Make This Halloween Spook-tacular with Foodland’s Maika‘i recipes
(Sponsored) Thanks to Foodland’s Maika‘i products, coming up with ideas for festive treats is quick, easy and sure to satisfy any sweet craving.
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30-plus new restaurants have opened in Honolulu since March
It's not all gloom and doom out there.
Frolic’s Night In: A Royal Hawaiian Center Virtual Takeout Dinner
(Sponsored) Coming Oct. 24: Sip and eat in the comfort of your home as Frolic hosts a live, 4-restaurant dinner with drink pairings.
Here’s How Pau Hana Cocktails Equal Bentos for Furloughed Workers
Cocktails for a Cause brings star mixologists together to help unemployed food and beverage workers.
Frolic x Foodland: Date Night Cooking Battle
(Sponsored) Two couples use an item from Foodland's new Chef Essentials to create a winning dish for date night at home.
12 local food businesses on Instagram that we’re drooling over
If there's a silver lining to the pandemic's effects on our restaurant industry, it's that furloughed chefs and hospitality workers are popping up on Instagram with their own creative ventures. Open up the app and you'll discover people going bonkers for items like beef birria…
Frolic’s Poke Fest is back! All-New Drive-Thru Event Coming Oct. 17.
(Sponsored) Get poke creations from 8 iconic shops across Oahu in a fun, zero-contact format.
These Ohana Hale Marketplace eateries just reopened
Restaurants are essential businesses — which is why Ohana Hale Marketplace, initially shuttered when Oahu went on lockdown in late August, reopened Friday, Sept. 11 with a growing list of food stalls offering takeout and even curbside pickup. Scroll below to…
First Look: HI Steaks in Foodland Farms Ka Makana Ali‘i
(Sponsored) Plus an exclusive, limited-time offer for Frolic readers.
Our 5 Favorite Things at Foodland Farms Ka Makana Ali‘i
(Sponsored) From family meals and exclusive poke flavors to an in-store restaurant, here are some highlights from the Kapolei store.
5 must-try local dishes at Mahiai Table
Sponsored It’s easy to support local farms when you shop and dine at Foodland Farms Ka Makana Alii. Located at The Grove at Ka Makana Alii, this newest Foodland Farms store boasts a large range of Hawaii-grown, Hawaii-raised and Hawaii-made…
Chocolate, Shave Ice and Island Brews on the Menu at UNIQLO Hawaii
(Sponsored) New T-shirt collection features iconic brands like Waiola Shave Ice, Aloha Beer and Hawaiian Host.
These Maui restaurants are open for dine-in and takeout
When Oahu restaurants got the green light to reopen their dining areas for eat-in customers in late May, we immediately published a list of who was reopening. That list started with around 80 early announcers but as the June 5…
We ate out at restaurants and here’s what it was like
The view from 7 restaurants on the first weekend of dining in again.
Waikiki parking deals just in time for Friday’s restaurant reopenings
Waikiki with no crowds and cheap parking? And room on the beach? We might not see this again in our lifetime. Parking structures are luring back locals with good deals, just ahead of Friday's reopening of more than two dozen…
Essential eats: Where to satisfy your dim sum craving
Week 8 of stay-at-home and at this point, especially the day after Mother's Day feasting, we're all about comfort food. Here's what people have been asking about and what you can find for takeout and delivery all over Oahu: succulent…
You Can Help All of Hawai‘i When You Make a Purchase at a Hawai‘i Restaurant
(Sponsored) First Hawaiian Bank will make donations up to $1 million to the Aloha for Hawaii fund when you order takeout with your FHB card.
#TrashyGourmet: Furikake Spam, chicken pot pie, youtiao shoyu hot dog
Week 5 of stay-at-home and we've been cooking the same things over and over. Wait, not! When Frolickers Jason Chin, Thomas Obungen and Gregg Hoshida started taking everyday foods, elevating them through fancy plating or the addition of higher-end ingredients…
Local Short Films for Free: HIFF@HOME Starts This Month
(Sponsored) Now you can stream award-winning local productions for free.
#TrashyGourmet: Bougie Spam, Vienna sausage & tater tots
We all love our instant ramen, canned meats and porridges like jook and okayu — humble staples that many of us grew up eating and still eat today. Maybe even more so today, when inexpensive meals at home are becoming a…
And more: New takeout menus from Hawaii restaurants
Hello, hungry Hawaii! With readers checking and rechecking the takeout menus we published last Friday and yesterday, and even more restaurants sending us their menus, we're back for round 3. Among the three posts you'll find well over 100 new…
More takeout menus from Hawaii restaurants
Editor's note: After we published dozens of new takeout menus from Hawaii restaurants last Friday, more restaurants reached out asking us to post theirs. It didn't stop, so we followed up with even more.Things are changing fast, so while menus…
Here’s what Hawaii restaurants are offering for takeout
Editor's note: While scrolling through our Instagram feed on Thursday we noticed about a dozen Hawaii restaurants had posted their takeout menus. By the time we published on Friday morning there were nearly 30, and other restaurants began reaching out…
Diner-Style to Luxe: Where to Book Valentine’s Day Dinner
(Sponsored) A.k.a. where you can still get reservations for Feb. 14.
