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Pinky's Pupu Bar & Grill is to open this summer in the former Yum Yum Tree restaurant in Aikahi. It gets its name from the old Pinky's Broiler which pre-dates Yum Yum's and the adjacent Pali Palms Plaza office complex. New eatery
borrows old nameFurukawa Custom Builders is building out the space for Gene Gunn, owner and president of Entertainment One Pacific LLC. He also owns the two Big Island Steakhouse restaurants at Waikoloa on the Big Island and at Aloha Tower Marketplace, as well as Ocean Club at Restaurant Row. He opened the club originally as Studebaker's, and brought Hawaii its first Chili's restaurant.
Gunn said Pinky's will offer adults a 75-seat bar area with pupu service, a sushi bar and libation, and on the restaurant side, a menu with prices ranging from $5.95 for a sandwich to a steak as high as $20. He said Pinky's will also offer family-style servings to include "large servings of sirloin steak cut pupu-style," and a "luau platter served family style with white rice, or fried rice, we'll have different combos."
Gunn plans to open in time for July 4, and will open seven days a week from 4:30 p.m., but may expand into brunch service. General Manager Ian Buscher said they plan to hire up to 45 employees beginning in mid-June.
Consolidated celebration
The brand new Ward 16 was not being burglarized by roughly 1,000 people yesterday morning.The new Consolidated flagship was opened for an exclusive party for the contractors, construction workers, craftsmen and their families as the company's way of saying thank you for the hard work and long hours they spent preparing the building for its opening last week.
Ward 16 publicist Eileen Mortenson said Consolidated Regional Director Glenn Yim wanted to give the workers a party where they could show spouses and children what they'd been toiling the long hours to accomplish. Everything was free from the concession stand to movies, but a free screening of "Pearl Harbor" was not possible due to Disney Studios restrictions.
Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
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