Cravings: Restaurant Week in Waikiki, HIFF screens foodie films

RESTAURANT WEEK AT THE GRAND LANAI

Dine at the International Market Place’s Grand Lanai at discount prices for a week starting Monday, as the Waikiki venue hosts Restaurant Week.

Participating restaurants — Eating House 1849, ShoreFyre, Flour & Barley, Herringbone, StripSteak Waikiki, Goma Tei Ramen, the Street Food Hall and Mi Almita Cantina — will be offering special dishes or fixed-price menus at discount prices through April 14.

Restaurant Week begins at 5:30 p.m. Monday with a poke battle between chefs from Flour & Barley and ShoreFyre. Sample their creations and vote on your favorite. Admission is free.

As for the dining deals: Flour & Barley, for example, will offer a three-course set menu that begins with the choice of an arugula and kale salad or meatballs in tomato sauce; entree choice of three types of pizza (roasted chicken, pepperoni and salami or mushroom) or shrimp penne alla vodka; and dessert choice of seasonal semifreddo (a frozen mousse) or cannolis. Cost is $40.

For full menus from all the participating eateries, go to shopinternationalmarketplace.com. Make reservations through the individual restaurants.

HIFF SERVES UP FOODIE FILMS

The Hawaii International Film Festival’s Spring Showcase has three movies on the roster aimed at those who like to eat with their eyes.

The festival runs Friday through April 14 at Regal Dole Cannery Theatres.

For a complete schedule, trailers and tickets go to hiff.org.

The films:

>> “Complicity”: A Chinese man who moves illegally to Japan assumes a false identity that includes taking a job making traditional Japanese soba noodles. In Japanese and Mandarin, with subtitles. Screens at 6 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. April 11.

>> “Extreme Job”: A South Korean police drug squad goes undercover running a fried chicken restaurant. But when the restaurant unexpectedly becomes wildly popular, the officers find the pressure rivals that of cracking a major crime ring. The comedy is the latest hit from director Lee Byeong-heon (“Twenty”). In Korean, with subtitles. Screens at 8:30 p.m. April 12 and 6 p.m. April 13.

>> “Restaurant From the Sky”: An offbeat farm community in Hokkaido, Japan, finds normalcy upended when a famous chef from the city discovers the area’s prime produce and inspires the farmers to create a farm-to-table restaurant. In Japanese, with subtitles. Screens at 5:45 p.m. Monday and 6 p.m. April 12.