You ask. We answer. HAWAII Magazine reader Walter Brown of San Francisco e-mailed us: How can I obtain the original Ernie Morgado recipe—not the bottled stuff— for authentic Huli-Huli Chicken? Can you send it to me? First off, we’ll just say that we understand Walter’s desire for the recipe. Huli-Huli Chicken is one of those […]
So this guy walks into a bar with a bottle of beer in a bag. The guy? Jack Joyce, one of the founders of Rogue Ales in Newport, Ore., who spends four months a year in Hawaii. The bar? Colin Nishida’s Side Street Inn in Honolulu, which has been featured on Anthony Bourdain’s Travel Channel
This week Oahu holds its biggest culinary festival. If 20 chefs and a dozen winemakers don’t whet your appetite for the fest, there’s also music, fashion and golf. Hawaii Food & Wine Paradise is a four-day culinary gala, held at west Oahu’s Ko Olina Resort and Waikiki’s Halekulani Hotel. The event kicks off Thursday, May
You ask. We answer. We got an e-mail from HAWAII Magazine reader Candice Sanders, asking for our help in identifying a Hawaiian song: I am looking for the words and music to a Hawaiian song that is often sung at the end of concerts and also at the end of the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. I’ve
Waikiki’s Halekulani hotel celebrated its 25th anniversary last weekend. The hotel is actually 102 years old, having begun life in 1907 as the Hau Tree Residential Hotel, a relatively modest establishment, a beachfront house and five bungalows. No, this is the 25th anniversary of the “new” Halekulani. By the 1980s, the hotel had grown, the
We had such a great response to our article on Thai-Hawaii chef Chai Chaowasaree in the May/June issue of HAWAII Magazine that we thought we’d pass along this little food tip to anyone who is going to be on Oahu in the next few months. We timed our article with the release of Chai’s The
“It was a location we couldn’t pass up,” says Hawaii chef and restaurateur Peter Merriman of the new Kapalua Merriman’s. The location is the Bay Club of the old Kapalua Bay Hotel, now gone, making way for the Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences, still under construction. It was always a perfect restaurant location, out on
When the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua opened in 1991, it was the last of the cookie-cutter Ritz-Carltons, very New England-looking in the middle of some of Maui’s most beautiful real estate, the 23,000-acre Kapalua Resort. When the hotel shut down for a $160-million renovation last year, its full-time Hawaiian cultural expert, Clifford Naeole, asked that all new
“Maui is the place where I hope to my long and healthy latter years,” says 61-year-old Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood, who moved his entire family to Maui’s Napili shorefront—wife, twin daughters and his mother. But make no mistake. Fleetwood has not retired. He’s currently on tour with a (mostly) reunited Fleetwood Mac, currently in
During Merrie Monarch, you can hardly get a hotel room or a rental car in Hilo, the Big Island’s biggest city. The rest of year? Hilo’s awfully quiet. Visitors prefer the sun-drenched resorts of the Kona Coast to the sometimes damp environs of the Big Island’s lush windward coast. But Hilo’s a real town, surprisingly
The good news was that there was no damage from yesterday’s 5.0 Big Island quake, though the island got a healthy shake. Reactions varied. One of our friends on the Big Island was driving and didn’t feel it. Another was in her home office while her husband was engaged in a do-it-yourself project. She ordered
Since they are virtually our neighbors in Hawaii Kai, we’d like to extend our congratulations to Josh Holloway and his wife Yessica Kumala, who had a baby girl, Java Kumala Holloway, last week. Local media were caught flat-footed, since the Holloways reportedly shopped for a Honolulu hospital that would keep the happy event under wraps.
