Category: Honolulu
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Restaurant review: Chef Mavro, Take 2 (Honolulu)
For our second dinner at Chef Mavro, we went with the 4 course menu and added the parmesan black truffle risotto as a fifth course (yes, we do indeed live to eat). The amouse bouche was once again the delicious watercress soup with “egg salad sandwich.” We started off with the meli-melo, a salad containing…
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Restaurant review: Chef Mavro (Honolulu)
We have been regular diners at Chef Mavro whenever we are in Honolulu (which is more often than I am willing to admit). Last week, when we were there, we took the opportunity to dine at Chef Mavro twice. (I know, I know.) The first time, we picked the 6 course menu. In addition, it…
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Restaurant review: Nobu (Waikiki)
I am always amused by our Japanese friends who completely disclaim any relationship between Japanese cuisine and the restaurant (“Nobu isn’t a real Japanese restaurant”). Whatever the truth of the statement, it is an excellent restaurant, whether truly Japanese or not. We went with some friends and three out of the four of us picked…
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Chef Mavro (Honolulu)
We had one of our favorite meals when we were in Honolulu at Chef Mavro. This is the second excellent meal we’ve had there (Jim and I were there in February and had an amazing meal then as well, which is, of course, documented on the blog). We chose a modified summer menu, knowing that…
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Pandas…in a Submarine
Our daughter came up with the headline for this post, and it perfectly captures the highlights of our recent trip to China and Hawaii. We started off in Beijing for a day or so, but, really, the focus of this trip was Chengdu and the Panda Breeding and Research Center. And the focus of the…
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Chef Mavro
In our latest visit to Honolulu, we decided to dine at Chef Mavro, a restaurant we had dined at several years ago but had not revisited since. The first time we ate there, it was a Valentine’s Day fixed menu, and we thought the dinner was good but not great. However, we revised our opinion…
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Hawaii, No Kids
Jim and I had a wedding in the Bay Area last Saturday (congratulations to Anne Craib and Jim Farmer—it was a beautiful wedding!). Having had to be on the West Coast anyway, we decided that since Hawaii was just a short hop away, we would spend the following week there with NO KIDS. (Not that…
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Town (restaurant in Honolulu)
We discovered Town (located at 3435 Waialae Ave) on a recommendation by some friends the last time we were in Honolulu and returned on this past trip to see if it was as good as we remembered. It is as good and possibly better. Here are some photos of Town’s magnificence: Appetizers include a baby…
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Asia-Lite Summer Vacation
What we did on our summer vacation: we visited Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Honolulu—what I laughingly call our Asia-lite trip (anytime you go to Asia and you can drink the tap water, it’s not a true Asia trip). The weather was hot and humid in both Hong Kong and Tokyo, but they were really fun…
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Uncle Clay’s House of Pure Aloha
Only in Hawaii can you get away with a name like that. But Uncle Clay’s House of Pure Aloha (located at 820 West Hind Drive #116 in the Aina Haina Shopping Center in Honolulu) not only has some of the best shave ice we’ve ever had, but it contains something even better—Uncle Clay himself. First…