Kokoleka Mahina a la sola! (chocolate month at sola!)

Ingredient of the Month: Chocolate

Sweeten up this winter weather by stopping into sola for their chocolate specials this month! Chef Wallack and Chef de Cuisine Alex Shalev have taken everybody's favorite ingredient and incorporated it into mouth-watering specials such as Cocoa Nib-Crusted Scallops with a Truffle Vinaigrette and Hot Fudge Sundaes with Housemade Banana Ice Cream.

Facts About Chocolate

* Eating chocolate makes you happy because it contains phenylephylamine - the same hormone the brain triggers when you fall in love.
* Dark Chocolate turns women on more than a passionate kissing session!
* Chocolate also stimulates pleasure-inducing endorphin production.

Drink of the Month - Chocolate Martini

This Martini is like dessert in a glass. The mix of Godiva dark, Godiva light, stoli vanil and cream is the perfect way to satisfy that chocolate craving.

February Prix Fixe Menu

With the economy the way it is at this time, every penny counts. Make your cash go a long way with sola's prix fixe menu
Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Chef Carol Wallack and Chef de Cuisine Alex Shalev offer an affordable Three-Course Prix-Fixe menu available for dinner, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The menu is priced at $30 per person and for just $15 more you can add a wine pairing, selected by our own wine connoisseur, to complement each course.

CHOCOLATE

First course
Cocoa nib crusted scallop
celery root and soba dumpling, hedgehog mushroom,
organic soy - truffle vinaigrette, crispy lotus root

Second course
Cocoa - cumin crusted lamb loin
roasted chestnuts, squash puree, cocoa minted lamb jus

Third course
Housemade banana ice cream, hot fudge sundae,
bruleed bananas, macadamias, vanilla whipped cream

Valentine's Day

Get sexy with Chef Carol Wallack's aphrodisiac-infused menu. Chef Wallack has taken some of the sexiest ingredients and incorporated them into menu specials available on Valentine's Day.

Kumomoto Oysters on the half shell with American Sturgeon Caviar house made ginger tobacco emulsion

Foie Gras with Fig

strawberry ginger preserves with 5-spice brioche toast

By the end of dinner, you won't be able to keep your hands off each other.

Burger Bash

Chef Wallack has her eye on the prize competing with her signature Wagyu burger that has taken her years to perfect. This mouth-watering sandwich is Allen Brother's Wagyu Beef, cambozola cheese, house-made bacon, caramelized onions and arugula all squeezed between a soft pretzel roll. Wallack will be one of 23 chef's from around the U.S. competing and just one of two from Chicago.

Triple B Night

Burgers, Beer and Bacon, oh my! Indulge yourself every Thursday with sola's Burger, Beer and Bacon Thursdays. Every Thursday beginning at 5:30 p.m., Chef Carol Wallack features her burger, a unique beer and a special appetizer infused with sola'a house-made bacon. Some specials include bacon brittle ice cream with apple bread pudding, Morimoto Soba ale and sola's burger which is normally only available during lunch.