New International Market Place restaurants announced
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The construction site, as seen on Oct. 6, 2015, of the International Market Place in Waikiki.
Herringbone, described as a social dining concept, and Baku, a Japanese-inspired restaurant, will occupy the third-level Grand Lanai at the International Market Place in Waikiki, joining the previously announced Stripsteak by Michael Mina, Eating House 1849, by Roy Yamaguchi, and Yauatcha, a Michelin-starred Chinese dim sum restaurant and tea house.
Herringbone, with locations in La Jolla and Santa Monica, California, as well as Las Vegas, emphasizes line-caught seafood and high-quality meats, as welll as market-driven ingredients.
The Baku restaurant concept is east meets west, serving traditional Japanese cuisine including sushi, sashimi, ramen, steamed buns, robata-grilled items and modern desserts.
The two restaurants round out the 10 dining options the center’s developers have planned.
“Both of these brands are perfect complements to the already robust restaurant offerings that we have announced to-date,” said William S. Taubman, Taubman group chief operating officer, in a statement. “With these point-of-difference brands, International Market Place will be the one-stop-shop for unique dining, world-class shopping and entertainment in the market.”
In addition to the above restaurants and The Street, a food hall offering 12 to 18 casual dining options, the other concepts announced for International Market Place thus far include Flour & Barley by Las Vegas-based Block 16 Hospitality; Goma Tei, a locally popular ramen shop; Kona Coffee Purveyors, that also will serve pastries baked in-house by San Francisco-based b.patisserie, and Kona Grill, the first Hawaii outpost of an Arizona-based restaurant chain.
International Market Place is set to open August 25 and will offer 700 parking stalls for customers of its dining and upscale retail options.
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The tourists will love it.
If they still elect to come. Waikiki looks more and more dangerous and shabby
“International eating place”!
More places local people can’t afford to eat at … RAINBOW DRIVE INN ROCKS !!!!!
Way to show the world locals have no taste…keep up the good work.
Rainbow’s suck. Price increase with smaller portions. Watered down chili plate. Over-crowded with the tour buses parked on Kapahulu. Richie’s is a better replacement
2nd dat
The restaurants are going to be very upscale and expensive to cover the high lease; no more cheap, but good places to eat like before. Catering to the tourists and upscale locals.
Do you think the disenfranchised (or non-existent) middle class of America will follow their historical brethren of revolutionary France? Oh…that explains Mr. Trump’s popularity on the lower end of the economic scale. No worries though, the media does a great job of letting everyone know its great to be rich. Really rich. No matter what the cost.
Read the article. In addition to the upscale eateries, the complex will also have “…a food hall offering 12 to 18 casual dining options…”.
Listen to the whiners. Lots of locals can afford at least some of the dining options there. And this is smack dab in the middle of Waikiki. Why would anyone not expect the restaurants to cater to tourists? At least there seems to be adequate parking for locals.
So glad nothing with any local history, flavor or flair. All mainland style mass eating “concepts”. Japanese “inspired”???
Why not offer a good spot for La Mariana and their famous, kitschy tiki bar with a promise of lower rent for the first year to help them get their footing? EVERYONE would love that “concept”!
Yes, let’s pander to the lowest common denominator because that’s the way to pay the bills
Or become the GOP nominee….
Let’s face it…Waikiki and KITSCH are synonymous.
I agree. Tourists come here expecting to see Hawaii, not the same Cheesecake Factory they could get at home. I still miss the old Tiki bars like the Tahitian Lanai.
More places for tourists to dine but expect, these places will largely be on the high end type. Places I will never go to for sure.
How strange a Kona Coffee Purveyor run by a San Francisco based bakery and Kona Grill owned by an Arizona based restaurant chain. Why no Kona eateries owned by Kona people?
Oh well! Another reason to stay away from Waikiki!
Yup. I second that!!!
Tird
The only reason I go into Waikiki anymore is for weddings, that my
wife insists on attending.
“LIKE”
Once the Waikiki 3 was replaced by Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville, it was all over for me. I used to go to that theater all the time.
The real story here is that IMP is opening 65% vacant, but HNA would not dare publish that story….