4 Hawai‘i-Grown Ingredients Are Having a Moment at Our Favorite Restaurants
What do ‘ulu, mushrooms, shrimp and pork have in common? More farms are growing and raising them locally, inspiring chefs to create innovative dishes.
Author: Photos by Steve Czerniak
2019 Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: Sheldon Simeon’s Lineage on Maui Wins Gold for Hawai‘i’s Best New Restaurant
Sheldon Simeon has had some very public ups and downs. The lessons he’s learned from them culminate in his latest restaurant on Maui.
2019 Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: Senia Wins Gold for Hawai‘i’s Best Tasting Menu and Silver for O‘ahu’s Best Restaurant
We take a closer look at the 2019 Hale ‘Aina Award Winner.
Expanding Tastes: Roy Yamaguchi is Cooking for the Kailua Community at Goen Dining + Bar
It would be perfectly poetic to say that the local chef’s newest restaurant, Goen, which opened last fall, conjures the past just as Kailua’s developers are erasing it.
Expanding Tastes: Chinese Food in Hawai‘i Wasn’t the Same Without Chengdu Taste
This Sichuan mini-chain restaurant is back, bigger and bolder.
Expanding Tastes: What You Should Order at Rangoon Burmese Kitchen in Chinatown
Explore tribe dishes and other traditional tastes from Myanmar.
35th Hale ‘Aina Awards: Pai Honolulu Wins Best New Restaurant, Service and Tasting Menu
Pai Honolulu impresses with carefully constructed plates, addictive small bites, killer cocktails and now house-made breads.
35th Hale ‘Aina Winner: Chef Mavro Celebrates 20 Years of Promoting Local Food
Chef-owner George Mavrothalassitis wants to tell us what to eat for dinner.
The 11 Best Vegetarian and Vegan Dishes on O‘ahu Right Now
Welcome to the table, vegans and vegetarians: Honolulu’s eating scene has come around to the joys of meat-free dishes.
35th Hale ‘Aina Winner: Peter Merriman is Hawai‘i’s Restaurateur of the Year
Thirty years after opening his first restaurant in Waimea on the Big Island and sparking the most influential food movement in Hawai‘i, chef Merriman is just getting started.
35th Hale ‘Aina Winner: The Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Hot Pot in Honolulu
Hot pot newbies, simmer down. The pros at Ichiriki Japanese Nabe have your guide to the ultimate D.I.Y. dining experience.
Pet Pot-purrr-ri: Cool Pet Stuff in Hawaii
Services, splurges and curiosities for the modern four-legged friend—and Other creatures. Plus our consult with a pet telepathist! Plus Plus Tips and reflections of a master dog trainer!
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We aren’t picky, we’re just…discerning.
Hawai‘i is full of amazing places. Most of them you’re free to visit, but there are a few where you’re just not allowed. Here’s a peek into Hawai‘i’s coolest off-limits corners.
We take a look inside your high school yearbooks to find what’s changed about the local high school experience over the years, and what’s stayed exactly the same.
Hole-in-the-wall general stores dishing up their own eats— even if it’s just one ‘ono item—are a beloved part of Island life. Here are a few of Hawai‘i’s best.
Need something to read—or hand to someone who does? Here’s HONOLULU’s first-ever list of the most iconic, trenchant and irresistible Island books, as voted by a panel of literary community luminaries.