George Mavrothalassitis is a chef and restaurateur known as one of the cofounders of Hawaii Regional Cuisine in the early 1990s.
In 1998 he opened his own restaurant, named for his nickname, Chef Mavro in Honolulu, at 1969 South King Street.
In April 2007, Mavrothalassitis opened Cassis, a casual dining restaurant with French and Hawaiian influences, also in Honolulu, which closed after ten months.
[1] In 2000, he appeared in the November cover story of Wine Spectator magazine as one of six selected chefs.
[3] One of the dishes at Chef Mavro are the lilikoi malasadas, or Portuguese donuts,[4] which are served floating in a pool of fuchsia-hued guava coulis with pineapple-coconut ice cream.