Food & Drink / Opened: Keeaumoku Supermarket. This bright and clean supermarket specializes in Korean products–naturally, given its location on Koreamoku–and offers a kimchee and banchan bar, bentos and baked goods.
food & Drink / Opened: Yogustory. Not just another frozen yogurt shop, this stylish, two-level cafe also offers food options from breakfast to after-dinner desserts like a calamansi tart and toffee pecan tart. 815 Keeaumoku St., 942-0505 Alan Wong’s new cookbook: The Blue Tomato. The book is currently available via [thebluetomato.net] and Alan Wong’s restaurant.
food & Drink / More caffeine on wheels: Cafe Truck. Here, the clothes and menu are more extensive than at other coffee trucks around town. Drinks include 100 percent Kona coffee, espresso and blended iced coffee in flavors like pumpkin spice and pralines and cream.
Holiday closures for HFBF farmers’ markets. Kailua Farmers’ Market: closed on Thanksgiving Day, Thu., 11/25.
Food & Drink / Moving: Tokkuri Tei is moving out of its Kapahulu spot into the old Sam Choy’s location. Kanpai’s current kitchen partners are moving back to their previous digs at the old Slammer’s, where they’ll be unveiling a new concept.
Double Rainbow Drive-in: Kapahulu’s iconic drive-in opens up a new location, in Waikiki. 2420 Koa Ave., 923-9565, [rainbowdrivein.com] Opened: Golden Duck Kahala, a second location of the Golden Duck on South King Street.
Food & Drink / It just so happens that this week’s food news are vegan-centric. Perhaps the rise of vegan eateries is a trend second only to the food trucks rolling into Honolulu.
Back on the wagon: After a brief hiatus, Zaratez Mexicatessen is back, now with a more permanent location in a parking lot by Waiola Shave Ice. Open for your taco cravings, Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 9pm.
Opened: Tanaka Saimin. The first restaurant opens in the former Weyerhaeuser box plant.
Here a truck, there a truck, everywhere a truck. Two new food trucks: Gogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck (@EatGogi), is a copy of the original Kogi taco trucks in LA, and Tacos Vicente (@tacosvicente), serves traditional Mexican tacos on the North Shore. Gogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck: [eatgogi.com] Tacos Vicente: [tacosvicente.com] Coffee with a side of skin.
October is National Co-op Month: To celebrate and support National Co-op Month, Kokua Market, Hawaii’s only natural foods cooperative, is offering a 5 percent discount to all owners every Sunday in October. 2643 S.
Opened: Kokoro Tei. Made-to-order bentos include tonkatsu, ginger pork and fried chicken with black pepper sauce. 2424 S Beretania St., Ste A105, 951-5656 Debut of Let Them Eat Cupcakes: The town’s newest cupcake bakers, former Honolulu Advertiser employees Nick Gervais and Kawehi Haug–Haug was a longtime A&E editor at the Weekly–will be showcasing their sweet treats at Shop, Bop and Grind at First Friday in Chinatown.
“Local mocos”: Starting this week, Zippy’s will feature locally produced beef in all 25 restaurants. All locations, [zippys.com] Opened: Bella Mia Pizzaria [sic].
Opened: Sushi 2 Go. Kaiwa’s sister restaurant is a takeout sushi counter that offers a variety of rolls, like the Caterpillar Roll, the Hamachi Avocado Roll and the Tampico Roll, from $7 to $12. The menu also includes a cooked salmon sushi burrito ($8.50) and a salmon or ume chazuke ($5.50).
Opened: Shabu Shabu Bangkok. In a location previously occupied by Yakiniku Toraji, this Kapahulu space has transitioned from Japanese yakiniku to Thai hot pot, going from grill-your-own to boil-your-own and joining Honolulu’s shabu shabu craze.
Opened: 22° North Restaurant & Bar in Lihue, Kauai, in the space formerly occupied by Gaylord’s at Kilohana. Billed as a “locavore restaurant,” 22° North features Kauai-grown meats–such as beef, pork, rabbit and fish–and produce from its own 1.5-acre garden and 60-acre Kilohana orchard and agricultural park.
New menu at thirtyninehotel. The tapas menu gives way to heartier fare like shrimp paella with chorizo, braised pork on top of polenta, and beef brisket with cherries and kabocha.
Kaiwa Happy Hour. Half-off menu items like whole grilled squid, garlic pumpkin and asparagus with bacon crisps, lotus root with cheese, and sashimi and sushi rolls.
Opened: Good Eats Subs ‘n Stuff. A locally owned version of Subway.
