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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…

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…

Awaji Island Goshiki-Torikai Spanish mackerel, smoked using low-temperature sous-vide

For the smoked sawara from Goshiki-Torikai on Awaji Island, I sous-vide the sawara (Spanish mackerel) with smoking salt at low temperature to keep…

• Serves 4 · ¥513

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed and simmered shark fin (Kesennuma's traditional food culture: 'Shark')

This is the simmered dish. Taking as its theme 'shark,' the food culture of Kesennuma City — Japan's top producer of shark fin — I've proposed this…

• Serves 1 · ¥987

• Cook time 2 days

Shinshu Salmon and Asparagus with Egg-Yolk Vinegar, Nagano Mountain Yam Pressed with Kombu, Shinshu Fukumidori Chicken Teriyaki, Cream Cheese Nikogori, Nozawana Pickle Nori Roll, and Vegetables with Sesame Cream

Shinshu salmon and asparagus with egg-yolk vinegar takes Shinshu salmon — usually served in hot pot or as sashimi — and gives it a different…

• ¥50

• Cook time 10 min

Grilled nut tofu, salt-fermented Ise lobster roe, a preparation shaped to resemble chestnuts, bottarga with squid and cheese Ohara-me style, Otafuku garland chrysanthemum greens with scallop and sea urchin

This is the sake accompaniment course. For the grilled nut tofu, I started with a base of sesame tofu and added walnuts and chestnuts, which are in…

• Serves 10 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 40 min

Turnip Set in Dew-and-Frost Jelly; Grilled Fig in Prosciutto; Autumn Salmon and Chestnut Kowameshi

These are the three savory drinking snacks. For the turnip set in dew-and-frost jelly, since I named the course 'When the First Frost Falls,' I used…

Kabocha Manju with Scallion-Ginger Sauce

For the kabocha manju with scallion sauce, I braise Kagoshima kurobuta (a prized black-pig pork breed) pork belly until tender and use it, along with…

• Serves 20 · ¥196

• Cook time 1 hr

Sesame tofu

The appetizer is sesame tofu. Normally we'd serve the ingredients laid out across separate vessels, but this time I arranged steamed abalone, caviar…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,650

• Cook time 2 days

Scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried scallop sauce

For the scallop and kuruma prawn lotus-root cake, Hakata-style steamed, with dried-scallop sauce, scallop is thick-fleshed and full of flavor, but…

• ¥620

• Cook time 30 min

Scallop yakishimo

This is scallop that's been seared, then ice-chilled. It's plated with grilled matsutake mushroom, garland chrysanthemum, Sakamoto chrysanthemum, and…

• ¥600

• Cook time 15 min

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

Cream cheese kuzu tofu, Miura-style chilled scrambled egg, summer vegetable namasu pickled in salt-koji and honey

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. Since there is little seafood available to use in summer, I built the menu around vegetables. Cream cheese kuzu…

• ¥120

• Cook time 1 days

Pen Shell and Kuruma Prawn in Amber Sauce, Kombu-Cured Kisu with Yōrō Yam Sauce, Anago with Crushed Soybean Dressing, Turban Shell and New Potato with Liver Dressing, Steamed Abalone

This is the sakizuke course, an appetizer. The fig is peeled of its thin skin and steamed briefly to soften it. The eggplant is deep-fried in oil…

Alfonsino steamed with a white, elder-style finish

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 30 min

Crab Yaki-Shabu, Sesame Ochazuke

This is the rice course made with Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables: "overwintered cabbage, snow-covered carrot, crab yaki-shabu with sesame…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,520

• Cook time 1 hr

White sesame tofu, fragrant steamed sweetfish, quail egg styled as eggplant, steamed abalone, foie gras hakata, corn shinjo, muscat grapes in tofu dressing

This is the appetizer course, a seven-item assortment. The fragrant steamed ayu is steamed with a fragrant oil used in Chinese cooking added to the…

Ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, arrow-fletching-cut mountain yam grilled with egg yolk, tree-ring-cut spring daikon, new water shield, abalone steamed with sake, matcha tofu, bamboo-wrapped sea bream sushi, black-tea-smoked salt-cured pork

For the accompanying dishes, I used green tea and black tea. For the ark shell and spring greens with scrambled egg, I hold the mountain leek in a…

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu Milt, Fresh Green Laver Sauce, Wasabi

This dish is inspired by the image of a high-quality Japanese-style risotto, made with the rich, me…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Three kuroge wagyu beef dishes: smoked tenderloin, red miso-braised round, and sirloin grilled with sake lees

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: generous use of multiple cuts of wagyu beef. Under the motto "what's…

• Serves 1 · ¥670

• Cook time 40 min

Tomato Purée

This is a chilled dish. For the tomato purée, I blanch tomatoes and press them through a sieve. Since there is a lot of liquid, I knead half of it…

• ¥150

• Cook time 20 min

Bamboo shoot in a boat-shaped presentation, shrimp crystal-coated in gelatin, broad bean simmered in syrup, rapeseed blossom topped with snowflake meringue and served with egg-yolk mustard, three-color cherry-blossom tofu, and spring baby turnip three-color cherry-blossom-viewing dumplings

For the appetizer course, the bamboo shoot funamori is bamboo shoot rehydrated in rice bran, then rinsed of the bran and shaped into a boat. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Kawakawa tuna

This is the sashimi course. The kawakawa tuna is farm-raised. The farm currently raising it is in Wakayama Prefecture, under the brand name 'Umi no…

• Serves 20 · ¥3,800

• Cook time 1 hr

Beef Tenderloin Stone-Grilled, Sea Urchin

This is a yakimono. Tenderloin Stone-Grilled is built on the concept of eating meat with in-season shiomizu uni, salt-water sea urchin, as the…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 3 min