Bars and CocktailsBar Leather Apron Makes the Cut as Hawai‘i’s Only James Beard Award Finalist Thomas Obungen, It’s up for the big win as Outstanding Bar at the James Beard Awards gala in Chicago in June.
Something new: Downtown’s Bar Leather Apron Grant Shindo, Calling all cocktail lovers: One of Hawaii’s top mixologists, Justin Park, formerly of Manifest, has opened a cocktail bar in Topa Financial Center’s old Mezz 127 space. Park and his partner Tom Park, whose Leather Soul sells high-end men’s shoes,…