Best Bites in Honolulu

We’re covering Oahu food news every weekday on our daily dining blog, Biting Commentary. Here are a few of our favorite recent discoveries. Check out more at honolulumagazine.com.

November 30, 2011

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Photo: David Croxford

The Beet Box Cafe

Haleiwa’s Beet Box Café is a welcome, vibrant eatery in a town overrun with spots to drink beer and eat so-so food. Beet Box’s all-vegetarian offerings include a Beirut Burger with a pan-fried, homemade falafel patty topped with red onion, tomato and cucumber, and a Portabella Stache’wich—portabella and zucchini sautéed in what tastes like balsamic vinegar and shoyu, and stacked high with feta, bell pepper and sunflower sprouts. Inside Celestial Natural Foods, 66-443 Kamehameha Highway, Haleiwa, thebeetboxcafe.com.

photo: courtesy let them eat cupcakes

Let Them Eat Cupcakes

The cupcake niche gets more crowded every day, but new bakery Let Them Eat Cupcakes is proof that there’s always room for another if the product is great. Our favorite LTEC flavor: the double-chocolate with vanilla-buttercream frosting, which is like falling into a dream. 35 S. Beretania St., 531-2253, letthemeatcupcakes808.com.

Photo: couresty michi harris

Michi Cooks Fresh

Since 2008, self-taught cook Michi Harris has been serving up full family meals-to-go through Michi’s Cooking Fresh for You. Now she’s taken her repertoire on the road with a lunch truck. The 14-item menu includes five-spice teri chicken with pineapple salsa, Vietnamese-style pork chops and a salad of the day. Check twitter.com/cookingfresh4u for her regular truck locations. 286-6484, cookingfreshforyou.com.

This article appears in the November 2011 issue of HONOLULU Magazine.