Entries tagged 'gourmet'
Hawaii Restaurants: Exit Stage Left - Two Top Dog Chefs Bolt from Honolulu's Hottest Newish Eatery
My friend John Heckathorn, editor of Hawaii Magazine, dropped a bombshell culinary scoop in his Sunday Honolulu Star-Bulletin gossip column when he disclosed that Chef Jon Matsubara and Pastry Chef Mark Okumura had left Stage Restaurant. When it opened to...
Getting Fruity Tooty: Edible Incredible's at KCC Farmer Market
(Sorry -- loaded this post up on Saturday to MT but only now getting it up and live. Was a bit too Microsoft Mobile for my own good. Wink, wink. And am only now catching up.) So a lot...
Kauai Gets More Good Grinds: Merriman's to Open in Poipu
The Garden Isle has some good restaurants but generally lacks fine dining. Might come with the lack of development. Whatever the case, Hawaii farm-fresh-to-table savant Peter Merriman will be opening a new joint near Poipu as part of a massive...
Jean Marie Josselin Returns to Hawaii: Oahu Restaurant Scene Heating Up
In my first year living in Hawaii, I was working as a staff writer for Hawaii Business Magazine (making something like $20,000 per year) in 1994. Part of that gig was trips to the Neighbor Islands to cover business out...
Puka Dogs in Waikiki - More Haute Hot Dogs (And Lilikoi Ketchup)
Continuing on the Hawaii high-end hot dog meme, my friend Lesa Griffith at the Honolulu Advertiser comes out with a review of Hank's Haute Dogs (which I blogged about earlier) but adds a mouth-watering review of a second gourmet dog...
Hawaii Food Roundup: Reviews, News, Eats
Welcome to everyone who has come by for Hurricane Flossie info. Pull up a chair and join us for a virtual meal (bad cliche). Nadine Kam of the Star-Bulletin gives three stars to The Aji House at Xlyoh, an nouveau...
Hawaii Foods: Buy That Honey! Hawaii Bees Going Fast!
A nasty little bug, the Varroa mite, has decimated bee stocks on the U.S. Mainland. Due to its isolation, Hawaii had remained free of the mite and Hawaiian bee hives had continued to produce amazing honey treats. Now the mite...
Hawaiirama Foodie Roundup
On Oahu, the Star-Bulletin samples Goldfish (name of restaurant) sushi fare and digs fancy rolls. This comes on the heels of a quick write up of R&P Cafe, an heir apparent to the recently closed palace of plate lunch paralysis,...
Next Gen Dinner -- Alan Wong's King Street
Alan Wong has a reputation as a stern taskmaster. The James Beard Award winner works his people hard and in his kitchen there are only two ways to do things -- the wrong way or the Wong Way. I guess...
Hawaii Restaurants: La Mer + Louis XIII = Decadent Dinner
Caveat reader. What you are about to read was the result of a comped dinner experience, Translation? I couldn't afford it but when the Halekulani offered to feed me its " Louis XIII de Remy Martin Ultimate Dinner," I simply...
The Last, Best Comfort Food: Hawaii Eats
One of my favorite local food writers, John Heckathorn, has a phenomenal article in the current issue of Spirit of Aloha, the inflight magazine of Aloha Airlines. He covers the origins of high-end Hawaii Regional Cuising and where its going....
Da Perfect Poke: Part 5
I gobble down three varieties in roughly 15 minutes before dashing back out to the car. Times running out and I have plenty more poke to eat. The next stop is literally up the street. Tanioka’s (808-671-3779: map) is...
Hawaiian Chocolate: Da Real Kine
Note: There is at least one other company that claims it is making Hawaiian chocolate.The key question -- ask where the beans are grown and what percentage are actually grown in Hawaii. Ono Farms in Hana, Maui that is...
Da Perfect Poke: Part 1
At Sam Choy’s Diamond Head on a windy October night, the night crew is in the process of closing down the joint. I arrive right before 10 p.m., the last customer and slip into one of the chairs at...
Padovani Chocolates
Phillipe Padovani closed his eponymous and highly-regarded restaurant in December, but there's a sweet side to this sad turn. Never one to stew, Padovani has opened a chocolate shop that is winning rave reviews for its high art edibles....
Classic Soda Sensation
Long before Coke and Pepsi dominated the soft drink landscapes, dozens of local sodaworks served up cold, lovely sweet libations all over the Hawaiian islands. On the North Shore of Oahu, Waialua Sodaworks made cola that quenched the thirst...
