QUICK BITES
Takeout steak plates a success at Foodland

By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor

It's a rather homespun operation: A caterer, Steak Out, sets up a grill in the parking lot and a table inside the store where workers slice up the freshly grilled steaks and dish up rice and salad from tubs. For $6.25, you get a seven-ounce steak, tossed salad, rice and a 22-ounce drink. For $8.50, there's a one-pound steak-only plate. The latter's my choice: I take the warm, medium-rare beef home and add a starch and vegetables for a hearty, easy meal for three.

Steak is served from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Here's when each store serves: Mondays, Hawai'i Kai; Tuesdays, Beretania; Wednesdays, Wahiawa; Thursdays, School Street; Fridays, 'Ewa Beach.

Steak Out also serves steak plates at the Ward Avenue Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays, according to firm president Jay Cabais.

Army culinary team takes home top award

Congratulations to Hawai'i's Army Culinary Team, named installation of the year in the 29th annual Army Culinary Arts Competition this month at Fort Lee, Va. It won six gold medals, seven silver and 20 bronze. The five-member team, which had to scramble during deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, practiced nightly for three weeks with chef Ernesto Limcaco of Y. Hata & Co. Ltd., a local military supplier. Team members: Staff Sgt. Rene J. Marquis, Sgt. 1st Class David Turcotte, Spc. Karen Glanzer, Pfc. Florine Nevins and Spc. Luisa Abigale Montero. Marquis, Turcotte, Montero and Glanzer will compete in the Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany.