In one swoop, you can do the environment and the community a bit of good. Bring your reusable shopping bags when you shop at Mana Foods, and for each reusable bag you will receive a 5-cent credit. With your approval, Mana Foods will donate that credit to Maui Food Bank. Last month, they donated approximately […]
According to this morning’s Maui News, a sous chef at one of the best Maui restaurants, Capische? is dealing with cancer, and the restaurant is hosting a big, swanky, kid-friendly benefit this Sunday. There’s a jumpy castle for the kids (and face painting, and balloon animals, and a Wii station), and lasagna bolognese (and shrimp […]
Flatbread Pizza in Paia may seem like the ultimate expression of North-Shore-Maui-Hippie-Foodie heaven, but for me, it always feels weird to go in a tank top. I’m used to approaching Flatbread very carefully, picking my way through a layer of snow hiding a slippery sheet of ice, and then warming up with a nice, hot […]
Buying wine on Maui is like buying anything else on Maui–you pay more than you would elsewhere. I call it the living-in-paradise tax. We love wine, but we don’t drink much, so we tend to buy very inexpensive-but-good bottles or totally splurge. So when a tasty inexpensive bottle shows up, we buy a case. There’s […]
Leftover Flatbread pizza is pretty good – but we wanted more, more, more! “Can we buy a ball of dough?” we asked our server. “Yes!” The dough came lightly dusted with flour and gently wrapped in plastic wrap. $4 for a D-cup-sized mound of yeasty, stretchy love. Well worth the price. I cradled the dough […]