Taste at Kapolei set for Sept. 23 at Ko Olina | The Honolulu Advertiser

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Taste at Kapolei set for Sept. 23 at Ko Olina | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper

Posted on: Wednesday, August 30, 2006

QUICK BITES
Taste at Kapolei set for Sept. 23 at Ko Olina

Advertiser Staff

Tickets are on sale for the Rotary Club of Kapolei's Taste at Kapolei, 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sept. 23 at Ko Olina Resort & Marina. The oceanside event features tastings, beer and wine stations, live entertainment, a country market and the ever-popular fireworks finale. The event has generated more than $500,000 for scholarships, educational programs and grants for Leeward O'ahu students over its seven-year history.

Restaurants participating this year include Auntie Pasto's, Big City Diner, Chili's Grill & Bar, Compadres Bar & Grill, Da Spot, Dave and Buster's, Don Ho's Island Grill, Gordon Biersch, Hana Sushi, Hapa Grill, Holokai Grill, Hong Kong Harbour View Seafood Restaurant, Kolohe's Bar & Grill, L'Uraku, Outback Steakhouse, Scandinasian Culinary Concepts, Shanghai Bistro, Thai Kitchen and Zaffron. Tickets: $70 adults, $30 children ages 7 to 12. Information: 674-2500 or www.tasteatkapolei.com.

RESTAURANT NEWS

RUTH'S CHRIS OPENS OCT. 9 ON BIG ISLAND

Randy Schoch's Desert Island Restaurants will open a fourth Hawai'i Ruth's Chris Steak House on the Big Island on Oct. 9. (Other outlets are on O'ahu and Maui.) The award-winning steak and seafood restaurant will incorporate Hawaiian-style design features. Chef Darcy Ambrosio, with 15 years of Big Island restaurant experience, will preside in the kitchen.

Also opened recently in the same shopping center, a second Tommy Bahama Tropical Cafe restaurant, as well as a retail store. (The other is on Maui.) Tommy Bahama offers a menu in the same romanticized tropical mode that characterizes its clothing line — i.e., pina colada cake.

And on Maui earlier this summer, E&O Trading Co. opened a spacious outlet at Lahaina Cannery Mall offering its eclectic Southeast Asian grill cuisine.

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