Farmers Market Specials (6/22 - 25) + Job's Fair this Sunday, 6/26

The Pig and the Lady team represented in New York at the Hawaiian Airlines Liberty Challenge, and it was a great time. We served over 3,000 mini-servings and it was great to represent Hawaii with Hawaiian Airlines as our sponsor. We also had some downtime to enjoy the city and we ate our way through the city. It was amazing. 

Also, don’t forget that we are also having a Job Fair this Sunday, June 26 at the restaurant. We are currently looking to fill several positions for both the restaurant and our upcoming, new location, Piggy Smalls. For more info on our Job's Fair, head over to our Careers page. In the meantime, here’s the recruitment video, produced by our partner Real Jobs Hawaii: 

We also want to give a shout out to sous chef Brandon Lee, who’s birthday is this week! The big guy has been with us since the very beginning and we are fortunate to have him on our team. So, if you dine with us this week, make sure to wish him happy birthday. 

Regarding our farmers markets this week, we are on our regular schedule:

Wednesday, June 22
Blaisdell, 4pm - 7pm

Thursday, June 23
Kailua, 5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, June 25
KCC, 7:30am - 11am

Here’s the Mama Le specials for the week: 

#MamaLeNoodle
BUN RIEU — crab meatballs, crab satay, pork shank, tomato, tofu, herbs, shiso, mint, banana blossom, ong choy, lemon balm, vermicelli noodles, shrimp & tamarind broth.

#MamaBanhMi
GRILLED PORK SHOULDER — grilled sliced pork shoulder patties, lettuce, nuoc mam vinaigrette

#MamaBun
GRILLED PORK JOWL & WATERMELON — summer salad of grilled pork shoulder, fresh watermelon, cucumbers, house pickles, ginger fish sauce, vermicelli noodles

As always, you can view the entire menu over at the Farmers Market page. 

Farmers Market Specials (6/8 - 11) + NYC Hawaiian Airlines Liberty Challenge + 2017 Hale Aina Award Nominations

This week, Chef Andrew and a team from The Pig and the Lady will travel to NYC to be a part of the Hawaiian Airlines Liberty Challenge hosted by New York Outrigger. It’s a free all-day festival promoting Hawaii with food, entertainment, outrigger canoeing and also the historic docking of the Hokulea, as it continues onward around the globe on its voyage. 

This is also great timing, because this also is the inaugural week of Chef Andrew’s contribution to the first class menu on select flights of Hawaiian Airlines as part of their Featured Chef Series, showcasing some of Hawaii’s most exciting star chefs. Check out the video below that showcases Andrew’s inspirations from the environment around him and his cultural upbringing. 

In other big news, the Hale Aina Awards presented by Honolulu Magazine nominees have just been announced and we are fortunate and honored to be nominated in 5 categories this year! 

We were fortunate to win 3 awards last year, and we hope to have a better showing this year. It’s all very exciting because it is the general public that votes for the winners. The nominees, the categories and the ballots are available at www.honolulumagazine.com. Voting ends June 30 and winners are announced at a ceremony in mid-September! If you love what we are doing, then we would love your support and vote for The Pig and the Lady!

In the meantime, back to our farmers market schedule and specials. We are on our regular schedule this week: 

Wednesday, June 8
Blaisdell, 4pm - 7pm

Thursday, June 9
Kailua, 5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, June 11
KCC, 7:30am - 11:00am

Here are the Mama Le specials for the week: 

#MamaLeNoodles
HU TIEU KHO — A DRY VERSION OF HU TIEU with char siu, quail egg, ground pork, chrysanthemum, black & red vinegar dressing, pork seafood broth on the side.

