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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Big Island: 50s Highway Fountain
The perfect pit stop with diner classics
Upcoming food and dining events
Whole Foods Kailua preview, pop-up by Daniel Skurnick at Prima, Arabian Nights
New restaurant: Kimukatsu
Specializing in katsu with 25 layers of thinly sliced pork.
Italian charsiu at Mix Cafe
A beet, sausage, gorgonzola and apple sandwich that tastes like Italian charsiu
Scotch: The Grand Scotch tour, a quick and dirty guide, Scotch cocktails
Get ready for the Grand Scotch tour at the Willows with a primer. Not ready to go all in? Ease into Scotch with some cocktails.
Restaurants just opened / opening soon
Kimukatsu, Adega Portuguesa, The Whole Ox Deli, Real A Gastropub
Where to eat for St. Patrick's Day
Murphy's celebrates it's 25th St. Patrick's day party this year. Less boisterous options include SALT and Side Street.
New: Queen's Surf Cafe and Lanai
This newly reopened beach concession stand offers lovely, casual, oceanfront dining, with plates around $10.
New: Dash Gastropub
Billed as "upscale drinks and food at bar prices," Dash serves twists on comfort food.
Afterthoughts: Quonset Cool
Curved, corrugated, casual—Hawaii’s kamaboko houses are prefab-ulous.
No Ka Oi IPA: Rogue's private label beer for Hawaii Whole Foods
Troy Terorotua, beer specialist at Whole Foods Kahala, approached Rogue to create a beer for the Hawaii market.
