TGIFr!day by The Garden Island Newspaper

Week of Friday, December 18, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 51

Brennecke’s Beach Broiler

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

WAIMEA LIGHTED PARADE SET FOR SATURDAY

Mahalo to all for a Successful 2015 Holiday Fair Weekly at KCC Campus! Open as usual on Dec. 26th

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. HAPPY HOLIDAYS: Waimea Lighted Parade

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Brennecke’s Beach Broiler

6. BOOK REVIEW:

Christmas Carols for Ukulele

7. CHECK DA SCENE: Holiday Craft Fair

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY ‘OWED TO THE HONEY BEES’ 6 TO 8 P.M., GENERAL STORE AT HANALEI The Honey Bees Project presents new music video. Final Kauai screening before worldwide release on Utube “Owed to the Honey Bees” — in recognition of the crucial importance of our pollinators. www. beebuzzz.org ‘INHERIT THE WIND’ 7 P.M., KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL, ROOM R3 KPAC “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, directed by Dennis McGraw featuring the students of Kauai and Kapaa High School. Tickets $10. 651-2417

NORDIC WALKING COURSE 8:30 TO 9:30 A.M., LIHUE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Improve your health, balance and strength with Nordic Walking (walking with poles). Free for seniors 55 and up. 651-9118

‘INHERIT THE WIND’ 7 P.M., KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL, ROOM R3 KPAC “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, directed by Dennis McGraw featuring the students of Kauai and Kapaa High School. Tickets $10. 651-2417

HOLIDAY LIGHT SPECTACULAR 6:30 P.M., KUKUI GROVE CENTER Holiday Light Spectacular at the Place to Be. Light and music show. Free.

CHRISTMAS WISHES 7:30 P.M., KAUAI COMMUNITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The Kauai Chorale’s Christmas program. Tickets may be purchased in advanced for $12 and $15 at the door. Student tickets $5. Call 822-5633 or 377-1882 for more information.

LIVE NATIVITY 6 TO 8 P.M., CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH

SUNDAY ‘BIRTHDAY OF A KING’ 7 P.M., KING’S CHAPEL Christmas production. CHRISTMAS WISHES 5 P.M., ST. REGIS HOTEL BALLROOM The Kauai Chorale’s Christmas program. $15 at the door, students tickets $5. 822-5633 ‘INHERIT THE WIND’ 3 P.M., KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL, ROOM R3 KPAC “Inherit the Wind” featuring the students of Kauai and Kapaa High School. Tickets $10. 651-2417

MON TUE HOLIDAY LIGHT SPECTACULAR 6:30 P.M., KUKUI GROVE CENTER Holiday Light Spectacular at the Place to Be. Light and music show. Free.

LIVE NATIVITY 6 TO 8 P.M., KALAHEO MISSIONARY CHURCH HOLIDAY LIGHT SPECTACULAR 6:30 P.M., KUKUI GROVE CENTER Holiday Light Spectacular at the Place to Be. Light and music show. Free.

LIVING NATIVITY PAGEANT 6:30 P.M. CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC Community singing, refreshments ‘UNGRINCHED’ 7 P.M., ALOHA CHURCH Family musical based on book by Dr. Seuss.

‘BIRTHDAY OF A KING’ 7 P.M., KING’S CHAPEL “Birthday of a King,” Christmas production. HOLIDAY LIGHT SPECTACULAR 6:30 P.M., KUKUI GROVE CENTER Holiday Light Spectacular at the Place to Be. Light and music show. Free. CRAFT SHOW 9 A.M., CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC Waimea Christmas Parade 6 p.m., Waimea Town LIVE NATIVITY 6 TO 8 P.M., CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH

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HOLIDAY LIGHT SPECTACULAR 6:30 P.M., KUKUI GROVE CENTER Holiday Light Spectacular at the Place to Be. Light and music show. Free. Live Nativity: 6 to 8 p.m., Kalaheo Missionary Church.

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL 7 P.M., KILAUEA PARISH HALL Chant and sing songs of praise with sacred Kirtan. Christmas treats will be served. HOLIDAY LIGHT SPECTACULAR 6:30 P.M., KUKUI GROVE CENTER Holiday Light Spectacular at the Place to Be. Light and music show. Free.

