Last November, I polled readers and came up with the top 25 Oahu restaurants that were gone but not forgotten. The Willows topped the list, followed by Tahitian Lanai, Columbia Inn, Flamingo, John Dominis, Swiss Inn, Alan Wong’s, Fisherman’s Wharf, Canlis and Pearl City Tavern.
I keep reading that we need to entice more Japanese tourists to Hawaii. We keep sending delegation after delegation to Japan seeking answers. If we want more Japanese tourists to come here, we need to reinvent ourselves.