While leaving Costco one day in October 2016, Mitzi Toro looked down at her phone to see her website had crashed and her Instagram account was flooded with hundreds of messages—all because of a personal Instagram endorsement by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on one of his buzzworthy “cheat days.” “This is 16 ounces of handmade, hand […]
Just as Maui encompasses beauty in many forms, from the lush jungle along the Hana Highway to the sharp starkness of Haleakala, so too do the restaurants on the island provide excitement in various guises. Some serve food that’s almost universally comforting despite its regional origins, from American to Italian to Hawaiian, and others thrill
Hidden by rain forest off Mamalahoa Highway, the town of Volcano is easy to miss if you don’t know it’s there. It sits on the slopes of—you guessed it—Kilauea volcano, right outside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at a cool elevation of 3,750 feet. Once you lay eyes on the quaint country town and spend some
Food blogger Melissa Chang gives us the rundown on Hawaiian shave ice, its origins and two of the best places to get it: Shimazu Store in Honolulu and Baldwin’s Sweet Shop in Aiea, both on the island of Oahu. She’s also got some valuable tips on how to eat the fast-melting treat. Have Aloha
For breakfast, a visit to Café Haleiwa is a must. The North Shore staple has been serving generous portions of American cuisine to salt-crusted early morning surfers since it first opened in 1982. And though its traditional breakfast platters are good, the real winner here is the café’s dessert Belgian waffles. 66-456 Kamehameha Hwy., Haleiwa,
The sun is setting on Lahaina, and golden light pours into the oceanside restaurants on Front Street. It illuminates the 19th century wooden storefronts on Lahaina’s main drag, where streams of visitors wander in and out of the popular Kimo’s restaurant and pause for photo-ops on Forrest Gump’s bench in front of Bubba Gump Shrimp
The food arrived all at once, the table’s surface crowded like at a local family’s potluck—never exactly an exercise in restraint nor refinement. For though this was a preview dinner for Lineage, Sheldon Simeon’s new restaurant to open in October 2018 at The Shops at Wailea, the chef wants to do away with pretty-but-useless garnishes,
You can get a Hawaiian food plate lunch almost anywhere in the Islands, with nearly all of the required fixins (kalua pig, laulau, lomi salmon, etc.). But if we were to craft the best Hawaiian plate ever, here’s where we’d go. 1. Haupia: Yama’s Fish Market (Oahu) We appreciate Yama’s taking creative license with the coconut
When you think of cooling down with a cold treat in Hawaiʻi, shave ice is the first thing that might come to mind. But here in the tropics, where it’s warm all the time, we’ve got plenty of other options to beat those hot summer days. Here are some local favorites that really hit the
It’s Saturday morning, and it’s early. Really early. Earlier than I’m ever awake on a weekend, and, judging by the stillness of the Wahiawa streets, earlier than most anyone else, too. Except, that is, for a line of determined sweet-tooths already forming at Uber Factory, a barely-there nook tucked into a wee side alley off
Craving something sweet? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Try these tropical snacks on the Waikiki strip for the best ways to get your sugar high. These addictive mochi doughnuts come in all kinds of unique flavors. Photo: Elena Bragg MoDo doughnuts The Japanese-style mochi doughnuts have a chewy consistency with unique flavors, such as
If Hawaii’s dining scene was treated like a sports team, Oahu (or maybe even Maui) could make a case for MVP, but the team’s Most Improved Player award would have to go to Molokai. Yes. Molokai. Despite having fewer than 8,000 residents, The Friendly Isle’s dining scene has managed to reinvent itself by diversifying, modernizing
