March 2024: Our Top 3 Most Popular Food Stories
More from Paris Baguette and the neighborly story behind Onda Pasta & Provisions.
Mari Taketa
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Be the Mane Attraction With These Local-Themed Hair Claws
Claw art is a thing—especially when it features local food.
10 New & Coming Eateries on O‘ahu: March 2024
Where to find new and coming Italian food, tacos, a luxe sushi omakase and good chicken.
Onda Pasta & Provisions Store Opens Saturday in Kaimukī
New owners of the longtime craft pasta maker are opening a one-stop shop for fresh pasta dinners.
February 2024: Our Top 3 Most Popular Food Stories
Dim sum, mac salad and pastries were the top draws in an eventful leap month.
Paris Baguette Is the Latest. Here’s What Else Has Opened Downtown
Recent openings that have turned Downtown Honolulu into a credible lunchtime destination.
Are These the Most Beautiful Restaurants in Honolulu?
Beauty is timeless, taste is not. A year after this post was originally published, our style and dining editors can’t get enough of these gorgeous interiors.
All the Ways We Love Oxtail
O oxtails, how many ways do we love thee? More than seven, actually.
8 Places to Get All Kinds of Malasadas on Fat Tuesday
Some are extending their hours and one has an exclusive new flavor just for Feb.13.
Terry Cheung Just Opened a 350-Seat Dim Sum Restaurant Downtown
The owner of the new Honolulu Seafood Restaurant plans to open more. Here’s a Q&A.
Best Mac Salad on O‘ahu: Our Readers Weighed In
To our surprise, reader comments basically turned into a spontaneous poll. Here are the results.
January 2024: Our Top 3 Most Popular Food Stories
Plenty of new restaurant news, and the latest chapter for Kaimukī’s longtime Chinese restaurant.
A World First: Sparkling Māmaki Tea by Manu Brewing Co.
A former home beer brewer makes four flavors of sparkling māmaki tea.
5 Notable New Restaurants
Where you’ll find the city’s best seafood laksa, along with excellent jerk chicken and catfish po’ boys.
7 Hawai‘i Chefs and Restaurants Are 2024 James Beard Award Semifinalists
Here’s who made the first cut for the country’s highest culinary industry awards.
Check Out 9 New & Coming Eateries on One Block at Ward Village
New tonkatsu, local ice cream, Korean barbecue and more are coming to Kaka‘ako.
Rotating Pop-Up Vendors at Fishcake Hook Us With New Delights
The test café in the furniture and decor showroom lets micro food businesses showcase their craft.
10 New & Coming Restaurants on O‘ahu: January 2024
Where to find new and coming tapas, dim sum, handmade pasta, luxe conveyor belt dining and a cozy izakaya.
Hawai‘i’s Best New Restaurants of 2023
Opened in 2023, these are the new places Frolic writers eat at and recommend the most.
Restaurant Transitions: Goodbye, But Not for Long
The facts about six Honolulu eateries that hope to reopen, one that isn’t closing and one that’s gone for good.
Fresh, Crackling-Crisp Hand Rolls Make Nori Bar Worth a Visit
But with only 16 seats, reserve ahead or prepare for a wait at Ward Village’s newest eatery.
November 2023: Our Top 3 Most Popular Posts About the Local Food Scene
Holiday eats were at the top of readers' minds, along with our new restaurant update series.
At Heart: A Longtime Restaurant and Banquet Hall Finds New Life
Dot’s closed down, but the gathering place at the heart of the Wahiawā community got a second chance and a new name: Central O‘ahu Event Center.
At Heart: How Little Vessels Donut Co. Found a Home
Sachi MacLachlan was looking for connection when she launched Little Vessels on Instagram during the pandemic. She found it among neighbors on a small corner in Kaimukī.
At Heart: “I Got the Feeling Everybody Was There for the Love of It”
Meet the man who brought new life to the mochi and manju at 70-year-old Fujiya Hawai‘i.
At Heart: This Food Truck Is Trying to Hold Maui Communities Together
Four months after the fires, Maui Fresh Streatery’s weekly food boxes help families housing displaced relatives.
Aloha Bento Has Us Eating Premium Sushi and Sashimi in a Bank
Find this unexpected gem in Downtown’s Central Pacific Plaza, but don’t go Wednesday through Friday this week—they’ll be closed for Thanksgiving.
Roy Yamaguchi Is Likely the Next Head of KCC’s Culinary Institute of the Pacific
The UH Board of Regents will vote on the culinary legend’s appointment on Thursday.
Taste of Korea Is a Fundraiser for a New Korean Cultural Center
Not to be confused with this weekend’s Kimchi Day Festival, this indoor event features dishes from 10 restaurants, a slew of Korean drinks and a very good cause.
The Pig & The Lady’s Staff Petitioned to Keep This Dish on the Menu
Two standouts from the past summer menu have become permanent lunchtime dishes.
October 2023: Our Top 3 Most Popular Posts About the Local Food Scene
Proof that few things are as certain in this world as comfort food and roast meats.
16 Bars Are Coming Together for Saturday’s Halloween in Chinatown
With Hallowbaloo canceled, Chinatown bar owners plan a night of drink specials, music, dancing and a costume contest.
Hawai‘i’s Oldest Restaurants Are Still ‘Ono After All These Years
We revisit a classic about places that are woven into our collective childhoods, where regulars grew up with owners’ families and you can still find old-school comfort foods.
You Voted: Here’s Your Top 5 Roast Duck Shops on O‘ahu
Your top two choices flew away with nearly 60% of the total vote.
September 2023: Our Top 3 Most Popular Posts About the Local Food Scene
A reshuffled lineup of roast duck specialists, and another Jamaican food post goes viral.
The Way Back: “This Will Be My Answer”
Gensho Hara has been the minister at Lahaina Jodo Mission for 60 of its 111 years. As Lahaina comes back, he vows, so will the seaside temple.
The Way Back: “Rooting a New Lahaina”
A longtime ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i teacher vows to rebuild the community using the value of laulima.
A Shokudo for Grownups
Updates of rustic, traditional izakaya fare shine at Kaimukī Shokudo.
Nami Kaze Is Pulling Out All the Stops for 10/13 Mrs. Cheng’s Tofu Dinner
SOLD OUT—the Hale ‘Aina Awards’ Best New Restaurant of 2023 is featuring six styles of locally made tofu with ‘ahi, uni, beef cheeks, goat cheese tomme and more.
