Alan Wong has a restaurant again. After six years away, the chef who defined modern Hawaiian fine dining has opened a new restaurant inside The Kahala Hotel & Resort on Oahu. Hotel guests got first access on March 25, and the restaurant opens to the general public on April 8.
This is the biggest restaurant opening in Hawai’i in years, and it is not close. Wong’s King Street restaurant was the single most acclaimed dining room in the state for over a decade. When it closed during COVID, the loss felt permanent. It wasn’t.
The new space replaces Hoku’s, The Kahala’s signature fine dining restaurant for 30 years, which had its final service on February 20. Same room, different era.
