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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…

Matsuwa Mackerel, Sesame-Miso Cream Bake

‘Sesame-Miso Cream Bake’ is a grilled dish built around regional ingredients, stylishly fusing simmered miso-mackerel with miso-fried eggplant — a…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Abalone tempura, Inaniwa udon, grated daikon, aromatics

This time, the basic rice course is 'Inaniwa udon.' We have guests eat it simply, with grated daikon and aromatics, but the temperature and time used…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Fish Sōmen

From the collection of dishes for beating the summer heat, this is the o-shinogi, a small filling course served partway through the meal. Fish sōmen…

• Serves 4 · ¥0

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Tosa-Age Herring Roe, Ginkgo Nuts

Herring roe is traditionally a winter food, but at our store we sometimes vacuum-frozen it and deli…

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

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

Tomato, water shield

You can savor the sweetness and deep, concentrated umami of Tokutani tomatoes, which boast a sugar content of 13 degrees Brix — more than twice that…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,500

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

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

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

Chilled Soft-Shelled Turtle Soup, Maru-Jitate, white asparagus ice cream, corn tofu

This is the first appetizer. The chilled turtle maru-jitate (a technique of simmering strong-flavored ingredients such as softshell turtle in sake…

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

Yamayuri pork harami, fruit-miso grilled

We add blueberries and white peaches to the miso base to give the pork a refreshing sweetness witho…

• ¥650

• Cook time 3 days

Crimson-Fuji Inaniwa udon, cloud-white abalone, tempura bits, aromatics

So that it's clear the tanuki — the shape-shifting trickster of folklore — has transformed itself into Crimson Fuji, I scattered tenkasu, the fried…

• Serves 4 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

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