If you think there’s no place to eat on Oahu’s West Side, 1) you haven’t been there lately and 2) you certainly haven’t been to Azul at the Ihilani.
This award-winning signature restaurant on the property of JW Marriott’s luxurious resort at Ko Olina employs a farm-to-table approach to fine dining. Vegetables are locally sourced (and often organic) from nearby Mao Organic Farms and others in Waimanalo. Fish are selected from day boats and short-trip long-line boats from Honolulu, Kauai and the Big Island. And all of the beef on the menu are organic and hormone-free.
And did I mention the extensive wine list, with more than 250 labels from all over the world?
Here’s what we ate on a recent trip to Azul:
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Azul, 92-1001 Olani St., Ihilani, Ko Olina. Hours: Dinner and wine bar, 6-9 p.m. daily. Phone: 808) 679-0079
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How’s their single malt collection?
Fuud luuks guud!
Hello Cat!
Fuud pixs Friday!
Looks very good and pricey too….
fuud pics!!
was that the Caymus Conundrum? really nice white blend. more of an everyday drinker, but on the nice side of “everyday”. one of my favorite whites.
surprised you didn’t go with the azul chocolate dome, given your professed love of warm chocolate cakes. I think i would have tried the profiteroles. partly because i’m a sucker for anything made with pate a choux (eclairs, cream puffs…anything) and partly because i’m intrigued by the “lemon cello almonds”
can i make a “fuud friday” request? next time you have a special dinner, can you go to/review azure? I’ve never been, but the menu look amazing.
since the chef there is one of the hot young chefs in honolulu, maybe if you have him on cat chat you can get hooked up!!
one of the things i spend a lot of time doing on Oahu is watch the west side grow.
there’s so much happening and yet to happen. the potential for new templates of develoment is there. i hope there is vision enough to create something entirely new. something that will draw, not only tourists but locals, and they can both stand there wide eyed.
whenever the military hands over land, it’s always primo land. i’ve toured by bike all the deserted streets of the old Barbers Point NAS, and White Plains is one of my fave beaches.
sometimes i stop and look at the abandoned buildings with no glass in the windows and the concrete steps that go nowhere standing in overgrown fields and i think: this could really be something new and different. but the old molds of development have to be broken.
i don’t know if the KPD and the Campbell Trust is committed to the long term quality of life and value investment out west or to maximizing bondholder and shareholder short term profits. hoping for the first
anyway, dinner in Ko Olina looks like nobdy’s cutting corners there.
@turkfontaine I have mixed feelings on the west side. I was a member of a committee in the late-’90s promoting and educating on sustainable development from a planning standpoint. Kapolei and Makakilo are two of the least community friendly planned developments on the island. I can elaborate if you’re interested, but won’t bore everyone with the details.
As for the military lands on the west side, I agree, they have some prime real-estate. Have you (or anyone) done the Kole Kole Pass run they (still?) do every year? It’s a half-marathon from Schoffield Barracks to Nanakuli. The course runs in and around the Waianae mountains and is an incredibly beautiful route that non-military get to see only once a year during this run. I highly recommended it to everyone. By the way, you can also walk the course if you’re not a runner.
CAT: Aaaiiiyyyaaahhh! Fuud Pix! Tenks! It has been awhile since I last ate there…it was certainly as advertised. Wotta fuud bill! My son decided he wanted rack of lamb…that could have fed 3 people for the price!
Will try this