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The Charm of Nature

From "expressing Fukuoka through cooking," this is a grilled dish. Titled "The Charm of Nature," I fashioned freshly harvested bamboo shoots from a…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 40 min

White Rice

The white rice is soaked in water the day before cooking. By adding ice at this point and cooking it that way, the rice cooks up without cracking or…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 days

Crab

Rather than boiling the crab as is, we steam the legs and body separately for different lengths of time so the umami doesn't escape. A small amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

On an auspicious day (red sea bream flesh and fin)

From "expressing local heritage through cooking," this is the simmered course. Using the flesh and fin of red sea bream from Fukuoka, which boasts…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 50 min

Clear soup, 'Fukuoka Spring' (Ariake nori, bamboo shoot, and Muromi River icefish)

I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table from my childhood. This is a clear soup…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Fragrance of Peach Blossoms

This expresses Fukuoka through cooking. I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo shoot 'tofu,' bamboo shoot simmered in miso, and sweet-savory simmered mallard duck

This is a dish that expresses local heritage. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Ezo Abalone Risotto

After cleaning the Ezo abalone, we steam it in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes to extract its stock, and cook the rice in that abalone stock…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Seared-skin fugu, sudachi, milt sauce

Fugu has more umami and flavor the more you chew it, so at our restaurant we grill it over charcoal with the skin left on. Grilling firms up the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Gunma Prefecture Masuda Beef, Low-Temperature Roast

My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount Tanigawa, in Minakami, Gunma Prefecture. The view…

• Serves 1 · ¥820

• Cook time 1 hr

Okutone Trout and Spring Vegetable Carpaccio

This is a sashimi course dish that expresses local heritage. For the Okutone trout and spring vegetable carpaccio, I paired Okutone trout, a branded…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 30 min

Char Steamed in Green Bamboo

This is a dish under the theme of expressing local heritage through cooking. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 1 hr

Shinshu Premium Beef Roast Beef

Shinshu Premium beef from Nagano Prefecture is slowly cooked at a low temperature, drawing out a moist, tender umami. Paired with the melting texture…

• Serves 1 · ¥820

• Cook time 2 hr

Freshly Made Sesame Tofu, Sea Urchin, Kombu-Water Jelly Broth

We insist on sesame that's 'freshly toasted, freshly pressed' and tofu that's 'freshly kneaded': we knead it fresh every day, one hour before…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild scallop, pressed into a ball

This dish came from wondering whether there might be a delicious way to eat scallop that offers something a little different from the standard…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 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

Snow crab, aromatic-grilled (Large-Batch Cooking)

This is grilled snow crab kōmi-yaki (aromatic-sauce grilled dish). Kōmi-yaki is a dish we often serve at banquets at our establishment, and it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 1 hr

New Soba-Gaki, Okaya Eel Tree-Ring Roll

When people think of Nagano, I imagine many picture soba. This time, I kneaded fresh new-crop buckwheat flour to bring out a chewy, mochi-like…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Tilefish and Sea Urchin Grilled, Crab Apple Denpō-Yaki, Obuse Chestnuts Simmered in Their Skins

This is a grilled dish that pairs the tilefish's refined fat with the sea urchin's rich umami. The sauce combines 100 cc white wine, 50 cc light soy…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 2 hr

Miso-style, Chikuma River roe-bearing ayu-koku

This focuses on ingredients from Nagano. Koi-koku is a rich miso soup and simmered dish made by long-simmering carp cut into rounds in miso, and it…

• Serves 1 · ¥340

• Cook time 2 hr

Shinshu giant char cylinder roll, char roe in soy marinade, autumn fruit and walnut mousse, Shinshu pork steamed with sansho, grilled maitake with foie gras, chrysanthemum petal salad, Shinshu salmon with egg-yolk mustard sauce

This is an appetizer presented in hassun (seasonal-assortment course) style, using Nagano Prefecture's prized traditional vegetables and, since it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

The Nightingale's Plum

From the theme of heritage dishes, this is ōshukubai, named after the "nightingale's plum tree" of Heian-era poetry. When I was taught this dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 1 days

King crab, Kyoto-style steamed with fish paste

This is an introduction under the theme of heritage dishes. At our membership-only stores, I make a sample dish using ingredients that can be sourced…

• Serves 1 · ¥297

• Cook time 1 hr

Fresh fish, kombu-cured (using "small sardines, simmered, dried, and roasted")

Heritage dishes. As a dish that makes use of the "small sardines, simmered and dried" I introduced, this is an introduction of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 3 hr