Wednesday, October 14, 2009
This funky, New Age pizza joint is apparently a small chain from the Northeast, with one location on Maui. Wood-fired clay oven, beautifully-implemented pizzas with fresh, local ingredients and excellent, chewy/crisped crust. Excellent bits of char and puffy exterior. This is what pizza should be. I wish we had ONE place of this caliber in [...]
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Da Kitchen: Monstrously large plates of local food done very right. Good kalbi, great fried mahi. Dis place broke da mouf! Local Boy Snack Shop: apparently one of the relatively few places for real shave ice on Maui. It is indeed very good, with azuki beans, sweet cream, and li hing mui powder for topping. [...]
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We’d visited the sister restaurant, I’O, on a previous trip, so we tried this one this time. The restaurant group has thee properties, all at the same address in a trendy mall in Lahaina. Pacific’o was nice. Decent wine list, though not really adventurous. I started with a ceviche of several local fish and veggies [...]
Newly reopened following an extensive remodel. It’s a lot more industrial and more noisy now, but a lot more brewpub-like. Good beer just as I remembered, particularly the IPA. And, for the record, there is no better start to a meal than a wedge of beer-battered, deep-fried Brie with guava jelly. Sadly, they underseasoned the [...]
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Slow, indifferent service. Breadbasket of gutless white flat bread, without the character of actual focaccia. Stale oil with a mix of dried and fresh herbs. Vaguely Italian flavorings to the dishes, but the gutless gnocchi were just lumps of mashed potatoes. Chicken was thinly pounded (good) but slightly overcooked and dry (bad). I don’t understand [...]
Tonight four of us gathered at Castro Point restaurant in Mountain View for a bite and sip. Tuesday and Wednesday nights are wine/food pairing dinners at Castro Point, each week a different cuisine and wine theme. This week, the menu was Italian, and we brought our own bottles of Italian wine and the restaurant waived [...]