2021 Hale ‘Aina Award Winner: Kapa Hale Named Best New Restaurant in Hawai‘i
It’s not easy being gold. For Keaka Lee, chef-owner of Kapa Hale, a typical week means 16-hour days, six-and-a-half days a week.
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Coming Soon: Podmore in Downtown
Three years in the making, Anthony Rush and Katherine Nomura plan on opening Podmore, a cocktail bar and brunch spot, in mid-August.
Alan Wong Talks About the Difficult Decision to Close His Restaurant
In November, Hawai‘i’s legendary chef decided to close his signature restaurant on King Street, one that earned dozens of awards, served a president, and trained and inspired a whole new generation of chefs.
We Tried It: 9 Recipes from Sheldon Simeon’s New Cookbook
Pork belly adobo, nori chicken, chocolate birthday cake butter mochi: Sheldon Simeon is proudest of the people, places and poke of his home—and we found all of these in Cook Real Hawai‘i.
2021 Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: The Best Restaurants in Hawai‘i
Congratulations to this year’s Hale ‘Aina Award winners announced on June 14, 2021.
The Haute Cuisine Chef and His Haute Gummy Bears
Colin Hazama brings years at the top of the culinary scene to bear in his hit gummy bear series.
Pandesal, Ube Halaya, Mansanas Apple Cookies: Wow Baguio’s Filipino Sweets Connect to Comforting Roots
Think Filipino food is just adobo, pancit and lumpia? Jo Soeung of Wow Baguio will show you otherwise.
MW Restaurant Reopens Today at a New Location in Kaka‘ako Across From the Blaisdell Center
Upstairs, it’s upscale new MW; downstairs, it’s chic-casual Artizen Café. Here’s an upstairs-downstairs taste.
Finding Honolulu’s Helpers: A Chef and A Retired Professor Help by Providing Free Meals for Hungry Students
When the pandemic shut down in-person classes at Windward Community College, folks there cooked up a practical and tasty way to reach out. And they’re doing it again this semester.
MW Restaurant Just Gave Its Kitchen Equipment to Kahuku High School
Future culinarians on the North Shore will learn to cook at the same flattop that produced dinner for the Obamas.
2020 Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: Pai Honolulu Wins Bronze for Hawai‘i’s Best Tasting Menu
Pai Honolulu’s takeout menu has a few meals that are not so hot. And that’s a very cool thing.
What’s In Your Bowl? We Asked 3 Local Chefs for Their Secrets to a Perfect Poke Bowl
It was probably inevitable that poke bowls would branch off from poke’s evolving trajectory and become their own thing.
2020 Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: Michelle Karr-Ueoka and Wade Ueoka of MW Restaurant Win Hawai‘i’s Restaurateurs of the Year
This couple lends a helping hand not just because times are tough, but because it’s what they’ve always done.
Here’s Why Kapa Hale Is One of Honolulu’s Most Exciting New Restaurants
Keaka Lee’s first restaurant fuses elements of Hawaiian, local, modern American and global.
Alan Wong’s Closes After 25 Years, Town After 16 Years
More than any other restaurants, these two shaped modern Hawai‘i cuisine.
Eat Me Because I’m Pretty: A Ta‘ape Story
Find ta‘ape, a cheap and sustainable fish, on Honolulu menus this week as part of a new campaign to “eat ‘em to beat ‘em.”
How a Lobster Roll Changed the Game at Feast in Mānoa
Like every other restaurant, Mānoa’s Feast struggled to stay ahead of the pandemic. Then it tried out a 21 dollar lobster roll.
Keiki in the Kitchen: Three Great Starfruit Recipes from a Hawaiʻi Chef
It’s tasty raw, right off the tree. But three recipes make star fruit really shine in snacks, sips and desserts.
Gida Snyder of Slow Island Co. on Being Black in the Food Industry
The caterer and maker of syrups using Hawai‘i-grown ingredients on why she’s talking race and politics in her business.
Lamont Brown, Chef and Owner of Maya’s Tapas and Wine, on Being Black and Mexican in the Food Industry in Hawai‘i
He also tells us about how he created the Spanish-Mexican menu at his Hale‘iwa restaurant, which celebrates its two-year anniversary this month.
Chef Lee Anne Wong of Koko Head Cafe Talks About Reopening a Restaurant in Hawai‘i During Quarantine
Watch the interview live, here on HONOLULU Magazine.
How Did a Japanese Restaurant Group Invade Hawai‘i Cuisine Without Anyone Noticing?
While you were busy avoiding Waikīkī, Zetton was infiltrating the neighborhood.
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