It started with a tweet from @ShareYourTable, and a fuzzy shot of a brownie from The Pineapple Room, Alan Wong’s “ladies-who-lunch” spot tucked in the back of Macy’s in Waikiki’s tony Ala Moana Shopping Center.
I tweeted back that the best reason to hop a plane to Honolulu was The Pineapple Room’s Kalua “BLT.”
Or maybe the [...]
Never would I have expected to have such lovely French bistro food in the land of pineapples and papayas, but that’s exactly what I found at Du Vin, in downtown Honolulu.
I almost missed the chance, too. When I travel, I like to eat local, what the locals eat, and most often, that’s the regional cuisine [...]
Omasake means something like “trust the chef” or “put yourself in the chef’s hands.” Either way, you give permission to the sushi chef to whip up something special for you.
Recently, we dined at Nobu in Waikiki, Hawaii. Sitting at the gleaming sushi bar, I recognized only a handful of the slabs of fish chilling in [...]
