Same-day Hawaii farm-to-table cuisine on Oahu’s Waianae Coast? It’s more than for real at Kahumana Organic Farm & Cafe. It’s also really good. A macadamia nut pesto tossed with whole wheat pasta and stir-fried kale picked just hours earlier? Check. Organic turkey meatballs flavor kicked with fresh-gathered spinach and basil in a housemade tomato ratatouille […]
HAWAII Magazine’s 2010 “Best of Hawaii” issue is on sale now! As always, the annual issue is full of tips and suggestions, straight from our HAWAII Magazine and HawaiiMagazine.com reader ohana and editorial staff, for finding the best our Islands have to offer. Among the “best” in this year’s “Best of Hawaii” issue? Readers selected
Though some of our readers might think otherwise, it’s not every day I find myself trading a morning behind my desk in HAWAII Magazine’s downtown Honolulu offices for a catamaran cruise off Waikiki. Really. But some workdays are better than others. And on a recent sunny, blue-skied Friday morning, I was waiting—toes in Waikiki sand—at
laska Airlines, which launched daily nonstop flights between Portland, Oregon, and Oahu yesterday, will also begin seasonal nonstop service between Portland and Kona on the Big Island on Nov. 12. The good news for fall and winter Hawaii travelers flying or connecting from Portland? Introductory airfare deals for both routes. Alaska Air’s daily Portland-Oahu route
First, Hawaiian Airlines struck a deal with CBS to premiere the network’s redux of Hawaii Five-0 on the carrier’s U.S. Mainland-Hawaii flights all this month, before the rest of the country got to see it tonight. Then, at last week’s Five-0 beach premiere in Waikiki, we scoped a prominently placed Hawaiian Airlines jet in the
The two most-popular events of Hawaii’s annual Aloha Festivals celebration are this week. If you’re on Oahu—particularly if you’re in or near Waikiki—and have never experienced Aloha Festivals first-hand, we’d recommend setting aside some time to experience both of these events: • Sat., Sept. 18, 2010, 7 p.m.: The Aloha Festivals Waikiki Hoolaulea The Waikiki
If you enjoy cocktails—and we mean REALLY enjoy cocktails, from taste to how they’re crafted—it’ll be a weekend of choices at the Halekulani hotel in Waikiki. Tropical Hawaii cocktails by the Orchid Pool at House Without A Key? Or learn how to craft a few Island cocktails of your own, and other libations, from some
The final count in Waikiki last night went something like this … More than 5,000 screaming fans sitting on beach towels and goza mats on Waikiki’s Queen’s Surf Beach. A hundred or so Hawaii, Mainland and international journalists crowded along a red carpet rolled out on the sand. Five impossibly good-looking cast members walking said
Want to catch the opening episode of CBS’s new Hawaii Five-0 before the rest of the country does AND ogle the series impossibly good-looking cast, live and in person? More importantly, can you be on Oahu—preferably in Waikiki—‘round sunset on Sept. 13? Consider yourself invited to the red-carpet screening of the classic Hawaii crime drama’s
Kauai’s Waimea Canyon, the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific,” stretches 10 miles long, a mile across and 3,000 feet deep. Today, I will travel down it by bike. Well, not actually down Waimea Canyon, but along it. I’m with Outfitters Kauai, a Hawaii tour company that offers a Waimea Canyon Bicycle Downhill tour. Today’s sunset
“Please tell me you are not waking up before the crack of dawn to do a story about sunrise on Haleakala,” warned a friend who lives on Maui. I wasn’t, but I knew why my friend objected. Day to day, Haleakala’s sunrises are every bit as stunning as one might expect of a place whose
The brand new series redux of Hawaii Five-0 premieres nationwide on CBS on Sept. 20. Folks lucky enough to be on Oahu on Sept. 13 will get to see the entire episode from the sands of Waikiki’s Queen’s Surf Beach at a Sunset on the Beach screening. But if you’re flying select Hawaiian Airlines routes
