Piggy Smalls Closing Because of Staffing Shortage
Most of its staff will transfer to The Pig & the Lady in Chinatown, which will debut a new brunch.
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Foodflash: Piggy Smalls Is Closing Permanently After Feb. 12
The little-brother restaurant of Chinatown’s James Beard Award-nominated The Pig & The Lady is shutting down for good.
These 11 Hawai‘i Chefs and Restaurants are the 2023 James Beard Awards Semifinalists
Here are all the Hawai‘i James Beard Awards 2023 semifinalists.
Pig and the Lady Opens in Tokyo
Chinatown's popular Viet-global restaurant opened to full houses on Thanksgiving weekend.
Foodflash: Pigs do fly! Look who's opening in Tokyo
It's official: After months of rumors, Chinatown's Pig & the Lady confirms today that its first overseas restaurant will open in Tokyo this fall. The new restaurant will be owned by Tokyo-based Transit General Office, whose other restaurants include four…
Food trends I hope will thrive
By Dale Yasunaga Special to Frolic Hawaii Myong Choi’s recent post on food trends he hopes will die got me to thinking. When I moved to the mainland five years ago, farmer’s markets were just getting off the ground in…
Frolic picks: Holiday gift ideas for foodies
From cooking classes to booze-barrel coffee to, umm, piggy poop, when we asked Frolickers for their best foodie gift picks, suggestions flowed as fast as bubbly on New Year’s Eve. Last-minute shoppers, take note – there’s something here for every…
Awesome eats this Friday: The Pig and the Lady party mix
Are you as excited for Halloween as we are? Well, the spooky season just got better: Chinatown’s Pig and the Lady has created a gourmet party mix for grownups that will make you forget those bags of supermarket candy. We’re…
It’s Pig & the Lady’s little brother: Piggy Smalls opening Friday
If you’ve driven past the old Kua Aina spot at Ward Centre and wondered what was behind the papered windows, your wait is almost over: Piggy Smalls, little brother restaurant of the Pig and the Lady, is opening this Friday,…
Top 10 downtown lunch picks
You’ve heard of ladies who lunch? Frolic’s Grant “Chuggy Bear” Shindo and Thomas Obungen are dudes who lunch — just a couple of hungry guys with appetites for everything under the sun. The midday meal is sacred to them, a…
Watch a sake movie, then drink the sakes
In a crowded izakaya recently I found myself sitting next to Anderson Le, who flies to film fests all over the world in search of good picks for the Hawaii International Film Festival. “You!” he said. “There’s something I want…
Natto again! Midsummer feast coming July 12
UPDATE: The July 12 natto feast is now sold out. One thing I’ve come to learn about Hawaii’s Facebook natto lovers group: They really love natto. This is a group who posts pictures of all the natto they eat: natto…
Our Top 5: Other kine shave ice
When summer temps break records and it’s too hot to go barefoot on the beach, our thoughts turn to shave ice. That’s just Hawaii. But choices for icy relief aren’t limited to the stuff in cones that we grew up…
Something New event: Cow & the Lady
Coming Wednesday, March 25: Frolic’s own Something New event, a food celebration with a twist. Honolulu’s nine craziest chefs will unleash their creativity in fun new ways, each challenged with a local ingredient that takes them out of their comfort…
Something new: Dessert bar at Pig & the Lady
First things first: Starting Monday, Pig and the Lady is raising the dessert bar with new creations by Vintage Cave’s original pastry chef. Rachel Murai, the homegrown Nobu Waikiki alum hand-picked by former Cave chef Chris Kajioka “because she’s crazy.…
Favorite finds: Farmers’ markets
Two of our friends, Malia Hutton (@koreankitkat) and Laurie Oue (@konaish) are farmers’ market fanatics who continuously snap photos of their delicious finds from a variety of vendors and post them on social media for the rest of us to…
Did this: Hard-core natto dinner
Another Natto Day dinner is in the books, and while the stink may have faded and the sticky-gummy slime been washed from our lips, the glorious afterglow lingers.The place: Pig and the Lady. The time: Sunday night. The chefs: Robert…
Hard-core natto: Get ready to feast
UPDATE, 7/4: The Hard-Core Natto Dinner is SOLD OUT.At long last, dinner. Hard-core natto, this year’s Natto Day* feast by Ethel’s Grill, happens Sunday, July 13. And if you’ve ever been to Ethel’s Grill, you know a little of what…
Are you ready? Hard-core natto dinner
Some “weird facts” I found about natto on foodista.com have convinced me Honolulu is ready:Some Japanese restaurants even make sushi rolls with natto. — Get outta here. Next you’ll be telling me there’s even natto spaghetti.Those with adventurous palates can…
Food meets porn: Shaken beef banh mi
There is food. And there is porn. And sometimes a dish, a bite or in this case, a sandwich, exists at the nexus of food and porn. I closed the office door behind me. I needed privacy for the primal,…
Did this: A Pig’s Head Feast
The Pig and the Lady is rolling out a new group dining experience called Primal Cuts Series. Leveraging its relationship with Shinsato Farms, the restaurant processes whole hogs for use on a weekly basis. The cuts available are shank, belly,…
One more day: Aloha, Taste Table
Kakaako’s Taste Table ends its run on Auahi Street tonight, and any way you look at it, it’s been a remarkable run. Its beginning was as notable for its promise — a Hawaiian blessing, partners Poni and Brandon Askew, Mark…
Did this: Natto Day dinner
Natto ruled at Friday’s (belated) Natto Day dinner, but not in the way you’d expect. At Nonstop’s request, Pig and the Lady took on the latest challenge of the fermented bean, and where others brought the full funk to the…
Eat this: New lineup at Taste
Every three months, Taste in Kaka’ako keeps it fresh by bringing us a new pop-up lineup. I sampled the new offerings this week and overall, I’m impressed with the talent in this rotation. Onda Pasta opens each week for Tuesday…
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