#MamaSpecial
GRILLED PORK WITH WATERMELON SALAD OVER VERMICELI NOODLES — summer salad of grilled pork shoulder, fresh watermelon, cucumbers, house pickles, ginger fish sauce, vermicelli noodles

#MamaRice
PANDAN BAKED CHICKEN — whole chicken legs marinated with lemon grass, kaffir, pandan leaves, served with rice 

As always, you can view the entire menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

Farmers Market Specials (6/1 - 4) + The Pig and the Lady in NYC next week

Last week, Chef Andrew participated in the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival’s Hulikau Beach Cookout and it was a lot of fun. It was held at the Kahala Hotel & Resort and he joined the likes of Chefs  Alan Wong, Ed Kenney, Elmer Guzman, George Mavrothalassitis, Lee Anne Wong, Mark "Gooch" Noguchi, Michelle Karr-Ueoka, Roy Yamaguchi, Vikram Garg, and Wayne Hirabayashi. The Pig and the Lady continues to support the local culinary arts scene and look out for future collaborations this summer and fall, including the big Hawaii Food and Wine Festival main event in October. 

In the meantime, Chef Andrew will be traveling with a small team next week to New York City to participate in the Hawaiian Airlines Liberty Challenge — Hōkūleʻa and her crew welcome the public to tour the canoe and participate in educational programming during the Liberty Festival on June 11th from 10 am to 5 pm at Pier 26, Hudson River Park. The free festival is part of the Hawaiian Airlines Liberty Challenge that hosts one of the most competitive outrigger canoe races in the world. It also features performers and artisans who showcase the artistry and traditions of the Pacific Islands. 

The Pig and the Lady will be there as a Hawaiian Airlines promo to also kick off Chef Andrew’s Hawaiian Airlines menu that will be served in first class. Wish Chef Andrew and his team well for their upcoming trip to the Big Apple!

Meanwhile, we will be on our regular farmers market schedule, per usual. Highlights of the menu include:

#MamaNoodles
MI VIT TIEM — roasted marinated duck leg with choi sum, shiitake, egg noodles, green onions 

#MamaBanhMi
SPICY MEATBALL — pork and jicama, thai basil tomato sauce, fried garlic

#MamaRice
BUN BO NAM BO — rice noodles, stir fried beef w/ onions and garlic

Here’s the schedule for the week:

Wednesday, June 1
Blaisell, 4pm - 7pm

Thursday, June 2
Kailua, 5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, June 4
KCC, 7:30am - 11am

As always, you can check out the full menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

Farmers Market Specials (5/25 - 28) + Piggy Smalls Opens this September!

Well, the official announcement is out! The Pig & the Lady is opening a second location! We are opening in the old Kua’Aina space in Ward Village with a scheduled opening of September this year. Called PIGGY SMALLS, this new iteration will be open 7 days a week, and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu will consist of some of our best of items from the Chinatown restaurant, with expanded breakfast items including toasts, house-made jams, soft-poached eggs, pastries, breakfast pho and an assortment of pickled items. 

PIGGY SMALLS will also offer coffees, teas and juices, and the bar will focus mainly on beer and wine. The soft serve, popular at the Chinatown location, will also be served at the new location — and it will be available “to go!” Also, expect some special weekend brunch menus as well, as PIGGY SMALLS establishes its footprint at Ward and the Kaka'ako area.

We’ll also be making announcements throughout the summer on the progress of the new location and details of the eventual opening. We are quite excited! Check out Honolulu Magazine’s article about PIGGY SMALLS for more info. 

In the meantime, back to our farmers market schedule and specials for the week — We are on our regular schedule:

Wednesday, May 25
Blaisdell, 4 - 7pm

Thursday, May 26
Kailua, 5 - 7:30pm

Saturday, May 28
KCC, 7 - 11:30am

Specials this week include the following:

#MamaNoodle
BUN MANG VIT — poached duck, shiitake, bamboo, herbs of banana blossom, ong choy, mint & rau ram, vermicelli noodles, ginger fish sauce, pork & chicken broth

PHO GA KHO — hand cut rice noodle served chilled pho spiced chicken, fried shallots, bean sprouts, aromatic herbs, sesame/garlic vinaigrette

#MamaRice
THIT KHO — Vietnamese style caramelized and braised pork shoulder with eggs

#MamaBanhmi
KALBI BANH MI — bbq korean short ribs, sautéed kimchee + shoyu pickles + namul sprouts

As always, you can view the full menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

Farmers Market Specials (5/18 - 21) + Special Dinner & Wine Pairings Event May 23

The word has been trickling out, and we will have an official announcement this week regarding the opening of our second restaurant this fall! This is all very exciting (and a little scary) and we cannot wait to give you all the full details soon. Erika Engle, the intrepid and stalwart business reporter for the Honolulu Star Advertiser's Business section, will have all the details in her next column shortly, so stay tuned for that. 

