Highway Inn, Hawaiian Food, Oahu, USA
Highway Inn is a Hawaiian Food Restaurant established in 1947, serving Hawaiian Cuisine. It is located on Oahu in the state of Hawaii.[1]
The restaurant began operations shortly after World War II by a Japanese Immigrant, Seiichi Toguchi, who had been interned during the war at camps in California and Arkansas[2].
Highway Inn specializes in Hawaiian Cuisine[3], serving dishes that reflected the waves of immigrants that settled in Hawaii. Its original location was on Farrington Highway, in Waipahu[4], which was then a small rural town focused on the production of sugar cane. Its location became the restaurant’s eponymous name - Highway Inn. In the 1940s and 1950s in Hawaii, many dining establishments used the word Inn in their names.[5] Shortly after opening, Highway Inn relocated to Old Depot Rd, just below Waipahu Sugar Mill where it remained until the early-1980s.
Highway Inn passed from the first to the second generation in 1978, when Seiichi’s son Bobby took over the restaurant and moved it to West Waipahu in the early '80s, where it remains today. In 2008, the restaurant passed to the third generation, Monica Toguchi-Ryan, Bobby’s eldest daughter.
In 2010, the restaurant was featured on The Food Network, on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, hosted by Guy Fieri[6], a celebrity Chef.
In 2013, Highway Inn opened its second location on Ala Moana Blvd in Kaka’ako[7], an urban area in Honolulu.
In 2015, Highway Inn opened its third location at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum[8] in Honolulu.
In 2015, Highway Inn won the Best Hawaiian Food Restaurant in Honolulu Magazine’s annual Hale ‘Aina awards.[9]
In 2017, Highway Inn won the best Kalua Pig Sandwich in the State, as voted by USA Today’s readers.[10]
In 2018, Highway Inn won the best Hawaiian Food category in the Honolulu Star Advertiser's readers choice Best of Hawaii awards.[11]
Website: www.myhighwayinn.com
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- ↑ https://hbe.ehawaii.gov/documents/business.html?fileNumber=64920D1
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Hawaii
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waipahu,_Hawaii
- ↑ The Companies we Keep Volume 1. Bob Sigall. http://www.companieswekeep.com/companies_1_page.html
- ↑ https://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2009/10/24/Food_Network_Diners_Drive_Ins_Dives_Oahu_Guy_Fieri_restaurants
- ↑ http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/May-2014/The-Old-Way-The-New-Way-and-the-Highway-Inn-Way/
- ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/blog/2015/09/highway-inn-opens-third-hawaii-restaurant-at-the.html
- ↑ http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/November-2014/2015-Hale-Aina-Award-Winners-Best-Restaurants-in-Hawaii/
- ↑ http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-kalua-pig-sandwich-in-hawaii/
- ↑ http://www.hawaii-newspaper.com/special_sections/2018_hawaiis_best/html5forpc.html?page=28
