FOOD FESTIVAL GEARING UP LAHAINA MAUI

Lahaina, Maui the sight for the first BROKE DA MOUTH FOOD FESTIVAL held at the Lahaina Gateway Shopping Center, look for Outback Steakhouse, Office Max, Maui Dive Shop, it's right off of highway 30, 3 miles from Kaanapali, 15 minutes from Kapalua, 40 minutes from the central side, if you got nothing to do, Lahaina is the place to be, something festive before Halloween in a couple of months.

The crews set up tents and portable potties, and fences. Stores at the center will remain open for normal hours, so if you'll be enjoying the food and music, and there's a cooking competition Maui's version of Chopped, go and buy a book at Barnes & Noble, or get a ream of copy paper at Office Max or something. What will be interesting will be Cool Cat Cafe and Teddy's Bigger Burgers dishing out their best hamburgers in the same parking lot. Well, let's see if there's going to be any kind of burger bashing.

This works out as a win win situation for the event as well as the shopping center, the proprietors of the businesses really need more traffic in there, and a few more likable shops, whatever that means. In the past The Hat Shack closed down, a sunglass shop packed up, a Baskin Robbins closed down, a sandal shop also split the scene. So this is a good thing..at the very least, people who never stepped onto the Lahaina Gateway's grounds will see it.