In the meantime, we want to thank the RiseHI team for inviting Chef Andrew and his brother Alex to participate in their “They Don’t Ship to Hawaii” Kama’aina Creators & Doers conference last Friday. It was a little nerve racking for them to present the history of The Pig & the Lady from pop-up to farmers market booth to brick-and-mortar in a succinct 18 minutes, but they did their best and they had a great time. 

Before we go into our usual farmers market announcements, we want to remind you of a very special event that we are holding at the restaurant next Monday, May 23. We are doing a 5-course dinner and wine pairing and partnering with Chamber & Chamber Wine Merchants for this special dinner event. Check out the event info and menu below:

To make a reservation, call us at (808) 585-8255 or visit our Reservations page. 

Now, back to farmers market business! We are on our regular schedule, per usual, this week: Wednesday, May 18, Blaisdell (4pm-7pm) / Thursday, May 19, Kailua (5pm-7:30pm) / Saturday, May 21, KCC (7:30am-11am). 

Mama Le specials include the following: 

Mama Le's HU TIEU MY THO, a farmers market favorite, is back this week on the menu!

#MamaNoodle
HU TIEU MY THO — pork loin, kahuku shrimp, quail egg, dried shrimp, fresh cut noodles, crab fat tomato sauce

PHO GA KHO — hand cut rice noodle served chilled pho spiced chicken, fried shallots, bean sprouts, aromatic herbs, sesame/garlic vinaigrette

#MamaBanhMi
BUN CHA BANH MI -- vietnamese “hamburger” (hanoi style grilled patty pork), nuoc mam, pickled veggies

You can view the entire menu over at the farmers market menu page. 

Farmers Market Specials (5/11 - 14) + RiseHI's Kama'aina Creators & Doers Conference this Friday, 5/13

Aloha, friends, ohana and patrons! Before we highlight this week’s farmers market offerings, we want to announce that Chef Andrew Le and his brother, general manager and farmers market director Alex Le, will be participating in the RiseHI’s THEY DON'T SHIP TO HAWAII: Showcasing Kama'aina Creators & Doers, a conference showcasing local entrepreneurs and makers who are fighting the good fight in innovating and in the forefront of the creative industries in Hawaii. This event takes place on Friday, May 13, 5:30pm - 9pm at Next Door. 

Chef Andrew and Alex, who will be doing a presentation called “From Pop-Up to King St.”, where they discuss the evolution of The Pig and the Lady with a video presentation, photos and personal anecdotes to this unique success story. Oh, and once the conference is done, the Pig team will be serving heavy pupus for all participants too!

To read up more on the speakers and purchase tickets to the event, click here. 

Back to regular business: We’re on our regular farmers market schedule — Wednesday, May 11 (Blaisdell, 4-7pm) / Thursday, May 12 (Kailua, 5-7:30pm) / Saturday, May 14 (KCC, 7:30-11am). Here are the specials for the week:

#MamaNoodles
PORCHETTA BUN BO HUE — pork belly/porchetta, brisket, calamansi, satay, fresh cut noodles, lemongrass

#MamaBanhMi
PORCHETTA FRENCH DIP — smoked onions, chili sambal-hoisin, maggi butter, pork pate, house pickles

#MamaRice
HAINAN CHICKEN —  poached free range chicken, rice cooked with chicken broth, variety of three sauces (shoyu-sesame, ginger scallion, garlic chili fish sauce)

As always, you can check the full menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

Plus, one last thing — We are going to make a big (VERY BIG) formal announcement. Very, very soon. Stay tuned!!!!

