The sign on the post office calls it Kamuela, but the 8,500 people who live there call it Waimea. The Big Island town, nestled between the Kohala Mountains and the slopes of Mauna Kea, is easy to confuse with other places in Hawaii. Kauai’s fabled Waimea Canyon and Oahu’s equally legendary Waimea Bay, while nowhere […]
The new Waikiki Edition hotel doesn’t officially open until Oct. 15, but, of course, HAWAII Magazine got behind the scenes to get you a sneak preview. Waikiki is the first of five Edition hotels opened by the partnership of Marriott and hip hotelier Ian Schrager. The new hotel occupies one wing of the historic Ilikai
Picture yourself at a beachside barbecue, on the lawn at aptly named Paradise Cove, Oahu. As the sun sets through the waving palms, you wander from food tent to food tent—and realize this is not just any barbecue. There’s roast duck with red wine teriyaki sauce. A seafood pouch with shrimp, clams, mahimahi and honshimeiji
Say you’re at the top of your profession as a Hawaii hotel chef. You’ve cooked at Waikiki’s famed Halekulani and done a stint in San Francisco during the food revolution of the ’80s. At the Lodge at Koele on Lanai, you’ve won the “triple crown” from Zagat. That is, the guide rates your restaurant tops
Everywhere you turn on the Kona Coast, you encounter traces of the past. On this lava-filled leeward coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, Capt. James Cook died, in a skirmish over a rowboat. Only a few miles from where Cook perished, Kamehameha the Great fought his first major battle. After nearly 30 years of struggle to
Even dressed in muddy boots and jeans, Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama has an entire tour group hanging on her every word. It’s not every day you get to meet a fifth-generation farmer from Kauai’s lush Hanalei Valley. The wetland taro fields that stretch out green and glimmering as you cross the one-lane metal bridge into Hanalei? That’s
Say you’re at the top of your profession as a Hawaii hotel chef. You’ve cooked at Waikiki’s famed Halekulani and done a stint in San Francisco during the food revolution of the ’80s. At the Lodge at Koele on Lanai, you’ve won the “triple crown” from Zagat. That is, the guide rates your restaurant tops
There’s something about “the Mokes.” The Mokulua islets rise like twin cones a mile and a half from shore on the windward side of Oahu, off Kailua Bay. Some people take one look and have to get there. How? The best way is in a kayak. Kailua Bay is kayakers heaven, notes Bob Twogood, who
For the first season of the newly reborn Hawaii Five-0, CBS is holding a competition for college and university bands across the country. The best rendition of the Hawaii Five-0 theme wins $25,000 for its band program and an appearance on CBS. How is the winner determined? By your votes. You can vote once a
On the 120th anniversary of Duke Kahanamoku’s birthday, the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation teamed up with Primo Beer to induct the first honorees in the newly created Hawaii Waterman Hall of Fame. The foundation’s Ralph Goto said, “Hawaii has a rich history of producing some of the world’s best athletes in water sports, and that
In the January/February 2010 issue of HAWAII Magazine, we brought you a feature article on Koloa Rum Co., whose quartet of premium rums are the first and only distilled liquor ever produced for retail on Kauai. Having sampled a fair share of the Lihue-based distillery’s gold, white and dark rums—you know, for research purposes and
Everyone’s heard of the road to Hana. Thousands of Maui visitors drive it each year. It’s one of the most scenic roads in Hawaii. Less is written about Maui’s other hidden drive, the road from Kapalua around the north side of the West Maui Mountains, even though the road is just as scenic as the
