Below is a list of these newer hot spots for Hawaiiana in the Bay Area, in chronological order of their debut please see the accompanying photo gallery for more details on their cuisine and concert calendars.ġ.
In the last two years alone, six such oases have opened from Guerneville to San Jose, with intriguingly varied menus and ambiance. and Hawaiian jazz-pop headliner Nathan Aweau at 4 p.m.īut after the festivals end, the Bay Area will still have plenty of places to express its affection for island-style food, music and culture. Sunday's lineup, for example, features the Mango Kingz at 1:45 p.m., local slack key/falsetto artist Steven Espaniola at 3:15 p.m. Jeanne Cooper/SFGate Show More Show LessĪ similarly sizable crowd will patronize the 41st Nihonmachi Street Festival in San Francisco's Japantown over the same weekend, where the two stages of entertainment also include a hefty portion of Hawaiiana. Slack key guitarist Steven Espaniola plays most Thursday nights, occasionally with impromptu hula by local dancers such as Kia'i Maurille (pictured). Now one year old, their Noelani's Bar and Lounge on Laurel Street in downtown San Carlos offers traditional and contemporary Hawaiian music several nights a week. Jeanne Cooper/SFGate Show More Show Less 14 of33īradley Wills of Kaneohe and Noelani Maestrini (then Santangelo) of Hilo met at College of Notre Dame as teenagers in 1997 and over the years talked about creating a Hawaiian-style oasis on the Peninsula. Noelani's co-founder Noelani Maestrini, a former bar manager at Piacere and Il Caprino, is responsible for the San Carlos lounge's specialty cocktails such as the award-winning Volcanic Eruption ($11), made with Skyy pineapple vodka, pomegranate puree, hibiscus syrup, pineapple and lime, with a rim of li hing mui, thesalted plum-sugar combination popular in the islands.) A side of freshly made taro chips ($5) complements many beverages.
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