SEARCH

Sweetfish simmered with sansho, trout-salmon asparagus roll, sweet potato simmered in lemon, paprika twisted roll, egg tofu wrapped in a twisted cloth shape and stuffed with sea urchin, abalone steamed with sake

This is an assorted platter. For the overall presentation, I created a bonkei (tray landscape) themed 'An Angler on the Rocks.' I placed driftwood on…

• ¥2,500

• Cook time 4 hr

Fruit Tomato and Blue Cheese Chawanmushi

Since we want the micro tomatoes to have a popping texture, we place them on raw and uncooked. We pour over the sweet, nectar-like juice that comes…

Sake-lees-scented corn pureed soup, abalone

There are two key points to using sake lees. The first is to add a mellow flavor. We add sake lees …

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, Layered Grill

For Wild Boar and Autumn Vegetable Kasane-yaki, I use wild boar belly that has not yet built up much fat. I simmer it until tender, then compensate…

• Serves 1 · ¥452

• Cook time 5 hr

Kagoshima kuroge wagyu roast beef manju sandwich

This is a Kagoshima Kuroge Wagyu (Japanese Black cattle) roast beef manju sandwich. I made the roast beef from the shintama cut — a lean cut from the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 4 hr

Isaki Marinated in Ishiru

For isaki (threeline grunt) in ishiru marinade, I take the flesh left over from making tataki, skin still on, and marinate it in ishiru — a…

• ¥399

• Cook time 1 hr

Miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, fava bean and kuruma prawn sandwiched and deep-fried, and young corn grilled with fermented fish-innards paste

For the miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, beltfish is in season in summer and quite fatty, yet has a fluffy texture and a relatively light flavor…

• ¥500

• Cook time 40 min

Kuruma Prawn and Fig Mizore-Ae

This is a dish where the balance between grated daikon and the other ingredients is extremely important. If there's too much grated daikon, the dish…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Awaji Island Goshiki-Torikai Spanish mackerel, smoked using low-temperature sous-vide

For the smoked sawara from Goshiki-Torikai on Awaji Island, I sous-vide the sawara (Spanish mackerel) with smoking salt at low temperature to keep…

• Serves 4 · ¥513

• Cook time 1 hr

Salt-cured pork thin-skin roll, Moriguchi daikon rolled in paper-thin kombu, sea cucumber styled as old wood, blowfish grilled with ichimi chili, crab, jellyfish head, kuzu tofu

This is a six-item small-bowl course. The salt-cured pork thin-skin roll: the method for making the salt-cured pork was based on Okinawa's sūchikā…

Thin-sliced turnip and salmon with kombu, Hakata-style, conger eel rolled into a cylinder, sea cucumber and cod milt dressed together, plum-blossom-shaped arrowhead tuber, jellied simmered cod roe, and whole dried fish

This is the appetizer course. For the senmai-kabu and salmon kombu Hakata-style, steep young turnip in a kombu-infused salt brine, and slice smoked…

Seared Hokkigai and Torigai, New Onion Blancmange, Usui-Mame Surinagashi

For the seared surf clam and cockle, both kinds of shellfish taste sweeter raw, so I lightly smoke them to about a quick-blanch degree to add aroma…

• ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Kuroge Wagyu Beef Wrapped in Fig

For the Kuroge Wagyu beef wrapped in fig, I designed it with male and female customers in their twenties and thirties in mind. Japanese cuisine…

• ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

"Shifting vegetables" parfait — burdock cracker, snap pea, green peas, fava bean, butterbur sprout, fiddlehead fern, micro tomato, kabocha squash, potato

This dish had its start about five years ago, when I served a meal at a nursing home. Seeing how happily the residents ate it, I thought about how I…

Steamed and simmered shark fin (Kesennuma's traditional food culture: 'Shark')

This is the simmered dish. Taking as its theme 'shark,' the food culture of Kesennuma City — Japan's top producer of shark fin — I've proposed this…

• Serves 1 · ¥987

• Cook time 2 days

Grilled Tomato and Winter Melon Simmered in Consommé

The first course is an appetizer (sakizuke) using vegetables that grow tastier from summer into autumn: grilled tomato and winter melon simmered in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsuba Crab, Raw Sea Urchin, Wakame, with Tosa-Vinegar Jelly

The elegant sweetness distinctive to snow crab, the rich creaminess of raw sea urchin, and the refreshing sea aroma of wakame are brought together…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 40 min

Chilled Tomato Sōmen

This is a dish built on the unusual combination of "plant-based umami and animal-based oil," using oil as something added to the seasoning at the…

• Serves 1 · ¥138

• Cook time 8 min

Duck jibu-ni, sweet-simmered tomato

Being from Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture, I thought it would be nice to have a duck jibu-ni ma…

• Serves 1 · ¥190

• Cook time 20 min

Potato, Octopus, and Kabocha Squash, Tender-Simmered Live Octopus

"Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables." The overwintered vegetables used here are Niseko 540 potato and Dark Horse kabocha…

• Serves 1 · ¥620

• Cook time 2 hr

Seiko Crab Cold Dish

We have guests enjoy the deliciousness of in-season seiko crab in a light, refreshing way as an appetizer, with crab vinegar jelly. In the course…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 4 hr

Kombu-Cured Grilled Cod, Egg-Yolk Soy-Grilled Clams

This is the yakimono — the grilled course, written in the menu with celebratory kanji. Kombu-Cured Grilled Cod: the cod is cured with kombu, then…

Low-Temperature Charcoal-Oil-Grilled Beef

I made two charcoal oils: sawdust charcoal oil and binchotan oil. For both, I heat the charcoal until red-hot on the gas burner, drop it into…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Fugu deep-fried in a Bubu-arare coating

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a Japanese-style version of fried chicken karaage. I thought that many…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min