Some 38 separate Hawaii restaurants and/or their chefs have confirmed their participation in Easter Seals Hawaii's 14th annual Taste of Honolulu, running Friday through Sunday at the Honolulu Civic Center.
Presented by the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, the charity event is often used by local restaurateurs to test-market new menu items. The event usually attracts 50,000 people in three days and last year it raised $247,000.
Taste hours are as follows: Friday, June 24, 5-10 p.m.; Saturday, June 25, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, June 26, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Confirmed restaurants for this year: Brew Moon, Canoes, Ciao Mein, The Colony, Dave & Buster's, Down To Earth, Gordon Biersch, Gyu-Kaku, Hapa Grill, Highway Inn, Hong Kong Harbor View Restaurant, Kevin's Two Boots, The Mandalay, Marian's Catering, Mediterranean Garden Deli, Musashi, Neptune's Garden Restaurant, Prince Court, The Shack, Shanghai Bistro, Top of Waikiki, 21 Degrees North, Willows, and Yakiniku Hiroshi.
Other participants include Roy Yamaguchi, Dean Okimoto, D.K. Kodama, Wade Ueoka, Hiroshi Fukui, Conrad Nonaka, and Chai Chaowasaree (on Friday) and Randall Ishizu, Alan Wong, Alan Takasaki, Elmer Guzman, Jon Matsubara, Jean-Pierre Maharibatcha, and Neil Nakasone (on Saturday).
Taste of Honolulu has raised more than $2.1 million for Easter Seals over the past 13 years.
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