Bon Dance season begins. From now until September, find carnival-style eats with local flair in Bon Dance festivities around the island.
(Re-)Opened: Michinoku. Originally on Kalakaua, now on Keeaumoku. Sushi bar and traditional Japanese food (i.e.
Opened: Teddy’s Bigger Burgers near University makes the Spud Burger (burger topped with a hash brown) with a chocolate shake all the more convenient when we have the craving. Which is often.
Hokulani Cupcakemobile in Haleiwa. Cupcakes have joined the fray at Haleiwa’s lunchwagon food court across from McDonald’s.
Slow Art Street Party In Chinatown. Take your time to engage with the art galleries’ exhibits, extra long Euro-style tables, music, dance, food and organic wine to accompany your Slow experience.
Opened: Why buy frozen when you can buy fresh? The new Pizza in the Raw is hoping that’s your mantra–they’ll assemble a pizza for you to take home and bake at home.
Green delivery: Since Kimberly Clark started selling her “Makahiki boxes” of produce a decade ago ([www.just-add-water.biz]) she’s been joined by a lot of good company offering Community Supported Agriculture subscriptions. The latest addition is Oahu Fresh–a hui that includes Nalo Farms and Maunawili Greens.
At a recent gathering, former Congressman Neil Abercrombie said he’d learned “the hard way” that you can’t say “Kona coffee” and leave it that anymore. To wit: If you’re on the Big Island this weekend, stop by the Kau Coffee Festival and find out why Kau is the hottest terroir in the business.
Food on film: You can have a three-course meal at HIFF’s Spring Showcase on Thursday April 22. The day features three food/wine related films.
Beer here: Murphy’s Bar and Grill (2 Merchant St., at Nuuanu Avenue, 531-0422, [gomurphys.com]) continues its monthly Merchant Street Beer Fest series April 16, 6–9pm. This month the suds soiree highlights Hawaii-brewed beers, so naturally the live music will be of the island kind, and the featured charity is the Hawaii Academy of Recording Art.
How does he do it? Chef Hiroshi Fukui gives the cooking demo “Working with Meats” April 27 at 6pm at his Hiroshi Eurasion Tapas (Restaurant Row, 533-4476). After the enlightening lesson, you get to dig into a four-course dinner–for just $39 per person.
Guy Fieri in paradise: Can’t stand Guy Fieri? We hear you.
Tourondel still top toque: Earlier this month, food-news venues were abuzz about chef Laurent Tourondel’s amicable split from his partner Jimmy Haber, who was the money man behind the BLT chain. The two men divided up the food empire, with Tourondel remaining as executive chef for 10 BLT restaurants in hotels, including the BLT Steak in Waikiki.
Comidas nuevas: Soul de Cuba isn’t the only Cuban joint in town anymore. La Habana, in the space that was Mulvadi Café, opened in January.
Patty cake, patty cake: If you like your brew in solid form, try Satura Cakes’ St. Patrick’s Day special–Chocolate Guinness cupcakes, available March 12–18.
Follow the dumpling: Chinatown dim sum favorite Mei Sum has moved to 1170 Nuuanu Avenue, between Beretania and Pauahi streets. Tel: 531-3268.
Honolulu’s restaurant businesses are one of the city’s most generous communities. So many of them are constantly donating time and resources to good causes, even in this tough economic climate.
The Hyatt Regency holds a four-course winemaker dinner Tue, 2/23 featuring Napa Valley’s Cakebread Cellars. Now into its second generation of Cakebreads, the company is well respected and guests will try a range of wines, from Sauvignon Blanc to Pinot Noir.
The owners of Apartment3 have been concentrating on their kitchen offerings over the past several months, and the hiring of Executive Chef Robert McGee looks like a winner. McGee comes to the Islands from Portland, Ore., where he was head chef at Slow Bar.
Beautiful brown: Brasserie du Vin holds a chocolate tasting Feb. 10 at 7pm.
Lots of people actually live in Waikiki, and the condo hive now has its own farmers’ market–in King’s Village (when did it stop being an Alley?). A modest selection of produce vendors sets up on Fridays 4–9pm King’s Village, 131 Kaiulani Ave.
The Hawaii Grown Tea series will begin at the Big Island’s Volcano Art Center on Jan. 21.
Vino introduces a one-month-long happy hour special in January called “At the Bar.” From 5:30–6:30pm, patrons sitting at the bar get a 50 percent discount on their food. House-made three-cheese gnocchi with jumbo lump crab for $8?
Want to help others enjoy the local food that you get to purchase every week at the farmers’ market? The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation will be partnering with a new project called Giving It Fresh Today (G.I.F.T.) to help you do so.
Chef Praseuth Luangkhot, aka J.J., is a Laotian native who honed his culinary talents at Maxim’s in NYC. His J.J.
Given the city’s crumbling infrastructure and rail controversy, it’s hard to believe anyone would want to be the next mayor of Honolulu. But a few do want the job, including the incumbent, Mayor Peter Carlisle, the former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney who won a 2010 special election to fill the remainder of Mufi Hannemann’s term.
I’d never been to a Honolulu City Council meeting until a few weeks ago. Features, not politics, was my beat.
Victoria Holt Takamine is a kumu hula, a cultural activist and a teacher and has an impeccable pedigree to back up all these titles. Born of an alii family whose kuleana was in Moanalua, she graduated as a hula teacher under the legendary Auntie Maiki Aiu Lake and taught hundreds of students in her own halau (Pua Alii ‘Ilima) and at the University of Hawaii.
On April 25, a state judge dismissed trespassing charges against a Kauai man after finding that he had been exercising traditional native Hawaiian rights hunting wild pigs on private land. Kui Palama, 28, was arrested on Jan.
The city plans to dish out $3.5 million from its Affordable Housing Fund and either purchase or renovate a structure to provide transitional housing for Honolulu’s special needs homeless population. “Our community has invested considerable effort and resources in addressing homelessness,” Mayor Peter Carlisle said in a statement, “but there remains a population whose disabilities or chronic conditions make it difficult for them to participate in traditional shelter programs.” Carlisle is referring to those homeless with mental illnesses, addictions and physical disabilities.
Makaweli Poi faces an uncertain future after its owner, a corporate subsidiary of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) ordered the West Kauai mill to suspend operations May 23. Mona Bernardino, chief operating officer of the corporation, Hiipoi LLC, says the move to shut down Makaweli Poi was prompted mainly by financial concerns.
A resolution adopted by the City Council will solidify an agreement between the City and County of Honolulu and the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center (UH-WRRC) to conduct an analysis of impacts from ocean sewer outfalls on the marine environments off of Oahu. The city will pay UH-WRRC as much as $2.5 million for biological and sediment studies in portions between now and June 30, 2017 .
Along with the deep, verdant growth of spring sprouts an unyielding desire to spend more time in the open air. That’s why it should come as no surprise that National Bike Month falls in the sun-drenched time of May.
Of the many letters you publish against rail, how many offer an alternative that won’t send us into further economic demise? Billions of gallons of oil are imported for us from every oil-producing nation on this planet so that we can buy billions of gallons of gasoline.
TheBus is taking a back seat to rail. At the May 3 Downtown Neighborhood Board meeting, an audience member asked city Transportation Director Wayne Yoshioka when we could expect the bus route cancellations and changes to be reversed.
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