Historic Chinatown Bar Crawl

The Joseph W. Podmore Building, located at the corner of Merchant and Alakea Streets, is identifiable by its dark, rough-faced Hawaiian basalt walls and a decorative stone balustrade running along the roofline. Constructed in nineteen oh…

Murphy’s Bar and Grill occupies a red brick building on the corner of Merchant Street and Nuuanu Avenue, distinguished by its white stucco pilasters and a corner entrance that is canted toward the intersection. This structure, dating back…

Hanks Cafe Honolulu is a small, narrow pub on Nuuanu Avenue characterized by its walls crowded with large, colorful oil paintings. Founded in nineteen ninety-eight by artist Hank Taufaasau, the space was originally intended to serve as a…

Smith’s Union Bar on North Hotel Street in Chinatown held the reputation of being the oldest continuously operating bar in Honolulu, having opened in nineteen thirty-four following the end of Prohibition. It was once the favored watering…

Bar 35 is identified by its exposed red brick walls and a bamboo-shaded outdoor patio, tucked behind a nondescript facade on North Hotel Street. Opened in two thousand five by Dave Stewart, the venue occupied the former site of a business…

The Manifest is a prominent fixture on North Hotel Street, situated along the historical spine of Chinatown in Honolulu. Occupying a space characterized by its bold, industrial-style interior and exposed brick, the venue operates as a…

Skull and Crown Trading Company is marked on the street by golden letters painted onto a window. It sits in a historic building within Honolulu’s Chinatown, designed as an immersive fictional outpost from a bygone era. Owners Noa Laporga…

EP Bar is a six-hundred-square-foot listening bar in Honolulu’s Chinatown, situated behind the Nuuanu Avenue location of Morning Glass Coffee. Black lava rock walls line the interior, and the room contains shelves stacked with spirits. A…