HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A Hawaiian and Filipino restaurant is celebrating its one-year anniversary in Kona, but its signature recipes have been decades in the making.
Tante’s Local Grindz is the brainchild of restaurateur, businessman and once-Hawaii County Mayoral candidate Tante Urban and his daughter Berni Urban-Smith. She came up with the menu for the eatery, which claims to serve the island’s only oxtail loco moco and fiery halo halo dessert.
Other specialties include braised short rib, banana pancakes and shrimp sari sari, a savory stew of vegetables and shrimp…