What $10 Gets You: Ala Moana Center
It's lunchtime and you're hungry. What are your options?
Where to find crack seed on Oahu
We're lucky that in Hawaii, drug stores, convenience stores and supermarkets sell crack seed. But the best kind come from crack seed stores and hole-in-the-wall mom-and-pop shops. If they let you sample, bonus. And if they sell Icee with li…
Top 10 food posts of 2019
Sure, Frolic stays on top of local food happenings, but that's not what you prized most in our coverage. Of nearly 300 posts we published in 2019, the 10 highest pageview-getters guided you to Hawaii's best local foods and buffet…
The best things we ate in Hawaii this year
Collectively, the Frolic team eats a LOT across Hawaii. As 2019 concludes, here's a look at the dishes that stayed on our brains and kept us coming back for more. Adobo turkey tails at Lineage Salty, tangy, and just a…
Frolic team picks: Best new Hawaii restaurants of 2019
Where did this year go? It seems like yesterday we were just relishing the best meals we had in 2018 and boop! Christmas already came and went. Hello, 2020. Once again we scrolled through our camera rolls, reflected on a…
Last-minute potluck picks at Foodland Farms Ala Moana
Sponsored Holidays in Hawaii are filled with potlucks galore. With invites flooding in on all your devices, who even has time to plan for it all? No worry beef curry when you forget your cousin Mary's boyfriend's great uncle's hanai…
Your all-kine shopping guide for local foodie gifts
We love going out to eat and most of our friends do, too. But what do you get your foodie friends for Christmas? They already know about the hottest restaurants, already buy their own fave wines or craft beers, and…
Foodland Farms Catering Picks to Wow Your Next Potluck
(Sponsored) Mix-and-match musubi platters, custom poke trays and so many ice cream sandwiches.
Top 5 Must-Haves at P.F. Chang’s Waikīkī
(Sponsored) Insider look at the best happy hour deals and Hawai‘i-exclusive dishes.
Here are Honolulu’s OTHER fried chicken sandwiches
So it's not like Popeyes invented the chicken sandwich. Remember? Here's where you can get good to great versions in Honolulu at local spots that aren't national or global chains. See also: Is Popeyes chicken sandwich worth all the hype? Artizen…
All New Locally Inspired Dishes are on P.F. Chang’s Holiday Menu
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Guide to Restaurant Week 2019 at International Market Place
(Sponsored) Discounts, special menus and more at this Waikiki foodie spot.
Our Seven Favorite Finds at Foodland Farms Pearl City
(Sponsored) A grocery store where everyone knows your name.
Foodland Farms Ala Moana Totally Revamped its Bar Menu
(Sponsored) There's a ton of new choices way beyond charcuterie and cheese.
Pride celebrations, HIFF, chocolate and coffee fests and more
Sponsored Fall is synonymous with back to school, but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop. Scroll down to check out what’s coming up across the Hawaiian Islands this fall. Events range from a Pride celebration and film festivals…
All the eats at Saturday’s Rice Fest
Sponsored Get your chopsticks ready: The 10th annual Rice Festival is coming to Ward Village this Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019 from 3 to 9 p.m. The green lawns of Victoria Ward Park will play host to live entertainment, local products…
Why We Like (Hanging Out at) Foodland Farms in Ala Moana
(Sponsored) Plenty of reasons, but we kept it to six.
What’s on the Menu at Saturday’s Festa Italiana
(Sponsored) The Italian street fest is taking over Cooke Street in Kakaako.
ONO: Ethel’s Grill is doing a one-time Sunday brunch on Oct. 6
ONO (One Night Only) is a dining series presented by Hawaii Gas in partnership with Frolic Hawaii. Each ONO event will explore local chefs' cultural roots and the food that is meaningful to them. We'll share the stories about the…
Foodland’s Calabash Meal Kits = Restaurant-Quality Meals at Home
(Sponsored) If you can cook rice, you can Calabash, and it's ready in 15 to 30 minutes.
Our Go-To Eats: Hawai‘i Foods of Summer
Grilled kalbi, fresh lychee ice cream, mango all kine ways—these are the Frolic team's flavors of summer.
Awesome eats 8/23: P.F. Chang’s local-style bentos
Heads up, downtowners: Frolic's popular Awesome eats lunchtime popup returns on Friday, Aug. 23, and P.F. Chang’s is kicking things off with a delicious and affordable bento. It's a special item you won't find at the Waikiki restaurant, so you…
Renovated Pearlridge Center is the ultimate foodie heaven
Sponsored Have you been to Pearlridge Center lately? The center had a huge, multi-million dollar renovation. Uptown is now known as Mauka and Downtown, where the movie theaters are, is now Wai Makai. Why all the renovations and rebranding? The center…
What’s on the menu at Saturday’s Korean Festival
Bring out your metal chopsticks — the 17th Annual Korean Festival is at Victoria Ward Park this Saturday, when all things Korean come together from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. During the day, it's all about crafts, vendors and cultural displays. Then…
Karii! Sample all the ways to sip Okinawan awamori
Sponsored Clear as ice and packing a punch — it ranges from 50 to as much as 120 proof — awamori is Okinawan's indigenous distilled spirit. Most people drink it with water and ice, but that's only the tip of…
