On Maui, our food scene is tight-knit. You start life with a giant food festival in your honor celebrating your first year, where all your family’s cooks throw down. All the uncles hunt and harvest, aunties bring their specialties. As we grow, meals are social events, but they’re also personal–your heart goes into what you […]
SUMMER MOVIE WRAP-UP
Back in May, who would’ve thought the top grossing movie of the summer would be Guardians of the Galaxy? In fact, who knew it would be any good? Audiences turned out in droves for the latest Transformers, despite having never met anyone say they enjoyed it. Sex Tape flopped but The Purge: Anarchy was a […]
Our MauiTime Food Writer Went To New Orleans And Here Is What She Found
Travel is a wonderful opportunity to eat, as long as you can get along with foreign food. A lot of people always ask about rock fever but I only get hagridden once I leave the state. Luckily for me, in my trip last week to New Orleans I found solace in Southern Food, particularly the […]
Threes Bar And Grill Food Truck New Maui Restaurant Review
The true beauty of the food truck is that you can get a great meal nearly anywhere. But in Maui County, some of our laws may limit this, as was the case with the Three’s Bar and Grill Food Truck. They initially started their truck business with the idea of taking their signature style of […]
Community Raises Nearly One Hundred Thousand Dollars For Maui Culinary Academy
This year’s annual Noble Chef benefit for the Maui Culinary Academy at the University of Hawaii Maui College exceeded its goals with nearly $100,000 in funds raised. The 17th annual fundraiser, held Oct. 26 in Wailea, amassed the money to help support program development and growth of the award-winning Culinary Academy. The money also will […]
Hamlet and Fat Boy and CHALA and The Legend Of Koolau
THURSDAY, NOV. 7 ‘FAT BOY’ – This Thursday, the Maui Arts and Cultural Center is presenting Fat Boy by Teo Castellanos. In this unique example of performance art, Castellanos marries theater with social issues. Drawing inspiration from various places around the world, Castellanos explores poverty, consumerism and equality. Fat Boy also fuses contemporary elements like […]
Community Raises Nearly $100K for Maui Culinary Academy
This year’s annual Noble Chef benefit for the Maui Culinary Academy at the University of Hawaii Maui College exceeded its goals with nearly $100,000 in funds raised. The 17th annual fundraiser, held Oct. 26 in Wailea, amassed the money to help support program development and growth of the award-winning Culinary Academy. The money also will […]
Nnenna Freelon and Oktoberfest and Noble Chef and Allen Toussaint
THURSDAY, OCT. 24 NNENNA FREELON – The Maui Arts and Cultural Center is welcoming Jazz singer, composer, arranger and education advocate Nnenna Freelon this Thursday. The five-time Grammy nominated vocalist has shared the stage with Anita Baker, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. But that’s apparently not enough for her: Freelon’s passion for music and education […]
As the Hawaii Legislature prepares to vote on same sex marriage the island LGBTQ community comes together to celebrate Maui Pride
The annual Maui Pride Festivities always provide great excitement for our island’s LGBTQ community, but this year has much greater significance. In June the U.S. Supreme Court finally struck down the Defense of Marriage laws, and later this month our own state Legislature convenes for a Special Session on the issue of legalizing same-sex marriage. […]
MISO PHAT SUSHI New Maui Restaurant Review
To take sushi appreciation to the next level you have to see the movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi. In the film, chef Jiro Ono turns a restaurant consisting of 10 seats in a Tokyo subway station into one of the most renowned sushi establishments in the world. I dream of sushi, too, though more in […]
Historic Lahaina Celebration and Sullivan And Son and Chef Sheldon Simeon and Frank De Lima Benefit Show
THURSDAY, AUG. 22 DOLPHIN TALK – Dive into a conversation with Dr. Sarah Courbis, a research associate at Portland State University, concerning humanity’s impact on Hawaii’s dolphin population. Featured at Pacific Whale Foundation’s Making Waves Lecture series, Courbis will lead the discussion via an exclusive webinar titled “Hawaii’s Dolphins: Human Impacts and Conservation Action.” The […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2013: Best Chef on Maui: Sheldon Simeon
Chef Sheldon Simeon with Chef Julie Yoneyama & Chef Isaac Bancaco. Best Chef Sheldon Simeon Chef Sheldon Simeon sharpened his skills as executive chef at Star Noodle and Leoda’s, and I’ll be forever grateful for his Vietnamese crepe and handheld corn pie. But he achieved fame nationwide with his stint on Bravo’s Top Chef Seattle […]
Chef Alan Wong Appearing On PBS Hawaii Show Family Ingredients
The simplest dishes are sometimes the most meaningful. To me, nothing tops a good grilled cheese. For Hawaiian celebrity chef Alan Wong, that favorite childhood comfort food was tamago kake gohan, an austere combination of raw egg and hot rice. Yet these simple dishes are sometimes deceiving in their appearance, which masks the nuances and […]
The Year 2012 In Maui Food
This was the year the word “gastropub” was finally added to the Merriam Websters dictionary. Defined as upscale pub grub, this genre of food had more of a stronghold on the mainland where it has dominated for the last decade, but its popularity has not gone unnoticed on Maui. Menus have swelled with gourmet burgers, […]
Fleetwoods On Front Street New Maui Restaurant Review
I’m a total anglophile. I love all things British; from music to the monarchy, from gin to James Bond, my obsession and admiration is wide. So when I got word that music legend Mick Fleetwood was planning a three-level retail, club/entertainment venue/restaurant, I got giddy. That transformed into excitement when, in 2011, I met Mick […]
Talking Story With Hula Grill Executive Sous Chef Ryan Luckey
It’s hard to believe that Chef Ryan Luckey, who cranked out the amazing cuisine that helped put Pineapple Grill in Kapalua on the map, got his start in the restaurant business as a dishwasher. We’ve followed his illustrious career from restaurants like Erik’s Seafood Grotto, Red Lobster and Kapalua Grill and Bar. Nobody has seen […]