Editor’s Note: The Spirit of the Hale ‘Aina Awards
Celebrating the passion and perseverance of our city’s chefs and restaurateurs.
Hale AIna Awards
Hale ‘Aina Award Winner: Nature Waikīkī Goes Beyond Farm to Table
Nae Ogawa, chef of the gold-winning restaurant, shares her deep love for the natural world in her cuisine.
Hale ‘Aina Award Winner: Hana Koa Brewing’s Beer Labels Take Flight
From a surfing skeleton to a psychedelic toad, the labels definitely stand out from the crowd.
Hale ‘Aina Award Winner: The Mother-Daughter Duo Behind Olay’s Thai-Lao Cuisine
This year‘s Restaurateurs of the Year, Olay Somsanith and Macy Khounkeo, share tastes of a long-overlooked cuisine.
Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: Secrets of Making Dim Sum at Jade Dynasty and Tim Ho Wan
We venture into the kitchens of two of our winning dim sum restaurants for a look at how favorites like har gow and baked char siu bao are made.
The Best Steak Restaurants (and Places to Get a Steak Dinner) on O‘ahu
Treat Daddy-o to a juicy steak and then some from this beefy list of steakhouses and Father's Day dine-in and takeout specials.
Date Night Idea: 2018 Hale ‘Aina Awards
Photo: HONOLULU Magazine New restaurants, new chefs, and creative dishes and cocktails are always popping up in Honolulu's vibrant dining scene. For parents, our cuisine “scene” often involves mac and cheese, sometimes stuck in our keiki’s hair. When we do score a rare…
Top 5 things to do this weekend
By Kera Wong-Miyasato Get ready for this festival-filled weekend, complete with live music, signature food and good ol’ rice! Plus some of your favorite local artists at the Waikiki Shell, a community fair in Kokokahi and dinner featuring 12 of Oahu’s best…
Party pics: Hale Aina Awards 2014
HONOLULU Magazine announced the winners of its 2014 Hala Aina Awards Sunday night at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, followed by a lavish outdoor soiree with guests tasting dishes from 14 of the city’s top restaurants. This year was the 30th anniversary of the…
Course Correction 3: Making waves
This is Part 3 of a series about how I found my way back into the kitchen after a near career-ending injury. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. While having lunch at the Highway Inn bar with chef Mike Kealoha,…
Party pics: Hale Aina Awards
Honolulu Magazine announced the winners of its 2013 Hala Aina Awards Sunday night at a ceremony at Royal Hawaiian Hotel, then held a lavish outdoor soiree with guests tasting dishes from several of the city’s top restaurants. This year celebrated…
Party pics: Hale Aina Awards
Honolulu Magazine held its 28th Annual Hale Aina Awards gala Sunday evening at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, this time in the Coconut Grove to accommodate the biggest turnout to date. More than 800 people sampled award-winning fare from renowned Honolulu…
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