Maui Food And Dining
43rd Annual Kapalua Wine & Food Festival features premier wines, culinary highlights
The 43rd Annual Kapalua Wine & Food Festival returns June 6-9, 2024 to Kapalua Resort. Celebrate, learn and experience culinary trends and viniculture with the return of celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and luncheons.
Jersey Mike’s Subs and Special Olympics Hawaiʻi team up for a ‘sub-stantial’ month of giving
Placing an order in the month of March benefits Special Olympics Hawaiʻi, enabling the organization to offer year-round sports training, competition and health, wellness, and leadership initiatives for more than 3,400 athletes across the state with intellectual disabilities.
‘Magic of Napa Valley’ cuisine set as fundraiser for Maui food service workers
The Kokua Restaurant & Hospitality Fund for Maui will benefit from two “Experience the Magic of Napa Valley” fine-dining events Feb. 23-24, hosted by Chef Thomas Keller and Chef de Cuisine David Breeden, at the French Laundry at Hotel Wailea.
Tails Up Maui in Wailuku reopens with a renewed mission of community support
Tails Up Maui, a restaurant in Paukūkalo, reopened on Jan. 26 after a transformative period of community service.
Le Bazaar, traditional Moroccan cuisine opens Feb. 1 on Maui
The vibrant heart of Morocco finds a new home on Maui as Le Bazaar, the island’s only Moroccan restaurant, opens its doors at Azeka Makai Shopping Center in Kīhei on Thursday.
Resilient food system infrastructure grant program accepting applications in Hawaiʻi
The Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture is administering the more than $2.6 million Resilient Food System Infrastructure grant.
Fairmont Kea Lani opens Pilina restaurant
Fairmont Kea Lani announced the opening of Pilina, the resort’s newest bar and restaurant.
Chef Zach Laidlaw of Hua Momona Farms on Maui to compete on “Next Level Chef”
Chef Zach Laidlaw, of Maui’s Hua Momona Farms, competes on the upcoming season of the FOX show “Next Level Chef” hosted by Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay.
Four Seasons Resort Maui reopens Ferraro’s Restaurant & Bar
Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea has unveiled a reimagination of the resort’s Ferraro’s Restaurant & Bar. The reveal features an extensive design transformation by Venice, CA-based boutique agency, Studio Collective, and new menu direction led by Chef de Cuisine Russell Rummer.
Māla Ocean Tavern set to reopen in February 2024
Hana Hou Hospitality announced its Māla Ocean Tavern is set to reopen in February of 2024. The restaurant is one of five West Maui establishments run by the group, two of which were destroyed by the Aug. 8, 2023 wildfire in Lahaina.
Slappy Cakes Maui extends holiday welcome to kamaʻāina with free coffee, Santa visit
Slappy Cakes Maui, announces its return after a brief hiatus. The restaurant celebrates a decade of serving the West Maui community and welcomes back residents with gratitude.
Choice Health Bar celebrates reopening in Kāʻanapali
Choice Health Bar makes a comeback to the Westside, reopening their location at Whalers Village in Kāʻanapali this week. The Whalers Village location is open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Point Break Pizza & Panini now open at Maui Harbor Shops in Māʻalaea
Point Break Pizza & Panini is now open at Maui Harbor Shops in Māʻalaea. Signature menu items include Warm Focaccia with Honey Butter, Rochetta Salad with Honey Lemon Vinaigrette, Spicy Italian & Carbonara Pizzas along with homemade focaccia breads, fennel sausages, dressings and pickles.
UH Maui College culinary students distribute 1,600 produce boxes
Culinary students at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College organized about 1,600 boxes of produce that were distributed to students and community members impacted by the August wildfires.
Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa launches as a reimagined dining concept at Grand Wailea
Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, announces the debut of its reimagined signature dining concept, Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa.
McDonald’s reopens newly-remodeled restaurant in Kīhei
McDonald’s celebrates a newly renovated Kīhei restaurant with a more spacious 74-seat dining room, self-ordering kiosks and double drive-thru lanes for quicker and easier ordering.
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue extends Maui wildfire relief into the holiday season
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue announced it is extending its “Purchase A Meal” community initiative through the holidays as it continues efforts to provide relief to wildfire survivors on Maui.
2023 Four Seasons Resort Maui festive line-up, holiday programming schedule
Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea invites guests to its holiday season festivities, featuring the grand reopening of Ferraro’s Restaurant, the Love for Lāhainā Grand Tasting event, and a host of holiday experiences and celebrations.
Top 20 things to do on Maui, Nov. 16-26: Jeff Hellmer jazz quartet, slack key guitarist Kevin Brown, Winter Craft Fair, 50th Senior Fair
For entertainment this week on Maui, there are performances by the Great American Jazz Piano Competition finalist Jeff Hellmer & Friends, three-time Nā Hōkū Hanohano winner Kevin Brown and Maui Prep actors in Beauty and the Beast, as well as a Winter Craft Fair and the 50th Maui County Senior Fair.
From bean to bar: UH alum turned international chocolatier
Mānoa Chocolate’s name originated from the Hawaiian word mānoa which means solid, vast and depth. Butterbaugh found this name fitting: it summed up his goal to (1) make chocolate with deep, complex flavor profiles, and (2) create a vast impact on Hawaiʻi’s agricultural and manufacturing industries.