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Making a reservation at these 2019 Hale ‘Aina-winning restaurants will promise an affair to remember.
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Making a reservation at these 2019 Hale ‘Aina-winning restaurants will promise an affair to remember.
At Café Kaila, Koko Head Café and Over Easy, success comes from memories of favorite family mornings, and some spectacular versions of home cooking.
We take a closer look at the 2019 Hale ‘Aina Award Winner.
The rebel with a cause is the chef and owner of Mud Hen Water, Kaimukī Superette, Town and Mahina & Sun’s.
DJ KK’s chill, tropical-style house music created the perfect mood for our popular foodie event.
Chef Jon Matsubara opened his own place with his fresh take on comfort food: Island roots with a twist of the culinary big city.
Maybe you’ll win the golden ticket. But the consolation prize is just as sweet. And savory.
Great food is still on the menu. But the rest of our Best Restaurants celebration has changed.
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.
This Sichuan mini-chain restaurant is back, bigger and bolder.
Explore tribe dishes and other traditional tastes from Myanmar.
HONOLULU Magazine announced the winners of the 2019 Hale ‘Aina Awards with a celebration at the Kāhala Hotel & Resort on June 9, 2019.
Congratulations to this year’s Hale ‘Aina Award winners announced on June 9, 2019.
There are two sides of SKY Waikīkī. You may be familiar with the restaurant/nightclub side known for its view of Waikīkī, but the venue also hides a secret bar behind a discreet panel in the wall.
Each of these three restaurants won on the first Hale ‘Aina ballot. And each is here today, still racking up honors. How do they do it?
Pai Honolulu impresses with carefully constructed plates, addictive small bites, killer cocktails and now house-made breads.
Chef-owner George Mavrothalassitis wants to tell us what to eat for dinner.
The culinary community mourns Conrad Nonaka’s death with a heavy heart and a steady eye to the future.
Throwback cocktails with a view, craft beer in Kailua, local chickpeas and a $5 burger.
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.
Top of the seafood chain: Fish fanatics found piscatory paradise at Herringbone Waikīkī.
The do’s and don’ts of helping yourself to the good stuff at Amuse Wine Bar inside the Honolulu Design Center.
Hot pot newbies, simmer down. The pros at Ichiriki Japanese Nabe have your guide to the ultimate D.I.Y. dining experience.
The Hale ‘Aina Awards, HONOLULU’s premier dining event, was held Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, at The Royal Hawaiian, A Luxury Collection Resort.