We’ve been fans of Manulele Distillers’ Kō Hana agricole rum ever since barman Kyle Reutner at The Pig & The Lady introduced us to it last year. At the time, P&L was the only place serving it—a perk of Kyle’s apprenticeship at the distillery. Now, it’s popping up in several... Read More
Chefs are nice people. I make this generalization because I think it takes a nice person to want to feed people you don’t even know, much less people who have their finger poised to send out a snarky review of your food because they didn’t like the speed at which... Read More
This summer, food writer Martha Cheng tackled the task of rounding up seven of Honolulu’s top sweets slingers in a pop-up bakeshop event dubbed Baker Faire. I didn’t envy her the task—pastry chefs are as crazy as regular chefs, only they’re hopped up on sugar, too—but I was definitely glad... Read More
This past weekend, the Hawaii Chapter of the United States Bartenders’ Guild held a fundraiser for the Hawaiian Humane Society: Punch for Pooches. Brilliant! Shake and I love punch and are very sad that it’s not more popular here. Fix that, people. I mean, how can you resist something like... Read More
This year, we were invited to attend two of the Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival events—Kā‘anapali Kitchen Stadium: Under A Maui Moon, a cross-over event with Kā‘anapali Fresh, and Corks & Forks at the Convention Center. Of all the HFWF events, the Kā‘anapali dinner is my favorite. In large part,... Read More
Now in its third year, the Kā‘anapali Fresh festival is an event I look forward to. I feel quite fortunate to have attended each of these years at the invitation of the organizers. As I mentioned in my preview of this year’s events, the festival keeps getting better and better—they... Read More
Over Labor Day weekend, we were fortunate enough to be invited to attend the third annual Kā‘anapali Fresh festival. And, lucky me, this year I managed to get myself over to Maui before the media welcome dinner or any other festivities got under way! The media welcome dinner was held... Read More
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