Sixty-four restaurants across the city are serving up their best dishes for Honolulu Restaurant Week, which begins Saturday and runs through November 16. This means significant discounts on specials and set menus that represent the broad spectrum of our current dining landscape. From churros to ramen, pasta to Korean BBQ, sushi to lobster—you get the idea.
Honolulu Restaurant Week comes during the rest of the restaurant world, after summer visitors have gone home and before the holiday season heats up. It’s a win-win for our restaurants and for diners, especially those hungry for deals. Scroll below for a sampling of menus from neighborhood eateries to dining destinations. For all menus, photos and more information, see the schedule at hnlrestauranttweek.com.
Chef Chai’s $60 four-course menu highlights Chai Chaowasaree menu classics, with options including kataifi-wrapped prawns and smoked duck tacos, New Zealand kabayaki salmon and Mongolian lamb chops, plus a good selection of vegetarian dishes.
Photo: Courtesy of Eleven Honolulu
Inside Foodland Farms Ala Moana, Eleven Cocktail Bar’s menu features its carefully curated whiskey collection. Matsui Single Malt Mizunara Cask, Michter’s Straight Rye Single Barrel and Redbreast Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey Lustua Edition Sherry Finish are paired with elevated pūpū like a bao mi of confit duck liver with mala sauce. The set is $35.
Photo: Courtesy of Han no Daidokoro
Kaka’ako’s Han no Daidokoro offers a nine-course parade of wagyu and washugyu for $99. These include vertical tastings of different Miyazaki wagyu and washugyu cuts, filet mignon, sukiyaki and sushi (minimum two orders).
Photo: Aaron K. Yoshino
At Kaimukī Shokudo, an $18 lunch special includes sashimi, Okinawan sweet potato salad, petite soba and rice; choose between grilled sap or washugyu sukiyaki for your main course.
Photo: Courtesy of Kamitoku Ramen
Kamitoku Ramen’s special combines spicy miso butter corn ramen in washu bone broth with crispy beef gyoza and a cocktail or cocktail, all for $22.
Photo: Khan Skewer House
In Mō’ili’illi, Khan Skewer House’s 10-course menu feeds 2 to 3 people, and during Honolulu Restaurant Week, it’s generously discounted from the regular $109 to $80. Think grilled beef, lamb and pork belly skewers and a bowl of fluffy milk ice cream for dessert.
At the Mahi’ai table inside Foodland Farms Kapolei, a whole Dungeness crab, cooked Singapore black pepper style, comes with lup cheong fried rice and garlic ong choy to share, all for $58.
Photo: Courtesy of Merriman’s Honolulu
Merriman’s Honolulu’s $29 lunch special includes a chicken sandwich with fries or miso salmon with a hand-cut food diversion, both paired with corn “ulu soup and dessert of liliko’i posset.”
Photo: Nori Bar
Nori Bar’s ambitious 12-course special highlights plates of nigiri (think kampachi and shiso), temaki (think torotaku) and sushi rolls along with sashimi and other dishes, for $80.
Photo: Courtesy of Off the Wall
Nearby, Off the Wall’s six-course Latin special includes calamari, beef empanadas and savory tenderloins and finishes with churros. The $160 menu is designed for 3-4 people.
Photo: Courtesy of Pai Honolulu
Pai Honolulu’s elevated prix fixe offers comfort and style for $85: buttered cornbread, chilled lobster, salmon chermoula or five-spice pork shoulder and pumpkin panna cotta with walnut streusel and spicy compote.
Photo: Slice By Hb Baking
Slice by HB Baking’s specialty desserts are pure comfort: dulce de leche and butter pecan ice cream on a snickerdoodle crust, topped with baked apples and a little cinnamon oat crumb. Each artisanal slice is $8.
At Ward Village’s The Social Honolulu, a grilled pork chop comes with a crispy stuffing and garlic butter green beans for $26.
This is just a sample, a fraction of what’s to come at Honolulu Restaurant Week. For all training, no here.
