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Chris Kajioka teams with Mourad Lahlou to open Honolulu’s only French bistro
Chris Kajioka, Shigeru Kobayashi and Mourad Lahlou at Café Miro. Kobayashi will continue to cook until the end of September, and the restaurant will reopen under its new owners in February. While...
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100 Sails offers a contemporary taste of Guam Nov 14
Clockwise from top left: smoked beef belly with crab fat finadene dinache, Kauai shrimp Kelaguen, tuba cocktail, red rice. Lots of people on O‘ahu get cravings for the Chamorro dish kelaguen, the...
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Save local restaurants: Help lobby Congress for stabilization fund
This morning, the Independent Restaurant Coalition sent a letter to Congress urging it to create a $120 billion restaurant stabilization fund, to save our struggling indie restaurant industry. Then at...
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Senia team makes it to James Beard Awards final ballot
Chris Kajioka and Anthony Rush at Senia’s chef’s counter in 2017, two months after the restaurant’s long-awaited opening. Every year a healthy handful of Hawai‘i chefs, restaurateurs and wine...
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Indie restaurants still need big help: Thanks to Oregon, we’re one step...
Andrew Harnik/AP Hallelujah for Oregon Rep. Earl...
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How gold is Tucci’s touch?: Three HNL bartenders respond to his viral Negroni...
On April 20, actor Stanley Tucci posted on Instagram a video of him mixing that classic aperitif cocktail the Negroni. It went viral, with comments pouring in (people are especially fervent about...
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The new dining room: The great outdoors
12th Ave. Grill’s Kevin Hanney proposes turning a lane of 12th Ave. into a Kaimuki Cafe & Promenade Restaurants in Hawai‘i were permitted to reopen for dine-in service, following best...
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Maui’s culinary program moves forward—spring semester coming up
UHMC Culinary Arts student Sage Gomes with her Raspberry White Chocolate Mousse Cakes. Looks like she’s ready to face Paul Hollywood! As Hawai‘i reopens to Life 2.0, we hear how the restaurant...
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A Town Called Delicious: Farewell to a trailblazer
Cooking the fifth-anniversary porchetta in 2010. The mid-2000s were a milestone time in Honolulu’s restaurant history. In June 2004, Kevin Hanney opened 12th Ave Grill in Kaimuki. The banquettes...
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How the pandemic helped Breadshop improve its operation
In the March 2021 issue of Honolulu Magazine, I wrote about what is happening at restaurants as we ease out of a pandemic-ruled world. Chefs and restaurateurs such as Ed Kenney, Robynne Mai‘i and D.K....
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