Reserve Now for 4th Annual Hall of Fame Induction & Dine-Around

HRA 2010 Hall of Fame Induction & Chefs of Aloha Dine-Around

Monday, September 27, 2010 ~ 6:00-9:00 pm

Hawaii Prince Hotel ~ Waikiki

Reserve your place – or better yet, your table!  Join us as we celebrate the restaurant industry and honor the leaders who will be inducted into the 2010 HRA Hall of Fame.  Enjoy feasting at the Dine-Around, featuring the culinary creations of this year’s Chefs of Aloha:

Jesse Kila (The Ranch House), Keith Kong (Duke’s Waikiki), Donald Lakey (Outback Steakhouse), Scott McGill, CEC (Hula Grill Kaanapali), John Memering (Kalapawai Cafe), James Rosenberry (Hula Grill Waikiki), and Kirby Wong (Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki).

For more information, call HRA at 944.9105 or email at hra@RestaurantHI.com.

Wong Pushes Culinary Excellence

By Erika Engle (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

Alan Wong

Honolulu chef and restaurateur Alan Wong is just back from New York where he and a host of culinary glitterati selected the winner of the 2010 Bocuse d’Or USA Competition at the Culinary Institute of America.

Winner James Kent, from New York, will represent the United States at the Bocuse d’Or International Culinary Competition – the Olympics for chefs – in Lyon, France, a year from now. ….”Imagine if Hawaii was to produce a Bocuse d’Or finalist,” he said. “Even if they didn’t win, having a couple young culinarians from Hawaii raises the level of the next generation, because when you want to compete on that kind of a high level, you will get better and bring the people underneath you up, too. It can only be good, a win-win,” he said.