Farmers Market Specials (5/4 - 7) + LCC Fundraiser, Mililani Craft Fair & Mothers Day Brunch

We are on our regular schedule for farmers market this week. 

Wednesday, May 4
Blaisdell, 4 - 7pm

Thursday, May 5
Kailua, 5 - 7:30pm

Saturday, May 7
KCC, 7:30 - 11am

Specials for farmers market menu include PHO SOT VANG (Pho cooked with red wine) and a unique take on our BO KHO (Vietnamese beef stew) but we are substituting it with LAMB. Check out the other specials for the week, courtesy of Mama Le: 

#MAMANOODLE
PHO SOT VANG — beef shank braised in red wine, pickled chili, aromatic spices, fried shallot, green onion & cilantro

LAMB KHO —  braised lamb shanks, vietnamese style lemongrass, carrots, leeks, tomato, herbs, fresh cut noodles

#MAMARICE
CLAYPOT KONA SHRIMP & PORK BELLY — caramelized slow cooked pork belly with kona shrimp

#MAMABANHMI
SAIGON PATE CHAUX — char siu pork belly, Vietnamese ham, head cheese, chicken liver pate, fried poached egg, served between a flaky puff party with ground pork & pate in the center

SAT ONLY
PATE CHAUX WITH BRISKET GRAVY & FRIED EGG BREAKFAST — flaky puff pastry with ground pork & pate, biscuit gravy, fried egg

As always, the full menu can be seen over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

In the meantime, we are also going to be at some special events this week. Check out the schedule below: 

Saturday, May 7:

L’ulu: Leeward’s Culinary Gala, a benefit for LCC's Culinary Arts Program —  6 to 9 pm at THE PEARL, 96-045 Ala Ike, Pearl City, HI — Chef Andrew will be participating in this fundraiser for the LCC culinary arts program. Other chefs and eateries participating are Chef Chai, Lucky Belly, MW, Nalo Farms, REAL, a gastropub and many more. To purchase tickets, click here. 

Mililani Craft Fair — 4 to 9pm at Rec 5, 95-1101 Ainamakua Drive, Mililani, HI 96789 — We will have a food booth at the Spring Craft Fair in Mililani Town! Swing by ad grab a banh mi or pho and support a good cause! For more info, click here. 

Sunday, May 8:

Mother’s Day Brunch at The Pig and the Lady! We will be open this Sunday for Mother’s Day! You can make a reservation anytime between 10am - 2pm and order our special prix fixe menu and celebrate with the matriarch in your family! For more details, head over to our Mother’s Day page. 

Farmers Market Specials (4/27 - 30) + Honolulu Museum of Art China Exhibit + Plastic Fantastic @ Art After Dark

On the occasion of the Honolulu Museum of Arts’ new exhibition, “Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China, 3rd–6th Centuries,” Chef Brandon along with other Chinese American chefs, will be making Chinese inspired dishes for the exhibit’s opening. Congrats to Brandon for celebrating his roots via China’s rich cultural history. 

We continue our partnership with the museum by also serving food at the upcoming Art After Dark this Friday. Entitled “Plastic Fantastic,” the slogan for this edition of Art After Dark is “Saving the ocean one piece of plastic at a time.” The event takes place from 6pm - 9pm on Friday, April 29. 

For the farmers market, we are on our regular schedule as usual: Wednesday at Blaisdell (4pm - 7pm) / Thursday at Kailua (5pm - 7:30pm) / Saturday at KCC (7:30am - 11am)

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been serving a special “Saigon Pate Chaux,” which was a big hit. We are expanding this French theme with our Banh Mi menu this week. 

Photo provided by @konaish

#MamaBanhMi
LE CRAN-BRIE — smoked turkey, brie, cranberry sauce , Lettuce

LE SARDINES — fresh mackerel sautéed with a tomato sauce and onions, house pickles, pok pok chilis

LE SAIGON PATE CHAUX — char siu pork belly, Vietnamese ham, head cheese, chicken liver pate, fried poached egg, served between a flaky puff party with ground pork & pate in the center

Photo provided by @konaish

#MamaNoodle
MI QUANG — pork belly, lobster balls, fish tofu, spare ribs, chicken, turmeric noodles

As always, check out the full menu over at the farmers market menu page. 

