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Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke

This is the rice course from Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke, ayu swim upstream in the rivers of the prefecture, so fishing…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,017

• Cook time 2 hr

Hairy Crab Daikon Mochi and Hikina-mochi

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dishes: hikina-mochi (mochi rice with shredded dried vegetables), akasuji daikon mochi (made from…

• Serves 2 · ¥600

• Cook time 50 min

King crab and sea urchin soy-glazed grill, butterfish saikyo-yaki

The grilled course pairs king crab with a sea-urchin soy glaze and butterfish saikyo-yaki. Combining sea urchin with king crab brings out a rounder…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 9 hr

Tilefish and matsutake wrapped and grilled, spiny lobster grilled with sea urchin

This is the grilled course. For the tilefish and matsutake wrapped and grilled dish, I put a good sear on both the tilefish and the matsutake, but if…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Salt-Simmered Moon Bear

Wanting to convey, in a new style, ingredients that have fallen out of use along with changing times, and cooking methods no longer practiced in…

• Serves 4 · ¥14,857

• Cook time 2 hr

Lettuce, celery, and tomato Hakata-roll, bracken fern and prosciutto wrapped in bamboo paper, shark fin in savory jelly

This is a vinegared dish course. For the lettuce, celery, and tomato hakata-roll, I pass the lettuce through oil, then through hot water, and drop it…

• ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Takuan and lightly pickled cucumber

This is the kōonomono (pickles course). For the takuan and lightly pickled cucumber, I make fine kesa-style diagonal cuts on the front of the takuan…

Chawanmushi served in a hollowed baby turnip — pheasant, mitsuba, kintoki carrot

After cutting the pheasant into small pieces, we rinse it in soy sauce, which removes the smell peculiar to pheasant meat and gives it a greater…

Seared cod, grilled cod milt, zoni-style

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. Our restaurant sees many local customers — older guests, young couples, and gatherings of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod Milt Steamed with Grated Turnip, Autumn-Colored Sea Bream, Shrimp

This is a steamed dish. For the cod milt steamed grated turnip, prepped shrimp, cod milt, and other ingredients are mixed inside and steamed. The…

Shrimp dressed with fermented sweetfish entrails, new-season bottarga pickled in sake lees, pen shell and Chinese yam topped with dried sea-cucumber ovary, squid and blanched taro shoots with egg yolk and fish-entrail paste, and roe-bearing sweetfish steamed in oil

This is the sake accompaniment course. I prepared five kinds of dishes for it. As for the lemon cup they are served in, at this time of year it is…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Soft roe with angelica shoot and tosa vinegar

If shirako is dropped straight into already-boiling water, it will burst, so it's put in from cold water and simmered gently at a bare simmer so it…

Blackthroat seaperch grilled with salt-fermented bonito viscera, young sweetfish grilled with new-season tea

This is a grilled course. For the blackthroat seaperch grilled with shuto: the fish is rinsed and cleaned, steeped in sake cut with water for about…

Shinshu salmon, a branded trout hybrid, with silky egg-yolk sauce, abalone and azuki duo mold, fruit tomato and horsehair crab

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. For the Shinshu salmon with silky egg-yolk sauce: the Shinshu salmon is prepared, salted heavily, cut into…

Sardine grilled with fermented mash, conger eel rolled with burdock, grilled pike conger with plum soy sauce

These are the grilled dishes. For the burdock in grilled dish two, conger eel yawata-maki, I finished it this time in a kinpira (sautéed…

Conger eel wrapped in soy milk skin, cherry-simmered mountain yam, butterbur

Yellowtail and daikon

For the buri daikon, the daikon is first parboiled and rehydrated, then placed on kombu. The yellowtail is marinated in sandō-wari and grilled. The…

Spring Vegetable Jelly Terrine, Mugwort Sesame Tofu

Titled 'Hospitality for the Fourth Month,' this menu features dishes we serve in the restaurant. We begin with the appetizer. The sesame cream laid…

Bamboo shoot in sansho-leaf miso dressing, icefish sushi, wasabi flower stalks and daikon radish steeped in tosa vinegar

This is course five. For the bamboo shoot dressed with kinome miso, I make an egg-yolk-enriched sweet miso and tint it green with spinach. For the…

Glossy rice wrapped in egg yolk, liver nori senbei, turban shell congee dip

I tried various test versions this time, but with the main focus on preserving the rice's sweetness as much as possible, I decided to use the rice…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled barracuda rice-ball ochazuke (young myoga, trefoil, sesame, arare, nori, wasabi)

The ochazuke dashi is poured over only after the grilled rice ball and all the other ingredients have been plated, but it's important not to pour too…

Ginkgo nuts and miso-pickled egg with sea urchin dressing, apple and persimmon checkerboard coated in white sauce, Ishikawa taro with nori, spicy simmered shimeji, shrimp and sea bream ball-shaped sushi, pressed dried sardine sheet, deep-fried shrimp legs and lotus root

This is a sake accompaniment. We have arranged, in a display-style presentation, the little bites we normally serve between courses to go with sake…

Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Kinome; Diamond-Shaped Kamaboko; Clam and Rapeseed-Flower Sushi; Bamboo Shoot Simmered in Shirozake; Icefish, Bonbori-Style Grilled; Lily Bulb and Tachibana Citrus Chakin; Halfbeak, Cherry-Blossom Dried; Three-Colored Dango

Titled "Appetizers, Grilled and Simmered Dishes for Early Spring," this begins with the appetizer course. I prepared a single warm dish, a dish tied…

Crab rice

Meat, legs, and crab miso alike... kobako crab in abundance. Japanese parsley added for good flavor balance.