We ordered:
- Steamed Edamame (basketful) - lightly seasoned with salt & steamed to PERFECTION!
- BBQ Seasoned "Frites" (basketful) - french fries with a BBQ seasoning served with ketchup and a chili pepper aioli... one of the best things we ate all night.
- Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (2 slices halved) - made with their house made baguette and havarti cheese, with truffle essence. We weren't really that impressed it reminded us not of grilled cheese but of a cheese toast/bread from an Italian restaurant... made us long for our childhood version of white bread & kraft american cheese!
- Asian Pork Sliders (3) - pulled pork in an asian sauce served in a bao with pickled ginger and cucumber slices. This was good... kind of messy and sweet.
- 3 Cheese Pizza (mini pizza 6 slices) - I don't recall what the cheeses were... but this was by far the worst thing we ordered... :( It came to us cold & stiff... sad. B said it was "okay"...
- Cheese Sampler (3 different cheeses; if you get crackers it's a $1 extra) - I'm not a cheese person... but I knew that one of the samplings was Brie (thanks B for pointing that one out!) but the other two were a mystery to me... but I gotta say, they were GOOD! In fact, one of them tasted like the inside of a grilled cheese sandwich sans the bread. Mmm... now if I only knew the name.
- Circus Circus specialty drink - Midori, Stoli Apple, Sweet & Sour served with a cotton candy garnish. This drink was uh... well it tasted like watermelon. How the heck this tasted like watermelon was beyond me... but I did not likey. But you know to be truthful? I only ordered it cause it came with a lil cotton candy... HA HA
- Apple & Blueberry Crisp - which was served with honey ice cream and caramel sauce. I'm a sucker for caramel and our waiter recommended it. B thought it was too sweet... and it was. Almost too much to keep eating, but I did... and so did she. This was NOT a $5 special, but I so wanted a dessert... :D
We of course took our new Amuse wine cards for a spin around the wine dispensers - which is pretty awesome... you see you're given a wine glass and a card (much like a gift card) and you're free to roam around to peruse the variety of wines and their prices. The prices of the wines that were up for sampling ranged from $1.33 - $4.29 per 1 ounce. While sampling, I realized something I already knew... I'm not a fan of red... and I'm definitely a fan of Moscato (tasted like grape juice) and Reisling (a sweet white wine). :( Go figure. It's easy to get tipsy as you walk around sampling the wines 1 ounce at a time so be sure to either give yourself enough time to sober up or have a designated driver. :D Arrive Alive!
Sadly, I did not bring my camera - shame too since we nearly ordered everything on the happy hour menu. ha ha Oh well, more reason to go back!
A few facts about Amuse Wine Bar
- located at the Honolulu Design Center: 1250 Kapiolani Blvd, Honolulu HI 96814 Phone: 808-237-5429
- Happy Hour M-F from 5pm - 8pm
- Menu - this is their bar menu, they don't have a posting of their happy hour menu
Happy eating!
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