NEWEST OF THE NEW IN BARBECUE
Now open in Kapolei: Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, the first Hawaii location for the 45-state chain based in Texas.
Dickey’s serves a fast-food style of smoky favorites: Get in line and as you move along the counter order meat first, sides next, then drinks. Pick up your order at the end of the line, at the cashier. Eat-in orders are served on quarter sheet pans, easy to share.
Central to the menu are meat plates, with one to three choices starting at $11.25 for pulled pork, brisket, chicken breast, sausage or sliced turkey. A pork rib plate is $14.25. All plates come with two sides, with options including beans, coleslaw, fried okra, creamed spinach and a Dickey’s specialty, baked potato casserole (really mashed potatoes with bacon and cheese).
The pit-barbecued meats are also for sale by the pound, in sandwiches and family packs.
The restaurant is in a new strip mall next to the Kapolei Walmart, 91-710 Farrington Highway. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
WEDDING CAKE SCORES RUNNER-UP RECOGNITION
Kailua-Kona native Bryson Perkins, a cake decorator extraordinaire now working in New Hampshire, won over $39,000 in cash and prizes as first runner-up in the 25th Annual Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show in the recent Grand National Wedding Cake Competition.
This was the same contest in which Perkins took the grand prize last year in Tulsa. He was edged out for the jackpot win this year by Susan Trianos of Canada.
Competitors come from a wide variety of countries for the premier art show. In honor of the show’s 25th anniversary and final year, held Sept. 29 and 30, the Food Network sent a crew to cover the event for an hourlong documentary that will air in early 2019.
Perkins, creative director and co-owner of Triolo’s Bakery in New Hampshire, said he will be among those featured in the documentary. Last year he represented the U.S. and won the silver medal at the Cake Designers World Championship in Italy.
He paid homage to his hometown in Kona with a cake featuring Madam Pele, the volcano goddess, holding the coffee beans for which Kona is famous.
— Pat Gee, Star-Advertiser
SHOP FOR A GOOD CAUSE
Shop at Whole Foods Market Thursday and 5 percent of the net sales will be donated to Aloha United Way.
Hawaii’s four Whole Foods locations — Kahala Mall, Kailua and Queen Street on Oahu, and Maui Mall — are participating in Community Giving Day, a quarterly event for the grocery chain.
Funds raised will go to AUW-supported groups that include food banks, food delivery services and educational programs on healthy eating, gardening and farming.
DINNER FEATURES DESIGNER WINES
Salvatore Ferragamo introduces his line of Il Borro Toscana wines at a dinner Oct. 24 at Arancino at The Kahala.
Ferragamo, grandson of the founder of the Ferragamo fashion empire and a winemaker in the Tuscany region of Italy, is collaborating with Arancino chef Daisuke Hamamoto on a Tuscan-influenced six-course dinner to include truffle arancini, osso bucco tagliatelle and Miyazaki beef with matsutake mushrooms.
Dinner runs from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Cost is $140, including wine pairings. Reservations required: 380-4400.
LEARN SOME HOLIDAY TRICKS
Prepare for holiday entertaining with “Healthy Dinner Parties,” a cooking class at Adventist Health Castle, 6 p.m. Oct. 25.
Madeline Kammerer of Down to Earth will lead a cooking demonstration to include vegan dishes of nutmeg kabocha squash soup and creme brulee banana pudding. Samples and recipes will be provided.
Cost is $12, with payment required a week in advance. Call 263-5050.
BUFFET BENEFITS ROTARY
A buffet Oct. 27 at the ‘Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach will benefit the community programs of the Rotary Club of Waikiki.
The annual Waikiki International Food Festival, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the hotel’s Grand Ballroom, includes entertainment, and silent and live auctions.
Proceeds help fund Waikiki- area projects including literacy, scholarships and homelessness.
Tickets are $100. Call 542-4945, email david@dclivingston.com or visit WaikikiRotary.org.
HIGH-FLYING SPECIAL MENUS
If you’re flying out of the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport this month, allow a little extra time before boarding to take advantage of Airport Restaurant Month’s seasonal menus.
More than 50 restaurants in North American airports served by restaurateur HMSHost are participating.
Try, for example, vegetarian flatbread, roasted chicken breast with basil pesto, a grilled shrimp wrap or a Better Than Bacon Burger with cheese and bacon tomato compote.
Wine pairings are suggested for each dish, or try the Restaurant Month cocktail, Temptation — whiskey, malbec and maple syrup.
Honolulu airport restaurants participating are Makai Plantation Bar, Umaizushi, PGA Tour Grill and Stinger Rays.
If you’re more likely to need a meal on a stopover or at your destination airport, check out AirportRestaurantMonth.com for a full list of participating locations.
ZIP UP SOME FASHION FINDS
How big is your love for Zippy’s? Big enough to proclaim on your head or chest?
Local streetwear brand In4mation and Zippy’s Restaurants are partners in a new Zip4mation line, “Hawai‘i Originals.” Included are a hat, T-shirt, soccer jersey, lapel pins and stickers. Beverage cups in a blue version of In4mation’s signature Tiger Palm Camo print have been introduced at the restaurants.
Items are sold at In4mation locations or online at Zippys.com. Prices run from $8 for a sheet of stickers to $65 for the soccer jersey.
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