Ko Olina News and Press Releases

The Hawaii Food & Wine Festival returned for its second year last week, drawing sell-out crowds and an increasing number of celebrity chefs from around the world.

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It's the hot, dry side. The sunset spot. The leeward shore, downwind from all the cool and wet. But among each of the six major Hawaiian islands, the "west side" has its own personality. Big resorts on the Big Island. Sea cliffs and funky towns on Kauai. The best beaches on Maui. Cowboys on Molokai, and a lifeline to the outside world on Lanai.

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After four days of one fabulous food event after another, what better way to close out the Hawaii Food & Wine Festival than on the beach at Aulani? Once again, attendees got to taste dishes from an amazing group of chefs, which included Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai, Marcel Vigneron, Susan Spicer, Mourad Lahlou and Seamus Mullen.

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Ai Miyazato pocketed $255,000 going 12-under and winning by four shots during April’s inaugural LPGA LOTTE Championship at Ko Olina Golf Club. I rinse 18 bucks work of logo’d balls on a single par-3, with a short iron. Or make that 8-iron, a successful 8-iron. Drop zones are for wimps, and the website tells me "par is a great score" on this hole – with my one-putt that makes my snowman simply pathetic.

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If you met each other waiting to ride Space Mountain and squealed "yes" as he proposed in front of Cinderella Castle, this is your kind of wedding site. Opened just last year, the Disney resort may not have audio-animatronic dolphins in the lagoon, but its river pool and kids’ clubs make it a natural for bridal couples with families and young’ns in tow.

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