Zagat's FOODWAYS w/ Jessica Sanchez featuring Chef Andrew and The Pig and the Lady

In the season finale of Foodways, host Jessica Sanchez makes a trip to the 50th State to visit Chef Andrew Le and dine at his restaurant, The Pig and The Lady. He runs the trendy restaurant with his mother, and together they have helped put a new wave of Hawaiian Cuisine on the culinary radar. 

Join Jessica Sanchez as she says "Aloha" to Andrew's way of life, and reflects on the 10 meals that she's tried throughout the season. Be sure to check out the other episodes of Foodways, and subscribe to Zagat on Youtube. 

Farmers Market Specials (4/13 - 16) + Join us for Mothers Day Brunch on May 8

Hu Tieu Ga Ca with Pate Chaud is this week's Mama Le's noodle soup special at the farmers market. 

For this week, we are sticking to our regular farmers market schedule. Here are this week’s Mama Le specials:

#MamaNoodleSoup
HU TIEU GA CA w/ PATE CHAUD — fish and steamed chicken, pork cracklings, shallots, fresh cut noodles in pork broth + baked pork pastry

#MamaBanhMi
GRILLED BUN CHA PORK BELLY BANH MI — hanoi style grilled fatty pork, pickled vegetables, nuoc mam vinaigrette

#MamaRice
SPARERIBS RAGOUT — viet-french style stew w/ spare ribs, peas, carrots, potatoes

As always, you can view this week’s schedule and entire menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

In other news, have you made your Mother’s Day brunch plans yet? Then, come and join us for this special occasion, as we celebrate the matriarchs in our family. We will be open on Sunday, May 8, and serving a special prix fixe brunch to celebrate this auspicious day! 

$49 per adult, $25 for kids under the age of 8. Reserve your seats today by calling (808) 585-8255 or making your reservation online via Open Table (make sure to choose May 8 as your reservation date). We have spots open every half hour from 10am - 2pm on May 8. 

Head over to our Mother’s Day page to view the entire menu. 

Finally, Chef Andrew and his family are going to take a quick getaway/research trip (with his wife Teri and little Oliver accompanying him) to Los Angeles and Seattle. Wish them luck and hopefully, they will be able to pace themselves in eating lots of meals over the next few days! 

This is all in service to our “next concept,” which we can’t reveal yet. But, stay tuned… 

This Week's Farmers Market Schedule (4/5 - 8) & the Next PGC Fundraiser on 4/24

We're back with the second in our series to benefit Pacific Gateway Center (PGC) and our exciting, newest initiative, Nā Kūpuna Makamae Center, a resource and training center for our beloved Kūpuna!  Your participation will help with an inspiring challenge grant that doubles each gift and makes every $1.00 become $2.00!

Ooh la la!  Enjoy traditional savories of France with those special Andrew Le Southeast Asian infusion flavorful touches. It’s happening Sunday, April 24 and we will have two seatings, 11am and 12:45pm! To view the menu and book your seat, head over to the Eventbrite page. 

In the meantime, we’re on our regular schedule this week at the farmers market — Wednesday at Blaisdell; Thursday at Kailua; Saturday at KCC. This week’s specials include the following:

#MamaNoodle
LAMB MAZEMEN — slow cooked lamb, roasted peanut-chili satay, fermented mustard cabbage, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, cilantro, tokyo negi, temomi noodles

#MamaBanhMi
BANH MI CHA CA LA VONG — local fish marinated in turmeric & galangal, scallions and dill

#MamaRice
CLAYPOT SWAI & SHRIMP — caramelized and glazed swai, shrimp slow-cooked in a claypot

To check out the full menu, head over the Farmers Market Menu page. 

