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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Tomorrow Night: With Aloha Japan Benefit. Food! Drinks! Entertainment!
Great restaurants, great drinks, three stages of entertainment, all for $50, every penny of which goes to Japan. Saturday, Apr. 9, 5-9 pm, Pagoda Hotel.
Hole in Wall, Mexican: Tacos Ricos Taqueria, Kapahulu
It's hardly an imposing place, but what until you taste the carnitas and barbacoa at Tacos Ricos, a little slice of Cali-Mex on Kapahulu Avenue.
Food Network's Anne Burrell to headline Hawaii Wine & Food Festival, May 20-21, Ko Olina
Anne Burrell, star of Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and co-host of Worst Cooks in America, is headed to Hawaii in May to cook at the Hawaii Wine & Food Festival.
Coming Attractions: SALT, a new restaurant from 12th Avenue Grill
Kevin Hanney is quietly at work on SALT, a new "kitchen and tasting bar" in old C&C Pasta space, Kaimuki. Opening next month.
Street Grindz: Not just @food!
10 Honolulu Food Trucks! Tacos and Twitter! Cyberfoodies and Grilled Cheese! Food that's modern, mobile and sometimes worth finding.
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Hawaii's Kai Vodka wins double gold—with its new sochu.
Kai Vodka just won double gold medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition for two of its new products—both flavored sochu.
Beer Cocktails?! Singha Beer's Full Moon Party, Waikiki Edition, Apr. 7 & 9
Thailand's Singha Beer brings a Full Moon Party to Honolulu, with music, dancing, food--and beer cocktails?! Waikiki Edition, Apr. 7 & 9.
Afterthoughts: Mitigated Gall
On reaching a truce with your own body.
Best Trendy Workout
For our March 2011 Best of Honolulu issue, we visited we visited Volcanic Rock Gym and watched owner Justin Ridgely teach writer, Victoria Wiseman, how to rock climb for the first time.
Japanese food! Sake! Taste of Marukai, Apr. 7
Would you pay $85 or $95 for a party at a grocery store? If you love crab legs, sashimi and sake, maybe you would for Taste of Marukai, Honolulu.
