April 1, 8, 15, 22: Maui Lamb Mondays12th Avenue Grill1145C 12th Ave.Reservations: 732-9469If we eat more parts of the lamb, would raising lamb be more sustainable for local ranchers? 12AG tests the waters this month, with lamb leg roulade April…
Pig and the Lady is in my blood. I’m there Wednesday nights at the Blaisdell farmers’ market, Thursday nights in Kailua if I miss Wednesday; and every other Saturday, when they set up Noodle Bar at Taste in Kakaako, I…
Flavors of Japan hit Kakaako Friday night, with 42 food trucks and street food vendors outdoing themselves to provide Nihon-themed eats. Yakisoba hot dogs, sakura dango mochi pops, sushi, yakitori, okonomiyaki — hai! All on our favorite mega-block on South…
Yes, people, it IS the last Friday of the month already, which for the food-driven among you means one thing: It’s Eat the Street night in Kakaako. Tonight’s theme: Japan, meaning every one of the 40 food trucks and street…
It’s not just the midsummer mega-party the Joy of Sake puts on. Honolulu’s appetite for the ricey brew fuels monthly Aftertastes, samplings of 40 sake at a time at different restaurants around town, and if there were any doubts about…
Alan Wong’s puts on its Farmer Series dinners only two or three times a year, always supporting local producers, always delivering for a worthy cause. Last night’s showcased a range of microgreens and herbs from FarmRoof, the local project that…
Forgive me if I’m missing something, but dang, these popups just keep coming. I’m in the midst of confirming a spate of three choice popups this week when one more I’m keeping an eye on comes through, as in hot…
Time once again for the Kakaako block party that blows up the ‘hood, with more than food, more than shopping, more than fashion, street performers and live music. This time Honolulu Night Market stretches down Auahi from Keawe to Lana…
You read right: Eight months after debuting locally sourced gourmet dinners featuring its homemade cows’ milk cheeses in Waianae’s Lualualei Valley, Naked Cow Dairy is back with more farm dinners. Even better, starting with next week’s series, the dinners will…
For the longest time it was hard just passing Kapiolani. Most people know the medical center as a giver of life; for me it’s the place that cushioned the slow ride to the end of my mom’s. I don’t even…
March: National Caffeine Awareness MonthWhat is there to be aware of? Caffeine is good. Caffeine jump-starts intelligence. Caffeine makes the world go round. March should be National Caffeine Appreciation MonthMarch 1: Honolulu Festival Friendship GalaHawaii Convention Center1801 Kalakaua Ave.6:30 to…
Whoosh, what a ride. Forty-eight years, countless shrimp burgers and deep-fried Oreos, Saturday lunches and late-night runs later, Byron’s Drive-In closes tomorrow night, and it’s a sad good-bye.Byron’s opened by the airport May 10, 1965. It’s the last restaurant of…
Come by! the writeup said. Try a flight of three cocktails featuring Grey Goose and St. Germain and complimentary food.Really? At Brasserie du Vin, for $20? On this last day of an intense and heady Cocktail Week, we were so…
Create the cocktail first, let the food follow. In this reverse pairing, Southern Wine and Spirits mixologist Chandra Lam Lucariello led the way with three creations. Each was paired with appetizers crafted specially by Moana Surfrider chef William Chen for…
Dear Sheldon, I wish you’d won. I know many Top Chef fans in Hawaii who feel the same way, and more beyond these shores. From the beginning of season 10 you brought the show home, flashing the shaka with a…
I’m driving down Kapahulu, hunting for a saimin truck, of all things, when I come upon this: not one, but five food trucks, lined up in the lot just below Winam and above American Savings Bank.What the truck? I think,…
Yes, it slimed. Yes, it wafted. And yes, it was in every dish. NATTO AGAIN!, Nonstop’s latest foray into the world of the odiferous fermented soybean, featured natto in ways the world likely has never seen, thanks to the mind…
We’d heard Wade Ueoka, until recently chef de cuisine at Alan Wong’s, was taking over the kitchen at Tsunami nightclub. That’s right, Tsunami’s. So when Tsunami’s called and invited us over for a sampling, half of Nonstop showed up at…
My second time at Greens & Vines, the newish raw vegan restaurant across Blaisdell Center, I’m trying to decide between living lasagna and zucchini pasta. One’s sun-dried tomato marinara and spinach pesto layered between zucchini strips and topped with a…
Feb. 1 & 2: Punahou Carnival1601 Punahou St.11 a.m. to 11 p.m.It’s the first weekend of February, which means the teriburgers, crusty malasadas and mango chutney you wait for all year are finally here. Don’t forget the rides, white elephant…
