I love good beer. I love going to the Big Island.If you do, too, the 13th annual Kona Brewers Festival is where you might want to be on March 8.Launched in 1996 to celebrate the opening of the first Kona Brewing Co. restaurant, the Kailua-Kona festival has grown into a larger celebration of Hawaii’s burgeoning craft brewing […]
Gung Hee Fat Choy! Be happy and prosperous!Today is the first day of the Chinese year 4705. Many of the community celebrations—lion dances, lighting firecrackers, giving of lai see (money offerings)—that go along with this most important of Chinese holidays happened last weekend. But today’s second new moon after the winter solstice marks the actual start of
The best parts of A DASH of Aloha occur after page 47. That’s when this new Hawaii-centric guide to healthy eating habits and physical activity—put together by Kapiolani Community College’s much-lauded Culinary Arts Department—steps out of its brief educational mode and into some very appealing recipes. Macadamia nut butter and lehua honey muffins. Tofu lemongrass curry.
I’m sitting in the most elegant and historic space in Waikiki—the Veranda at the Moana Surfrider. Built in 1901, this spacious lanai wraps round the fabled Banyan Court in the hotel’s center. It’s a perfect January afternoon, sunny, not too warm, not too cold. I’m here for an elegant meal I don’t usually eat—afternoon tea. Now
One question visitors always have is: Where the best places to eat in the Islands? Where do people who live in Hawaii go out for a great meal?Here’s one source–the Hale Aina Restaurant Awards, voted by the readers of Honolulu Magazine. Honoluludoesn’t hold back; there are more than 100 awardees here, every type of restaurant, on
