UPDATE: Wednesday, May 8, 2019: According to City & County of Honolulu officials, the entirety of Hanauma Bay, including the beach, upper viewing area, parking lots and education center, will be reopened to the public tomorrow morning, May 9, following repairs to the affected sewage pump. Hanauma Bay has closed to the public Monday, as a […]
If you haven’t heard of Harumi Kurihara, you might want to Google her. Photo: Courtesy of Big Island Candies Harumi’s Hawaiian Salt Cookies ($18.95 for a dozen) will be available at Big Island Candies’ shop at Ala Moana Center in Honolulu starting on May 10—just in time for Mother’s Day. (If you’re in town then,
“Here, try this.” That seems to be the common directive I hear whenever I step into a local brewpub. I’m not much of a drinker, but since my husband brews his own IPA at home, I’ve become accustomed to the invitation to sample frothy, hoppy, sometimes bitter, sometimes sour batches of beers. This is what
Oahu has every kind of hotel you can think of, from high-end resorts to low-key walk-ups to one that’s entirely Disney-themed. But sometimes you want something more secluded—and far away from the hustle of Waikiki. Here are your top picks for Best Bed & Breakfast or Inn on Oahu in our 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards. 1.
In Hawaii, we do our best to malama da aina, which is a phrase that loosely translates out to “respect the land.” And why wouldn’t we? Our lands are stunning, with perfectly blue beaches and lush valleys, we want to keep things the way they are. So here are a few of the ways you can celebrate
There are only three Hawaii restaurants on Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. list in 2019—and Alii Coffee is the only Island-based coffee shop. (The other two: Porky’s Kauai, a food truck, at No. 11 and Kahuku Farms, a roadside stand, at No. 63.) So we had to find out why. One
If you didn’t get a ticket to watch the Merrie Monarch Festival, Hawaii’s premier hula competition, don’t feel bad, not many of us did. But just because you aren’t going to be able to see the hula halau (hula schools) perform in-person doesn’t mean you can’t see it at all. Below is the schedule of events for the three
You might have heard: We love Spam. We fry slices of it for breakfast, tuck it into musubi, add slivers to bowls of saimin. You’ll find this canned luncheon meat from Austin, Minnesota in restaurants from the House Without A Key at the luxe Halekulani in Waikiki to the old-school Hamura’s Saimin Stand in Lihue on
Growing up on Oahu, there are few places that I would frequent as a kid that are still around. There’s no more Castle Park in Pearl City, Kanda Lunchwagon at Kewalo Basin is closed, and I’ll never see a movie again in a theater in Waikiki. But a favorite restaurant of mine growing up was
The International Market Place’s 3rd annual Grand Lanai Restaurant Week is the perfect excuse for a special night out. From April 8 to 14, the shopping center’s award-winning chefs and restaurants will be offering a week of exclusive prix fixe menus and new culinary creations, from casual to fine dining. Mí Almita Cantina will be
Every restaurant that award-winning chef Peter Merriman has opened in the Islands—from the laid-back Merriman’s in Waimea nestled amid ranches on Hawaii Island to the bustling Merriman’s Honolulu that opened last year in one of Oahu’s most vibrant new neighborhoods—has one very important thing in common. And it’s come to define him for more than
Ala Moana Center in Honolulu has long housed koi, a domesticated type of common carp, in its ponds since 1959, the year it opened. (It’s also the year Hawaii became a state.) And starting this month, you can help feed the koi in the mall’s Diamond Head and Ewa wings. The mall launched this daily
