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Frommer's Highly Recommended

I'O is a fantasy of sleek curves and etched glass, co-owned by chef James McDonald. He offers an impressive selection of appetizers (his strong suit) and some lavish Asian-Polynesian interpretations of seafood, such as his "rainbow catch" -- fresh fish of the day topped with lemon-grass pesto, tomatoes, truffle oil, and goat-cheese fondue sauce -- or his "scallops ala bondage" -- scallops wrapped in sage and jalapeño bacon, served with roasted Japanese eggplant and a ponzu-cream sauce. Unless you're sold on a particular entree, my advice is to go heavy on the superb appetizers, especially the blackened-ahi tower (a tower of ahi, avocado, fruit, and tomatoes), shredded pork in a quesadilla with pepper-jack cheese, or the Siamese shashi rolls (spicy tempura portobello with an orange-mint dipping sauce). McDonald also owns Pacific'O Restaurant and is the chef for the Feast at Lele.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Hawaii 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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