Selected Placements

•Nobriga Ranch featured in ten-page photo essay in ISLANDS magazine – March 2010

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono featured in Sunset magazine – March 2010

• Executive Chef Ivan Pahk, Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar Maui, featured on food52.com (Dec. 16, 2009) and BehindtheKnife.com (Jan. 19, 2010)

•Catherine Nobriga Kim profiled in Enterprising Women magazine – Winter 2009

•Nobriga Family Businesses featured in Family Business magazine – Spring 2009

•The Counter featured in PEOPLE magazine – May 4, 2009

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono featured in Conde Nast Traveler – July 2008

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono featured in Bride’s – Feb/March 2008 and May/June 2005

• The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono featured in Travel + Leisure – January 2008

•I’o restaurant (www.iomaui.com): Induction into DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America); Class of 2007

•Pacific’O and I’o restaurants (www.pacificomaui.com): Listed in “Top 10 Restaurants in

the Nation with Farm Connections” in Gourmet; October 2007

•OCEAN Vodka (www.oceanvodka.com): Four Seasons Magazine (in-room in Four Seasons hotels and resorts worldwide); Winter 2007

•VINO Italian Tapas & Wine Bar (Honolulu) (www.dkrestaurants.com): Food & Wine (Best Wine Experience, Honolulu – “Hottest Restaurants in the World”); May 2006

•Hiroshi Eurasion Tapas / VINO Italian Tapas & Wine Bar (Honolulu) (www.dkrestaurants.com): Food & Wine (“Where To Go Next, Hawai‘i”); January 2006

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono (www.mauiinn.com): Only Hawai‘i property on Fodor’s Top 20 Hotels of the World list; 2005

•VINO Italian Tapas & Wine Bar (Maui) (www.dkrestaurants.com): Conde Nast Traveler (“Hot Tables”); May 2004

•Roselani Ice Cream (www.roselani.com): Conde Nast Traveler; April 2004

•Chef D.K. Kodama, Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar (www.dkrestaurants.com): Appearance on TODAY (NBC); March 2004

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono (www.mauiinn.com): Travel + Leisure (Ranked #5 in “Top Ten B&Bs in the United States”); June 2000

•Beach House Restaurant, Kaua‘i (Restaurants & Institutions: Cover for Beach House Restaurant (“Ethnic Salads Accent Menus”); March 1, 2000

•David Paul’s Lahaina Grill: Five-page, full-color feature as “Restaurant of the Month” in Bon Appétit; February 1997

•Cheeseburger In Paradise: The only Hawai‘i restaurant included in the Beef Industry Council’s national “Burger Boom” campaign; State of Hawai‘i Beef Backer Award winner in 1996

•Chef David Paul Johson: two-page, full-color Illy Caffe ad in Food Arts magazine; December 1995 (Note: only Hawai‘i chef ever featured in Illy national advertising campaign.)

•Fourth Annual “A Taste of Lahaina”: Coverage on TODAY (NBC); September 1995

•Chef David Paul Johnson: Appearance on TODAY (NBC); July 1995

•Maui Stingrays: Story on NPR’s Weekend Edition; December 1994

•Third Annual “A Taste of Lahaina”: CBS This Morning; September 1994

•Food & Wine: Cover for Hali‘imaile General Store, signature dessert, Piña Colada Cheesecake (“Hawai‘i: The Next Wave”); March 1992. (Note: only Hawai‘i restaurant ever featured on Food & Wine cover.)

•Introduced “Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine” to national media; 1988. (Chef Mark Ellman, of Avalon restaurant in Lahaina, was the first restaurateur on Maui to use and promote local products and to encourage other chefs to do the same, launching “Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine” on Maui. Avalon was Grapevine Productions’ first client and the first place where national media experienced the new “culinary movement.”)