As we wrapped up the 2018-19 school year, the Hawaii Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (HRAEF) was very honored to award a ProStart student the first scholarship from the foundation! Jimmy Nguyen from Farrington High School completed all of the...
REAL gastropub is truly the first REAL gastropub in Honolulu, Hawaii. Embracing the craft beer culture, we travelled throughout the Pacific Northwest, East and West Coast and visited numerous locations to capture the REAL essence and characteristics of a true...
HRA’s Sunset at Cinnamon’s kicked off at 5:30 p.m. on May 20th at Cinnamon’s at the Ilikai. Guests mixed, mingled, enjoyed winning raffle prizes and took in Waikiki’s beautiful sunset while enjoying the food provided by Cinnamon’s and IL Gelato. Mahalo to Young’s...
People are starting to eat more salads and fresh produce. Cooked foods have holding and cooking temps to protect those foods, but what about greens and produce that are in salads? Proper washing is a key element in safer salads. The illnesses that can be caused by...
Eric Dill Turns a Dream Into Reality as He Shares His Passion The idea of creating a distillery in Hawaii started three years ago but the infatuation with distilling began a decade earlier while I was deployed in Iraq and read a news story about some service...
Aloha! Your Government Affairs Committee & Chair, Victor Lim may now take a well-deserved breather for the next 2 weeks. Then, we will be starting up our committee meetings again, strategizing on how we will be uniting as an industry, along with our...