Updated at 11:47 a.m., Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Hawaii chefs, restaurants lauded in Gourmet magazine
Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i chefs Peter Merriman and Neil Murphy of the Big Island's Merriman's restaurant, as well as Alan Wong of Alan Wong's in Honolulu, are being cited as "local pioneers" in the October issue of Gourmet magazine.The chefs were among 15 spotlighted in the magazine's annual restaurants issue. Others cited as local pioneers included Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and Peter Davis of Henrietta's Table in Cambridge, Mass.
The issue also features the country's best restaurants that are focusing on chefs who are making the most out of locally produced and grown food. The magazine named Lahaina's sister restaurants, Pacific'o and I'o, as among the top 10 "Restaurants with Farm Connections" in the nation.
The restaurants make use of produce from Maui's O'o Farm, which was founded about seven years ago by chef James McDonald and his restaurant partners Louis Coulombe and Stephan Bel-Roberts.
