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Tilefish Matsukasa-age, with Sweet-and-Sour Thickened Sauce

Pine-cone-style fried tilefish is a classic dish, but I wanted to add a bit of a twist to the flavor. Wanting to serve it in the style of the Chinese…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 20 min

Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke

This is the rice course from Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Niukawa Ayu Ochazuke, ayu swim upstream in the rivers of the prefecture, so fishing…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,017

• Cook time 2 hr

Sweet Deep-Fried Carp

This is a fried dish reimagining Yamagata's local cuisine. For the Sweet Deep-Fried Carp, in Yamagata in the old days, carp was eaten as an…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,406

• Cook time 1 hr

Salt-Simmered Moon Bear

Wanting to convey, in a new style, ingredients that have fallen out of use along with changing times, and cooking methods no longer practiced in…

• Serves 4 · ¥14,857

• Cook time 2 hr

Fried Milt and Scallop, Turnip Mizore Agedashi Style

The key point of 'fried milt and scallop, turnip mizore agedashi style' is adding strong umami to the turnip mizore dashi using a stock taken from…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Shijimi Clam Chawanmushi, Cauliflower Surinagashi

This appetizer is a dish we also served during our pre-opening. The image is of something like a 'Japanese-style clam chowder.' The potato added to…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

Cherry Cheese Tofu

Ingredients from the past are disappearing along with the era. I recall how, where I live in Yamagata, the heavy snow meant that in winter foods were…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,986

• Cook time 45 min

Yamagata Salmon "Nijizakura"

This is a vinegared dish. Yamagata Salmon's "Nijizakura" is an ingredient developed over five years starting in 2013, born from producers' wish to…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

Winter cod deep-fried in fine rice-cracker crumbs, fan-shaped deep-fried milt

This is the deep-fried course. For the kandara mijinko-age, every January in the Shonai region of Yamagata Prefecture, the Kandara Festival is held…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Simmered dried skate (Yamagata Prefecture)

This is a takiawase, a combination-simmered dish. "Karakai-ni" is also a Yamagata local dish, eaten at New Year's and on celebratory occasions…

• Serves 2 · ¥850

• Cook time 3 hr

Dried purslane simmered with mixed vegetables (Yamagata Prefecture)

This is the first course. This purslane dish, hyo-boshi gomoku-ni, is one of the local dishes handed down in the Murayama region of Yamagata…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 40 min

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

Turnip and Duck Jibu-ni

This is a dish we've served since our restaurant's opening, out of my wish to 'preserve the excellent dishes that have existed since long ago.' It's…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 2 hr

Oyster lightly salted then sun-dried

The deep-fried dish is overnight-dried oyster. We rarely used to use oysters in the past, but advances in fisheries technology have made it possible…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 20 min

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

Salt-plank grilling

As part of "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is the grilled dish Salt-Plank Grilling. The "salt plank" is made by thoroughly kneading salt…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn sakura shrimp pureed soup

From the theme "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is a clear-soup course. The Autumn Sakura-Shrimp Puree Soup uses the juvenile sakura shrimp…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Oil-cured Pacific saury, duck cutlet sandwich, monkfish liver in a hollowed yuzu shell, and saikyo-miso-cured monkfish

This is the winter course. The Oil-Cured Pacific Saury is made the way oil-sardines are made, but using saury instead of sardine. Soaking it once in…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Tiger pufferfish aspic

I devised this dish under the theme of "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing." My restaurant, Wangu, will mark its 45th anniversary since founding in…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Sakura shrimp soba (green laver tempura crumbs and egg, scallion)

This is a dish that could be called our restaurant's signature. We serve it as something you can only eat here. It's a sakura shrimp soba: sakura…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu, Zenmaru Shiitake, Scallion Sprouts, Sudachi

Tiger fugu, which is normally enjoyed with the flavor of salt or soy sauce, we serve marinated in shuto (fermented salted bonito innards) broth and…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Sesame Soy-Milk Somen -- Using "Macro Tare"

We thought about "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine" by making use of a sauce that delivers impact without any animal-derived ingredients. The "Macro…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 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