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Corn surinagashi, edamame mochi

This is a clear-soup course. For the corn surinagashi: August is the best time of year to eat corn, and the yellow of the corn against the green of…

Deep-fried corn fish-paste dumpling, young chicken rolled with Western vegetables, nori-wrapped deep-fried dried baby sardine sheet, domyoji chewy croquette, water shield and conger eel fritter

This is the fried course. For the tatami iwashi isobe-age, make a shrimp fish-paste dumpling from ground shrimp and baby shiba shrimp, and spread it…

Seared and Smoked Beef Tataki, Finished with Gyūbishio

Wanting to create an interesting soy sauce, I devised a "beef soy sauce" (gyūbishio) made using beef. Beef is said to be the meat that pairs with red…

• Serves 1 · ¥726

• Cook time 45 min

Shirokane pork and potato — an evolution of meat-and-potato stew

The main location of the establishment where I currently work has offered breakfast for some time, which made devising a new breakfast dish a…

• Serves 30 · ¥267

• Cook time 20 min

Reishi sea snail fried in egg yolk batter, tomato deep-fried in white batter, stuffed hollow burdock

This is a fried course. For the Reishi sea snail fried in egg-yolk batter, I deep-fried the sea snail in a batter of rooibos tea, egg yolk, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Rice cooked with beef tongue, topped with fresh sea urchin

• ¥3,470

• Cook time 40 min

Deep-fried wild sweetfish

This is a dish unique to summer: wild sweetfish from the Ado River, which flows through Kyoto and Shiga, are kept alive and then ice-stunned, and…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 20 min

Hamo Confit, Mousse

I sought a new flavor from hamo, an ingredient indispensable to Japanese cuisine that's in season in summer. Hamo has many small bones, and while…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 30 min

Ise lobster shell-simmered, turnip sauce, bottarga kōsen

For the additional course, I use a whole Ise lobster, gorgeously and extravagantly. I express the image of 'brocade autumn' -- yellow maple leaves…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,020

• Cook time 20 min

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…

Horsehair-crab meat, lantern-shaped salmon sushi, eel sandwich, abalone and sudachi-citrus sandwich, tender-simmered octopus, corn-shaped seared sweet potato, dark seaweed with grated daikon and miso, lightly steamed chicken gizzard, herring-roe wakame fritter

For the picked horsehair-crab meat, we boil the crab in roughly 2% salted water for about 20 minutes, turn off the heat, let it stand for ten…

Abalone Grilled with Saikyo Miso, Eel Kosode Roll, Beef Yawata Roll, Squeezed Lily Bulb

This is a dish meant to accompany sake. For the fruit cheese, candied beni-amanatsu peel is mixed with finely diced cream cheese and shaped into a…

Isaki with Kinjiso Ohitashi, and Isaki Kara-Mushi

For the threeline grunt with kinjiso ohitashi, a dashi-marinated, blanched dish: kinjiso is a Kanazawa local vegetable, one of the Kaga heirloom…

• ¥155

• Cook time 1 hr

Finely scored abalone, clam with mugwort kuzu noodles and raw sea urchin, beach silvertop, udo

I made mugwort-flavored kuzu strips. I thought about whether I could make something that even guests who visit several times a month wouldn't tire…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Aromatic Grilled Sea Bass

This is a grilled dish. Sea bass is delicious this time of year, so I used it. For the Aromatic Grilled Sea Bass, after filleting the sea bass into…

• Serves 1 · ¥690

• Cook time 1 hr

Kamo eggplant, mansion-style platter: miso-glazed grilled Kamo eggplant, salt-steamed aigamo duck, aze-mame edamame, shrimp simmered in sake, thread-cut flower garnish, and pickled ginger shoot

This time, we learned about pottery from Technical Director Yoshiteru Iwata (Royal Park Hotel). We will focus on Shigi-yaki.

Thread-cut mountain yam, shredded egg crepe, tomato, mitsuba, ginger pickled in vinegar and soy, mountain yam

This is a vinegared dish within the summer course menu. For the mountain yam somen, the mountain yam is cut thin and fine with a knife, then tied…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Egg tofu with water shield, radish, myoga, trefoil, yuzu, and flavorful dashi

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from instructor Hiratsuka (Hattori Nutrition College). I take up 'tamago-dōfu.'

Three kuroge wagyu beef dishes: smoked tenderloin, red miso-braised round, and sirloin grilled with sake lees

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: generous use of multiple cuts of wagyu beef. Under the motto "what's…

• Serves 1 · ¥670

• Cook time 40 min

Sushi, sushi, sushi, sushi — the incoming boat, the outgoing boat

As an innovation for the rice course, I devised this from chirashi-zushi. Between layers of sushi rice, I press in dry-roasted items — dry-scrambled…

• Serves 4 · ¥12,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bass salad style, abalone saikyo-yaki, sweetfish shio-koji-yaki

Next is a grilled course. The sea bass salad style is built on the sudachi dressing we use for the sashimi salad we serve at the restaurant. It's…

Corn Mousse, Sea Urchin and Chamomile Gelée

The corn mousse lets guests enjoy the sweetness of the corn in a refreshing way, through the fragrance of chamomile. We used soy milk rather than…

Softshell Turtle and Lotus Root Shinjo

The softshell turtle's simmering liquid is drawn out with sake and water for 30 minutes, skimming off the scum as it goes, then seasoning is added…

• Serves 20 · ¥6,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Young Chicken in Milky White Sauce

Young chicken, steamed and pan-fried, in milky white sauce: steaming the chicken alone wouldn't feel like much of a change, so after steaming it I…

• ¥145

• Cook time 40 min