Living in Hawaii, most of us get the same questions from visitors. They all want to know where they can go to dinner. However, we need to know whether they just want to eat, or if they want a dining experience.
Some people like a place with decor and ambiance. Along with it, they get menus describing each portion with many superlatives.
For example, the vegetables specify where they are grown, how they are picked, and placed on a bed of some special herb that comes from still another place.
The steak dishes give the entire history of the steak from the time the cattle were born to when it gets on your plate.
In a fine dining restaurant, reading the menu is like hanging around a library.
But for those who just want to eat, I send them to my kind of place.
(Letter published in the Maui News July 30, 2010, and Lahaina News August 12, 2010)
About Me
- Maui Blackie Gadarian
- Maui Blackie Gadarian is a living legend on the island of Maui, Hawaii. 91 year-old machinist, owner Blackie's Machine Shop - Lahaina, Blackie's Boat Yard Lahaina and Newport Beach, California. Former owner Blackie's Bar, jazz club and restaurant Lahaina 1981 to 1995. Irascible writer of pithy letters to local publications. Maui Blackie Gadarian wears his trademark orange shirt all over the United States and Europe, from the back streets of Lahaina to the jazz clubs of Paris, verandas of yacht clubs and posh restaurants and hotels.