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Maria "Zeze" Goncalves: (Private Chef/Caterer)
  • Awarded First Place Overall/Professional
    Category at the 2004 Kona Coffee Cultural
    Festival Recipe Contest.
  • Featured an award winning recipe on the
    recipe book "101 Great Desserts - From
    Hawai'i's Favorite Restaurants" on 2005.
  • Honored by Lions International in 2005 for the
    Second Annual Lions Feast.
  • Presented on the "Chef Spotlight" for the
    KonaViews Magazine by the ACF Kona-Kohala
    Chef Chair.
  • The Executive Chef for 10 years at Keei Cafe
    Restaurant; voted "One of the Best of Hawai'i"
    for Frommer's in 2000.
  • Executive Chef of Keei Cafe Restaurant voted
    "Best New Restaurant" in 2005 and "Most
    Romantic Restaurant" in 2006 by the Hawaiian
    Island Journal in The Best of Hawai'i.
  • Recognized in numerous Japanese magazines
    for her excellence at Keei Cafe Restaurant.
Chef Zeze.com
A Labor of Love and Aloha.
Kona, Hawaii