Our 2021 Readers’ Choice Awards digital issue will be available for download on Monday, April 19, 2021. Deep fried and coated in sugar, malasadas are the perfect comfort food anytime you want something sweet and filling. They’re a local favorite, though the title of who serves the best is often up for debate. This […]
On April 5 Kauaʻi rejoined the state’s Safe Travels testing program, which would allow travelers to bypass Hawaiʻi’s mandatory 10-day quarantine with a negative COVID-19 test taken 72 hours before arriving in the Islands. (It originally opted out in December 2020.) That means traveling to Kauaʻi is now an option—as long as you meet all the
It’s the list you’ve all been waiting all year for. The votes are in, and the results are below. Hawaiʻi’s Top 6 islands, ranked from “best” to “still really amazing” by our readers. It’s not like you can go wrong traveling to any of these islands, but for curiosity’s sake, here are the results! 1.
Imagine turning that two-week vacation to Hawaiʻi into a permanent one. Waking up to the smell of the ocean everyday. Walking a block and a half to your favorite beach. Spending a lazy afternoon on your lānai reading a good book and basking in the Hawaiian sun. This dream scenario can be real: Just ask
Nestled between Waikīkī and Downtown Honolulu, Ward Village is a vibrant neighborhood just waiting to be discovered. This master planned community provides modern conveniences all within walking distance. Here, leading a balanced life focused on overall wellbeing is encouraged, and more attainable. Ward Village connects residents to the community, and to nature. When you live here, you can wake to the sunrise
By 1881, the Ward family had purchased the 100 acres of land spanning from Thomas Square to Ala Moana Beach Park, which would come to be known as Ward Estate. It was here where they also built their beloved family home. Under the stewardship of Victoria Ward and eventually her daughters, Ward Estate was nurtured into a thriving oasis. The fishponds and ʻauwai (irrigation ditches) were cleared of weeds and kalo (taro),
It’s no puzzle why people have been stocking up on jigsaws during COVID-19. The home hobby is a great way for ‘ohana to silence the outside noise (and electronics) and engage in something together. The problem, last year, was that puzzles were selling out. At one point, one Target in Honolulu only had two designs
For years, on my birthday, I would book a room in the historic wing of the Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & Spa in Waikīkī. It was my splurge—a quiet night in the original hotel built in 1901, decades before Hawaiʻi, then a U.S. territory, became a state. That year, then-President William McKinley was assassinated
There are a few new residents at the Honolulu Zoo—and more days during the week you can view them. Starting Monday the 42-acre zoo will be open seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. And that means more time to spend with three new meerkats the zoo acquired—and a new baby sloth,
Diana Duff used to run a 3.5-acre commercial coffee farm on the Big Island, so gardening in a 32-square-foot shouldn’t be that thrilling. Oh, but it is. Duff, a 77-year-old resident of Mānoa Gardens Elderly Housing, revels in her raised bed garden outside her apartment, flourishing with heads of butter lettuce, kale, eggplant, mint, parsley,
This is no way the end-all, be-all list of happy hours on Oʻahu. With hundreds of restaurants spanning the island, that would be nearly impossible—at least impossible for our small team to manage. (Doing the “research” isn’t the problem!) So we’re listing popular (and some of our personal favorite) happy hours here—a list that will
If all goes well—meaning COVID-19 infection rates continue its downward trend—Oʻahu may move to Tier 3 of the city’s four-tier economic recovery plan. (Honolulu has been in Tier 2 since Oct. 22.) On Sunday the Hawaiʻi Department of Health reported 68 new infections and one death across the state. If the city can maintain a seven-day
