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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

Bamboo shoot dressed with sansho leaf, squid cherry-blossom sushi, Japanese halfbeak and asparagus roll, strawberry-style ark clam egg-yolk sushi, small kuruma prawn marinated in red-yeast-rice miso, taro stem pickled in rice-starch liquid, green pea jelly, sakura-scented lily bulb twisted into a bundle, purple sweet-potato sakura mochi, and lily-bulb petals

For the strawberry-style akagai egg-yolk sushi, rinsing the akagai briefly in warm water at about 50°C and then firming it in ice makes the sliminess…

Splendid alfonsino mago-chazuke

This is the rice course, devised with the presentation in mind. Kinmedai mago-chazuke was finished under the concepts of "nostalgic" and "gentle." It…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 30 min

Hayama Highland Pork Sango-hachi Roast Pork

We gave a modern arrangement to the Fukushima local specialties Hayama highland pork and sango-hachi pickling. This is a meat dish. For the Hayama…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, clam fried in egg-yolk batter, kuruma prawn Shiba-style simmered

As for the bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, they are normally simmered with bonito dashi and wakame to make wakatake-ni (bamboo shoots and…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Green Tea-Style Soup

For the Green Tea-Style Soup, we used Chiran tea from Kagoshima in place of a clear soup. The garnish is dried chicken tenderloin and knotted kombu…

• ¥16

• Cook time 10 min

Deep-sea scorpionfish skewer-grilled with scallion, blackthroat seaperch skewer-grilled, Sado Lake Kamo oyster baked with avocado mayonnaise

The reason I used trawl-caught fish from off Nadachi, Niigata, under the theme of coping with rising food costs, is that the wide variety of…

• Serves 1 · ¥760

• Cook time 2 hr

Swimming crab pureed soup

This dish is built around seafood at the end of its winter season. The end-of-season ingredient used here is swimming crab, served as a clear-soup…

• Serves 20 · ¥370

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Mountain Vegetables from Shinshū

The new-onion sauce used to dress the wild mountain vegetables is made by blending new-crop onions and cooking them to bring out their sweetness…

Tomato and soy milk kneaded tofu

The tomato's acidity is neutralized with soy milk, and tapioca starch gives it a soft texture.

Spring sea bream and crab roll, deep-fried; herring-roe wakame, Tosa-style deep-fried; angelica tree shoot

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

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

Truffle sea bream chazuke — red sea bream, truffle, wasabi, sesame sauce, shredded nori, shiso, layered kombu, pickled cucumber, pickled turnip

Making the sesame sauce starts with toasting polished sesame seeds ourselves, since that lets us control the level of toasting to our own liking…

Spring sea bream in clear seafood broth — seared tofu, shiitake, garland chrysanthemum greens, julienned scallion, sansho leaf

This time, we learned about the clear-soup course from Instructor Wada (Nihon Ryōri Aogaki). We feature the clear seafood broth.

Wild mountain vegetables, miso-flavored, yogurt-topped: mountain udo, bracken fern, mountain garlic, bamboo shoot, fava bean, radish, crumbled fried egg, plain yogurt, strained white miso

This time we've knife-cut the radish into a janome (bull's-eye) pattern, but depending on the dish, we vary the knife-work — sometimes simply slicing…

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

The ultimate sea squirt, crisp-fried in light white batter

This is a fried dish devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. The concept is 'innovative.' Sea squirt, a specialty product of coastal…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Asari clams and spring daikon, simmered and steeped

The asari clams and spring daikon simmered and steeped is a dish devised with inspiration from a dish by my mentor, Rokusaburo Michiba. Using the…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Clam shinjo

Julienned vegetable clear soup with mitsuba, udo, shiitake, bamboo shoot, pork back fat, and pepper

For the vegetables in sawani-wan, adding them in order starting with the ones that take longest to cook gives the dish a better balance of textures.

Spanish mackerel namerō

This is a dish devised as a substitute for the sashimi course, with the presentation carefully considered. Sawara namerō (a minced raw-fish dish…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Roasted genmaicha tofu, baby octopus simmered cherry-style, cherry-leaf-green kabocha squash, duck simmered with egg yolk, butterbur simmered green

As for the roasted genmaicha tofu, tofu is mostly made up of water, but I think that, turned to advantage, it's an ingredient rich in possible…