Not too long ago, I moved 8 minutes away to a new house in a new town on this island of Maui. In New York, such movement is rarely paid attention to. Case in point: When my sister and I moved our things to an apartment one block away via a valet baggage cart past […]
I’ve flown a lot recently, which (gastronomically) translates to eating institutional food at overpriced airport restaurants and paying big dollars for little onboard snacks. I identify strongly with the phrase “I live to eat” and not at all with “I eat to live” – so being forced to eat meals only to keep the flight […]
The Maui Weekly ran another excerpted review from our guide Top Maui Restaurants 2010. This one is for one of our favorite “go-to” restaurants, East Ocean, a good place for Chinese in Kihei. You can read the full review on the Maui Weekly website. Read the excerpted review of East Ocean in Kihei here. If […]
I just found the menus for the special events at Maui Film Festival, and Dionysius himself would be salivating. Let’s start at the very beginning; opening night on Wednesday June 16. The elegant Opening Twilight Reception is at our very favorite place to eat, Capische? at the Hotel Wailea. The reception starts are 5:30pm and […]
A reader-who-shall-remain-nameless wrote to me yesterday with the following query: “My girlfriend and I are both huge foodies, so we’re reading your book before we come to Maui. But I have a hidden agenda: I’m going to propose to her on our vacation. Do you have any creative ideas for me?” Anyone who has read […]