Teppanyaki Ginza Onodera hosts a dinner Nov. 13 featuring ZD Wines. The multicourse dinner builds to an entree of A5 Kobe beef, with ZD’s 2007 and 2010 cabernets.
Cost is $299. Seatings are at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Call Fujioka’s Wine Times, 739—9463.
OKTOBERFEST, DUTCH-STYLE
If you need a quick idea for dinner tonight, consider a taste of the Netherlands.
The University of Hawaii is hosting guest chef Michel van Eijk, who plans a Dutch Oktoberfest dinner, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Manoa Campus Center.
Van Eijk’s visit is part of the Global Chef series, which brings international cuisines to facilities that employ Sodexo food services.
On the menu: Dutch beef stew and red cabbage, beet carpaccio with shrimp and smoked mackerel, white asparagus soup, stuffed mushrooms with pearl barley risotto and vegetarian sausage, and butter cake with apricot filling.
Cost is $19.75, or $28.75 with a flight of beer. Email catering@hawaii.edu or buy tickets at the door.
SEEKING: BIG APPETITES
How much can you eat, and how fast — 4.4 pounds of food in 30 minutes?
Waikiki Yokocho Gourmet Alley invites you to try, at a Monster Massive Eating Contest, part of a Halloween celebration Sunday.
Cost to enter is $30. Sign up at 808ne.ws/bigeater and pick your poison: a massive portion of one dish — fried rice, karaage, ramen or sushi. Winner takes home prizes worth $250, including a $100 Yokocho gift certificate.
The eating runs from 1 to 3 p.m., but the full event, which includes a costume contest and free trick-or-treating, runs from noon to 5 p.m.
Waikiki Yokocho is in the Waikiki Shopping Plaza. Call 923-1191.
RUTH’S CHRIS COMES TO KAUAI
Kauai gets its first Ruth’s Chris Steak House on Monday, in The Shops at Kukui‘ula.
Ruth’s Chris was founded 52 years ago in New Orleans, serving corn-fed Midwestern beef broiled in ovens designed by founder Ruth Fertel. The menu covers steaks, seafood, lamb, pork and poultry dishes, with a wine list of more than 250 choices.
The chain has five other Hawaii locations.
Hours will be 4:30 to 10 p.m. daily. Call 278-6100.
TAKE A ‘BITE’ OUT OF HUNGER
Order dinner, have it delivered and make a donation to the Hawaii Foodbank, all in one fell swoop.
Bite Squad, the restaurant delivery service, has launched a Food Love partnership, pledging to give $1 to the food bank for every order placed through Nov. 30 (use a promotional code specified when ordering to complete the donation).
Bite Squad also plans to provide event, catering and volunteer support to help with food bank needs.
The company estimates that for every $10 donated the food bank can provide up to 25 meals to the needy.
Bite Squad offers deliveries from nearly 200 restaurants in the Honolulu area. Visit bitesquad.com.
