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Chilled verdant egg custard, sardine simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pumpkin castella sponge cake, coin-cut octopus fragrant fried, white melon tossed with bottarga, asparagus and bacon egg-yolk grilled, cheese tofu, pork belly simmered Yoshino-style with a kuzu-thickened sauce, hydrangea-style egg, and squid two-color grill

This is the appetizers course. For the chilled verdant egg custard, after making an egg tofu, I puree it in a mixer, combine it with gelatin and…

• ¥300

• Cook time 2 days

Koshu Wagyu Beef Wasabi Roll

• ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Baby sweetfish deep-fried live, two-color croquettes

This is the fried dish course. For the two-color croquettes, I make the croquettes with foie gras and anchovy, seasoned so they can be eaten with…

• ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

Koshu simmered abalone, pumpkin steamed glutinous rice

This is the palate-refresher course (shinogi). For the Koshu nigai and pumpkin okowa, since Yamanashi is also famous for kabocha squash, I made the…

Seared Ise Spiny Lobster, Ise Spiny Lobster Bisque

This is the additional hearty course. For the Ise spiny lobster bisque, I use the lobster heads to make a Western-style Américaine sauce. It's…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Yamanashi corn pureed soup, lotus root dumpling, Fuji Sakura pork, tender-simmered

This is a clear-soup course. As for the Yamanashi corn surinagashi, corn is exceptionally delicious in Yamanashi in June and July — so much is…

• ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and a shiso flower-spike garnish, dressed with a fish-roe dressing, fig simmered with sweet miso, gourd-shaped cheese and egg, Kai-style cold-smoked salmon sushi roll, Brussels sprouts stuffed with crab, seared early-summer sesame tofu

This is the appetizer course. For the long-arm shrimp with tomato jelly and shiso flower spike garnish, since long-arm shrimp are in season and…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Shrimp deep-fried in kuzu crumbs

This is the fried dish course. For the shrimp seta-age, I finely crush Yoshino kuzu starch and coat kuruma shrimp with it along with potato starch…

Fat greenling kenchin-style roll, drum-cut bamboo shoot, broad beans

The simmered dish is a fat greenling kenchin-style roll. I fillet the fat greenling into three pieces, remove the larger bones, and make fine scoring…

Abalone Grilled with Sake and Salt, Butter-Flavored

This is the grilled course. For the abalone grilled with sake and salt, I give the abalone a butter flavor. I scrub live abalone thoroughly and clean…

White miso broth, spiny lobster in the shell, mugwort tofu

This is a clear-soup course. It is prepared as a white miso broth. I combine one kilogram of strained white miso, one go (a traditional Japanese…

Molded ark shell, baby turban shell grilled with wakame, whiting sushi wrapped chimaki-style, Hakata-style duck white loin, pale-poached, dried shrimp and tomato, lightly marinated, sea bream roe jelly

This is the appetizers course. For the baby turban shell grilled with wakame, I bring out the color of the wakame and blend it in a mixer, then blend…

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

Deep-fried young sweetfish in new-tea batter, sea urchin deep-fried hosho-style

This is a fried dish course. For the young sweetfish in new tea batter, since new tea (shincha) comes out in May, I grind the new tea leaves and…

• ¥600

• Cook time 15 min

Loach and young burdock simmered with sansho pepper, simmered rolled shrimp, golden-simmered new potatoes, udo simmered with bonito flakes

This is a simmered dish course. For the loach and young burdock simmered Arima-style, I split larger loach open and quick-blanch the skin side in…

• ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Grilled carp with butterbur miso, arrow-fletched mustard lotus root, John Dory two-layer fish-paste dumpling, nemagari bamboo shoot grilled with sansho bud, iris-shaped Shadow Queen potato and cream terrine

This is the grilled course. For the grilled carp with butterbur miso, I take a carp fillet, lightly salt it, score the bones, and deep-fry it plain…

• ¥450

• Cook time 6 hr

Early-summer tofu, seared whiting

This is a clear-soup course. For the Satsuki tofu, I made it as a mugwort tofu. I worked seven or eight parts kombu dashi with one part pure white…

• ¥180

• Cook time 1 hr

Fresh greens salad, Manila clams, beach silvertop, sea grapes, savory vinegar jelly, octopus rinsed in cold water with egg yolk and salted bonito innards, abalone steamed with sake, white melon kombu-cured and stuffed with new water shield, Manganji pepper with chicken miso

From the shunsai, a seasonal-color course. For the fresh greens salad, green coloring paste is added to the tofu dressing. Manila clams steamed with…

• ¥780

• Cook time 3 hr

Pan-seared kuzu cake with roasted soybean flour

This is the dessert course. For the kuzu-yaki with kinako, 1kg of large-grain azuki beans is boiled and drained three times, then from the fourth…

• ¥93

• Cook time 30 min

Hokki Clam Grilled in Yame-Tea Oil, Yame-Tea Broth Ochazuke

This is the rice course. For the surf clam grilled in Yame-tea oil, Yame tea is steamed together with salad oil to make Yame-tea oil. The surf clam…

• ¥648

• Cook time 25 min

Sous-Vide Duck

This is the additional hearty course. For the sous-vide duck, the duck is soaked for fifteen minutes in Kankyō Shuzō's 'liquid shio-kōji' — a…

Wild Red Sea Bream from the Genkai Sea, Grilled with Shio-Kōji

This is the grilled course. For the wild red sea bream from the Genkai Sea grilled with shio-koji, the sea bream is filleted into three pieces…

• ¥536

• Cook time 2 hr

Blanched pike conger, fried in batter, matsutake, fig, shuto cheese

The shuto cheese served alongside the fried dish is made by adding sake to bonito shuto to draw out a stock, straining it, then adding egg yolk and…

Ayu clear broth, grilled ayu, winter melon, wood ear mushroom, water shield, baby melon, a touch of yuzu

For the sweetfish in clear seafood broth, we draw the dashi using dried sweetfish. This adds a deep sweetfish umami to the soup broth, different from…