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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…

Winter Melon Simmered to Absorb the Broth

I developed this dish using in-season autumn ingredients, aiming to reduce the number of steps while still giving guests an impression through aroma…

• Serves 3 · ¥50

• Cook time 1 hr

White asparagus with kuruma prawn cream, tofu sauce, snap peas, shiso sprouts, and bracken fern

Cream cheese marinated in sake lees is something we also serve as a stand-alone dish at our restaurant. The batch used this time has been marinated…

Kuruma Prawn Checkerboard, Kinko and Scallop Shinjo Wrap, Mountain Yam and Salmon Roe, Sesame Daigo, Warm-Smoked Salmon Kinuta-Maki, Early Bamboo Shoot in Habutae Kinome Coating

These are the appetizers. For the kinko (a traditional dried sea cucumber) and scallop fish-paste dumpling wrap: when I was young I was taught to…

Fish somen made with all-purpose surimi powder

This time, I thought about how Suzuhiro Kamaboko Co., Ltd.'s "All-Purpose Surimi Powder" — I'll call it "surimi powder" from here on — could be put…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 15 min

Miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, fava bean and kuruma prawn sandwiched and deep-fried, and young corn grilled with fermented fish-innards paste

For the miso-grilled beltfish with avocado, beltfish is in season in summer and quite fatty, yet has a fluffy texture and a relatively light flavor…

• ¥500

• Cook time 40 min

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

Grilled Tomato and Winter Melon Simmered in Consommé

The first course is an appetizer (sakizuke) using vegetables that grow tastier from summer into autumn: grilled tomato and winter melon simmered in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Salmon Roe in Golden Marinade, Hairy Crab Spring Rolls, Amigasa Yuzu, Shrimp Kōsen-age, King Oyster Mushroom Age-ni, Lotus Root Itoko-ni, Senpōshi Oyster Slow-Poached in Oil

Taking aroma as the theme, I present these by building on my everyday work. These are sake accompaniments expressing 'the scent of winter.' For ikura…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 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…

Cherry-Blossom Sea Bream and Rapeseed Blossom Kombu-Cured, Butterbur Kosode Sushi, Sardine and Snap Pea Nanban-Marinade, Icefish and Shirataki Noodles with Kinome Miso Dengaku, Cherry-Leaf and Lily Bulb Squeeze, Bamboo-Leaf Mugwort Sesame Tofu, Baby Octopus and Sea Bream Roe Simmered with Cherry Blossom

This is the appetizer course, seven dishes for a spring evening. The cherry-blossom sea bream and rapeseed blossom kombu-cured dish is plated…

• ¥580

• Cook time 2 hr

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

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

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

Chilled savory black tea water-bead jelly

A tea's flavor matters, but I think its aroma is one of the great pleasures too, and with the idea that a variety of aromas can be enjoyed through…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Firefly squid simmered in shuto, sea bream milt in savory broth, grilled bamboo shoot, two-tone dyed lotus root, green peas simmered to a jade-green hue

For the firefly squid shuto-simmered, firefly squid spoils quickly and is difficult for the younger kitchen staff to manage, so it is simmered in a…

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…

Awaji onion and winter melon pureed potage

Because Awaji Island blooms with flowers through all four seasons and is known as the ‘Island of Flowers,’ I am mindful of how to make use of…

• Serves 1 · ¥787

• Cook time 1 hr

Egg hōraku-yaki made with all-purpose surimi powder

This is egg hōraku-yaki. Hōraku-yaki is a Japanese dish with a long history, but this time I took a hint from a French fish dish from the Lyon region…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 20 min

Beltfish rolled around burdock, duck loin with mushroom dressing, whiting and bottarga sandwich, deep-fried, kuruma prawn and persimmon in tofu dressing with truffle, tender-simmered octopus, conger eel sushi

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. First, for the beltfish yawata-maki, I wrap beltfish around a core of kinpira-style braised burdock and grill it…

• ¥580

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip steamed with soy milk

This is the appetizer course. The key to the turnip steamed with soy milk is the turnip's moisture. After grating the turnip, we lightly squeeze out…

Cherry-blossom Mineoka-style tofu, monkfish liver rolled into a straw-bundle shape, duck-wrapped Kyoto garland chrysanthemum roll, cherry sea bream kombu-cured sushi wrapped kosode-sleeve style, kuruma prawn in a firewood-bundle presentation, and sprout-wrapped sea bream roe

A seasonal dish. This time the ankimo tsuto-roll is wrapped in paprika for a splash of color. For the duck-wrapped kyo-shungiku roll, the duck is…

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…

Lotus root, deep-fried and served in dashi

This is single dish course four: lotus root agedashi. Grated lotus root loses its flavor if squeezed too hard, so squeeze out just a little of the…

• ¥490

• Cook time 25 min