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Here’s your excuse to eat out this week

By Catherine Toth Fox • November 18, 2013 • Food

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You’ve got a really good reason to eat out this week.

From Monday through Nov. 24, more than 50 of eateries around the state — from upscale fine dining to uber-casual fast food — will participate in the 6th annual Restaurant Week, offering special menus, promotions and discounts.

This is a weeklong celebration of Hawaii’s diverse cuisine scene, local ingredients and world-class chefs, with proceeds supporting the Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Diamond Head — Hawaii’s first four-year culinary program. The celebration serves as a reminder that Hawaii is a top culinary destination, known for top celebrity chefs and farm-to-table dinning.

Everyone wins.

Here are some examples of what will be offered during the week:

• Award-winning restaurant Alan Wong’s is revisiting a classic, with manapua-style quesadilla, Hawaiian kampachi and shellfish stew, Maui Cattle Co. roasted New York strip steak and a lilikoi white chocolate mousse for $65 per person.

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• Le Bistro in Niu Valley is serving a three-course meal for $42 per person. The menu boasts a choice of appetizer (sweet Kahuku corn salad or French onion soup, top), entrée (cheese-and-apple chicken, above, or a combination of red wine-and-peppercorn short ribs and a mini Wagyu beef burger stuffed with Stilton blue cheese and foie gras) and dessert (apple tarte tatin or Valrhona chocolate cake).

• Chef Chai is offering a five-course meal — starter, an appetizers sampler, a salad, a choice of entrees (petite beef tenderloin, grilled Kobayaki New Zealand king salmon, or vegetarian terrine with a Thai green curry sauce) and dessert for $50 per person.

• For $55 per person, the Signature Prime Steak & Seafood at Ala Moana is serving a three-course meal that includes a salad, a choice of its more popular entrées (prime ribeye, miso butterfish or Kurobuta pork chop) and dessert. Kamaaina diners get a discount on all bottles of wine, too.

• Hank’s Haute Dogs in Kakaako will serve a bratwurst Francais with sautéed mushrooms and truffle mustard for $8.50. Pair that with truffle cheese fries for $12.

• All three locations of Eggs ‘N Things will be serving a $25 dinner menu that features a choice of appetizer (spinach artichoke dip or ginger mac nut poke), entrée (chicken madeira, vegetarian frittata or pork chop parmesan), and dessert (signature waffle folds or a slice of fresh strawberry guava cheesecake).

Like you all needed an excuse to eat out. 😀

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6 Comments

  • Reply M November 18, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    Hello Cat,

    We are going to Chef Chai, KCC and Shokudo this week in that order.

  • Reply Marvo November 19, 2013 at 12:01 am

    Going to Nobu tonight.

  • Reply Glenn D November 19, 2013 at 6:46 am

    Wow, quite the line-up. I wish I was there to taste them all, especially the fois gras. Now that fois gras is illegal here in California, the only other place I get to eat it was in Japan. I did not realize that it was still available in Hawaii. Now that I know, I am definitely going to get some next time I am home visiting. Meanwhile, I hope you hit a lot of them and post pics so that I can live thru it vicariously.

  • Reply Dennis November 19, 2013 at 6:49 am

    Going to Signature for the a Prime rib! Yummy!

  • Reply Annoddah Dave November 19, 2013 at 7:16 am

    CAT: No need for excuse to eat FUUD! Just need kala and opu,….oops!, no foget ketch da bus!

  • Reply Bruddah Shaun November 19, 2013 at 6:31 pm

    Do you accept casual dinner invitations?

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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