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'Whale' — whale throat cartilage (Onagawa's traditional food culture: 'Whale')

This is the appetizer course. Taking as its theme the 'whale culture' rooted in Onagawa, a town on the eastern side of Miyagi Prefecture, I hoped…

• Serves 1 · ¥398

• Cook time 2 days

Triangular bamboo-leaf-wrapped rice dumpling

This is triangular chimaki, from "Rethinking the Cuisine Favored in Tokyo and Niigata Cuisine." It is a Niigata local dish, and we present this…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 50 min

Shinshu-style steamed tilefish with tea soba, shredded scallion, wasabi, and thickened seasoned dashi sauce

This time, on 'steamed dishes,' I learned from instructor Shimada (Ginza Kasuga). I take up 'Shinshū-mushi.'

Simmered-dish alternative: fukiyose-style autumn-leaf assortment

This is a simmered-dish alternative. I place pre-seasoned ingredients into a heat-resistant cooking film. The advantage of this technique is that…

• Serves 1 · ¥805

• Cook time 2 hr

Eel steamed with lotus root, wood ear mushroom, trefoil, wasabi

This time, for the steamed course, I learned from Chef Miyabe of Nihon Ryōri Wadakura at the Palace Hotel Tokyo. I feature an eel and lotus root…

Pufferfish milt, plum turnip, pufferfish deep-fried in rice cracker crumbs

Under 'counter work that creates repeat guests,' this time it's a steamed dish. We char-grill fugu shirako, set it on kombu, grate Shogoin turnip and…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 min

Matsushima Conger Eel Yōrō-Steamed, Zunda Habutae-Style Broth

This is the soup-course alternative from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. Matsushima Conger Eel Yōrō-Steamed with Zunda Habutae-Style Broth uses conger eel…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod age-dashi

This makes use of cod and prawn-shaped taro in season, both of which are emblematic winter ingredients. I designed this dish for the guests in their…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 50 min

Kombu-Cured Yellowtail with Mountain Yam

The vivid colors of ingredients such as yellowtail, scallion, and quail egg are wonderful.

Oyster in seven-layer sauce

For washing the oysters, an apple with strong acidity works best. Washing them with apple gives off a sweet-tart, fruity aroma from the oysters…

Yellowtail and turnip simmer with snow crab, shiitake, turnip, millet gluten, ginkgo nut, Kujo scallion, and yuzu

This cooking method makes the most of the seafood's flavor. All of the broth is transferred to the …

Assorted platter: nanban-style grilled barracuda, kabosu simmered in light syrup, Uda-kin burdock, tilefish with black rice, avocado baked in its shell, three kinds of rolled deep-fry

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,570

• Cook time 50 min

Kochi Tebako Pheasant 'Zōni'

This is the simmered dish from Kochi's New Year and regional home-style cuisine. Tebako Pheasant Zōni uses 'Tebako pheasant,' raised on Mt. Tebako at…

• Serves 1 · ¥555

• Cook time 40 min

Smoked Scallop, Autumn Cloud

These days we welcome a wide variety of guests, foreign guests included. I have been working on how a dish is staged and served, and I would like to…

• Serves 1 · ¥447

• Cook time 1 hr

Simmered monkfish liver with deep-fried shrimp-shaped taro, soaked in broth

The prep method for the ankimo is one I learned at a restaurant I worked at previously. Vacuum-sealing the ankimo to draw out the blood results in a…

Takiawase (braised Jinhua pork belly, potato sauce, new-harvest burdock, spinach, Japanese mustard)

Jinhua pork is a breed known as 'the phantom pig,' characterized by its distinctive umami and richness. The meat is placed whole, still in the block…

• ¥460

• Cook time 14 hr

Wild Boar Hoba-yaki, Grilled on a Magnolia Leaf

For Wild Boar Hoba-yaki, guests taste the classic pale flesh of wild boar loin now that it has developed fat. Delicious wild boar loin is normally…

• Serves 1 · ¥579

• Cook time 40 min

Kuruma Prawn Checkerboard, Kinko and Scallop Shinjo Wrap, Mountain Yam and Salmon Roe, Sesame Daigo, Warm-Smoked Salmon Kinuta-Maki, Early Bamboo Shoot in Habutae Kinome Coating

These are the appetizers. For the kinko (a traditional dried sea cucumber) and scallop fish-paste dumpling wrap: when I was young I was taught to…

Arigato Gobo Manju with Sarobetsu Duck

This is the Arigato gobo manju filled with Sarobetsu duck. Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables — here, Arigato gobo, a…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Signature Dish: "Beef Tendon Tamaji-mushi" — Wakegi Scallion, Wasabi

Beef tendon tamaji-mushi (savory steamed egg custard) is an arrangement of Suzunari's signature dish. Our restaurant is priced more affordably than…

• Serves 10 · ¥200

• Cook time 15 min

Pinecone-cut tokobushi, bamboo-cut asparagus and salmon roll, plum-shaped noshi with a naruto twist, black soybean wine jelly

We'd like to propose a way to make the most of true cod milt in season, a winter ingredient. Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Shijimi Clam Soup

Under the theme 'counter work that creates repeat guests,' I introduce simple dishes with a playful touch that please guests already well accustomed…

• Serves 1 · ¥80

• Cook time 1 min

Yuzu Vessel: Niigata Red Snow Crab, Lily Bulb, and Ginkgo Nut Grilled with Yuzu Miso

I serve Niigata's 'red snow crab' presented in a yuzu vessel (yuzu-gama — a hollowed-out yuzu peel used as a serving bowl), to bring out the…

• Serves 1 · ¥468

• Cook time 40 min

Roast Beef Marinated in Edo Sweet Miso

The roast beef marinated in Edo sweet miso that we make regularly at Yonemura, where I work, starts by trimming the shinshin cut (the central muscle…

• Serves 12 · ¥14,000

• Cook time 5 hr