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Dining around the islands
Have a beery good time
Oktoberfest means beer, brats and schnapps. At the Ala Moana Hotel celebration, it specifically means 1,050 gallons of beer, 7,000 bratwursts and 3,300 shots of schnapps.Those were last year's numbers, which stand to be challenged when the hotel hosts the 2004 celebration Tuesday through Sunday.
Along with traditional foods of the holiday -- don't forget the potato salad and sauerkraut -- the Edelweiss Band will provide dance music. (Gotta work off that food somehow -- might as well be with the chicken dance.)
Chef Ryan Day's offerings will include sauerbraten, giant knackwurst and pig knuckles.
Oktoberfest hours are 6 to 11 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, 6 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, and 5 to 11 p.m. Sunday. A keg-tapping ceremony will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Admission is $5, $8 on Friday and Saturday.
7 courses at Roy's
More on a German theme but of loftier purpose is "Roy's in Germany," a seven-course wine dinner, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Roy's Hawaii Kai.Kevin Pike of Michael Skurnik Wines and Terry Theise Estate will present the wines.
The menu: Shiso Pesto Seared Diver Scallop Carpaccio (with 2002 Lingenfelder Grosskarlbacher Osterberg Riesling Spatlese Halbtrocken), Japanese Hamachi (Cru 2002 Muller Catoir Haardter Burgergarten Riesling Spatlese Trocken), Curried Escargot En Crout (2000 Donnhoff Estate Riesling), Porcini Grilled Chu Toro (2002 JJ Christoffel Urziger Wurzgarten Gold Kapsel Riesling Kabinett), Foie Gras-Stuffed Duck (2001 Lingenfelder Spat Burgunder Pinot Noir), Cervena Venison and King Crab Roulade (1999 Lingenfelder Ganymed Spatburgunder Reserve Pinot Noir), and White Chocolate Kabocha Mousse (2002 Theo Minges Gleisweiler Holle Riesling Auslese).
Cost is $85, $65 without wine. Call 396-7697.
Benihana 40 years old
The charismatic and colorful Rocky Aoki, founder of Benihana of Tokyo, will be present to celebrate Benihana's 40th anniversary, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.The evening also marks the launch of a Benihana buffet.
The menu includes Caesar salad, Japanese onion soup, shrimp appetizer, yaki-zushi, hibachi vegetables, garlic rice, hibachi steak and chicken, hot green tea and mochi ice cream.
Aoki opened the first Benihana in New York in 1964. He was one of the first to bring the Japanese style of teppan-yaki cooking -- meals grilled live at communal tables by performing chefs -- to the United States.
Benihana opened in the Hilton on May 15, 1971, and is now one of more than 75 Benihana restaurants in the United States and Latin America.
In addition to his restaurant's anniversary, Aoki will be celebrating his 66th birthday.
Tickets are $40. Call 955-5955.
Mushroom Mania
Auntie Pasto's hosts its annual tribute to fungi, Mushroom Mania, tomorrow through Oct. 31.Specials are three-mushroom lasagna on Mondays, chicken breast stuffed with alii oyster mushrooms and prosciutto on Tuesdays, smoked alii mushroom and prosciutto ravioli on Wednesdays, veal scallopini with Hamakua mushrooms on Thursdays, wild mushroom risotto on Fridays, pan-roasted veal chop with roasted mushroom relish on Saturdays and roast leg of lamb with mushroom gravy on Sundays.
Daily specials include Hamakua mushroom sautŽ with garlic bread, roasted mushroom salad with mesclun greens, "Wild About Mushroom" pizza and portobello Parmesan over pasta.
Call 523-8855.
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