Hale ‘Aina Happenings: What’s New with Hawai‘i Restaurants in October 2013

This month: Three-course prix fixe of some of The Pineapple Room’s most popular dishes for $40.

By Martha Cheng

Published: 2013.10.22 01:42 PM

Early Bird Special at The Pineapple Room.

Photo: courtesy of Alan Wong’s

Recently, The Pineapple Room debuted an Early Bird Special, a three-course prix fixe dinner for $40. The early bird menu, available Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., offers a choice of appetizer—an Otsuji Farm Caesar salad or black bean chicken and pork gyoza with ko choo jang vinaigrette and housemade kim chee; choice of entree—the popular furikake salmon on ochazuke risotto or kalua pork roast on a hearts of palm and potato puree; and dessert, a Kula strawberry tiramisu with white chocolate macadamia nut praline and yuzu curd.

It’s a great way to experience some of The Pineapple Room’s most popular dishes. Add wine pairings for an additional $12.

The Pineapple Room also offers a loco moco prix fixe, a four-course menu for $45 which stars the restaurant’s famous loco moco, in which white rice is upgraded to fried rice and the standard gravy to veal jus. Plus, to start, there’s a mini ahi poke moco topped with a quail egg, and to finish, a Waialua chocolate candy bar, a refined version of a Snickers bar with Hawaiian salt caramel, chocolate ganache, praline crunch, and triple chocolate “brownie” cookies.

From five-star restaurants to hidden holes-in-the-wall, Biting Commentary will let you know what’s hot and what’s not. Find out the latest restaurant news—who’s opening, who’s closing, which chef is moving on, where the great special dinners are. Discover the best menu items, fabulous wines, stunning cocktails and hand-crafted beers.