Family-style rice bowls heaping with maguro-natto goodness. Spicy Korean natto kimchee stew. And dessert, people: natto cheesecake with honey ume.Are you ready for Nonstop’s third all-natto dinner? The stinky bean returns on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, with an all-new menu…
Biggest. ETS. Ever. Seriously? We had to count twice — 53 food trucks and street food vendors, every one tonight serving up an iconic dish from an NFL city. And since this one’s an official Pro Bowl event, that means…
Happy new year, people! Nonstop’s M&M opens the year with a girls’ night far from our usual townie haunts, out in Leeward Oahu for a look at Peter Merriman’s new Ko Olina spot.The place was buzzing on a recent Friday,…
Are you going to Sunday’s Ohana Festival in Moiliili? After missing it last year, and then flagellating ourselves over all your Instagrams, Twitpics and Facebook pics of the glorious eats and more, we are so there. This year we’re primed.…
Jan. 4: Kasbah Events popup dinnerTASTE667 Auahi St.5 to 9 p.m.Last night of a three-night a la carte pop-up by Moroccan-born chefs Moumen El Hajji and Christopher Hajji and French-trained Holly Hadsell. No tickets, just show up and order from…
Happy 2013, people! Kakaako rang in the new year as only Kakaako can, with 30 food trucks and street food booths anchoring the Party of the Year at Kakaako Park, plus fireworks every hour on the hour, a ferris wheel,…
Happy Friday, tonkatsu fans, happy one week since the battle of the tonkatsu giants came to Shirokiya!I’ve found that in Hawaii, asking who likes tonkatsu is like asking who likes Spam. So this is momentous: Waikiki’s Kimukatsu debuted in a…
The menu came out on Monday, and after ‘paiai with inamona and grapes,’ I don’t remember anything else. I booked for opening night.Sashimi with water lily, banana blossom and kaffir lime sauce from Pig and the Lady's first pop-up last…
Kathy Sills has heart. She had a dream about an ice pop tricycle and made it come true, crafting local fruit and chocolate ice pops by hand and selling them from her tricycle-driven cart. She did this while running her…
Probably everything you might have heard about Vintage Cave, the new restaurant opening under Shirokiya next week, is true. Fantastical, but true:It’s one man’s dream. Takeshi Sekiguchi, whose developments span Maui’s Grand Wailea Resort and Four Seasons to Ko Olina…
StarChefs.com brought its star power to Hawaii Tuesday night, shining the spotlight on a new-generation crop of 13 chefs and one mixologist at a tasting gala that sold out at $95 a ticket. All were picked from a field of…
Dec. 1: Midnight Madness with Lee Anne WongTASTE667 Auahi St.7 to 10 p.m.Tickets: $45 onlineUnique Eats’ Lee Anne Wong is back to join forces with Mark Noguchi in the second Drunch (“You drink you munch, it’s dinner it’s lunch”) event…
Have you ever been to a Yelp party in, oh, say, a typical place? Like, somewhere you’d expect to have a party? Assuming you Yelp, as much of this town does, making Honolulu a red-hot Yelp site, the answer is…
Sunday night I sucked up my hatred of lines and stood on a Chinatown sidewalk 38 minutes for ramen. Sun Noodle, you see, is legendary to noodle fiends for making just about every kind of Asian noodle Hawaii eats, at…
The email came in the middle of an insane week. It was from someone I didn’t know named Sarah.“I’ve been working to develop content for a Travel Channel Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern show set to film in Hawaii this…
Honolulu’s first Dishcrawl happened last night, a high-buzz progressive dinner that was so secret, nobody knew which restaurants were involved until we ended up inside the doors. And until last night, nobody really knew what a Dishcrawl was, either, but…
I found a sandwich I liked so much, I’ve had it three times in three weeks. The only reason I didn’t get it the fourth time I went to Hiking Hawaii Cafe was because the remnants of the third were…
It happened yesterday, the yearly homage to sugar, in the form of Dessert Fantasy 2012: 54 desserts from 42 bakeries and restaurants across the island, available for unlimited sampling in as much quantity as you could physically tolerate for two…
All of November: National Peanut Butter Lovers MonthI don’t know what to do with this except to tell you, because I find it strangely exciting. Slather, people!Nov. 1: Shochu DayDistilled from barley, sweet potatoes or rice, 25 percent alcohol by…
6 p.m. last Thursday, Prima in Kailua. Thirteen fellow pasta fiends and I have converged on one of the island’s best restaurants for our specially created, this-time-only World Pasta Day celebration dinner. Course after course of carby goodness — that’s…