Opened: Da Kitchen. Maui-based Da Kitchen dishes out local-style grinds (think deep-fried Spam musubi, teri-hamburgers, saimin, hamburger steak, chicken katsu) at the St.
Opened: Zap Cafe and Lounge. A cafe and bar in a former American Savings Bank.
Opened: Lobster King. Chinese food with a seafood bent and late night hours: open from 11am to 3am seven days a week.
Opened Spicy KimChee, a Korean plate lunch spot. 1588 B Makaloa St, 942-3022 New Brunch at Soul.
Opened: Hot Pot Heaven at McCully Shopping Center. Will Hot Pot Heaven unseat Sweet Home Cafe as the best hot pot in Honolulu?
Opened: i heart food. Soups and sandwiches in a former cake shop in Manoa.
With roots planted in the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and a presence that extends through the entire archipelago, the military’s influence in Hawaii is surpassed only by tourism. The military controls some 236,000 acres throughout the state, including 25 percent of the land mass of Oahu, and thousands of square miles of surrounding airspace and sea.
“I’m having a hard time not swearing right now,” Spike Kane says in his UK accent, all smiles after his first surf session at the second annual Hawaii “They Will Surf Again” event hosted by the Life Rolls On Foundation (LRO). “It just feels so good to be in the water again.” Kane beams.
Into Willie Sabel’s vast and detailed set enter a cast of rippled sweatshirts and oversized shoulder-pads, thanks to Dusty Behner’s sense of color and history, and Lisa Ponce de Leon’s especially-80s hairstyles. A few of the bunch even manage to hold-their-own against the largeness that is the setting of Dividing the Estate, the newest show to hit Manoa Valley Theatre.
Mayumi Oda, an artist often dubbed the “Matisse of Japan,” is a petite woman with boundless ambitions. In the book Merciful Sea: 45 Years of Serigraphs by Mayumi Oda, meetings with intensely raw and passionate artists, including Ginsberg, Rothko and De Kooning, triggered her to reflect, “I am small.
Everything’s coming up mangoes. And last week, we joined the crowd at Foster Botanical Garden to witness the first-ever Honolulu blossoming of Amorphophallus titanium, nicknamed the “Corpse Flower” for its malodorous, fly-catching bouquet.
Through the years there have been many mayors who’ve aspired to be governor, but for the first time in Honolulu ’s history, a former governor is running for mayor. At Honolulu Hale on Friday, May 18, as he signed the nomination paperwork making him an official candidate for the 2012 race, Cayetano told the room that, back in January, he made his decision quickly.
Important back stories are huddled behind last week’s Star-Advertiser headline, “Federal Judge Narrows Lawsuit on Rail.” Foremost is that the lawsuit will go forward unimpeded. The same substantive points of contention including the most important historic and cultural sites are still at issue.
In announcing his support of same-sex marriage two weeks ago, President Barack Obama reinvigorated a vexed debate. Locally, the wrangle has been deadlocked following the contentious legalization of civil unions and subsequent federal court challenge in January.
Thailand grows 75 percent of the flowers used in Hawaiian-made lei, but a flooding in the country last fall destroyed 80 percent of its orchid crops, according to Summer Campos, co-founder of the Hawaiian Lei Company. Together with the graduation season and the growing popularity of lei on the mainland, “All lei prices have inflated due to the orchid shortage,” Campos says.
Lynne Matusow’s letter [“Goodbye Bus, Hello Rail?” May 16] hit the nail right smack dab on the head. The rail may have its attributes but it seems the more we delve into it the bad seem to outweigh the good.
We have a problem with traffic congestion on the major highways leading into the city; we have the controversy over the issue of rail; and we have the concern over preserving prime agricultural lands. It would seem to me that all these issues point to one thing in one way or another and that is the development of a second city in Kapolei.
Though you didn’t discuss it in the most recent issue, there was a brief mention of how long it took for the Kinau off-ramp to be completed. Ambulances [had] ALWAYS been able to take the exit BEFORE Kinau, and turn left directly into the Emergency Room.
I enjoyed your issue on Mayoral Candidate Peter Carlisle. It would be great if you did a series on those running for the two congressional seats and the Senate race.
On [April 26] the Weekly [ran] a story damning Hoopili as you have been for quite some time. Then you are running a full-page promotional ad this week?
It’s important to understand the difference between editorial content and ads. At the Weekly, they are two completely separate departments.
We retract the letter “Questionable Ethics?” [May 9] and apologize to Herb Barboza for its inaccuracies. Mr.
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