Mari Taketa

Dining Editor

Dining Editor Mari Taketa spearheads coverage of the city’s dining scene for HONOLULU Magazine and its digital food blog, Frolic Hawai‘i. A 10-year veteran of traditional journalism, she traded in a career at The Associated Press in Tokyo and Hawai‘i Business Magazine for nonprofit adoption work in Ho Chi Minh City. Food brought her back to journalism, starting with Metromix Honolulu, The Honolulu Advertiser, Hana Hou and now HONOLULU. She is also excited by travel and periodically attempts to learn new languages.

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Did this: Mango Throwdown at the Moana

Tree to Table — A Mango Throwdown ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 34 Balmy night, end of summer, heart of Waikiki: 17 of the island's best chefs converge on the Moana Surfrider with their best mango dishes.For what?…

New eats: Honolulu Burger Co.

Here's the beef! ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 17 By Mari TaketaNonstop HonoluluHello? Right across from Times on Beretania, in the old Mekong restaurant space, new signage announces the Honolulu Burger Co., established 2010. July 29, to be…

Did this: Joy of Sake

August 19: the muse strikes ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 21 By Mari TaketaNonstop HonoluluThis soft summer's eveWe'll sip in rising raptureO joy of sake! — Photo by Ed Morita jQuery(function($) { new NggPaginatedGallery('dfca1765c7c9b0a4049383def8621351', '.ngg-imagebrowser'); });

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Did this: Pacific Palisades bon dance

A bon dance where? ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 13 By Mari TaketaNonstop HonoluluWhoever heard of Rissho Kosei Kai? Seriously, who?Well, it's a Buddhist temple way up in the hills above Pearl City, and we hear they have…