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Shirokane Pork and Apple, Steamed

Wanting to use a seasonal fruit, I experimented and came up with the idea of pairing pork's umami with apple, to see whether I could create a new…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 30 min

Sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom rolled in thin overlapping apple slices, spiral-rolled young bamboo shoot, sakura lily bulb pressed into a sheet, halfbeak vegetable sushi, bush-warbler-green lotus root, sea snail spring-fragrance fritter, and pistol shrimp glazed simmer

A springtime array of color. For the sakura sea bream and rapeseed blossom apple senmaki roll, the rapeseed blossoms are boiled in mustard water and…

• Serves 30 · ¥960

• Cook time 40 min

King salmon cold-smoked and vinegar-cured, bottarga cold-smoked and vinegar-cured, small sea bream cured with bamboo grass, butterfish vinegar-cured, barracuda rolled with chrysanthemum, Japanese mountain yam with salmon roe sauce, and vinegar-set yam

Let me start by explaining the vinegared dish course. As for the king salmon ogawa-jime, the king salmon is soaked in a soy sauce saumure…

Snow crab cedar-plank bake, duck roast with black pepper, tilefish ponzu jelly, clam kuzu simmer, sake-simmered saimaki prawn, rolled plum sheet and sake lees, Hakata-style, sweet chestnut mash, apple and dried persimmon in tofu dressing

For the snow crab cedar-plank bake, I use snow crab at its best during the Minor Cold season, in early January, and steam-bake it on a cedar plank to…

• ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Apple Gratin

This is a reimagining of Gunma Prefecture's local cuisine. This is a grilled dish. The Apple Gratin is an attempt to let guests eat the apple…

• Serves 1 · ¥540

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed Chicken with Nametake Sauce

At our membership-based restaurants, I make a sample using ingredients that can be reliably obtained, and have each restaurant prepare it themselves…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Shinano yukimasu ogawa roll wrapped in nozawana, rapeseed blossom-apple-iwana oyako koji dressing, Shinshu beef and chrysanthemum-greens checkerboard hakusen-age, three-colored egg terrine with cherry blossoms, miso-marinated fuki wrapped tōji-style in yuba and grilled, runner bean awayuki terrine, leaf wasabi and yam sushi

Let's begin with the appetizers. For the Shinano yukimasu ogawa roll wrapped in nozawana, ogawa is normally made using minced squid or white fish…

Tawara-shaped shrimp taro, eel kombu roll, apple and egg-batter grill, bottarga rusk, abalone, chicken in fan shape, twist-cut konjac, salmon cut in plum-blossom shape, grilled sea cucumber dressed with vinegar served in a yuzu cup, pine nut kinton, stem lettuce in mustard-koji pickle

Starting with the appetizers. In the mallet-shaped vessel I've arranged a "pine-bamboo-plum" motif. There's the tawara-shaped ebi-imo taro, chicken…

Apple Yogurt Mousse

The apple yogurt mousse is set into a baked apple that's been hollowed out to serve as a shell, and it's served chilled. Baking an apple for a long…

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…

Shinshu giant char cylinder roll, char roe in soy marinade, autumn fruit and walnut mousse, Shinshu pork steamed with sansho, grilled maitake with foie gras, chrysanthemum petal salad, Shinshu salmon with egg-yolk mustard sauce

This is an appetizer presented in hassun (seasonal-assortment course) style, using Nagano Prefecture's prized traditional vegetables and, since it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Sesame tofu, Matsusaka pork shio-koji ham, white-miso tofu dressing

This is from the appetizer course. Sesame tofu is usually made with genuine kuzu starch, but here we used Inagel, a product from Ina Food Industry…

• ¥450

• Cook time 2 hr

Eel and Vegetables in Vinegar Marinade

The vinegared dish is eel and vegetables in vinegar marinade. I hear eel shops were swamped this past summer, but in washoku, eel's true season is…

Hairy Crab with Egg-Yolk Cream; Nagaimo and Motte-giku in Vinegar; Jellied Fugu; Bottarga; Apple-Salmon Roll

This is the appetizer course. For the hairy crab with egg-yolk cream, I arrange asparagus and hairy crab and pour over a sauce made in the manner of…

Leaf-cut whiting, apple gratin, aigamo duck brocade-style grilled

For the crab apple gratin, deep-frying the apple whole first makes the skin easy to peel off by hand afterward, and it holds its shape well when…

Shellfish and apple namasu; warm-smoked Pacific saury kosode-zushi; sweet potato shaped as chestnuts; burdock deep-fry, aged-wood style; kabocha and beef rolled and simmered; shrimp, crystal-glazed

This is an assembled course of small paired dishes. For the warm-smoked Pacific saury kosode-zushi, a sleeve-shaped pressed sushi, the saury is…

Milt tofu; kombu-cured cod; persimmon wrapped in prosciutto, and more

The baked apple is made by cutting apple into comb-shaped wedges, coating generously with granulated sugar, and baking in the oven; once cooled and…

Three Kinds of Meat Hoba-Yaki

Finally, three miso dishes. In winter, I wanted guests to warm up with miso-based preparations and the like. The first is three kinds of meat grilled…

Hitachi beef yawata-maki, Pacific saury grilled bountiful-harvest style, salmon Mont Blanc-style

The grilled dish is Hitachi beef yawata-maki, a burdock roll named for the Yawata region. Whenever we have an opportunity like this exhibition, we…

Scallop with apple vinegar dressing, wild blowfish in a jellied soy milk cocktail, kombu-cured sardine with Kyoto mustard greens

Starting with the appetizer course. The scallop with apple vinegar dressing uses the vinegar's acidity to stimulate saliva production and increase…

Pufferfish served in a yuzu shell, tilefish steamed with grated turnip, apple dressed with grated daikon

Our proprietress practices Japanese traditional dance, and the vocal calls given during the performance are known as interjecting calls. At our…

Tsugaru-Style Bake

The Tsugaru-style bake is made by combining ingredients that are all harvested in Aomori, so I think it leaves an impression. Normally it doesn't use…

Baked Purple Sweet Potato and Apple, Hakata-Style

Another dish is the purple sweet potato and apple, Hakata-style (layered so the cut cross-section shows colored stripes). Normally, when we serve…

Crab hōsho-maki, sockeye salmon chrysanthemum roll, persimmon and pear ichimatsu

The crab hōsho-maki is made by steaming king crab, removing the meat and picking out the shell fragments, wrapping it in daikon to resemble folded…