for the sea bass…

• ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Persimmon namasu

This is the appetizer. For the persimmon namasu, I grate the persimmon with its skin left on and toss it with vegetables to make the namasu. Grating…

• ¥350

• Cook time 20 min

Yellowtail and Turnip with Koji, Yellowtail Shabu-Shabu, Yellowtail and Root Vegetable Terrine, Yellowtail Namerou, Yellowtail Tsugaru-Style Salad

Starting with the appetizers. For the yellowtail and turnip with koji, I prepare the yellowtail, cut it to taste, and steam it briefly. The turnip is…

Snow crab and yuba hiryōzu

This is the simmered course: snow crab and yuba hiryōzu — a deep-fried tofu fritter mixed with vegetables. Alongside it are vegetables simmered to…

Abalone with plum, bishō-style, summer vegetable age-bitashi

Sunomono. Abalone with plum, bishō-style, is essentially a pickled-plum dressing. When green plums come into season, I peel the thin skin, salt it…