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Kombu-Cured Yellowtail with Mountain Yam

The vivid colors of ingredients such as yellowtail, scallion, and quail egg are wonderful.

Yellowtail and turnip simmer with snow crab, shiitake, turnip, millet gluten, ginkgo nut, Kujo scallion, and yuzu

This cooking method makes the most of the seafood's flavor. All of the broth is transferred to the …

Sea Cucumber with Soy pulp, Abalone Liver with Butter, Black Sesame Egg with a Touch of Rin Glaze, Arihei-Style Squid, Yellowtail and Bettarazuke Hakata-Style, Plum Monaka, Matcha Kinton with Budou-mame, Herring Roe Namasu

This is the course preceding the hassun course. For the sea cucumber with soy pulp, I put the sea cucumber in a bamboo colander together with round…

• Serves 1 · ¥830

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Yuan-yaki, Lotus Root Mochi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is the grilled course. For the yellowtail sake-lees yuan-yaki, the yellowtail is filleted…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 days

Dried persimmon, golden sea cucumber, and walnut salad, monkfish liver wine terrine, smoked silver-shimmer fish styled as a winter camellia, yellowtail sushi fingers rolled kimono-sleeve style, snow crab deep-fried and wrapped in yuba, dried roe deep-fried in a fan-shaped coating, vegetables in a sweet-and-sour achara pickle, freeze-dried konjac and a prized fatty whale cut simmered Yamato-style

For the dried persimmon, golden sea cucumber, and walnut salad, I use a local specialty dried persimmon. The golden sea cucumber is thoroughly…

• ¥950

• Cook time 3 hr

Ise spiny lobster grilled with golden egg yolk, seared Sendai beef, bottarga, yuzu-grilled winter yellowtail, kombu-cured herring roe, seven-treasure namasu, lantern-shaped herring, miso-marinated winter cod milt, grilled sea urchin, teriyaki monkfish liver

This is the celebratory platter from Miyagi's New Year cuisine. For 'Golden-Grilled Ise Spiny Lobster,' I paid close attention to the heat so the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 1 hr

Smoked Soy-Glazed Grilled Yellowtail

This dish uses yellowtail as an end-of-season ingredient in March. Yellowtail is most often served as sashimi or in yellowtail simmered with daikon…

Snow-viewing style: yellowtail snow hut

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a soup-bowl course (wanmori). For the yellowtail kamakura, salt is applied to the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 8 hr

Two-topping grilled yellowtail

From our use of the winter ingredient yellowtail, this is a grilled dish, two-topping grilled yellowtail. The tail and back portions of the…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 40 min

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…

Yellowtail shabu-shabu with grated daikon

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. Here, this stands in for the sashimi course rather than a hot pot. For the yellowtail…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 4 days

Hand-Rolled Sushi with Tataki Yellowtail and Three-Year Ise Long-Aged Pickled Daikon

Charcoal-grilled Spanish mackerel sashimi, nanban shrimp, giant Pacific octopus, red-and-white Korean-style tartare

This is the sashimi course (tsukuri), reconceived from dishes favored in Tokyo and Niigata cuisine. We add a twist with yukhoe sauce, bringing…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 30 min

Yuzu-shell grilled dish, carrot castella, pine-needle-skewered ginkgo nuts, yellowtail wrapped in daikon and grilled, simmered abalone

The appetizer course is plated in the same dish as the grilled course, each item served separately. For the yuzu-shell grilled dish: the milt is…

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Soup, Yellowtail Turnip Sushi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. When it comes to winter ingredients, there is also fugu and cod, but we chose yellowtail, which is…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail and Turnip Sushi, Cold-Smoked Yellowtail and Monkfish Liver Monaka

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is the hashi-hajime, the first course eaten with chopsticks. For the yellowtail and turnip…

• Serves 2 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 weeks

Salted Yellowtail with Sleet Dressing, Cod Liver Steamed with Western Liquor, Tairagai Pressed Hakata-Style, Crab and Lotus Root Manju

This is the seating course, served as guests take their seats. My workplace has many overseas guests, and quite a few request "champagne to start" at…

Yellowtail and daikon

For the buri daikon, the daikon is first parboiled and rehydrated, then placed on kombu. The yellowtail is marinated in sandō-wari and grilled. The…

Tender-simmered raw sea cucumber, yellowtail kaburazushi, smoked aigamo duck, and more

This is the pre-course dish. For tender-simmered raw sea cucumber, the important thing is finishing the sea cucumber tender: we slowly bring it up in…

Salt-simmered yellowtail

From our use of the winter ingredient yellowtail, this is a simmered dish. I think it's common to enjoy yellowtail for the umami of its fat, but the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail Yuan-Yaki

These are the two grilled dishes. Here too I aimed to keep the steps to a minimum and finish everything as quickly as possible. For the yellowtail…

Winter Yellowtail Teriyaki, Seared Wagyu Sirloin, Vegetable Pickles

This is the grilled hassun (seasonal assortment course). Winter yellowtail teriyaki is usually grilled with a soy-based tare sauce, but this time I…

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Soup

This is the soup course. For the yellowtail sake-lees soup, since every kitchen today is short-staffed and can't spare the extra labor, I grill both…

Sake-Lees Soup