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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Alan Wong Farmers Dinner with Richard Ha, Jan. 26
Hot tomato! Richard Ha of Hamakua Springs Farms flies over from the Big Island to join Alan Wong for a Farmers Series dinner, Jan. 26.
New Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant Opens at Ala Moana Center
Or how I went to a Chinese restaurant opening and ended up eating pizza.
You Can Now Get Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Burger for $10 Through the End of the Year
Not just any burger: Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in the Royal Hawaiian Center, Waikiki, has extended its $10 lunchtime burger bargain through the end of 2011.
New: Sushi ii, a hidden gem of a Honolulu sushi bar
You may never find Sushi ii. It's a new, highly personal sushi bar in the Samsung Plaza, off Keeaumoku Street. And it's more than a sushi bar, with a lively, varied menu and a congenial group of customers.
First Taste: J2, JJ's new restaurant in Kaimuki
Having expanded to capacity at his JJ Bistro & French Pastry, Praseuth "JJ" Luangkhot opens J2, a new restaurant down the block--quieter, a bit more upscale, but no more expensive. The food's even better.
Inferno's Wood-Fire Pizza, from a tent in a Kalihi parking lot
Two young guys turned their passion for pizza into the most casual eatery you've encountered. Excellent pizza at good prices under a tent in a parking lot.
Q+A with Food Feuds' Michael Symon, Cooking on the Big Island, Jan. 21-22
Iron Chef winner Michael Symon talked to us from his home base in Cleveland about his upcoming James Beard Celebrity Chef dinner, Mauna Lani Hotel & Bungalows, Jan. 22.
Waialua Hot Chocolate, Blue Hawaii Lifestyle, Ala Moana Center and downtown Honolulu
Here's an antidote to chill in the air: local hot chocolate with a kick of spice at Blue Hawaii Lifestyle.
Morimoto Waikiki: Good, but hardly "the ultimate culinary experience"
Iron Chef Masaharu Matsumoto's new restaurant in Waikiki Edition hotel promises "the ultimate culinary experience." It doesn't deliver on that exalted promise.
30 Meals Under $30
We were inspired to find entire meals that cost less than $30. Real, satisfying meals, at nice restaurants, even with a glass of wine. It can be done—here's how.
First Taste: La Tour Café, Honolulu
From the folks who brought you Ba-Le in Hawaii, comes a new French-accented café where the food's casual, fun, yet seriously good. Opening 1/11/11 in Honolulu, in the renovated Weyerhaeuser warehouse on Nimitz.
