I have visited all the Hawaiian Islands through the years. I prefer Oahu as I find it offers more variety of activity than just sand and surf . When it comes to food, every cuisine is represented on the island .Each year I find new places to go and seldom return to old favorites. I never see articles about Honolulu’s Chinatown. It is an interesting mix of open air markets, restaurants and shops on Nu’uenu and River streets.
Legend Seafood Restaurant, 108 Chinatown Cultural Plaza, 100 N. Beretania Street is the best Dim Sum I ever had outside Hong Kong. It is a "must" every time I go to the Island. No reservation required but the wait is worth it. The quality and the taste is wonderful and prices are moderate.
The three best breakfasts in Honolulu are in unique settings. .Eggs’n Things, l9ll-B Kalakaua Avenue is on the first floor of a high-rise office tower. Open 24 hours it is always packed. All egg orders come with three buttermilk pancakes or rice or potatoes and two fresh eggs cooked as you like them. Toast is extra. They offer omelettes Crepes Suzettes with ten different fillings, eleven different varieties of pancakes and nine different varieties of waffles plus sides such as: ham, fish, bacon, sausages, etc.
Keo's, 2028 Kuhio is a Thai and Island Lunch and Dinner House that offers an American an Asian breakfast from 7 a.m.. to noon. My favorite breakfast of all is served on the Banyan Veranda at the Sheraton Moana Surfrider resort on Waikiki Beach. It is sheer paradise to sit there and enjoy your Kona Coffee while the trade winds blow and the birds run in and out around your feet looking for crumbs. It is a true Hawaiian experience.
If you haven’t experienced Don Ho you haven’t experienced Hawaii's true spirit of aloha. This living legend has been an icon for over forty years and still going strong. Don’t miss his entertaining Polynesian troupe or talented performers. Don is currently appearing at the Waikiki Beachcomber, 2300 Kalakaus Avenue.
Don Ho’s Island Grill on the waterfront at the Aloha Tower Market Place is open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Lunch and dinner and Sunday Brunch from lO a.m. to 2 p.m. You sit in the shade as the trade winds blow sipping your beverages, eating the best surfboard pizza and watching the boats slip by looking over toward Sand Island. A young friendly professional staff is anxious to please your every need. Lunch, complete dinners, soups, salads, sandwiches and pupas are all very good and attractively presented. There is a talent show weekly. Full bar and wine list. For casual dining I highly recommend you stop in.
It is always a thrill for me to discover a new good restaurant. When you discover a restaurant that has a great young chef, delicious inventive cuisine in a whimsical wildly colorful ambience; and upside down umbrellas in miuticolors you might question your choice. However I soon discovered I was in one of Hawaii's finest award-winning Euro-Japanese restaurants. Chef Hiroshi Fukui has received international recognition.
A tasting menu at dinner with wine $49, without $36 with five courses, The 'Weekender' Lunch menu, four courses $16.00. The wine list has received awards and is one of the finest I have seen. Don’t miss dining at L’Uraku, l34l Kapiolani Blvd., Honolulu Telephone (808) 94l-4965.
Andreas Knapp was executive chef at the Century Plaza Hotel in the 90s. We discovered he has an Austrian restaurant in Honolulu. Dishes we enjoyed: Roasted Onion beer soup, glazed smoked cheese, Spinach and Mushroom salad with hot vinegarette dressing, Jumbo shrimp curry with apple and raisins on pasta with garden veggies, Sauerbraten ‘Wiener Art’, red cabbage and spitzes, Wienerschnitzel with potatoes onion. Also a good wine and beer list. The Chef's Table, 333 Keahole, Honolulu, telephone 808 394-2433.
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