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Spiny lobster grilled with young sansho-leaf miso, baby abalone sea-urchin grill, bamboo shoot grilled with bonito seasoning

Grilled dishes. For the spiny lobster kinome-miso grill, spiny lobster is boiled in salted water, coated with kinome miso, and grilled. For the baby…

• ¥1,450

• Cook time 2 hr

Pureed green pea soup

A clear-soup course. The green pea surinagashi was made as a fragrant soup meant to let guests enjoy the scent of spring. Ordinarily a surinagashi is…

• Serves 20 · ¥170

• Cook time 1 hr

Turban shell with liver dressing, roe-bearing shrimp, spring cabbage Hakata-style, pressed chicken terrine with fava bean aspic, angelica-tree shoot smoked salmon roll, burdock wrapped in conger eel, icefish plum uiro, lotus root stuffed with orange, rapeseed blossom and prosciutto roll

Celebratory dishes. The sazae with liver dressing: the sazae is steamed with sake, then its liver is combined with a tofu-based white dressing to…

• ¥590

• Cook time 2 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…

Spring cabbage with Hakata-style conger eel, king crab rolled in shredded egg, butterbur wrapped in yuba

A simmered dish. For the spring cabbage hakata-style conger eel, since it is the delicious season for spring cabbage, conger eel simmered until…

Spiny lobster with karasumi, Spanish mackerel grilled with a white-miso and sake-lees coating

This is a hearty course. For the spiny lobster with karasumi (bottarga), spiny lobster is boiled for about 12 minutes, the meat removed, seared in…

Diamond-shaped shinjo

This is a clear-soup course. Since it is March, mindful of the Doll Festival, I made a diamond-shaped shinjo inspired by diamond rice cakes. Of the…

Turban shell with butterbur miso, udo simmered with red plum, chrysanthemum crab roll, Kazusa beef marinated in sweet white miso

Starting with the appetizers. For the sazae with fuki miso, the sazae is prepared, simmered gently for a full day until tender, then topped with fuki…

Cherry-blossom turnip, tilefish sakura-steamed, ball-shaped potato

Three small simmered dishes. For the cherry-blossom turnip, the turnip is carved with a knife into a cherry-blossom shape, filled with sakura shrimp…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,300

• Cook time 40 min

Mallard grilled with fresh greens, stuffed burdock root, splendid alfonsino and sea urchin grilled rapeseed-style

Grilled dishes. For the mallard new-greenery grill, the duck is steamed at 65°C for about 15 minutes, the fat is trimmed, it is pierced all over with…

• Serves 20 · ¥2,060

• Cook time 20 min

Spring-mist clear soup, local clam poached in kuzu starch

The spring-mist clear soup is made with dashi taken from the local clams renowned in Kujukuri, combined at a ratio of 5 parts dashi to 1 egg.

• Serves 10 · ¥3,360

• Cook time 40 min

Red sea bream, turnip-steamed and topped with silver sauce

We cut the kuruma prawn into about 5 small pieces, keeping the balance with the other ingredients in mind. For the turnip combined with meringue, the…

Three-Fruit Jelly Terrine

Because the fruit is arranged in two layers, we pour the jelly base in five to six separate stages. If each layer isn't poured before the surface has…

Seafood tomato clear soup, Boso kaibi and asari clams

Two clear-soup courses. The seafood tomato clear soup is a Japanese take on bouillabaisse. Since the local area is a well-known tomato-growing…

• Serves 6 · ¥6,580

• Cook time 30 min

Sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom rolled in thin overlapping apple slices, spiral-rolled young bamboo shoot, sakura lily bulb pressed into a sheet, halfbeak vegetable sushi, bush-warbler-green lotus root, sea snail spring-fragrance fritter, and pistol shrimp glazed simmer

A springtime array of color. For the sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom apple senmaki roll, the rapeseed blossoms are boiled in mustard water and…

• Serves 30 · ¥960

• Cook time 40 min

March soy milk terrine

This is the appetizer course. In the Yayoi soy milk terrine, the green represents fresh spring greenery, the white represents melting snow, and the…

• Serves 10 · ¥730

• Cook time 30 min

Minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail

This is the vinegared dish course. For the minced shellfish and mozuku cocktail, mozuku is placed inside, a bonito-flavored vinegar is softly set…

• ¥1,350

• Cook time 1 hr

Clams from Futami, Mie, oil-steamed, shrimp and asparagus fried in a bread-crumb coating

This is the fried course. For the Futami clams oil-steamed, the clams are left in their shells and cooked sous-vide in salad oil with capers added…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Potato-and-bacon straw-cape deep-fry — oyster deep-fried in roasted rice flour, pinecone-cut taro, driftwood-style maitake, yuzu

Each ingredient is well seasoned before frying, so the dish stays delicious even after it cools, and it can also be adapted into a takeout item. We…

Spring sea bream grilled in layers, in the style of an avocado mille-feuille

This is the grilled course. For the sea bream kasane-yaki with avocado mille-feuille style, the sea bream is cooked in a steam convection oven at…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Bamboo shoot in a boat-shaped presentation, shrimp crystal-coated in gelatin, broad bean simmered in syrup, rapeseed blossom topped with snowflake meringue and served with egg-yolk mustard, three-color cherry-blossom tofu, and spring baby turnip three-color cherry-blossom-viewing dumplings

For the appetizer course, the bamboo shoot funamori is bamboo shoot rehydrated in rice bran, then rinsed of the bran and shaped into a boat. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Small clam adductor shinjo fried in a spiral pattern, crab cracker, sea bream cracker

This is the fried course. For the small clam adductor shinjo, raw fish paste is mixed with beaten egg, minced small clam adductor is folded in, and…

• ¥420

• Cook time 20 min

Long hijiki seaweed simmered wrapped in fried tofu skin, baby octopus simmered cherry-pink, shrimp glossy-simmered, shrimp-shaped taro, and small eggplant fried then simmered Dutch-style

This is the simmered dish course. For the long hijiki shinoda-ni, deep-fried tofu pouches are blanched to remove excess oil, opened, and spread with…