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Spanish mackerel and napa cabbage snow-viewing hot pot with yuzu-and-chili condiment

This dish makes use of Fukuoka's Tokusen Hon-Sawara, exceptionally fresh Japanese Spanish mackerel. Eating it together with sweet napa cabbage lets…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Fig with sesame cream, salmon pressed hakata-style, grilled pharaoh cuttlefish with basil, smoked pike conger deep-fried and rolled around burdock, grilled whiting sandwich with mysid-shrimp soy flavor and aromatic vegetables, autumn salmon steamed yoro-style, eel roll, herring roe on kelp with an egg-yolk mustard sauce

For the appetizer's Fig with Sesame Cream, the figs discolor the moment they are bruised even slightly, so we use fresh, not-too-ripe fruit. The…

Monkfish liver in citrus vinegar sauce, green peas in tofu dressing, dried sea cucumber roe, oval coin-shaped savory castella, steamed abalone, yuzu and cheese terrine

This is the appetizer course. For the monkfish liver in chiri-zu, the monkfish liver is cleaned and soaked in water, then steeped in milk for 20…

Black Wagyu Lean Meat, Scallop Arare, and Daikon Mochi

I created this dish under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." This is a simmered dish. To let guests enjoy a variety of ingredients, I've woven them…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 3 hr

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

Wakasa-style grilled tilefish

For the yakimono tilefish wakasa-yaki, the tilefish is wind-dried, brushed lightly with light soy sauce, and grilled over a distant flame so the skin…

Blanched and seasoned Japanese mustard spinach

Komatsuna is also called winter greens, and it becomes sweeter and more delicious once the frost has fallen. The komatsuna sold today is a hybrid…

Kuruma Prawn and Fig Mizore-Ae

This is a dish where the balance between grated daikon and the other ingredients is extremely important. If there's too much grated daikon, the dish…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min

Buckwheat-dumpling-style Tanba steamed dish, saury simmered in vinegar, oyster grilled with sansho pepper, crystal ginkgo, butterfish salt-grilled, sweet potato simmered in bitter orange, mushroom marinade, persimmon and muscat grape cream-cheese shira-ae, fig dengaku

This is a nine-item appetizer assortment. For the soba-gaki-style tamba-mushi, the sweetness of the chestnuts varies considerably by season, so the…

Yuba-coated salad, jellied monkfish, smoked pufferfish in vinegar pickle, Yamato yam grilled with nori, yuzu mochi, kokera-zushi, namasu, seared julienned dried squid, and arrowhead crackers

The appetizers are plated as separate individual items so each one can also be served on its own. The uni in the yuba-coated salad is fine to use…

Sea Cucumber with Soy pulp, Abalone Liver with Butter, Black Sesame Egg with a Touch of Rin Glaze, Arihei-Style Squid, Yellowtail and Bettarazuke Hakata-Style, Plum Monaka, Matcha Kinton with Budou-mame, Herring Roe Namasu

This is the course preceding the hassun course. For the sea cucumber with soy pulp, I put the sea cucumber in a bamboo colander together with round…

• Serves 1 · ¥830

• Cook time 1 hr

Pufferfish soft roe mochi, napa cabbage pureed soup, bamboo shoot flower-raft garnish

Fugu shirako is a prized, expensive ingredient valued for its creamy, rich flavor; in season it is typically served as grilled shirako or in fugu…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Sashimi: Daikon Wrap

This is the sashimi course. I added a twist to the presentation, bringing some fun to an otherwise ordinary sashimi course. Which fish is inside is a…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 15 min

Ise spiny lobster grilled with golden egg yolk, seared Sendai beef, bottarga, yuzu-grilled winter yellowtail, kombu-cured herring roe, seven-treasure namasu, lantern-shaped herring, miso-marinated winter cod milt, grilled sea urchin, teriyaki monkfish liver

This is the celebratory platter from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. For 'Golden-Grilled Ise Spiny Lobster,' I paid close attention to the heat so the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 1 hr

Dried daikon spiral roll, sea bream shinjo and minced shrimp terrine, herring kelp roll, tender-simmered beef, tube-cut burdock and accordion-cut kabocha

We prepared two simmered dishes. For the dried daikon Naruto-maki, we first peel the daikon into a continuous thin sheet, parboil it once to remove…

Herring roe and wasabi in tofu dressing, pine-needle skewers, cod grilled with saikyo miso glaze, a twist on namasu, amber-marinated quail egg

For the herring roe and wasabi shira-ae — herring roe is used in New Year's cooking for its meaning of "many children" — this time I bring in a hint…

Mochi-kujira whale in vinegar-miso dressing, chicken breast in steamed white-loin style with yuzu chili paste oil, pressed vegetables, arrowhead bulb balls, wax-glazed grilled shrimp, monkfish liver kintsuba, Omi konjac, whelk deep-fried in seaweed batter, lily bulb monaka, plum-flesh swirl, layered egg

As for the mochi-kujira in vinegar-miso dressing, whale is rarely used these days because of the whaling ban, but since it's a nostalgic ingredient…

Cherry salmon and mugwort fu sandwich-grilled, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho-leaf soy sauce, beef loin saikyo-yaki

As part of the presentation, this grilled tray course expresses ‘a pleasant bitterness.’ It’s made up of a variety of ingredients — sakuramasu, beef…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,250

• Cook time 1 hr

Alfonsino grilled in saikyo miso, fragrant one-night-dried pufferfish, avocado pickled in fermented rice malt and honey, daikon sliced into thin paper-like sheets and pickled in vinegar, gourd-shaped red shiso-pickled vegetables, kumquat stuffed with sweetened mashed filling, Yamato yam rolled tomoe-style, layered kombu pickled in miso, and lotus root cut into a snow-ring pattern and pickled in vinegar

This is the celebratory grilled course. The yuzu-basket serving is shrimp-shaped taro peeled, steamed, coated in roasted glutinous-rice flour, and…

Rein-patterned sushi roll, clams dressed lantern-style, five-color vegetable hina-arare, spring-mountain octopus, bamboo shoot and fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf, ostrich-fern fiddlehead rolled with sesame, and dawn-tinted lily bulb

And thinking of bamboo shoots in the spring hills and fields, we have the bamboo shoot and fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf. Cogomi rikyū-maki…

Sea Cucumber, Crab Roe, Shark Fin Miso-Marinade, Karasumi and Silver Yellowtail Daikon Roll, Herring-Roe Kelp Shio-Koji Fresh Yuba Roll, and More

We take several days to soften the sea cucumber and let it absorb a two-part seasoned broth. Underneath, we lay down a bed of grated daikon mixed…

Salmon Iizushi and New-Crop Rice Okoge

This is an expression of modern regional cuisine. Original regional dish: salmon iizushi Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 min

Raw salmon roe in soy marinade, monkfish liver neatly rolled in thin-sliced turnip, saimaki shrimp hot-oil-blanched, and deep-fried shrimp heads

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 30 min

Turnip cup with monkfish liver and carrot in beef-shank dashi sauce, beef tendon and persimmon namasu, inner thigh beef cured in squid shiokara, seared outer thigh beef with crab miso sauce, fried beef shank coated in maitake mushroom and bottarga, oysters wrapped in beef belly

Since the toast at the start of the meal is often beer or chilled sake even in winter, I wanted something warm that lets you feel the umami. For the…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr