Honolulu Coffee started as a single downtown coffee bar in the early 1990s. Today it grows Kona coffee on its own farm, bakes croissants in Mōʻiliʻili and was just voted USA Today's No. 1 coffee subscription in the country. Here's…
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Brian Wong’s Buns Gone Wong smash-burger pop-up serves Oklahoma-style wagyu burgers from $7 at Paradise Ciders in Mapunapuna Thursdays through Sundays, with a Sunday…
The inaugural Nā Lehua Marketplace & Festival runs Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6–8, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center, with hundreds of local vendors, live…
Hawaiʻi's Finest's Black Friday Mākeke fills the Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition Hall Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6 to 8, with more than 250 local…
Ala Moana Center's 50-foot Big Santa is up, kicking off a holiday season that includes Santa photos from Nov. 13, a Letters to Santa…
Winter contest season on the North Shore is underway. Here are the dates for the Haleʻiwa Pro (starting Thursday), the Pipe Masters world-title finale,…
The Collective Cafe, a new coffee and matcha bar that shares a space with The Collective Barbershop on North King Street, opened this week…
A renovated corner store on Cooke Street, Queen's Deli Market now makes six-inch and footlong deli sandwiches on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 7…
The Mānoa favorite opened its third Oʻahu location on North King Street in Kalihi on Nov. 1, with the same family-recipe menu, weekend Mexican…
The Hawaiʻi Food & Wine Festival wraps up on Oʻahu Nov. 5 to 8; the two big grand tastings are sold out, but tickets…
The free, all-day 4th annual Kimchi Day Festival Hawaiʻi takes over Makiki District Park on Saturday, Nov. 14, with a kimchi-making demo, a homemade…
Hula Girls Sourdough Stand, a homeschool project turned monthly bread stand on Hula Hula Place in Hauʻula, moves its November sale to Sunday, Nov.…
Starting Wednesday, Nov. 4, Don Don Donki in Kapolei sells a $9.99 chicken tenders plate, with about a pound of tenders, every Wednesday from…
Katsu Zen now serves a Japanese breakfast at its solo-dining counter plus a $5 afternoon bento, and The Dotted Line has brought back Girl…
HONOLULU Restaurant Week runs Saturday, Nov. 7, through Sunday, Nov. 15. We went through every posted menu to find the best deals, from a…
For more than three decades, Mitsu-Ken Okazu & Catering has drawn early-morning lines in Kalihi for its glazed, boneless garlic chicken and its packed…
Big City Diner closed its Windward Mall restaurant on Oct. 31 after 11 years; here's the 28-year story of the locally owned diner, where…
Before it was Oʻahu's favorite fall pumpkin patch, Waimānalo Country Farms spent decades as a family truck farm, a melon farm and a corn…
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Your ballot has to reach elections officials by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Here's where Oʻahu voters can drop it off, vote in…
