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Matsuwa Mackerel, Sesame-Miso Cream Bake

‘Sesame-Miso Cream Bake’ is a grilled dish built around regional ingredients, stylishly fusing simmered miso-mackerel with miso-fried eggplant — a…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Sajima Octopus, Pear Vinegar

‘Pear vinegar’ is a technique with a long history, but pairing it with octopus reveals a fresh appeal. This is a mukozuke dish, a sashimi course…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

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

Wasabi and Cheese Dressing, Odawara Cassata

Two small-bowl dishes built around regional ingredients. For ‘Odawara Cassata,’ I took cassata, the traditional Sicilian sweet, and made it in the…

• Serves 1 · ¥360

• Cook time 2 days

Tamagawa raw abalone

A soup-course variation built around regional ingredients. ‘Tamagawa Namagai’ takes its name from a play on words: I poured tama-dashi (a rich…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Yanagawa Eel and Foie Gras Grill, with Summer Vegetables

For the additional hearty course, ‘Yanagawa Eel and Foie Gras Grill, with Summer Vegetables,’ I pair foie gras with eel from Yanagawa City in Fukuoka…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi

This is the soup course. For ‘Mekaja Vichyssoise-Style Winter Melon Surinagashi,’ mekaja (Lingula anatina, a lamp-shell brachiopod) is a seafood…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

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

Silver tofu pureed soup

This is the soup course. For ‘Gindofu Surinagashi,’ there is a well-known tofu shop near where I work, and I very much wanted to build a dish around…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 2 days

Swimming crab amber aspic, Chinese razor clam wine-steamed with nori sauce, mantis shrimp aromatic grill, Ariake eel-goby confit, ganba pufferfish overnight-dried with seasoning sauce, Ariake Sea red jellyfish in Western-style sake-fragrant dressing, seasonal garnish

First, the appetizer course. As dishes to accompany sake from the Ariake area, several pieces carry fairly strong flavors and aromas, making this a…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 3 hr

Sole kenchin-style fried roll, shrimp-stuffed mild long green pepper, shrimp and young ginger shoot roll, shrimp-head cracker, fig egg-yolk-batter fried

For the fried course, ‘Kutsuzoko Kenchin-Style Fried Roll’ uses sole as its main ingredient — a fish landed year-round locally, appearing in many…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Odawara oden

For ‘Odawara Kanto-ni,’ since Odawara is synonymous with oden, I used vegetables from Mishima and fish from Odawara port to devise my own take on…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 2 days

Whitefin trevally grilled with kabusecha tea

This is the grilled course. For ‘Kakuaji Grilled with Kabusecha Tea,’ I use kakuaji, a rare local fish also called white trevally, in a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 2 hr