This Week's Farmers Market Schedule + Noodle Bar -- 3/30 - 4/2

We are expanding the noodle soup menu at the farmers market this week, similar to our tried and true “Noodle Bar” pop-up that we would do back in the pop-up days of The Pig and the Lady. This concept is still very popular because it’s just more of Mama Le’s home-cooked goodness and an expansion of the Pho options. Here’s the following options that we are serving as part of Noodle Bar/Farmers Markets this week: 

FREE RANGE CHICKEN PHO
BEEF BRISKET & TENDONS PHO
HANOI STYLE RIB EYE PHO
OX TAIL PHO
GRILLED PORK JOWL PHO
FARMERS PHO

That’s a lot of Pho-goodness, especially now that the weather is getting a little chilly this week. But, there will also be a revolving door on one noodle soup and this week’s social is Mama Le’s BUN RIEU (tomato broth, and crab meat, banana blossoms, shredded ong choy, and rice vermicelli noodles).  This is a heavenly noodle soup that is definitely a favorite with our hardcore patrons. 

As for the rest of the specials, here they are: 

#MamaRice
CLAYPOT PORK & SHRIMP — caramelized pork belly with shrimp, cooked with coconut, brown sugar, ginger

#MamaBanhMi
GRILLED KALBI BANH MI — grilled shortribs, sauteed kimchee, namul bean sprouts, cilantro

As usual, we are on our regular farmers market schedule with Wednesdays at Blaisdell, Thursdays at Kailua and Saturday morning at KCC. To check out the full menu, head over the the Farmers Market Menu page. 

This Week's Farmers Market Schedule -- 3/23 - 26 + We are Hiring and Book your Private Event with Us

The Pig and the Lady is hiring! We are looking for cooks and front of the house staffing. If you are interested in working with us and being part of an exciting environment, as well as contributing to a highly regarded, award-winning restaurant, then apply! We have several positions that need to be filled, ranging from bartenders, waiters, to food runners and prep cooks, even a sous chef. For more info and to apply, head over the our Careers page. 

Also, planning your next private event or office party? Then consider booking your event at our 2nd floor event space! Perfect for small to large parries (maximum 90 people), baby showers, wedding receptions, and other events that need a separated private space, but with the menu and hospitality provided by us, then look no further! For more info and to book the space, head over to our Private Dining page. 

In the meantime, our farmers market schedule is the same as always:

Wednesday, March 23
Blaisdell 4pm - 7pm

Thursday, March 24
Kailua 5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, March 26
KCC 7:30am - 11am

Highlights from Mama Le’s repertoire include the following:

#MamaNoodle
BUN RIEU — Vietnamese herbs and spices, tomato broth, and crab meat, banana blossoms, shredded ong choy, and rice vermicelli noodles 

#MamaBanhmi
HANOI STYLE GRILLED PORK BELLY — specially marinated pork belly w/ house pickles, nuoc mam (fish sauce)

#MamaRice
SAIGON STEAK AND EGGS — Grilled ribeye steak, egg (com tam style), jasmine rice, fish sauce 

WHOLE FRIED DAILY CATCH (blaisdell only) — that’s right, a fish of the day special, only available at Blaisdell and limited orders!

As always, the full menu is over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

This Week's Farmers Market Schedule -- 3/16 - 19 + More Joy of Sake Dinner this Saturday

It’s a very busy week for us, and we are very excited to be partnering with Joy of Sake on a special dinner event hosted at the restaurant this Saturday, March 19! The event is called: More Joy @ The Pig & The Lady - A Six-Course Dinner Paired with Pure Sakes #2! 

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Join us for a six-course dinner featuring the purity of junmai daiginjo, junmai gingjo and junmai sakes paired with unique culinary courses by Chef Andrew! Tickets are going fast and space is limited! You can book your seat now and check out the full menu by clicking here. 

