Well, Fado's has to be my favorite. I met wer and Stacey there once. It's kind of loud and crowded. Scenic, the woodwork is rich and the atmosphere is festive. I met Clay there one time, the ex tennis pro and quaffed a few Guiness. Frothy, aromatic Guiness Stout. Clay did this thing, getting his friends to keep trading places like some kind of social director. So I got to meet his friends. Fado's is down on Austin's Fourth Street. Where the young urban professionals romp.

There are two excellent microbrew pubs in Honolulu. One is the Gordon Biersch Brewery at the Aloha Tower Marketplace on the waterfront downtown. Excellent pilsner, a yuppie haunt. The other is in Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch & Crab on Nimitz Avenue about a mile towards Pearl Harbor from downtown in the Iwilei industrial area. Sam Choy is Hawaii's most famous chef (former executive chef in the Kona Hilton, then went out on his own to fabulous success). It is a charming restaurant and microbrewery in a efurbished former factory building. Upscale, yet informal. They brew lager, cream ale, bambucha stout, hefeweizen, and my favorite "Sam's Steam." It is much like San Francisco's legendary Anchor Steam, but even better. Sam also has an elegant Diamond Head restaurant, a family restaurant on Maui, both a family restaurant and a resort restaurant in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island (the former in the Kaloko Industrial Area, the latter at the Keauhou Beach Hotel), and fine dining establishments in Tokyo, New York City and on Guam. His website is http://www.samchoy.com There is also the Kona Brewpub in Kailua-Kona. Their signature beers are Fire Rock Ale and Kona Lager. Good info for travelers.

taken and pasted into my 'when i go to Honolulu' book! just a few moths away!