takayama SAKANA

Fine dining of selected seasonal ingredients and the highest quality of Hida beef can be enjoyed in a peaceful location.

Sakana Restaurant in Takayama serves seasonal cuisine. Most of dishes are made from local products such as highly acclaimed Hida-Beef, also we go into the mountains by ourselves to get wild ingredients. In this diary, I'd like to make some notes of seasonal food and scenes of Hida area.

Bracken sprouts

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Bracken sprouts are well known wild vegetable in Japan. Generally, salted or boild in brine products are sold, but by the time you cook them in your kitchen, most flavour and texture has been lost.

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These fresh braken sprouts are lightly boild immediately and cooked in light dashi-soup and have full flavour and texture. The texture is quite similar to the Asperge Sauvage (French wild asparagus).

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This is Aleutian ragwort which is not so well known wild-veg. The stalk and leaves have delicate aroma.

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Boild and skin peeled off.

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by Kay