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Fukushima yeast-fed wagyu sango-hachi sous-vide, miso-glazed herring and sansho-leaf skewers, and red-miso-glazed tofu skewers

This is a shiizakana, an additional hearty course that is a modern arrangement of a local dish, newly developed based on the Fukushima local pickling…

• Serves 3 · ¥890

• Cook time 3 hr

Tilefish, kombu-cured, with Yamato-style fresh nori terrine, kombu-cured white melon, flower-cut cucumber, needle-cut myoga, and kombu-vinegar sauce

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from chef Nakamura (Ryōtei Chiyoda). This time I take up 'kombu-jime.'

Baby sardines simmered with sansho pepper

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is baby sardines simmered with sansho pepper. For shirasu-boshi — dried baby sardines — first…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 5 hr

Grilled Eggplant Tartare-Style

For the grilled eggplant tartare-style, the moisture is drawn out of the grilled eggplant, which is then finely minced and worked until sticky, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Sea bream (uni, shiso flower spike, wasabi)

We want guests to feel how just the way you grate it can make the wasabi's aroma stronger. Whether it's a seasoning or an ingredient, we want to hold…

Conger Eel Shirayaki, Hakata-Style Pressed

I proposed this as a way of serving seafood, using Kanagawa ingredients while exploring the prefecture's local cuisine. This is a vinegared dish. For…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 40 min

Barracuda steamed with chopped tofu and vegetables

This is a devised way of serving seafood. Since our restaurant is a casual, mass-appeal restaurant in Kanagawa Prefecture, I proposed this using…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 30 min

Kombu-cured Spanish mackerel

This time it is the sashimi course. For the sawara kombu-jime, the sawara is filleted into three pieces and the pin bones removed, then lightly…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bream baked in an Earl Grey salt crust

This is a piece of Japanese cuisine built around Earl Gray tea. (Reference: Earl Gray, 100 g: ¥670.) I hope that pairing black tea — a drink most…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Potato Kuwayaki — with Tanna Foie Gras Cream —

My hometown is Kannami, a town next to Atami, which includes the Tanna area, known for its thriving dairy farming, so I wanted to spotlight the milk…

• Serves 1 · ¥487

• Cook time 40 min

Scents of home — sa-ku-ra shrimp

A fresh exploration of aroma: ‘a quartet of sakura shrimp, played through the layering of four forms.’ The idea began when I caught the scent of…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 25 min

Pure White Surinagashi, Summer Kōbako Crab with Kinome Jelly, Seared Hamo and Grilled Crab Meringue, Hidori Ayu with Grated Daikon Dressing, and Hairy Crab with Summer Vegetables on a Kombu Dashi Chip

Within the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "getting people to eat…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Champion Wagyu Fillet Steak and Abalone Steak

This is a grilled dish. As a child, I have a memory of burning dried branches in a hōroku — an earthenware roasting dish — during the fire that sends…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,300

• Cook time 2 hr

Winter melon simmered to absorb the broth

This is a summer simmered dish. For the winter melon simmered to absorb the broth, since winter melon has a relatively delicate flavor, I simmer it…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Kombu soup bowl, made with salted kombu

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is a kombu soup bowl. It is a simple dish in which a delicious clear-soup stock is poured over…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 20 min

Duck yawata-maki, shrimp simmered shiba-ni style, taro and sea bream miso dengaku, kabocha squash, egg-yolk glaze-grilled squid

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 30 min

Silver tofu pureed soup

This is the soup course. For ‘Gindofu Surinagashi,’ there is a well-known tofu shop near where I work, and I very much wanted to build a dish around…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 2 days

Trough shell clam in vinegared miso dressing

This is a way of using the last of the season’s trough shell clams. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and cherry salmon also come to mind, but…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 30 min

Simmered Kuetama, Wakasa-Yaki Style

This is the simmered course, conceived around the concept of "protecting the ocean environment." Kuetama is a farmed fish — a cross between kue, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 50 min

Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Tomato Soba

Tomato Soba is a menu item I've served during this season for some time. Perhaps because of Karuizawa's local character, many guests enjoy Western…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Glossy rice wrapped in egg yolk, liver nori senbei, turban shell congee dip

This time, with the main focus on preserving the rice's sweetness as much as possible, I decided to use the rice just as it is. I used Tsuyahime rice…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 30 min

Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke

This is a rice-course dish developed using jasmine tea. (Jasmine tea, 30g: 350 yen.) For Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke, I used heshiko, mackerel cured…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing uses raw konjac tuber. If you blend it into a paste with the skin left on, you get black konjac; if you…