Special cocktails also on the menu

Restaurant Week isn’t just about food. In addition to the wine and sake pairings mentioned on these pages, restaurants such as MW are introducing special cocktails.

MW’s Restaurant Week $24 lunch menu starts with a choice of Portuguese bean soup or Caesar salad with pipikaula poke; main course choice of twice-cooked tonkatsu sandwich, mochi-crusted monchong or roast beef sandwich; plus coffee and cream dessert.

The $45 dinner menu opens with the same choice of appetizers, followed by entree choices of mochi-crusted opakapaka, braised short rib and foie gras, seafood gumbo, grilled kale or lobster shepherd’s pie (add $10); and dessert choices of mud pie or strawberry Napoleon.

The bar is presenting a strawberry yuzu martini, $12, comprising the hot new shochu mixers in town, Iichiko Blu and Iichiko Bar Fruits Yuzu, plus yuzu juice and simple syrup. Sip alone or pair with the evening’s strawberry Napoleon.

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