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New noshes at The Modern

It seems like a lot of chefs around town are trying to spread their creative wings so they’re not stuck cooking the same old, same old at their same old jobs. Although diners like to go back to restaurants for…

HFWF 2014: A Lucky Modern Buddha Belly

A Lucky Modern Buddha Belly put 1,000 diners poolside at The Modern Honolulu Thursday night, grazing at 14 star-chef-studded stations and sipping Asian-inspired cocktails and wines poured by the vintners themselves. Spotted: Legions of off-duty chefs, including the ponytailed Hubert…

5 questions with Masaharu Morimoto

As an official media partner of this year’s Hawai‘i Food and Wine Festival, we’ll be interviewing several of the noteworthy chefs who be attending this year’s event, which runs Aug. 29 through Sept. 7. Chef Masaharu Morimoto is a returning…

Hawaii Food & Wine: Under the Modern Moon

It’s posh, it’s chic, it’s see-and-be-seen — and it’s an eat your heart out, meet the chefs you’ve seen in magazines and on TV, swoon at every turn scene. When you go to the Hawaii Food & Wine Festival, every…

Tweeting up in Napa

I had a great time on my final last day in San Francisco, hanging out with my Kawananakoa classmate Debora Aoki. She now lives in the Bay Area and is an “arteest” known for her About.com blog on manga.Even back…