Fun Day Monday: Serious Grindage

OK, so for those of you who don’t know, today marks the start of Restaurant Week Hawaii, where restaurants from around Oahu create menus at special rates and donate a portion of their proceeds to benefit the development of The Culinary Institute of the Pacific. It’s from today (11/16) through Sunday (11/22) and for a good cause so get out dea and support our local businesses k?

On another note, some of you may’ve heard that the lady friend and I will be celebrating our one year wedding anniversary soon. (and noooo! that’s not what I meant by “Serious Grindage” you pervs! 😛 ) I will be taking her to _______ (shh! even SHE doesn’t know yet! 😛 ), but could use some additional suggestions and tips on where to take her and what to get her. Sorry, I’m a guy. 😛

So using the above two news items as today’s theme, send me some suggestions for your restaurant (and your favorite dishes from that restaurant) of choice for this special 1 year anniversary occasion (click here for the list of participating restaurants for Restaurant Week Hawaii). Bonus points for those who gimme good, non-food related, gift ideas. 😉 Have a great week y’all! 🙂

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Rockin’ It At Doraku

So your boy turned another year older in the 30s block this weekend. Hold the applause (or laughter). To celebrate, the peeps took me out to the new, funky sushi joint in Waikiki called Doraku Sushi. Since this is a blog, I won’t get too into reviewing the place in detail (with all the sake, I don’t remember much anyway :P). Instead, I’ll show you some pics of the eats, which is what y’all wanna see anyway right? So here we go!

Seared Tuna with Asian Salsa – Tuna tataki with Doraku signature sauce, mango, Ka ware, tomato, red onion, Ponzu ($12.95)

Salmon Carpaccio – Served with creamy ginger sauce ($9.25)

Doraku Roll – Lobster, kanikama, cream cheese, tempura fried served with red and black caviar, scallion and spicy cream sauce ($12.95)

Kanpai!

Talk to me!
* Have you been to Doraku?
* What did you think?
* Do the photos look yums!
* Do we look drunk yet? 😛