Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend in Honolulu: Sept. 18–24, 2025
Celebrate all things banana, picnic in style, watch a rubber duckie race, see a deliciously fun opera and more.
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Food events: Taste chocolate from wild cacao, paired with 12 wines
Also coming up: Bacon at Eat the Street and Taste of the Nation, a fundraiser for the Hawaii Foodbank and ‘AINA in Schools
Whole Foods Kailua: First look
Unique to Kailua: a wine and beer bar plus pau hana, Onopops shave ice, self-serve poke bar and more
Shogunai Tagine Cafe
Secret Downtown Restaurant Revealed!
A night at Honolulu Farmers Market
Otsuji Farm, The Pig and the Lady, Zaratez, Daizu Tei and Licious Dishes are some of the vendors offering delicious street food at this Wednesday market.
Cactus Bistro: First Look
John Memering, previously the executive chef of Kalapawai Cafe, has opened Cactus Bistro, featuring Latin American flavors
Unsolicited Advice for HPD
Unsolicited Advice: Do You Know Why We're Writing This, Officer?: It happened on King Street, downtown, during one of the Honolulu Police Department’s antijaywalking campaigns.
Inspirational Quotes from the Dalai Lama’s Talks in Honolulu
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama returned to Hawaii for two talks at the UH Stan Sheriff Center.
New food truck: Aloha Bowls
Serving up new variations of acai bowls
From Our Files
The April 2012 archives from our files of Paradise of the Pacific and HONOLULU Magazine.
New restaurants/Coming soon/Closed
New: Katsu, Sakura Terrace. Coming soon: Monkeypod Kitchen comes to Oahu, Pint and Jigger