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Tis the season for lights Waimea Lighted Parade Saturday

he streets of Waimea will be filled with more than 30 lighted floats on Saturday as the 21st annual Waimea Lighted Christmas Parade welcomes the holiday season. “It’s just a small-town parade and everything is from within Waimea,” said Esther Estes, event organizer. “The (West Kauai Business and Professional Association)

wants it to be the last chance of the year that Waimea businesses can make money.” Floats from Waimea businesses, PMRF, DuPont Pioneer, and others from around the island will be lined with lights and will parade down the center of Waimea town starting at 6 p.m. Marching groups and music will also be part of the parade. Estes said the Waimea Lighted Christmas Parade doesn’t ever have an overall theme, that’s left up to the individual floats. Usually

Nativity themes dominate the parade. The parade is about an hour. “It’s really a lot of fun and a lot of people come in,” Estes said. Restaurants and grocery stores will be open a little later that day. Estes said that most people usually show up early on Saturday to snag a good spot for the parade, but some spectators claim their territory as early as Friday. “Friday morning people

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are reserving their spots along the street,” Estes said. “Nobody takes their chair, everybody knows that’s where they’re going to sit at the parade.” The absolute latest Estes recommends arriving in Waimea for the parade is 4:30 p.m. Saturday — and at that point she predicts that you’ll be battling traffic. “It’s just like the Lihue parade in that lots of people come out,” she said. After the last twinkling float clears Waimea’s town center, an after party will

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The Showtime Characters acknowledge spectators during the 2014 Waimea Lighted Christmas Parade.

kick off at Hofgaard Park, featuring country music by Los Kauaianos. There will be free snacks available. “All the businesses in Waimea donate snacks and drinks for the after party,” Es-

tes said. “So there are cookies and coffee, things like that.” The entire event is free. “Come out and enjoy the parade, enjoy the music, and support Waimea town,” Estes said.

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Falcon Valeria, a server at Brenneke’s Beach Broiler, shows off two plates from the kitchen.

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN THE HEART OF HANALEI BAY

f Hoku Gordines, manager over Brennekes Beach Broiler, can get just 10,868 more of his Famous Mai Tais out to his customers, he may have accomplished something no other restaurant has ever accomplished. That’s how many more Mai Tais he needs to reach the 1 million sold mark. For the past 31 years, Brenneke’s has been selling Mai Tais right on the beach to people from all over the world, he said. Gordines estimated that by 2016, someone in his restaurant will walk away with the grand prize of not only having drank the one millionth Mai Tai, but an array of prizes that include a two-night stay at Koa Kea Resort in Poipu Beach. “It’s world famous because of this,” Gordines said smiling as he pointed to an open window that displayed palm trees and a view of Poipu Beach. “You drink Mai Tais, you go home and you tell your friends.” That’s what Brenneke’s

The happy hour menu has an array of pupu to choose from like these buffalo chicken wings.

is. An upstairs open-air atmosphere where you can sit back, listen to great music and get in some nice beach views. Happy hour is from 3 to 5 p.m. Brenneke’s offers live musical entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights, from 8:30 to 11, That and the fact that Brenneke’s is one of the only places on the island that offers a reverse happy hour from 8:30 p.m. to closing. “It stimulates a little bit of nightlife and a little bit of fun for locals and visitors

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alike,” Gordines said. “We are consistent and we just happened to have a cool location.” But Gordines said Mai Tais and happy hours aren’t all Brenneke’s offers. Aside from the beach views, as it sits right next to Poipu Beach Park, the dishes are to die for. Just ask server Falcon Valeria. He recommends every pupu item on the happy hour menu. But if happy hour pupus aren’t your thing and you’re looking for a full-on meal, enjoy lunch or

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a light dinner, too. Brenneke’s lunch and light dinner menu includes classic American favorites such a Burger Deluxe and a Chicken Breast Sandwich but also includes local Hawaiian dishes like Ahi Sandwich and BBQ Kalua Pork Sandwiches. Prices range between $13-18. “Even the veggie burgers are delicious,” Valeria said. Brenneke’s is a family owned business and Gordines’ 64-year-old father, Bob French, comes in as much as possible. And his grandfather before him, Clyde French, held the business once, too. Even

Brenneke’s offers lunch and light dinners such as this veggie burger.

Gordines’ children Lilia, Reyna and Xavier stop in from time to time. “That’s just how life is here on Kauai and for me here at the restaurant,” Gordines said. “It’s not so much that

they come and visit me all the time, it’s just so family oriented. It’s a unique place. The people in the restaurant, the location, our surroundings in beautiful Kauai that make it so unique.”

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Brenneke’s Beach Broiler manager Hoku Gordines stands in front of one of the open windows.

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andi Kato-Klutke of the Kauai County Farm Bureau said activity was high when the doors opened to the annual Holiday Fair Saturday at the Kauai Community College. “We were busy,” Kato-Klutke said. “Most of the items we had sold out quickly. There were so many people waiting, we opened early and the people came in.” The traditional farmers market was enhanced with the addition of Kauai Made and Kauai Grown vendors to help shoppers fill their holiday shopping lists with bargains galore and appetites being whetted by

a circle of food trucks, some being in addition to the regular vendors. Melissa Sugai of the Kauai Made and Kauai Grown program said visitors made short work of the scavenger hunt forms and the shopping bag premiums went quickly. Visitors armed with the forms sought out vendors listed on the form and their successful finds were rewarded with a qualifying signature. A completed form earned a premium. The next event will be the Garden Fair hosted by the Kauai County Farm Bureau in the Spring at the Kauai Community College.

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