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2 Hawaii chefs named finalists for James Beard Foundation Awards
Two Hawaii chefs have been named finalists for the James Beard Foundation Awards. → Read More
By Request: Projects to impress Mom, even for tiny fingers
* CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM Cristina Nishioka is a professional pastry chef presenting three ways kids can decorate cupcakes to impress their moms for Mother’s Day. * CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM The tools: A flower nail, kind of like a giant thumbtack, is your base. You’ll also need a piping bag fitted with a petal piping tip (that’s a tip with a slit that… → Read More
Two prominent Oahu restaurants are ready to reenter the dining scene
* COURTESY OLIVIER KONING Chart House Waikiki reopens with a menu featuring a new shrimp scampi, top, a revamped ahi poke and a classic filet mignon. * COURTESY KALENA KIMURA Yuzu cheesecake from MW Restaurant. * COURTESY KALENA KIMURA Chef Wade Ueoka’s crabcake, made with jumbo lump crabmeat, is on the new appetizer menu at MW Restaurant. MW Restaurant Velocity Honolulu, 888 Kapiolani Blvd.;… → Read More
The storied Chart House Waikiki restaurant prepares to welcome patrons again come April 1
The last time Chart House Waikiki shut down for any length of time was in 1975, after the restaurant was gutted in a fire. → Read More
Beer Lab HI collaborations sell out in seconds flat
Five chocolate dobash cakes had their moment, lined up and proud, frosted with the logos of Zippy’s, from whence they came, and Beer Lab HI, to which they’d come. → Read More
The old Side Street Inn is new again
Gone is the dark carpet that not only covered the floor, but crawled up the walls and the sides of the bar. Gone are the beige walls, jalousie windows and old-fashioned drapes. → Read More
By Request: A good stuffing is worth serving all year
One way to carry holiday glow into the rest of the year is through a good stuffing. → Read More
By Request: $5 gets you the best recipes of 2020
The deadline is Friday to order this year’s batch of Top 5 recipes, a benefit for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s holiday charity, the Good Neighbor Fund. → Read More
By Request: $5 gets you best recipes of 2020, all to benefit Hawaii families
It is my annual holiday tradition to round up my favorite recipes of the year and hand them out in return for donations for the needy. → Read More
Gang of ‘old dogs’ closes out 2020 Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival
The 2020 Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival concluded Saturday night with a dinner by five all-star chefs held at Roy’s Hawaii Kai restaurant. → Read More
Foodland opens Kahala Mkt. on Waialae Avenue near Kahala Mall
The newest Foodland market, opening today, is less supermarket, more grocery boutique. → Read More
Muriel Kaminaka loomed large among Hawaii’s home cooks
Muriel Miura Kaminaka was my lunch buddy, my cookbook partner, my inspiration in matters of common sense, which pretty much boiled down to this: If it doesn’t taste good, it’s not good food. → Read More
Alan Wong closes restaurant permanently
Hawaii chef Alan Wong is closing his flagship King Street restaurant for good. “I’m officially turning in my keys today,” he said this afternoon. → Read More
Olive Garden to open Thursday at Ala Moana Center
Hawaii’s first Olive Garden is scheduled to open Thursday, just as plans for a second location in Kapolei have been announced. → Read More
Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival pivots to meet times
In 2019, the Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival drew 10,000 attendees and earned enough to donate more than $400,000 to various community groups. → Read More
Chef aims to ‘decolonize’ diet of tribal communities
It is one thing to accept the value of a diet rooted in ancestral tradition — it’s another thing to live it. → Read More
The Street food hall in Waikiki to close
The Street food hall, celebrity chef Michael Mina’s casual dining concept in the International Market Place, will close Nov. 8, another casualty of the pandemic, a spokesman for the Mina Group said today. → Read More
Interactive online cooking classes make a worthy COVID-19 past-time
The assignment was blackened ahi, and I was acing it, my block of fish perfectly seared. But you’ll just have to trust me on that. When I stepped away to fetch a lemon, my dog swallowed the evidence. → Read More
Alan Wong ‘suspending’ restaurant operations
Chef Alan Wong has shut down his King Street restaurant, saying he will wait out the coronavirus upheaval with the hope of returning some time in the future. → Read More
Oahu restaurant owners fear 2nd shutdown
Oahu restaurant owners understand the reasons behind a two-week dining-room shutdown that begins Thursday, but they are still frustrated and fearing the worst. → Read More