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WEST SIDE STORIES . . . Crunch crispy gau gee and won tons from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Chinese Moon Festival at Wo Hing Museum, 858 Front St. in Lahaina. Admission is free. You may also buy moon cakes with fillings of taro, lotus root and red bean and watch Cantonese cooking demos.
Leoda’s Kitchen & Pie Shop in Olowalu has launched Thanksgiving Thursdays in an effort to countdown to the big turkey day. “Every Thursday now until the holiday, we do turkey dinners complete with stuffing, cranberry sauce and of course, pumpkin pie,” says Sarah Jordan-Polk, director of marketing for Na Hoaloha Ekolu group.
From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Plantation House in Kapalua will jump with its monthly Beats and Eats night, during which a fun pupu menu is prepared by Executive Chef Jojo Vasquez and music is spun by his wife, DJ Eliza, in the restaurant’s Bar Nineteen.
Those craving something a little more subdued may check out Plantation House’s monthly wine dinner. Come any night and savor five courses with four wines. This month, it’s Grgich Hills Estate of Napa Valley. Food highlights are crispy lilikoi won ton, Hokkaido scallop ceviche, crispy branzino, tournedos of beef and green-tea sponge cake. Cost is $105 with wines.
Alex Stanislaw, a veteran Maui chef who was a partner at Plantation House awhile back, has been named executive chef of the Sea House in Napili Bay.
Over the years, Stanislaw has received top honors such as Best Chef on Maui.” He’s also been featured in multiple cookbooks including “Great Chefs of Hawaii,” and has appeared on culinary and travel programs such as the “Rachael Ray Show” and Discovery Channel’s Great Chefs Series. “Being at the Sea House, I feel like I’ve come full circle,” says Stanislaw, who started his career at the former Kapalua Bay Hotel nearby. “It feels good to be back on the bay again, and I can’t imagine a more beautiful setting for the creation and enjoyment of great food.”
Fleetwood’s on Front St. is now open for dinner only with $1 oysters daily from 5 to 6 p.m. during happy hour. Live music starts at 6 p.m.
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Lahaina Grill is offering kamaaina specials the 25th of each month, including Friday and Oct. 25. Residents get 50 percent off all entrees. Just bring valid Hawaii ID.
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SHOP, IN THE NAME OF LOVE . . . It’s easy to be smitten with the Love Fest happening at Whole Foods Market in Kahului now with daily surprises, deals such as 25-cent coffee in September and giveaways of $500 gift cards each week until Nov. 3.
“We are looking forward to deepening our connections with customers and saying ‘thank you’ and ‘we love you’ during this special Love Fest season,” says Whole Foods Market’s executive vice president of operations, David Lannon.
Sometimes the best wine is a beer. But this will not be the case at the annual Hui No’eau Wailea Food & Wine Celebration that will have Chambers & Chambers Fine Wines merchants pouring some of the best vino in America.
Tickets are now on sale for the affair that will flow from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 14 at Hotel Wailea. Participants include from host restaurant Capische? to 5 Palms to Cuatro to Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Standard tickets are $150 and premium tickets are $275. Call 572-6560 or visit www.huinoeau.com/events.
Come meet “Under the Tuscan Sun” author Frances Mayes at Tamura’s Fine Wines & Spirits in Kahului from 5 to 7 today. She’ll sign bottles of her famous wines from Pensiero Pinot Grigio to Tondo Tondo Sangiovese to Toccare le Stella, a prosecco.