Kiki Aranita

Kiki Aranita is chef and owner of Poi Dog in Philadelphia, a restaurant and catering company that closed its Rittenhouse location in July 2020, but served Hawaii’s local food to Philadelphians for seven years and has since been reinvented as a retail sauce company. She has contributed food writing and narratives to Edible Philly, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Food and Wine (for which she was nominated for a James Beard Award), Roads and Kingdoms and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, as well as recipes to Munchies Vice and many other publications and platforms. She has created content and recipe-driven videos for companies such as Philadelphia Magazine, Sakara Life and Vitamix. Follow her recipe work, food writing and pop-up cheffing at @kikiaranita on Instagram.