If you’re like us, you love to eat—and you don’t always put a price tag on that experience. So we put together some of the most splurge-worthy dining experiences you can have in the Islands, from a candlelight dinner in a treehouse to breakfast on the rim of an active volcano. Every spot is Instagram […]
Chef Robynne Mai‘i never imagined she would be nominated for the prestigious James Beard Award, an honor she felt was unattainable for a first-time chef-owner with a small (but very popular) restaurant in faraway Honolulu. “We didn’t conceive Fête and run Fête with the aspiration of winning a James Beard Award,” says Mai‘i, who opened
In February Manago Hotel on Hawaiʻi Island, the state’s oldest continuously operating restaurant, earned the 2023 America’s Classics Awards by the prestigious James Beard Foundation. It was one of six restaurants to win the award this year, with the foundation calling it “a place that reminds locals of childhood and old Hawaiʻi.” Run by fourth-generation
Food and travel go hand-in-hand. That’s why it was so easy for me, a former food editor and longtime food writer, to make the transition to editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine several years ago. (I’m now the editor at large.) To me, there’s no better way to experience a new place than through its cuisine—and Oʻahu
From restaurants helmed by James Beard Award winners to hole-in-the-wall eateries that have been around for generations, Oʻahu boasts a wide array of restaurants, cafés, bakeries, food trucks and takeout spots that will satisfy every craving. Here are 12 of the hottest—and coolest—eateries on the island that you need to add to your itinerary for
