Whether you’re a resident or visitor, you’ve got a really good reason to eat out in Hawaii this week. From today through Nov. 24, more than 50 Hawaii eateries—from fine dining to uber-casual fast food places—are participating in the 6th annual Restaurant Week Hawaii, offering special menus, promotions and discounts. It’s a weeklong celebration of […]
HAWAII Magazine’s 2013 Food Issue is on sale now and chockfull of features focused on Hawaii eats. The November/December issue’s main course, however, is “75 Places to Eat Like A Local,” a guide to the Hawaii places you’ll find us grabbing a bite to eat, or telling our friends and family to nosh at. They’re
HAWAII Magazine’s 2013 Food Issue is on sale now. And this year, we’ve packed the issue with even more stories focused on eats than years’ past. From winging to Kauai, Maui and the Big Island to explore fresh juice business Akamai Juice Co., nosh on the Valley Isle’s favorite noodle dish at Sam Sato’s and
The 23rd annual Hula O Na Keiki hula competition, one of the state’s premier children’s solo hula contests, happens this weekend on the grounds of the Kanaapali Beach Hotel on Maui. What started more than two decades ago as a single-day competition has grown to three days of dance contests and an accompanying festival of
The wait for the winds officially begins tomorrow. That’s when the 14-day holding period begins for the American Windsurfing Tour’s and Professional Windsurfers Association Tour’s JP Aloha Classic in waters off Hookipa Beach Park on the island’s north shore. The competition is one of the sport’s most prestigious, annually attracting elite windsurfers from around the
As of this morning, all of Hawaii’s National Park Service parks, monuments, trails and historic sites are again open for visitors following the temporary resumption of funding for federal government services on Wednesday. The World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor on Oahu opened at 7 a.m. this morning, resuming
Not to brag, but Hawaii has some of the most beautiful valleys in the world. Sure we’re a bit biased. But put yourself in our slippahs. Just about every Hawaiian Island can claim a breathtaking valley. We have valleys of all shapes, sizes and terrains—populated and pristine, remote and easily accessible, lush and rugged. We’ve
Get a peek into Maui’s sugar plantation past at the fifth annual Lahaina Plantation Days, this Fri., Oct. 18 and Sat., Oct. 19 at the former Pioneer Mill Co. smokestack—a can’t miss town landmark—on Lahainaluna Road. The two-night event, which happens from 5 to 10:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, celebrates West Maui’s plantation and
Hawaii’s largest winter vacationers are back! The first humpback whale of the 2013-14 Hawaii whale-watching season was spotted off Maui on Sunday morning and confirmed by the Pacific Whale Foundation, officially kicking off the start of the season. And right on time, too. Over the last 15 years, the majority of annual first sightings of
I remember feeling a bit underwhelmed the first time I visited Kahanu Garden. Underwhelmed, that is, with much else other than the triumph of early Hawaiian engineering and construction that is its monumental centerpiece, Piilanihale Heiau. Compared to the nonprofit Tropical Botanical Garden organization’s three other Hawaii gardens—all on Kauai, and all brimming with acres
There’s no shortage of bakeries across Hawaii, serving everything from exotic Japanese cake rolls to old-fashioned apple pies to extravagant modern desserts. There are old-time neighborhood bakeries like Kamehameha Bakery in Kalihi on Oahu that sells some of the best—and inexpensive—glazed donuts around. Or donut shops like Regal Bakery—three locations on Oahu—with its creative donuts,
The federal government shutdown has prompted the closures of all of Hawaii’s National Park Service parks, monuments, trails and historic sites, until further notice. The list of closed National Park Service sites includes three of the state’s most popular national parks—Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island, Haleakala National Park on Maui, and the
