This year’s Chefs’ Private After Party, part of the Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival, took place at Japengo & SWIM at Hyatt Regency Waikiki, with amazing craft cocktails, spirits, late-night snacks, music and dancing. The five midnight snack stations featured…
Every restaurant has some form of off-menu items, and Japengo is no exception. Chef Jon Matsubara — who has been invited to cook at the prestigious James Beard House this June — said he has a long list of secret dishes…
Maui has some of the best food celebrations in the state, and one of the relative newcomers, Kaanapali Fresh has become the most blogged-about culinary destination event on the island so far. It’s a great way to showcase the island’s bounty…
The chefs from the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival got to relax, mingle and get down to DJ/Chef Hubert Keller spinning electro house and dance beats at Japengo on Friday night. Also featured at the after-party were custom cocktails by…
In 1972, hobbyist wine grower (and full time garage owner) Jack Cakebread acquired 22 acres of land in Napa and started his winery. Little did he know that 40 years later, the Cakebread name would be renowned for its cabernets…
Potent Productions and the American Marketing Association at the University of Hawaii at Manoa threw their semi-annual grad party at The Hyatt Regency Waikiki’s Japengo restaurant Saturday night. IGNITE kicked off with an open Patron and Grey Goose bar for…
Tantriq Entertainment and Potent Productions opened a new weekly party at the Hyatt Regency’s newly remodeled/rebranded Japengo restaurant Saturday night, with several rooms for the stylish crowd to lounge and mingle in. The main room doubled as a dance floor,…
The home base for the 2022 Hale ‘Aina Restaurateurs of the Year is a hidden paradise that serves up the best Lao and Thai food in Honolulu.
Lesson from this classic post: If TSA asks what’s in the little bags in your suitcase, don’t say “crack seed.”
Honolulu’s first modern tea restaurant has delicious milk tea, laksa and sweet toasts six days a week except Thursdays (for now).
Follow the scent of grilled meats to the old Meadow Gold parking lot.
Different takes on sushi and sashimi will join veg-forward dishes, beef shin adobo and desserts on Thursday and Friday nights.
Many bakers may chose to go a step further and work through the night finishing their day when the rest of the world is just waking up.
