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Barracuda and jade pressed sushi

• ¥590

• Cook time 1 days

Tea-covered grilled sea bass, giant longarm prawn grilled with golden egg yolk

This is a grilled hassun course. For the tea-covered grilled sea bass, if served at the counter, placing the sea bass on a heated stone, pouring tea…

• ¥590

• Cook time 1 days

Western-style seared bonito, herb-wrapped flounder, skin-seared whiting, Odawara horse mackerel tataki stuffed in mountain yam

This is a sashimi course. I prepared three types of sauce: a tart sauce, a salt-based sauce, and soy sauce. The amaranth has a beautiful purple…

Okra pureed soup, deep-fried okoze, mozuku fish-paste dumpling, pounded shrimp

This is a clear-soup course. A purée is normally made in a food processor, but here I finely minced the okra by hand and thinned it with a clear soup…

• ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Cream cheese kuzu tofu, Miura-style chilled scrambled egg, summer vegetable namasu pickled in salt-koji and honey

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. Since there is little seafood available to use in summer, I built the menu around vegetables. Cream cheese kuzu…

• ¥120

• Cook time 1 days

Fava bean pureed soup, fat greenling, steamed sea urchin, new-season water shield, cherry tomato, yuzu

Fava beans are also called satsuki-mame, or "May beans," an ingredient at its best around May. This time I used them for their fresh green color, but…

Fushimi pepper stuffed with swimming crab, deep-fried star-cut potato, Ishikawa-wase taro fried in egg yolk batter

This is a fried course. For the Fushimi pepper stuffed with swimming crab, I use swimming crab in season. Swimming crab has a rich flavor and is…

• ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Shrimp, Sea Urchin, and Okra Terrine, Tender-Simmered Abalone, Simmered Kabocha Squash, Shiitake Mushroom, Winter Melon Simmered in Soup

This is a chilled simmered dish. Wanting to offer something refreshing, I set shrimp, sea urchin, and okra together into a terrine. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Tade-grilled sweetfish, wasabi-grilled beef, Kamo eggplant with foie gras

This is a grilled course. This time I used ayu from Lake Biwa to make the tade-grilled ayu. For the wasabi-grilled beef, I grill it over a net with a…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Whiting rolled in mountain yam, pike conger with salted kombu oil, eel and cucumber Hakata-style, small turban shell baked with cream, smoked duck

This is a refreshing course for the season. Whiting rolled in mountain yam: curing the whiting with kombu (kobujime) concentrates its umami, and…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Ezo Abalone Grilled with Crab Roe

This is a supplementary course. For Ezo abalone grilled with crab roe, I steam the Ezo abalone in a convection oven, then quickly sear it in a frying…

• ¥1,350

• Cook time 1 hr

Yuba-wrapped tilefish, Kamo eggplant

This is a simmered dish. For the yuba-wrapped tilefish, I use snow crab as the core, wrapped together with tilefish and hand-pulled tofu skin…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Beef Loin Sawani-Style Clear Soup

This is a clear-soup course. Beef loin sawani-style clear soup was created for guests who are not fond of fish. I lightly sear the beef loin…

Beltfish rolled around burdock, duck loin with mushroom dressing, whiting and bottarga sandwich, deep-fried, kuruma prawn and persimmon in tofu dressing with truffle, tender-simmered octopus, conger eel sushi

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. First, for the beltfish yawata-maki, I wrap beltfish around a core of kinpira-style braised burdock and grill it…

• ¥580

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea Urchin Tofu

This is an appetizer course. Sea urchin tofu is not served in the conventional savory dashi. I made it using a tomato purée prepared from fruit…

• ¥656

• Cook time 30 min

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."

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

New tea-crusted fried beef, sweetfish croquette

This is a fried course. For the new tea-crusted fried beef, I season beef loin with salt, dust it with flour, then coat it with panko that has been…

• ¥250

• Cook time 40 min

Oil-grilled sea bass, butter-soy sea bass

This is a grilled course. Oil-grilled sea bass is a dish suited to older guests. I fillet the sea bass into three pieces, cut it into lengths of…

• ¥350

• Cook time 50 min

Tomato Purée

This is a chilled dish. For the tomato purée, I blanch tomatoes and press them through a sieve. Since there is a lot of liquid, I knead half of it…

• ¥150

• Cook time 20 min

Spring sea bream rolled with wild mountain vegetables, bracken, bamboo shoot, butterbur, hook-tip bracken, turnip greens, lily bulb, sansho leaf

After wrapping the sea bream with wild vegetables, it is wrapped in peeled daikon radish and steame…

Eel deep-fried wrapped in yuba

This is the fried course. For the eel tōji-age, I butterfly the eel, grill it plain without sauce, steam it, then finish it glazed with sweet soy…

• ¥600

• Cook time 20 min

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell, saikyo-miso style

This is the simmered course. For the Ise lobster gusoku-ni, Saikyo-style, I split the lobster lengthwise into three pieces, coat them in potato…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Pike conger pureed potage, pike conger wrapped around matsutake mushroom, golden deep-fried

This is the clear-soup course. For the pike conger wrapped around matsutake, golden deep-fried, I score the conger's fine bones, cut it into pieces…

• ¥600

• Cook time 30 min