Each spring, Ala Moana Center presents Hawai'i's most inspired shopping event, Shop a Le'a. The weeklong event focuses on fashion, beauty, wellness, travel and cuisine. Modern Luxury Hawai'i magazine is the exclusive host for Shop a Le'a's only luxury shopping event - Passport to Luxury. More than one thousand stylish guests will gather for the ultimate evening of luxury boutique shopping while enjoying special services, luscious bites, premium libations and the Passport shopping experience. And best of all, this annual fashion event supports one of Hawai'i's most respected nonprofit organizations – The Friends of Iolani Palace.

We have the distinct honor to be catering this event hosted by our friends at Modern Luxury. For more info, visit the Passport to Luxury website. 

As for farmers market, we’re on our regular schedule:

Wednesday, March 16
Blaisdell, 4pm - 7pm

Thursday, March 17
Kailua, 5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, March 19
KCC, 7:30am - 11am

This week’s Mama Le specials include the following: 

#mamanoodle
PORCHETTA BUN BO HUE — pork belly/porchetta, brisket, calamansi, satay, fresh cut noodles, lemongrass

OXTAIL PHO — Mama Le’s famous pho, slow cooked with unctuous oxtail

#mamarice
SAIGON STEAK AND EGGS — Mama Le’s marinated steak, cooked to order w/ sunny side up egg, pickled vegetables, jasmine rice

#mamabanhmi
PORCHETTA FRENCH DIP w/ BUN BO HUE BROTH — smoked onions, chili sambal-hoisin, maggi butter, pork pate, house pickles, tomato w/ bun bo hue broth

As always, you get view the full menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

More Joy @ The Pig and The Lady, a supplement to the Joy of Sake Event 2016

Saturday March 19, 2016 - 6-8:00PM

Join us for a six course dinner featuring pure rice sake!

purchase your ticket here!

This Week's Farmers Market Schedule -- 3/9 - 12 + Nordstrom Re-Opening & Moana Surfrider 115th Birthday

Part of our 28 menu options for the @nordstromhawaii grand opening is lots of Vietnamese herbs; 30 pounds of Mint and Thai Basil is alone! We are committed to make 21,000 plates for the event so this prep is 2 weeks in the making!

Tomorrow is the big day for us! We are catering the grand re-opening of Nordstrom’s new location at Ala Moana Shopping Center! The move is part of the $573 million Ewa wing redevelopment of Hawaii's largest mall. The new three-floor, 185,000-square-foot location will put Nordstrom near the state's first Bloomingdale's store. 

The grand opening party is a huge, huge gig and we’ve got almost the entire crew working the event. The team has been prepping for the last two weeks for this big event. If you’re there, say hi and we hope you enjoy our menu!

But there’s no rest for weary because we have another event this Friday to celebrate the Moana Surfrider’s 115th anniversary with an Ocean Vodka Mixdown and would love to invite you to participate. The overall event is being held around an Ocean Vodka cocktail competition. Each participating restaurant will provide a pupu as well as a cocktail to be entered into the Ocean Vodka competition. We are looking for inspired Chefs and mixologists who are interested in promoting and showcasing their own talent and cuisine.

In the meantime, we’re on our regular schedule for the farmers markets:

Wednesday, March 9
Blaisdell, 4pm- 7pm

Thursday, March 10
Kailua, 5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, March 12
KCC, 7:30am - 11am

This week’s menu highlights from Mama Le include the following: 

#MamaNoodle
HU TIEU MY THO — pork loin, shrimp, and fresh cut noodles (dry style) in red crab tomato sauce

#MamaBanhMi
BO LUC LAC — cubed ribeye steak, grilled with garlic and mama’s specialty marinade, waipoli butter lettuce, red onions in vinagrete  

#MamaRice
TOM RANG THIT BA CHI — claypot shrimp and pork belly with stick rice

As always, the full menu is over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

This Week's Farmers Market Schedule 3/2 - 5 + Kō Hana Rum Tour + Meet New Pastry Chef Gino!

This past Sunday, the P&L crew had the privilege to get a tour at Manulele Distillers to check out how Kō Hana Agricole Rum is made. The latest venture of our former bar manager Kyle Reutner, this specialty rum made from heirloom sugar cane was very impressive. It is meticulously crafted from farm to bottle, growing single varietals that are hand harvested, pressed to juice and then distilled to perfection — resulting in one of the world’s finest pure cane rums.

