The restaurant's bar is such a happening place at night that it often draws an overflow crowd. Try the hearty seafood chowder ($6 or $9) or the tempura ($13-$17).

For 2009, AAA granted Chef Mavro its first five-diamond rating for a Hawaii restaurant independent of a hotel, and only one other restaurant in the islands is rated as highly: La Mer, in Waikiki's ...

Not only was she the first Hawaii chef or restaurant to win in almost 20 years, but she was also the first female chef and woman with Native Hawaiian ancestry to ever win.

By 2001, Randi—who had stayed on Kauai with her mother—had graduated from high school. She had been working at her grandfather’s restaurant for four years (alongside her mother and four brothers), but ...