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Yoro jelly

This is the seating course. The first seating dish, Yoro-yose, is made for summer by combining grated Japanese mountain yam with long yam cut into…

King crab shinjo napa cabbage roll, simmered, with snow-ring lotus root, twisted colorful vegetables, garland chrysanthemum sauce, and bok choy

As an accompaniment we've added yukiwa-cut lotus root; fewer chefs take the time to do this kind of decorative knifework these days, so we decided to…

Ginkgo Tofu; Oyster and Fig Dengaku; Pacific Saury Simmered Arima-Style; Grilled Duck with Western Vegetables; Crab and Chrysanthemum Greens with Tonburi

This is the seasonal-vegetable course. I plate the ginkgo tofu and top it with a round-cut piece of tofu-dressed salad made from persimmon that has…

Roast Beef

This is a substitute dish. The method for making the roast beef is a little unusual. After searing it once, it is placed in a plastic bag and cooked…

Abalone steak with liver dressing, Japan whiting baked with sea urchin, eel-rolled egg, chicken baked matsukaze-style, deep-fried long-armed prawn, edamame fried in roasted grain flour, sweet long pepper fried and marinated, and Japanese bayberry wine jelly

This is the grilled hassun course. For the abalone steak with liver dressing, the abalone is removed from its shell, rinsed, and slowly simmered for…

Cod milt, steamed tamaji custard

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…

Five-color grilled squid, shrimp / herring roe on kelp / okra set in jelly, loach-stuffed burdock Owari-style simmered, carrot mousse, summer duck and zucchini sesame-grilled, mini kabocha squash, pike conger cut into icicle strips

For the appetizer's five-color grilled squid, this time I air-dried the thick part of the red squid's flesh a little, cut it into strips, and colored…

Young kuruma prawn grilled with an egg-yolk glaze, duck layered and steamed Hakata-style, ginkgo cracker, tube-cut burdock, grilled turnip bed-pickled, and ginkgo-leaf tofu

For the saimaki kimi-yaki, I take the core removed when making the kuda-gobō and let it absorb a thin happō-dashi. I use raw fish paste mixed with…

Yuzu Cup, Snow Crab in Grated Daikon, Grilled and Marinated Kuruma Prawn, Oyster Grilled with Shichimi Pepper, Persimmon and Bottarga Mountain Yam Roll, Miso-Grilled Lily Bulb, Deep-Fried Chestnut

For the appetizer course's grilled and marinated kuruma prawn, the kuruma prawn is soaked in sake-salt water to bring out its aroma, then grilled and…

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

Lotus Root Shinjo

This is the simmered-dish course. As for the lotus root shinjo, in-season lotus root, when left to rest until late autumn, has its starch convert…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Rikyu-style sea bream dressed with kombu

I pair aged tai with olive oil carrying the umami of kombu, aiming for a synergistic effect between the umami of the fish's fat and the umami of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 10 min

Rockfish grilled with salted rice malt

Raising the Added Value of Ingredients

We add value to ingredients rarely used in high-end dining and develop dishes that can be served at fine restaurants without any sense of compromise…

Mock kabayaki, novelty pumpkin, mock abalone shiitake, shojin egg, mustard lotus root

For the mock kabayaki, I spread tofu paste flat on nori, wrap it in a single turn of yuba, and grill it with a glaze while sprinkling on sansho…

• ¥30

• Cook time 20 min

Mock tofu, mock sawara yuba, deep-fried stuffed Daitokuji-fu, apricot rings, turnip achara pickle, checkerboard kombu roll, vegetarian tsukune matsukaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho sprout, glazed simmered taro, carrot fritters

The apricot rings were included because eating something sweet brings out the flavor of the other dishes. For the turnip achara pickle, I cut the…

Clam and wild mountain vegetable takikomi rice — wasabi leaf, fiddlehead fern, butterbur sprout, angelica-tree shoots

They order delicious varieties of rice from all over Japan depending on the season. At the time of …

Koshu-style grilled chicken grunt, tomato baked in white sauce, steamed eel rice

This is the grilled course. For Koshu-style grilled isaki, the isaki is filleted into three pieces, coated with flour, and pan-grilled in olive oil;…

• ¥2,750

• Cook time 2 hr

Fat greenling dusted with kuzu starch — new-crop water shield, small bok choy, shiitake, yuzu

This time, we learned about the "clear-soup course" from Instructor Wada (Nihon Ryōri Aogaki). We feature the "ainame clear-soup course."

Shinshu Premium Beef and Tokiwa Burdock Amazake Country-Style Simmer, Fresh Yuba and Shoyu-Mame, Buckwheat Tofu, Butterbur Sprout and Japanese Chive Simmer, Sake-Miso Dried Pond Smelt

With the Shinshu Premium Beef and Tokiwa Burdock Sweet-Fermented-Rice Country-Style Simmer, you can taste how well the premium beef's tenderness and…

• ¥535

• Cook time 50 min

Pureed Usui pea soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the Usui pea surinagashi, Usui peas are blanched to bring out their color, then processed in a food processor and…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Kombu-wrapped sea bream

A vinegared dish. For the sea bream matsumae, the sea bream is opened, lightly salted and firmed, then wrapped in sheets of sushi kombu to make a…

Cherry salmon grilled roll with julienned vegetables, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf, roast beef three ways

This is the grilled course. For the cherry salmon kenchin-yaki, the cherry salmon is cut lengthwise into 10 cm widths, butterflied open, dusted with…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 30 min

Kumquat-Tea Grilled Kagoshima Chicken, Kagoshima Chicken Tea-Leaf Miso Pickle

I used Akadori Satsuma, a Kagoshima branded meat chicken. For the kumquat-tea grilled Kagoshima chicken: kumquat skin is delicious on its own, so I…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 6 hr