Kapalua Seafood Festival
A fitting finale for the 29th annual Kapalua Wine and Food Festival
The Kapalua Wine and Food Festival, in its 29th year, makes it one of the longest-running festivals of its kind. Coming up on SYT, a recap of the events and history of the festival. In the meantime, here's photos from the party to whet your appetite. The Kapalua Seafood Festival caps off the four-day festivities and features food from 13 top Maui restaurants.
The Kapalua Wine and Food Festival, in its 29th year, makes it one of the longest-running festivals of its kind. Coming up on SYT, a recap of the events and history of the festival. In the meantime, here's photos from the party to whet your appetite. The Kapalua Seafood Festival caps off the four-day festivities and features food from 13 top Maui restaurants.
Opakapaka sashimi with a seaweed salad and shallot-soy dressing, by Wolfgang Puck's Spago.
Spago chefs plating sweet and sour glazed fish in lettuce cups.
Kai Sushi Bar's hamachi tartare.
Peter Merriman's corn custards topped with smoked opah bits.
Maui Culinary Academy sashimi, mango slaw and Hawaiian chili dust.
Roy's Restaurant Maui Maui Cattle Company Beef Tataki with yamaimo and ponzu.
Banyan Tree's seared scallops with English peas and maitake mushroom risotto.
Ahi sashimi with purple sweet potato and tempura warabi.
Pineapple Grill's Kona Kampachi Tartar with summer herbs and li hing mui sauce.
I'O and Pacific'O Restaurants Kula beet tartare with Surfing Goat feta cheese and cumin-dusted plantain chips.
Capische? salmon crudo and tomato water ice.
Bev Gannon's crab, tomato, and avocado roll tower with shiso and wasabi vinaigrette.
All desserts by Chef Ashley of the Ritz Carlton, including this chocolate hazelnut crunch with peanut butter ice cream.
Salted caramel cheesecake with Upcountry strawberry compote.
Bread pudding.
Lilikoi chiffon cake.
Tiramisu.
Over a hundred different wines are poured at the Seafood Festival.
The Seafood Festival's stylish open air setting on the Beach House Lawn at the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua. (And yet, even after all that wine, no skinny dippers post-event!)
