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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

Misaki-gazami Yoro-mushi, Steamed with Grated Mountain Yam

Building on autumn ingredients, this is a nimono-gawari, a dish that stands in for the simmered course, featuring Misaki-gazami. For Misaki-gazami…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Kawamata shamo chicken nanban with perilla-seed sauce, warm udon

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dishes: jūnen cold-sauce udon and egoma (perilla seed) dishes Fukushima Prefecture covers a large…

• Serves 2 · ¥450

• Cook time 50 min

Autumn brocade platter: kogarashi-yose, smoked autumn duck, oil-simmered roe-bearing ayu, and pike conger and matsutake ōharagi-age

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a large shared platter that makes people want to take a photo. I designed…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 20 min

Salmon, Ikura, and Mushroom Rice, with Salmon Yuan-Yaki

A masterpiece cooked up with a rich, clear seafood stock in which you can sense the umami of a variety of fish, making lavish use of showcase…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, Deep-Fried in Mochi-Rice Batter

For Misaki-gazami Kachin-age, since the crab's umami grows weaker in its nagori period — the last-of-the-season stretch — I thought it would work…

• Serves 1 · ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod Oyako Clear-Soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the Cod Oyako Clear-Soup — oyako meaning "parent and child," pairing cod flesh with cod roe — in the Tohoku region…

• Serves 1 · ¥570

• Cook time 30 min

Lotus Root Shinjo

This is the simmered-dish course. As for the lotus root shinjo, in-season lotus root, when left to rest until late autumn, has its starch convert…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Ginkgo nuts and miso-pickled egg with sea urchin dressing, apple and persimmon checkerboard coated in white sauce, Ishikawa taro with nori, spicy simmered shimeji, shrimp and sea bream ball-shaped sushi, pressed dried sardine sheet, deep-fried shrimp legs and lotus root

This is a sake accompaniment. We have arranged, in a display-style presentation, the little bites we normally serve between courses to go with sake…

Sixteen-grain Fukagawa rice, mushroom and egg soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by Ms. Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that sparked my interest in yakuzen. Since…

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 35 min

Champignon pureed soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is the clear-soup course. The Champignon Surinagashi — a ground, strained purée-style…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

The Land of Toyo: pike conger and kabosu shabu-shabu

Popularity points and particular care taken In Tokyo or Osaka, hamo tends to be seen as a premium, upscale fish, but where I'm from in Oita…

Spiny lobster grilled with egg yolk and salt-fermented bonito viscera, wagyu beef rolled with burdock, wheel-shaped wheat gluten, steak-style

This is a grilled dish. For the Ise lobster grilled with egg yolk and shuto, since the lobster meat becomes springy and hard to bite through when…

• ¥1,720

• Cook time 2 hr

Autumn Salmon, Autumn-Brocade Rice Cream Croquette

This is a fried dish. The autumn salmon and autumn-brocade rice cream croquette uses salmon, soy milk skin, and white sauce. Since we run an inn, we…

• Serves 30 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Mochi ginkgo, shimeji and duck jibu-ni, manganji pepper stuffing, turban shell liver salad, and more

The mochi ginkgo is made by cooking ginkgo nuts through, pressing them through a fine sieve, mixing them with glutinous rice flour, steaming, and…

Oyster and Persimmon Miso Gratin

Baked Apple, Tsugaru-Style

This is a shiizakana, an additional hearty course. For the apple Tsugaru-style, we hollow out an apple and fill it with scallop, mochi, and shimeji…

• ¥325

• Cook time 1 days

Golden eye snapper, hen-of-the-woods mushroom, and shimeji mushroom egg tofu

The centerpiece dish is kinmedai, maitake, and shimeji egg tofu. The kinmedai is marinated in a citrus-soy marinade and grilled, and it is layered:…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 30 min

Rice-paper-wrapped deep-fry

I took the liberty of naming this dish 'hagoromo-age' myself. Rice paper is often cut into round shapes and used as a serving vessel, but I wondered…

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell, saikyo-miso style

This is the simmered course. For the Ise lobster gusoku-ni, Saikyo-style, I split the lobster lengthwise into three pieces, coat them in potato…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Yellowtail and napa cabbage layered terrine, monkfish liver

This is a course meant to encourage more sake. For the yellowtail and napa cabbage hakata terrine, steaming for about an hour softens the napa…

• ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Barracuda bo-zushi, grilled mushrooms and chrysanthemum greens with sudachi in a kettle, abalone grilled with fragrant nori

This is the appetizer course. For the abalone grilled with fragrant nori, the abalone is layered in two: a liver-based sauce beneath softly steamed…

Light Kuzu-Thickened Soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the tilefish steamed with turnip, grated turnip is mixed with glutinous rice flour and steamed slowly at 90°C for…

Roe-style, Ise lobster shinjo

●Ise Lobster Shinjo: the Ise lobster is steamed with sake and the top flesh is separated and reserved. Shiba shrimp is worked into surimi and…