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Sea Bass Oil-Cured, Abalone Slow-Simmered in Oil

Wanting a cool, summer-appropriate dish, and knowing that ayu is the famous summer fish known for pairing with tade, I replaced the ayu with sea bass…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 3 hr

Roe-bearing sweetfish stuffed and steamed, water pepper, fish-bone crackers, lotus root

For the additional course, rather than the standard grilled preparation, I bone the sweetfish, restuff it with lotus root, and steam it back into its…

• Serves 1 · ¥865

• Cook time 15 min

Hakata Wagyu Sukiyaki Rice Bowl

This time, we developed a dish featuring Hakata wagyu. For the sukiyaki rice bowl, mindful of the time between cooking and serving, we use rib roast…

• Serves 2 · ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Scallop and Salmon Hakata-style, Uni Set with Lime Jelly, Hydrangea Small Clam Adductor Temari-zushi, Beef Chigusa-maki, Tomato and Abalone Cream Bake

This uses scallops in season. I thought about what could be made using shellfish with a June feel. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and…

• Serves 5 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 30 min

Two-topping deep-fried shrimp shinjo (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is a shrimp shinjo — a fish-paste dumpling — prepared futami-age style, fried two different ways. Here, I used Suzuhiro Kamaboko's "all-purpose…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Young sea bass grilled Rikyū-style with sesame

For the grilled course, I designed it with couples in their forties in mind, around the concept of “an encounter with texture.” Customers in their…

• ¥320

• Cook time 50 min

Akamachi Steamed with Awamori

For the prized Okinawan deep-sea snapper steamed with awamori, an Okinawan distilled spirit, the key is not to over-steam it. It's a delicately…

• ¥550

• Cook time 1 min

Awaji onion and winter melon pureed potage

Because Awaji Island blooms with flowers through all four seasons and is known as the ‘Island of Flowers,’ I am mindful of how to make use of…

• Serves 1 · ¥787

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Eggplant Sōmen-Cut

Smooth and easy to swallow, with a refreshing finish.

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

Chirashi Sushi

This time it's chirashi sushi, the fundamental rice course. For this sushi rice, I wanted a pronounced vinegar aroma, so I make the sushi vinegar…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

White sesame tofu, fragrant steamed sweetfish, quail egg styled as eggplant, steamed abalone, foie gras hakata, corn shinjo, muscat grapes in tofu dressing

This is the appetizer course, a seven-item assortment. The fragrant steamed ayu is steamed with a fragrant oil used in Chinese cooking added to the…

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…

Tomato jelly with water shield, flower-cut cucumber, sea urchin and broccoli egg-yolk set, sweetfish grilled in water-pepper miso, treasure edamame, simmered long-armed shrimp, Shine Muscat in white vinegar dressing, nanban-zuke dragon fruit

This is the appetizers course. For the tomato jelly, we use tomato juice brought in from Iwamizawa, Hokkaido. The ratio is 1g of French gelatin per…

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.