Kyle walked us through the distillery process from cane to bottle, and it was not only an education but it was so cool to see such high standards in production and ingredients held in very high regards, all done in our backyard. Oh, and the tastings were awesome too! And of course, it is not a P&L staff outing without it ending with an epic barbecue!

Thanks to Kyle and the team at Manulele Distillers for being amazing hosts. We are proud to be carrying their product in our bar and if you want to go on your own tasting tour on site, head over to the official website for more info. 

In the meantime, we have a big catering gig (perhaps our biggest one) next week with the grand re-opening of Nordstrom in Ala Moana Shopping Center. We plan to serve about 10,000 small plates, so if you’re attending the event, say hi! 

As for farmers market, we are on our regular schedule:

Wednesday, March 2
Blaisdell, 4pm - 7pm

Thursday, March 3
Kailua, 5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, March 5
KCC, 7:30am - 11am

Mama Le specials for this week’s farmers market menu include the following: 

#MamaNoodle
MIEN MANG GA — poached chicken, shiitake, bamboo , glass noodle

#MamaBanhMi
PORCHETTA — crispy pork belly, house sambal, shoyu pickled cucumber, smoked onion, hue-style beef au jus

#MamaRice
JAMAICAN “Jerk” CHICKEN — dry rubbed jamaican style chicken, grilled to perfection

As always, the full menu is over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

Finally, meet our new pastry chef Gino Ojano! He’s actually been with us for awhile, working under the tutelage of our former pastry chef Rachel Murai, who moved to the mainland to join her husband. As the smiling face and bubbly personality behind the #PIA dessert bar, everyone loves Gino! He has taken over the reigns and has been promoted to head pastry chef and we're super excited to have him segue into a role that will still provide continuity to the current menu, but also provide him opportunity to take it into new directions as well. Check out this video that gives a snippet of his pastry philosophy!

This Week's Farmers Market Schedule + Menu Highlights 2/24 to 2/27

We are on our regular farmers market schedule for this week. Here’s a quick reminder:

Wednesday, February 24
Blaisdell (4pm - 7pm)

Thursday, February 25
Kailua (5pm - 7:30pm)

Saturday, February 27
KCC (7:30am - 11am)

Highlights for this week’s menu include the following:

#MamaNoodle
CANH THUON — Similar to CANH CHUA, this multi-flavorful North Vietnamese noodle soup comprised of beef shank, ray ram (Vietnamese mints), tomato tamarind broth, and fresh rice noodles. 

#MamaBanhMi
BO LUC LAC BANH MI — Cubed ribeye steak, grilled with garlic and mama’s specialty marinade, waipoli butter lettuce, red onions in vinaigrette  

#MamaRice
THIT KHO — Vietnamese style caramelized and braised pork shoulder with eggs. The ultimate Vietnamese comfort food!

That pretty much covers it for this week’s farmers market schedule and menu. As always, you can view the full menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page. 

In the meantime, do you work in downtown and want to grab a bite at the restaurant but fear the dining area may be too packed? We’ve recently upgraded our take-our ordering system and its now powered by ChowNow, one of the most reliable and award winning online ordering platforms in the market today. 

Just visit our TAKE-OUT page or download the app for your iPhone or Android, and it's that easy. Simply fill out your order and designate the time you will arrive to pick it up and we’ll take care of the rest! You can pre-order your take-out too, up to a week in advance! It’s that simple. So, what are you waiting for? 

VIDEO RECAP 'OUSTANDING IN THE FIELD' DINNER

Chef Andrew Le recently was given the opportunity to prepare and execute a special dinner menu for 'Outstanding in the Field' held at Kualoa Ranch.  Here is a video showcasing the evening.  To find out more about 'Outstanding in the Field' visit outstandinginthefield.com

NEW DISHES WINTER 2016

click here to view full menu!