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Aromatic Grilled Wagyu

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The tea used this time is 'Anxi Rougui oolong'; for reference, 'Anxi…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,061

• Cook time 30 min

Kombu-Grilled Duck

When cooking duck, I think it's best to heat it aiming for a core temperature of 56°C. When I asked French chefs, many of them said a core…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Julienned vegetable and pork broth

For sawani soup, drying the maitake mushrooms once beforehand keeps their crisp texture. Black maitake also releases color, and drying it brings out…

Crab, Local Clam and Rapeseed Blossom Crystal Aspic

“Knorr® Chicken Consommé” makes generous use of extract from fresh, domestic mature hens (“rōkei”), together with chicken meat and chicken fat…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 3 min

Shinshu Salmon and Asparagus with Egg-Yolk Vinegar, Nagano Mountain Yam Pressed with Kombu, Shinshu Fukumidori Chicken Teriyaki, Cream Cheese Nikogori, Nozawana Pickle Nori Roll, and Vegetables with Sesame Cream

Shinshu salmon and asparagus with egg-yolk vinegar takes Shinshu salmon — usually served in hot pot or as sashimi — and gives it a different…

• ¥50

• Cook time 10 min

Sea Bream Nanban-zuke with Jasmine Fragrance

This is a piece of vinegared-dish development built around jasmine tea. The deep-fried, vinegar-marinated sea bream was devised so guests can enjoy…

• Serves 2 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Shrimp, pumpkin, fu, and green beans in tofu dressing

This is about pumpkin (kabocha). Looking into the literature, there are fairly well-established temperatures and times at which pectin sets, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Yamayuri pork miso-marinated harami, grilled matsutake, pike conger senbei, rice porridge senbei, kuruma prawn senbei

The additional hearty course is a dish meant to be enjoyed with a drink partway through the course. This time, I devised a dish using delicious pork…

• ¥870

• Cook time 3 days

House-made ponzu monkfish liver, grated turnip, amigasa yuzu, squid kombu-jime, sweet shrimp kombu-jime, salt ponzu, bottarga

We have prepared a selection of homemade delicacies that are sure to please customers who enjoy dri…

• ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Takiawase: Kinka pork kakuni, potato sauce, new burdock, spinach, Japanese mustard

Kinka pork is a pig breed called "the phantom pig," characterized by a distinctive umami and richness. I place the meat whole, still in a block, into…

• ¥460

• Cook time 14 hr

Grilled nut tofu, salt-fermented Ise lobster roe, a preparation shaped to resemble chestnuts, bottarga with squid and cheese Ohara-me style, Otafuku garland chrysanthemum greens with scallop and sea urchin

This is the sake accompaniment course. For the grilled nut tofu, I started with a base of sesame tofu and added walnuts and chestnuts, which are in…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 40 min

Japanese-style tartare

This is served in place of the sashimi course. The Japanese-style tartare is an arrangement of French tartare. The ingredients for November are…

Parcel-grilled beltfish, Spanish mackerel rolled with shredded vegetable filling and grilled, eel-fin rolls

For the grilled course's eel-fin rolls: there is a variety of sweet pepper that's thick, long, and not very spicy, which I cut into thin strips…

Salmon Roe in Golden Marinade, Hairy Crab Spring Rolls, Amigasa Yuzu, Shrimp Kōsen-age, King Oyster Mushroom Age-ni, Lotus Root Itoko-ni, Senpōshi Oyster Slow-Poached in Oil

Taking aroma as the theme, I present these by building on my everyday work. These are sake accompaniments expressing 'the scent of winter.' For ikura…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 min

Red sea bream, turnip-steamed and topped with silver sauce

We cut the kuruma prawn into about 5 small pieces, keeping the balance with the other ingredients in mind. For the turnip combined with meringue, the…

Salmon tawara-style deep-fried, grilled-eggplant batter, chrysanthemum achara pickle

In the tawara-age, besides onion and long onion, I also add taro, and this makes it come through much more clearly as Japanese cuisine. The sticky…

Ezo Deer Saikyo-yaki — Daikon Simmered in Consommé, Watercress-Wasabi Sauce

After marinating overnight in Saikyo miso, it's cooked at low temperature in a convection oven, then finished with a seared color on the surface. For…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Tempura (juvenile sweetfish, Beni Haruka sweet potato (with a butterfly-shaped sweet potato garnish), new ginger deep-fried in tamari)

Coating the juvenile ayu's fins with flour, the way you would apply a decorative pinch of salt, is done to spread the fins out. Dropping the fish…

Whale meat pickled in miso, bottarga, sardines simmered with sansho pepper, chicken liver and cheese crackers, banded coral shrimp steeped in rice porridge, black konjac grilled in fragrant soy sauce, fava-bean dumpling shaped like a paper lantern, seared thick Kyoto-style fried tofu with butterbur miso, and crunchy pickled plum and crunchy udo, a mountain vegetable, on pine-needle skewers

Whale blubber loses its fat cleanly when you use Sado's 'Saigetsu' aged miso. For the whale meat pickled in miso, we parboil whale blubber in…

• ¥2,550

• Cook time 3 hr

Kuroge wagyu simmered sukiyaki-style

The signature dish is the Kuroge Wagyu Sukiyaki-Style Simmer. Under the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," where meat dishes used to be…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Roast beef kimiage, somen noodles, truffle salt

This time I introduce kimiage. The batter, made by adding water to egg yolk and mixing in flour, turns a vivid yellow color, which is why it's also…

Turnip Set in Dew-and-Frost Jelly; Grilled Fig in Prosciutto; Autumn Salmon and Chestnut Kowameshi

These are the three savory drinking snacks. For the turnip set in dew-and-frost jelly, since I named the course 'When the First Frost Falls,' I used…

Grilled Conger Eel with Red Miso, and Shibazuke Butter Sauce

For the grilled conger eel (anago) with red miso, I wanted a sauce that would suit not just meat but fish and vegetables too, which is how I arrived…

• ¥190

• Cook time 35 min

Grilled eel roll, local mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper miso, new-harvest sweet potato in salted honey, azuki bean cream cheese terrine, sweetfish Hakata-style pressed sushi, mountain stream crab fried and marinated in vinegar, green plum in a crystal-clear kuzu-starch glaze, and blanched taro stem with salted fish-innard paste

As for the local Mochibuta pork and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho miso: our local Mochibuta pigs are raised on feed blended with a high proportion…