WM Restaurant Maui

Maui's most elegant restaurant opened in 2005 and CLOSED in July of 2006 in Honokowai, a couple miles north of Kaanapali Beach.  WM stands for West Maui and it was at the former site of A Pacific Cafe in the Honokowai Markeplace shopping center, on the corner of Honoapiilani Highway and the Lower Honoapiilani Road.  Phone (808) 667-7898

Plush dark booths create a romantic ambiance and top-notch service creates a fine dining experience.  Caesar salad and Pineapple Flambe dessert are created tableside.  WM menu includes special preparations of meats and seafoods, with both the decor and the food being metropolitan style, as you might find in any big American city.  (See below for some specific WM menu items as well as photos.)

Expensive and luxurious, but not tropical.  Bad concept for this area, so only lasted one year.

Appetizers:
Oysters Rockefeller, lightly poached in sauteed Pernod infused spinach and baked with Hollandaise
Dungeness Crab Cake pan seared and served with tear drop cherry tomatoes and citrus asparagus sauce
Lump Crab and Raspberry with field greens and creme fraiche in a martini glass

Salads:
Baby Greens & Maytag Blue Cheese with candied spiced walnuts
Baby Spinach with goat cheese and apple smoked bacon garnished with hard boiled eggs
Heirloom Tomatoes with chopped mozzarella, cucumber, watermelon and toasted pine nuts
Classic Caesar Salad prepared tableside

Entrees:
Filet Mignon with foie gras with fingerling potato confit
New York strip steak with au gratin potatoes
Prime rib of pork with herbed polenta
Rack of lamb with rosemary au gratin potatoes and asparagus
Stuffed Ahi (tuna) filled with crabmeat, with white truffle risotto
Opakapaka (pink snapper) Florentine with garlic mashed potatoes
Pan seared Ono (wahoo fish) with roasted fingerling potatoes
Whole Maine lobster with mashed potatoes with carmelized leeks

Dessert:
Pineapple Flambe prepared tableside