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New Onion with Parmigiano

As June approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Juvenile Ayu and Summer Vegetables, Vinegar-Simmered

A device using rice vinegar so that guests will want to drink even the broth.

Chilled green tea and chicken (Mt. Fuji ice-drawn dashi, green tea, Suruga shamo chicken soup, avocado jade, eggplant wrap)

Thinking afresh about dashi in Japanese cuisine, I realized it's created through the synergy between glutamic acid and inosinic acid, the umami…

• Serves 10 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

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

Deep-Fried Juvenile Ayu, Sake-Steamed Icefish, Tamagoyaki, Bamboo Shoot Kinpira, Octopus Ogura-Ni

We placed importance on visual beauty and on being a combination that lets guests enjoy their sake.

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

Bamboo Shoot Manju

This is a dish where you can fully enjoy the aroma and deliciousness of bamboo shoot, a representative ingredient of spring. So that you can fully…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 20 min

Eggplant, deep-fried and marinated in dashi

This is eggplant agebitashi. I use Kumamoto's 'aka-nasu' (a red-skinned Kumamoto eggplant variety) because it's easy to work with. I peel the skin…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 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

Roasted wagyu fillet, bottarga sauce

I consider it the value of dining out at our restaurant to create theater in serving dishes that lets guests feel something out of the ordinary…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 50 min

Buen-gatsuo Tartare

This is a tartare made with Kagoshima 'buen-gatsuo' (bonito that is caught, flash-frozen, and shipped unsalted — 'buen' is local dialect for…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

White sesame blancmange (grilled fig, Japanese bayberry, lotus root crackers, black sugar syrup)

I made this dish centered on sesame and other Japanese ingredients, based on 'blancmange,' a dessert born in France. Since it's traditionally made…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 1 hr

Housemade-miso sukiyaki-style (shaved burdock, Kujō scallion, grated yam dumpling, spicy condiment, truffle)

The meat course, 'housemade-miso sukiyaki-style,' is cooked and finished right in front of the guest; the smell of the beef grilling and the savory…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 10 min

Spring greens and firefly squid

We value the green fragrance and refreshing texture of the wild mountain vegetables.

Autumn Truffle and Foie Gras Soba

No matter how well soba is kneaded, it has no fat, so when people want more umami, there's a tendency to pair it with tempura, fried tofu, and the…

Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style

This time I'll introduce a dish made with buckwheat flour: Gozen Soba, Cold Pasta Style. Gozen soba, a refined, fine-milled soba, won't hold together…

• Serves 1 · ¥565

• Cook time 10 min

Matsusaka beef, hot-water rinsed, with spring truffle (bianchetto), egg, mountain udo, angelica shoot, and Kyoto Kujō scallion

Since our restaurant handles Matsusaka beef of world-class quality, we think every day about how best to draw out its deliciousness — which…

Butter tea tofu — ice-cellar style

This is an appetizer course from a set of Japanese dishes built around black tea. (Black tea, 50 g: ¥1,200.) I made 'butter tea,' as drunk in Tibet…

• Serves 9 · ¥40

• Cook time 40 min

Pan-seared kneaded buckwheat dumpling

This is Pan-Seared Soba-gaki. 'Soba-gaki' usually means a warm dish eaten with buckwheat dough ladled over it, but here I sautéed it to make…

• Serves 1 · ¥319

• Cook time 15 min

Grated Daikon Pickle

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at 'Yonemura.' For the grated daikon pickle, we grate the daikon along with its juice, add…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 days

Kazunoko-Konbu Wrapped in Squid, Green Asparagus Yawata-Maki

This is the appetizer course. For the herring roe on kelp wrapped in squid: desalt it as usual. Removing all the salt would leave it flavorless, so…

Clam and bamboo shoot grilled with sansho-leaf miso, fava bean, Kyoto carrot, and mountain udo

At our restaurant we normally serve three appetizer courses, but through March and April it still gets cold at night, so we serve something warm as…

Sakura shrimp and Malabar spinach ohitashi

This is a dish where the savory aroma of fried sakura shrimp and the crisp crunch of the vegetables combine exquisitely. The tsurumurasaki is boiled…

• Serves 7 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Cold-smoked first-catch bonito

For the vinegared course, I designed it with women in their forties in mind, around the concept of “an unfamiliar pairing.” In all my cooking…

• ¥290

• Cook time 1 min