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by Mark Seal
What about something more
substantial than sushi? There are two restaurants I would
recommend. One of them is Hoku's, which is, I think, the signature
restaurant at the Kahala Mandarin Hotel. The hotel has changed
ownership, actually, so it may just be called the Kahala now.
Hoku's is incredible, consistently amazing. It has a menu that is
very, very diverse. It has really interesting combinations. You
can't really pinpoint it to one place or culture, but it's really
amazing.
That's right on the water, isn't
it? Yeah. I think it's the nicest hotel on the island, just
because it's a little older and has some character. It's classy. It
has been around for a while, and it's beautiful, with its dolphin
pools and fish pools and all that. Hoku's is situated so that you
can look out over the ocean. It has an amazing ambience. A lot of
wood, but, facing the water, all glass.
There is also an Italian
restaurant in Kailua that my wife and I go to all the time. My wife
is Italian, so we are always trying to find good Italian
restaurants. This place is called Baci Bistro. It has indoor and
outdoor seating. It has a pretty good wine list, and the food is
consistently good. They have great steak
there.
Do you feel like
it's similar to Italian restaurants everywhere else, or do you know
you are in Hawaii when you're in an Italian restaurant
there? They have a lot of fish. Anywhere you go in
Hawaii, you are going to get more fish on the menu than you might
at an Italian restaurant somewhere else. Other than that, it feels
like an Italian restaurant to me. Those would be the two
restaurants I would recommend - and the sushi place makes three.
Those are all the things that I would need: coffee, juice, the two
restaurants, and a sushi joint. Well, there's another place in
Honolulu, called Town. I was really impressed by it. It's a
relatively new restaurant. The menu changes every day, apparently.
They have a cool menu and cool combinations of things. A lot of
their food is organic, and it's really hip. That would be something
I would recommend as well.
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