Mari Taketa

1 week ago | honolulumagazine.com | Mari Taketa

If you think that pretty much every other new restaurant you’ve been hearing about is Korean, you may be right. We stumbled on this four-Korean-restaurants-in-12-days phenomenon while researching for the next roundup of New & Coming Restaurants (coming soon, promise), a newsworthy enough nugget to merit its own coverage.

3 weeks ago | honolulumagazine.com | Mari Taketa

Newman is up for a new national James Beard award for outstanding cocktail professional. The James Beard Foundation released its shortlist of candidates vying for the country’s top food and beverage awards today, naming Dave Newman of Pint + Jigger as the sole Hawai‘i candidate still in the running. Newman was one of nine Island restaurants and food and beverage professionals selected as semifinalists in January.

3 weeks ago | honolulumagazine.com | Mari Taketa

tktktk Editor’s note: This is part two of a five-part story from HONOLULU’s April issue exploring Honolulu’s new wave of Latin restaurants. Peruvian Corner  |  Guaiqueri  |  La Casita |  San Paolo Pizza & Wine |  Mercado de la Raza Launched from Spain centuries ago, empanadas crossed oceans—to Italy and North Africa, the Philippines and Indonesia. In Central and South America, where they permeate virtually every country, countless variations evolved.

3 weeks ago | honolulumagazine.com | Mari Taketa

Editor’s note: This is part four of a five-part story from HONOLULU’s April issue exploring Honolulu’s new wave of Latin restaurants. Peruvian Corner  |  Guaiqueri  |  La Casita |  San Paolo Pizza & Wine |  Mercado de la Raza “I’m all in,”Andre Alves de Moraes says. “If I’m not gonna do it the right way, it’s not worth doing at all.” He’s at San Paolo Pizza & Wine, the 170-seat restaurant he and two partners opened last year where Ala Moana Boulevard curves toward Waikīkī.

3 weeks ago | honolulumagazine.com | Mari Taketa

Editor’s note: This is part three of a five-part story from HONOLULU’s April issue exploring Honolulu’s new wave of Latin restaurants. Peruvian Corner  |  Guaiqueri  |  La Casita |  San Paolo Pizza & Wine |  Mercado de la Raza Tucked between Arby’s and Elena’s Home of Finest Filipino Foods, La Casita is O‘ahu’s best gateway to Central America. The menu is an abbreviated tour of a region whose seven countries cram an isthmus of 1,140 miles, about the distance from Seattle to Los Angeles.