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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

Pacific saury with shaved kombu

This is single dish course one: Pacific saury with oboro-kombu. Since sanma is out of season, I substituted horse mackerel (aji) this time. Because…

• ¥500

• Cook time 20 min

Grilled new-season Pacific saury wrapped around grilled eggplant, with liver sauce

This is a grilled dish. September is the season for Pacific saury, so every year we serve this new-season Pacific saury rolled with grilled eggplant…

Year-End Tsugani Soba

This is the noodle course from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Year-End Tsugani Soba is a richly flavorful dish that uses the whole of the tsugani — a…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

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

Whelk Simmered in Sake

When whelk is cheap, simmering a generous amount in sake makes it keep well, so it can be used in an appetizer, a dressed dish, or a simmered dish…

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

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

Aromatic Grilled Wagyu

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The tea used this time is 'Anxi Rougui oolong'; for reference, 'Anxi…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,061

• Cook time 30 min

Fugu deep-fried in a Bubu-arare coating

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: a Japanese-style version of fried chicken karaage. I thought that many…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Japanese-style tartare

This is served in place of the sashimi course. The Japanese-style tartare is an arrangement of French tartare. The ingredients for November are…

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…

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

Largehead beltfish shin-biki-age, matsutake

This is a deep-fried course in which seasonal ingredients are coated with unconventional coatings such as toasted granulated glutinous-rice coating…

• Serves 1 · ¥495

• Cook time 15 min

Roast Venison Shintama

This is the additional course, making use of autumn ingredients. Roast Venison Shintama uses in-season venison, a lean cut from the hindquarter…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Tilefish Grilled with Shuto-Koji, New Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Sake and Salt

For the tilefish grilled with shuto-koji, I use amazake (fermented sweet rice drink). To make the amazake, I cook rice porridge at a ratio of three…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Beef Loin Sawani-Style Clear Soup

This is a clear-soup course. Beef loin sawani-style clear soup was created for guests who are not fond of fish. I lightly sear the beef loin…

Horsehair-crab meat, lantern-shaped salmon sushi, eel sandwich, abalone and sudachi-citrus sandwich, tender-simmered octopus, corn-shaped seared sweet potato, dark seaweed with grated daikon and miso, lightly steamed chicken gizzard, herring-roe wakame fritter

For the picked horsehair-crab meat, we boil the crab in roughly 2% salted water for about 20 minutes, turn off the heat, let it stand for ten…

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

Arrowhead bulb castella, monkfish liver monaka, persimmon and lily bulb, mole-shaped taro, barracuda kimono-wrap sushi, brandy-cured bottarga

This is an appetizer course. There is a tenth-night custom of making a straw gun from bundled straw and beating the ground with it to drive away…

• Serves 200 · ¥250

• Cook time 2 days

Tsukune Yam Consommé Jelly Mold

This is a vinegared dish, a molded preparation using tsukune-imo, a yam whose appeal lies in its stronger stickiness and denser, clingier texture…

• ¥1,800

• Cook time 1 hr