Oh, we had such a great time at Kā‘anapali Fresh this year! I’m working like crazy to process photos, but here’s a sampling. I’ll blog about the weekend soon…I swear! Short Rib Poutine (Raymond Nicasio, Sheraton Maui); Salmon at Mixology 101; Monica Bogar of NapiliFLO and her “shots”; Pā‘ina Cocktail (Chandra... Read More

It’s Kā‘anapali Fresh weekend, we’re here on Maui to eat ourselves silly…and of course that includes going on our must-quest: Ilocandia Filipino Store lechon! Here it is, in all its porky glory: Not that I need any more pork this weekend: I was just asked if I would be the... Read More

When the Italian restaurant Arancino opened up their newest location at The Kahala Hotel last year, we were invited to the media preview. I felt a bit guilty later because I took a bunch of photos of their stunningly beautiful food and never got around to posting them. Catherine Toth... Read More

Today’s Friday Photo is actually two photos. So I’m cheating. But I couldn’t choose between these two. Snackbox is Chef Mark Noguchi’s latest way to feed the Honolulu food-obsessives who crave his eats. While he oversees the tiny eatery (it’s literally a counter inside the super-cool PAD Hawaii home décor... Read More

Everyone says, “You’re always going to Maui!” It certainly feels true. We’ve been fortunate enough to keep receiving invitations to come over and even more fortunately, we now have friends there to tell us where to eat! Our early trips to Maui involved multiple meals at Pizza Hut. It was... Read More

Some time ago, Shake bought me a selection of wonderful Mānoa Chocolate bars. I took some photos of them and we ended up using one of them in the book I worked on last summer, From Kau Kau to Cuisine. The lovely people at Mānoa Chocolate very kindly sent over... Read More

We’ve paid a few visits to the new(ish) bricks-and-mortar storefront of VIA Gelato since they opened up earlier this spring. It’s an adorable space in Kaimuki and—ideally for us—the permanent location means we don’t have to chase the gelato truck down via Twitter anymore! No more frantically zooming over to... Read More

This year, for the first time in a very long time, I celebrated my birthday away from home! Shake had to work on Maui, so he bought me a plane ticket so I could come along and lounge at the swanky Ritz-Carlton Kapalua pool while he did his thang talking... Read More