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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…

Momiji-dai, Autumn Sea Bream, Kombu-Cured with Matsutake

I devised this dish under the theme of matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. This time, I would like to propose a dish that pairs autumn…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Soba shinjo, quail dumplings, late-season matsutake

This is the soup course. The soba shinjo uses soba, mochi flour, and Japanese mountain yam, so it uses every part that makes up the character for…

• Serves 4 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Matsutake Steeped with Chrysanthemum Petals, Black Olive Coating Salad, Celeriac Mousse, Grilled Chicken White Liver with Toast, Sado Shrimp with Caviar, Wagyu Tongue Simmered Tender, Salmon and Lotus Root Roll with Process Cheese

This is the seasonal-vegetable course. We'll go through it in order. First is the grilled matsutake steeped with chrysanthemum petals. We simply boil…

Parcel-grilled beltfish, Spanish mackerel rolled with shredded vegetable filling and grilled, eel-fin rolls

For the grilled course's eel-fin rolls: there is a variety of sweet pepper that's thick, long, and not very spicy, which I cut into thin strips…

Blue Swimmer Crab Autumn-Color Tamaji-Mushi

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: designed with photogenic appeal for guests in their twenties and thirties…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish and early matsutake sandwiched and grilled, beltfish tazuna-yaki, shrimp shinjo naruto, and other dishes

The tachiuo tazuna-yaki: weave the tachiuo into a rein shape, sandwich burdock inside, and salt-grill it. The squid kimi-yaki: salt bigfin reef squid…

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

Butterfish Saikyo-Yaki, Scallop in Sake-Lees and Shuto Marinade, Kuruma Shrimp

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. This time it's the fragrance of smoke. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 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

Spiny lobster egg-yolk deep-fry — matsutake hakusen-age, sudachi, plain salt

This time, we learned about "agemono" from new master Masaya Tsuji (Wanmiya). We will focus on "Koromoage".

Sawara with Shuto Sauce, Monkfish with Its Own Liver, Shellfish Terrine, Seared Autumn Mackerel Sushi, Beef and Asparagus Rolls, Duck Yuba Rolls, Thick Rolled Omelette, Okra Tofu, Matsutake and Chrysanthemum Vinegar Marinade, Persimmon Shira-ae, Purple Sweet Potato Chakin

This is the seasonal course, the sashimi course. For the sawara with shuto (fermented, salted fish innards) sauce, the shuto is simmered down in sake…

Guji and Matsutake Clear-Soup Course, Sous-Vide

This is a proposal for matsutake cuisine with a new sense of value. I myself have long experience studying Kyoto cuisine, and I like the philosophy…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 10 min

Matsutake rice wrapped in magnolia leaf, pickles

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: the classic autumn takikomi rice. I thought that many people in their…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Tilefish grilled with three flavors, hairy crab, late-season matsutake wrapped in Joshu pork, Joshu pork spare ribs, Joshu pork heart and liver

For the grilled course, I tried smoke-grilling using an Iga-nabe (Iga pot). This Iga-nabe has a distinctive shape and a very strong far-infrared…

Late-season pike conger and early matsutake teapot-steamed soup

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: the pairing of two luxury ingredients, pike conger and matsutake…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled Matsutake, Seared Hamo

Appealing to the eye — watching it grill is a feast for the eyes. Matsutake mushroom and hamo (pike conger), two premium autumn ingredients, being…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 30 min

Pike conger and matsutake, gently simmered

This is what's known as a 'deai-mono' — a dish pairing two ingredients that come into season together — for autumn. It's a simple dish you often see…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 20 min

Filefish, Grilled Matsutake Mushroom, Cauliflower Mushroom

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. Rather than the bold, assertive fragrance of…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsutake mushroom simmered shigure-style, mackerel checkerboard pressed sushi, lily bulb with chrysanthemum fragrance, sweetfish grilled with its own roe, yam bulbils in a diced coating, mustard-stuffed lotus root, mochi and ginkgo nuts tossed with sea urchin

Salt-plank grilling

As part of "A Restaurant's Work, Ever-Changing," this is the grilled dish Salt-Plank Grilling. The "salt plank" is made by thoroughly kneading salt…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Blanched pike conger and grilled eggplant in amber jelly, kuruma prawn and udo rolled in a parchment-style wrap, aigamo duck wrapped and grilled with matsutake, Pacific saury with motte-giku chrysanthemum in an apple vinegar dressing, small turnip simmered in all-purpose dashi, bonito skin simmered in tamari, whiting grilled jade-green, and pumpkin and cheese moon-viewing dumplings

For the appetizer's pike conger and grilled eggplant set in amber jelly, the pike conger has been quickly blanched, but since it can be eaten as…

Matsumae kelp-wrapped steamed dish

A steamed dish built around regional ingredients. For Matsumae-mushi, I had in mind a Tanzawa-mountains version of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 1 hr