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Roe-Bearing Ayu Simmered and Steeped, Claypot Rice

I designed this as a repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. The reason it resonates with that generation is the value proposition of…

• ¥1,140

• Cook time 40 min

Akashi sea bream, spring-haze steamed

This is a warm dish timed to the season when the cherry blossoms open. As for the Akashi tai harugasumi-mushi, this is normally a dish made with…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

High-heat steamed spiny lobster, black abalone damashi-ni

For the high-heat steamed spiny lobster: live spiny lobster is already delicious enough on its own, so I simply split it in half, sprinkled it with…

• ¥2,958

• Cook time 15 min

Ginkgo-nut rice, new-crop bettarazuke, oyster red miso soup

The rice course is ginkgo-nut rice. Salt alone is enough seasoning, since it lets the ingredient's own flavor come through fully. And when I thought…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Cherry salmon grilled Oribe-style with matcha, Shimanto turkey smoked with black tea, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper

As for the cherry salmon Oribe-style matcha grill, sakuramasu, as the name suggests, comes into season during cherry-blossom time, but since it has…

Oil-grilled pike conger, salt-grilled striped jack

For the grilled course, the salt-grilled shima-aji, we serve the collar of the shima-aji salt-grilled. Then there's the hamo. By September, if we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,160

• Cook time 20 min

Tea-grilled golden-eye snapper

I used green tea. For the tea-grilled kinmedai, the kinmedai is washed in cold tea. Doing this gives it the flavor of the tea and firmly removes any…

Striped jack thin-sliced sashimi, flounder chrysanthemum roll

This is a sashimi course. For the shima-aji thin-sliced sashimi, since we have a fish tank at the restaurant, we always keep live, fresh shima-aji on…

• Serves 1 · ¥725

• Cook time 10 min

Taro deep-fried, coated in hailstone-like dice

The taro deep-fried arare-style takes its cue from the Doll's Festival: small dice of purple sweet potato and orange sweet potato are pressed onto…

Eel and cheese terrine, bamboo shoots simmered with bonito flakes, butterbur simmered green, flower-cut shrimp

The eel and cheese terrine is made by cutting kabayaki-style grilled eel (glazed in a sweet soy sauce) into strips and steaming it in a…

Baby octopus simmered pink, baby octopus simmered white, pounded shrimp terrine, herring roll with sprouts, mugwort wheat-gluten roll with slender bamboo shoots

The Potential of Porcini Mushrooms in Japanese Cuisine

Porcini mushrooms are a popular ingredient in Western cooking. Can this fragrant mushroom also be used to create new dishes in Japanese cuisine? Two…

Mirror-cut daikon simmered to infuse flavor, kuruma shrimp quick soy-simmered, fan-cut bamboo shoot simmered with bonito flavor, pinecone-scored small abalone simmered, plum-shaped carrot, early butterbur simmered green, arrowhead bulb richly simmered

The simmered dishes are meant to evoke pine, bamboo, and plum. For the mirror-cut daikon simmered to infuse flavor, I carve the daikon into a plum…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Green-tea soba with simmered herring

This is freshly hand-cut cha-soba, made with particular care for both matcha and buckwheat flour. It's a dish enjoyed with a fragrant dashi made by…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Koban-Shaped Pen Shell and Fava Bean Chakin

This is a seasonal assortment course proposal built around the last of the pen shell season. For the gold-coin-shaped pen shell and fava bean chakin…

• Serves 5 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Grilled shiitake with sea urchin set in amber jelly, shintorina and Kyoto fried tofu, dashi-marinated

This is the appetizer course. For grilled shiitake with sea urchin set in amber jelly, both sides of the shiitake are cooked through, then its…

• ¥900

• Cook time 20 min

Seared pen shell clam and sea urchin hand roll

The distinctive crunch of the pen shell clam and the crisp bite of Manganji pepper are gently wrapped in the mellow sweetness of sea urchin. Searing…

• ¥500

• Cook time 20 min

Seared Hoshiko Shinjo

Taking aroma as the theme, I focus here on 'the scent of shijimi clams and first-extraction dashi.' Rather than the bold, hit-you-in-the-face aromas…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Oyster, Oil-Steamed

This is the appetizer course (sakizuke). For the oil-steamed oyster, if you let the oil come to a boil the oysters turn tough, so I steam them in a…

• ¥150

• Cook time 50 min

Spiny lobster grilled with egg yolk and salt-fermented bonito viscera, wagyu beef rolled with burdock, wheel-shaped wheat gluten, steak-style

This is a grilled dish. For the Ise lobster grilled with egg yolk and shuto, since the lobster meat becomes springy and hard to bite through when…

• ¥1,720

• Cook time 2 hr

Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled eggplant pureed soup, tomato and kuzu shaped in a twisted cloth wrap, land saltwort

This is a clear-soup course. For the tomato kuzu chakin: making it with corn or edamame purée instead gives more variation, and it's an easy dish to…

• ¥60

• Cook time 30 min

Blackthroat seaperch and kuruma prawn, grilled and topped with aromatic seaweed, with roasted chestnut and asparagus

Nodoguro is a fish with delicate flesh, so handle it gently when filleting so it doesn't break apart.

Kinki rockfish, celebratory grill; monkfish liver pressed in layers; fugu in savory jelly; king crab, yellow chrysanthemum and komatsuna blanched in dashi; baked yuzu cup; winter moroko, simmered and marinated; azuki bean and lotus root; plum-blossom lily bulb; three-color kinpira; grilled burdock with young sansho leaves; accordion-cut kombu

This is the yaki-hassun — a grilled hassun assortment, written with celebratory kanji. For the Winter Moroko, Simmered and Marinated, I use moroko (a…