Foodie alert: There is a food festival on Maui that’s plenty affordable. On Saturday, April 1, the 10th annual Maui Ag Fest transforms Maui Tropical Plantation into an impressive showcase for local agriculture. The all-day festival brings chefs, farmers and the community together…
Then: Kabocha with ebi in shoyu sugar. Now: Roasted kabocha risotto.To celebrate our distinctive, ono grinds, food historian Arnold Hiura has a new cookbook out via Watermark Publishing: “From Kau Kau to Cuisine: An Island Cookbook, Then and Now,” featuring…
A new lineup of chefs recently started up at Taste, delivering a fresh round of pop-up eating to Kaka’ako. Local Stop kicks off each week on Tuesdays, serving up local style-lunches. On Wednesdays, newcomer Off Da Hook offers up such…
Details of a modern Mediterranean restaurant have been percolating through Honolulu dining circles for the past three weeks. In anticipation of an early August opening, I made some phone calls and scoured the Internet for any and all information about…
Last night I was reading the blog for the James Beard Foundation — a New York-based national professional nonprofit that serves to promote the culinary arts — and read its predictions for 2012.Here’s what it suspects will be trending next year:•…
Who would have thought a meat lasagna and ragu bolognese would have been our last meals? It almost was, had that 8.9-magnitude earthquake off Honshu, Japan generated a destructive tsunami that hit our Islands. (Luckily, it wasn’t too bad. Surges…
It’s that restaurant I’ve always wanted to try — but never got around to it.Until tonight.We were going to check out J2, JJ’s Bistro’s new restaurant in Kaimuki, but the wait was too long and, frankly, we weren’t into the…
I remember when Tsukuneya Robata Grill opened in the spot on the corner of University Avenue and Dole Street vacated by Players Sports Bar (and before that, Pizza Hut). And I remember, after eating my first meal there, “This isn’t…
