Entries tagged 'local favorites'
Hawaii Food: Best Shave Ice in Hilo - Itsuz's
Nice video segment on this Hilo classic. Secret sauce for shave ice? They custom make their own syrups. This is actually at a fishing supply store. No joke. (Warning: This video segment is from a program called Kamaainabackroads.com, a...
Eating Hawaii -- Oahu North Shore Shrimp Truck Tour - Romy's
Some serious shrimp eating going on. These folks prefer Romy's to Giovanni's. Your opinion?...
Rainbow Drive In: Bad Moco in Hawaii
Tasty Island is one of my favorite local food blogs. I only wish they would post more. Here they pull a fully contrarian review, dressing down the Rainbow Drive In surf diner for sub-par loco moco (a Hawaii staple,, a...
Diamond Head Market: Don't Go for Breakfast
After a Honolulu Advertiser article trumpeted breakfast at the Diamond Head Market & Grill on Monsarrat (the place does make really killer high-end plate lunch fare), I took the missus and kids down for some pancakes on a recent weekend,...
Maui Restaurants: Upcountry Bounty
Maui Time Weekly weighs in on the Kula Sandalwoods Cafe, a restaurant I have often heard mentioned as a local favorite with simple, hearty fare. It was really nice food when I went there. Plenty of local vehicles parked outside,...
Hawaii Restaurants: Choo's Chews Book Review: Sliced Pig Stomach! Yum!
I've long envied the life of my good friend Dave Choo. A multi-talented writer and editor who works at local magazine shop Pacific Basin Communications, Choo is an encyclopedia of local food insights. Dave has just published a bunch of...
Hawaii Restaurants: Roy's Hawaii Kai, Still Ono After All These Years
In 1989, Roy Yamaguchi opened his flagship eatery in Hawaii Kai, then a solidly middle-class newish neighborhood in East Honolulu. Roy was from California and so was his restaurant. It had a big display kitchen with flashy flames and pots...
Things You Must Eat in Hawaii: Roselani Haupia (Coconut) Ice Cream
I am a serious ice cream snob, jaded from years of seeking out the best ice cream parlors on both coasts and wherever abroad I may have been travelling. Hawaii has great ice cream, with a half-dozen really high-end...
Hawaii Restaurants: Hiroshi Eurasian Tapas
Hiroshi Fukui started out washing dishes in a Japanese restaurant in Waikiki. His only formal training was on the job as he climbed the ranks from line to sous to the guy running the kitchen. Fukui spread his wings at...
Hawaii Restaurants: Merriman's Market Cafe
Noted restaurateur Peter Merriman was one of the original founders of the Hawaii Regional Cuisine (HRC) over a decade ago. His flagship eatery in upcountry Waimea is an island institution with intricate plates crafted from Big Island produce (he has...
Aloha Pouring Ocean Vodka in First Class
Aloha Airlines flights will soon be the only place in the country you can drink Maui's own Ocean Vodka (caution -- very loud Flash trailer) besides the Hawaiian Islands. First Class bar carts on Aloha will start carrying the clear,...
Hawaii Eats: Hawaiian Strawberries
Mmmmm, strawberries. While everyone associates Hawaii with pineapples, papayas, and other tropicals, in the higher elevations on the Big Island and Maui, local farmers are busily growing ridiculously luscious strawberries. They are pretty hard to find in supermarkets but a...
Downhill Alert: Jimbo's Noodle Shop
We love Jimbo's as do a lot of other folks. It used to be our favorite place to get udon and other Japanese comfort foods. I was partial to the yakiudon with shrimp. But over the past six months the...
Hawaii Eats: Ma'o Farms Goes to Town
Living just up the hill from Ed Kenney's restaurant Town definitely has its perks. We get down there all the time for lunch and either Ed or Dave, his partner, sticks their head out of the kitchen to say hello....
The Ultimate Sushi Hole-in-the-Wall: Dave Choo Reviews
Mitch's Sushi has won an undeground following among local foodies for its extremely fresh fish and extremely reasonable prices. The secret of the fresh fish? The proprietor's father is a major seafood wholesalers. The prices? This really is a hole-in-the-wall...
