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Flounder, Ark Shell Clam, and Tiger Prawn with Kombu Aroma

From 'counter work that creates repeat guests,' this is the fresh-fish course. One of the strengths of a counter is being able to serve sashimi cut…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 min

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Eggplant burger (fruit tomato, soft-poached quail egg, Parmigiano, Kamoji scallion)

When people hear 'charcoal-grilled,' many picture yakitori, so I sandwich tare-glazed tsukune between slices of eggplant, giving it a burger style…

• Serves 1 · ¥210

• Cook time 50 min

Gunma Prefecture Masuda Beef, Low-Temperature Roast

My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount Tanigawa, in Minakami, Gunma Prefecture. The view…

• Serves 1 · ¥820

• Cook time 1 hr

Kishū-style steamed dish with Ezo abalone, pickled ume, silver sauce, and aromatic tachibana citrus peel

Since it's February, this is a chawanmushi made with plum. For the pickled ume, we use a low-salt type of nankō ume, and use only about a quarter of…

King crab and lotus root manju, chrysanthemum-cut daikon in sake-lees pickle, millet wheat gluten Dutch-style simmered, bamboo-leaf-cut kabocha

This time, on 'simmered dishes,' I learned from technical director Saito (Nihon Ryōri Kinari). This time I take up 'renkon manju.'

Small abalone, lucky soybeans daisen-ni, kuruma prawn double roll, baked chicken cake with poppy seeds

Fugu

This is a raw dish. With fugu, thickness is the key point, so I slice it a bit thick. It's a milt sauce with truffle flavor — slicing the milt raw…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 40 min

Swordfish baked with rice-bran koji

Since Japanese seasonings like soy sauce and miso are built on koji, I wondered if I could make something using koji. I use a rice-bran pickling bed…

• Serves 2 · ¥456

• Cook time 15 min

Spot prawn baked in egg batter

This uses spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori. This is the grilled course. For the botan shrimp tamaji-yaki, I make it with…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail shabu-shabu with grated daikon

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. Here, this stands in for the sashimi course rather than a hot pot. For the yellowtail…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 4 days

Foie gras savory steamed egg custard, frozen konjac layered Hakata-style, monkfish set in jelly, mackerel sushi wrapped kosode-sleeve style, plum-shaped arrowhead tuber, kuruma prawn lightly simmered in dashi Edo-mae style, egg-bearing baby octopus simmered in a savory sauce, lettuce stem, Chinese yam, and crab with plum rice porridge, and rapeseed blossoms with mustard dressing

For the appetizer course's foie gras chawanmushi, the foie gras is broken up into pieces before being used.

Herb-and-Breadcrumb Baked Oysters, Conger Eel Yawata-maki, Monkfish Liver in Butter-Soy Sauce

This is an introduction of dishes paired with Japanese white wine. This is a grilled dish. For the herb-and-breadcrumb baked oysters, the oysters are…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Marinated grilled longtooth grouper and fragrant grilled Ise lobster

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a grilled dish. Our ryokan has quite a distance between the kitchen and the guest…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 2 days

White Miso Broth, Softshell Turtle Wrapped in Mochi

This is a soup course. This is a technique that Chef Yamamoto, whom I trained under, often used: he would steam cut rice cakes in happō dashi until…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Snow crab shinjo and Tennoji turnip clear soup

I designed this dish around the early-season (hashiri) appearance of Tennoji turnip, as a way to make use of a winter ingredient. It was a transfer…

• Serves 6 · ¥680

• Cook time 40 min

Seared-skin fugu, sudachi, milt sauce

Fugu has more umami and flavor the more you chew it, so at our restaurant we grill it over charcoal with the skin left on. Grilling firms up the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Straw-Grilled Wild Boar

Straw-grilled wild boar is a dish where thicker-cut boar loin is grilled boldly over burning straw, and the savory aroma of the burning straw stirs…

• ¥732

• Cook time 15 min

Charcoal-Scented Tuna Roll

I use charcoal vinegar — red vinegar steeped for about two days with charred brown rice to transfer its aroma. I also grind and mix in some brown…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 15 min

Sado pufferfish ball-shaped sushi, Sado yellowtail and turnip fermented sushi, Niigata smoked salmon with mustard-egg-yolk vinegar, and garland chrysanthemum greens with Niigata edible chrysanthemum steeped in ponzu

First is the appetizer course. Using Sado Island's seasonal Niigata ingredients — Sado fugu, Sado salmon, and Sado yellowtail — I prepare each as an…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,311

• Cook time 1 hr

Beef Short Rib Simmered in Sweet Tea, Topped with Strained Runner Bean Purée

This is a simmered dish made with sweet tea. (Sweet tea, 60g: 650 yen.) For Beef Short Rib Simmered in Sweet Tea, I built the simmering liquid on the…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Oden-Style Seafood Steamed with Irizake, Hokkaido Overwintered Vegetables Simmered in White Wine

This is a simmered dish of Hokkaido overwintered snow-covered daikon, carrot, and scallion. Both the seafood steamed with irizake, a…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 3 hr

Ise lobster and Tennoji turnip, grilled with ginjo sesame sauce

This makes use of the winter ingredient Tennoji turnip in season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani Osaka, and getting to know the…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Tajima Chicken Asuka-Nabe — Ceylon Tea Style

This is a small individual hot pot dish built around Ceylon black tea. (Reference: Ceylon black tea, 100 g: ¥570.) For the broth in the Tajima…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min