Category: Honolulu
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Honolulu Restaurants
Thanks to some friends of ours, we were introduced to a fabulous restaurant called Town in Honolulu. No photos of their delicious cooking, I’m sorry to say, but trust me, the food is wonderful. Their website is www.townkaimuki.com. Their motto is “Local first, organic whenever possible, with aloha always.” All we can add is that…
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Hawaii (and the US-Japan Leadership Program)
I highly recommend the concept of being in Hawaii in February. (Yes, that absolutely was an exercise in gloating.) I was there for an executive committee meeting of the US-Japan Leadership Program, and Jim and I stayed a few extra days afterwards to enjoy paradise (aka Hawaii). We stayed in Honolulu, as we think the…
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Alan Wong’s (a double helping)
In our latest visit to Honolulu, we were greedy enough to eat at Alan Wong’s twice during our trip. The first meal was very good, but the second meal outdid itself. At the second dinner, Jim and I ordered the classic tasting menu, which we could do without having the entire table required to order…
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Our Hawaii Vacation
We just returned from a fabulous week in Honolulu where the skies were blue, the ocean even bluer, and it was 80 degrees every day. Oahu is our favorite island, mostly because we aren’t sit-on-the-beach kind of people, so there is more to do in Honolulu than anywhere else. That’s not to say we didn’t…
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Christmas in Hawaii
We spent Christmas in Hawaii this year as a more pleasant alternative to being the mole family. And it was so much fun that we are seriously considering making this an annual tradition. It was 80 degrees every day with occasional rain (but who cares about 10 minutes of rain when it’s 80 degrees outside?). …
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Alan Wong’s in Honolulu
I’ll be describing our lovely Christmas in Hawaii later, once I get some photos uploaded. But I did want to talk about one of the best meals we had while we were there, at Alan Wong’s. He does a lovely East-West Hawaii-style cuisine, and it was one of the best meals we’ve ever had. Thanks…