Awapuhi is the Hawaiian word for a native ginger plant and this cocktail definitely has a nice, spicy ginger kick. The taste is fresh, complex and slightly sweet with a mild ginger heat. The Awapuhi is a signature cocktail at the The Red Bar, the boite located at noted Chef Bev Gannon’s Wailea joint, A [...]

The Na Pali Coast of Kauai is a designated World Heritage Site and rightly so. We’re written about the views from above Na Pali which provides hints at the wonders below – pristine white sand beaches rimming uninhabited hanging valleys where waterfalls abound and nary a building can be found. Some folks choose to hike [...]

In Kauai’s spectacular Koke’e State Park, the trails wend through lush forests of vermillion blossomed ohi’a trees populated by rare native honeycreepers and hard to find, fragrant maile vines favored by lei makers for kahiko (traditional) hula performances. Among these stands out the Awapuhi Trail, which concludes with jaw-dropping views of the hanging valleys and [...]

It’s a pretty neat trick to bring a volcano to your bar. But no, a pink-and-white lava flow cocktail is definitely not evocative of a volcano. Ask anyone who has walked next to the glowing molten rock. So Allan Labayo, bartender at the posh Grand Wailea Resort in Wailea, Maui decided to right this wrong [...]