Fête Hawaii

We are closed Labor Day for a day of rest. See everyone bright and early tomorrow!

It was a great Friday on Big Island cooking for Culinary Classic. 🧑‍🍳 🥪 🍷

Chef 🧑‍🍳 getting ready for a windy 🌬️ service tonight!

Back for tonight!
Kauai prawns 🍤 with local curry leaves, sautéed in fragrant coconut oil, with toasted coconut, black pepper and lime!

Korean Fried Chicken 🍗 sandwich 🥪 for lunch day!

Some super delicious 🍷 additions to our list tonight!!!

Sunday specials 🍽️!!!

Mahi Saltimboca with local Mahi- pan roasted and wrapped in prosciutto, crispy potatoes, macnut kale pesto, crispy capers, candied lemon zest and kale chips

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Pork ragu 🍝
Rigatoni, whey-braised pork, kale,tomato compote, house ricotta,Parmigiano-Reggiano, Pecorino Romano







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Come on down to this weekend for a celebration of our Brooklyn chef friends’ recent award for best cookbook in the U.S. Foodways category. We will be featuring and Japanese and Jewish respective heritages in a dish they call “okonomi-latke”—a perfect hapa pancake that is crisp-chewy and full of local cabbage, bean sprouts, and potatoes, then topped with cured Kona Kanpachi, smoked trout roe, crème fraîche, and chives.

Making ice cream sandwiches 🥪 🍦 for Sunday dinner special tonight

🥩 Local grass-fed grilled bavette, 🍴 Tutu’s kochujang sauce, ginger-scallion fried rice, sunny local egg, 🍳 Asian pear slaw

Now Open on Sundays. Doors 🚪 open at 4pm 🧑‍🍳

Happy Birthday to our summer intern! (And full time niece ) Olivia !!! (Happy birthday to her brother Noah, too. 🎂

We are now open Sundays! -

We are now open Sundays! We’ve been wrestling with the idea of opening our doors regularly on Sundays for a while … and we’ve finally pulled the lever. Tonight -We are now open on Sunday evenings! Doors open at 4pm and last seating is 9pm.

We’ve added some tasty new wine 🍷 🍾 to the list!

It’s the second anniversary of 👩‍🍳 Chef day ! June 29th 2022 fireworks 💥

Fingers crossed will make it a free parking day in Chinatown 🚙 🚙 👮🏼‍♀️

Sundays at Fête! 🍽️ Starting July 7th, we will be open for dinner on Sundays. Make reservations now

⚡️ Power is back!!! Chef and Chef are mad prepping for a limited menu tonight!

We open at 5:30 🕠

Update #4 The saga continues…
Still no power on our side of Chinatown. It briefly came on twice today but didn’t last very long.

We are closed today!

Update #3 The saga continues…
Still no power on our side of Chinatown.

We are closed for dinner 🍽️

The saga continues…
Still no power on our side of Chinatown. Hopefully we can open for dinner 🍽️

For the 2nd time in 7 days, Power outage.
We are closed for the rest of today.

Excited to be included again with the inflight food offerings on ✈️ 🍲

Power is out 💡!!! We are closed tonight. Hopefully we will reopen in the morning with some brand spanking new specials with some cool 🍷

Sunday is photo and taste tester day 🍰 🍪

Rose Veal Schnitzel is back as a special! 🐄 . Warm German potato salad, gribiche, sautéed kale

Snacks time!!! Featuring our Fête Spreads, tartare, and chicken liver mousse. All are served with our house made sourdough bread 🍞

Chef and Sous Chef Kira Swope finishing last minute touches for tomorrow’s Sunday Protege Brunch 🍳 🧇

Almost sold out!!!

Spring Brunch Protégé Series | Sunday, June 2nd
Celebrate Fête’s young chefs 🧑‍🍳 with its third edition of our “Sunday Protégé Series”. This time around, we are featuring Kira Swope, Fête’s current Sous-Chef. She has dreamed up a fun, unique brunch to highlight some of her favorite ingredients raised and grown on the islands. This brunch pays tribute to her parents’ music and DJ roots with a portion of ticket sales benefitting Hawaii Public Radio - a network of listener-supported, public radio 📻 stations.

Limited tickets 🎟️ can be reserved on our OpenTable link in our profile (2nd link)

To Start:

Deviled Eggs
cold-smoked mahi bottarga, chives

Seasonal Pickles
shish*to peppers, beets, snow peas

Russian cucumber fennel salad

Watermelon
Ume salt, fine evoo

Furikake Everything Bagel
smoked kanpachi “whitefish” salad, local pepper chili crisp, watercress

Main Course (choice of):

Korean Fried Chicken + Waffle
Tempura battered twice fried chicken, kochujang sauce, toasted sesame mochi waffle, kimchi-honey compound butter, Kira’s kimchi

Reuben Benedict
Mauka Meats sausage, sauerkraut, Breadshop rye, tomato “thousand island” choron sauce, half-sour keiki cuke pickles

Big Glory Bay Salmon “Cacio e Uova” Ravioli
pasta verdi, smoked trout roe, chives

Sweet Land Farm chèvre and herb souffle
uttered French breakfast radishes, wilted greens and mushroom salad with tarragon brown butter vinaigrette

Dessert:

Îles Flottantes
Poached meringue, brown butter anglaise, strawberry guava compote, popped buckwheat “popcorn”, buckwheat honey drizzle

🍽️ On the special’s menu tonight! Mahi 🐟 Achiote with a tomatillo salsa, confit oki potato, grilled carrot, orange supreme, crispy haystack, pickled onions, and cilantro

Just desserts 🍨 🍮!!!
Lilikoi cheese flan (a cheesecake/flan hapa baby) with guava confiture

Negroni float: , Campari, sweet vermouth, 🍉 syrup 🥥 La croix, & vanilla ice cream

Just arrived!!! Some of our absolute faves- 🍷

We will be pouring Susucaru Rosso by the glass starting tonight.