Hukilau Cafe
I love the Hukilau Cafe, it is just 6 houses from where I live. We love the french toast and omelets for breakfast. Our town wouldn't be the same without it. It does get busy on Saturday mornings.    [28 Sep 2003 20:50:46]

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Recommended Dishes: We love the french toast and omelets for breakfast.

     ­christian wilson   wilsonc at hawaii dot rr dot com

Hukilau Cafe
I love the Hukilau cafe. Its awesome! I live in NZ.    [29 Apr 2004 18:32:55]

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Recommended Dishes: Teriaki Burger

     ­Anonymous   

Ono Kine Grindz
I was born in Hawaii, but I now live in Utah. I love coming back to the islands and eating at the Hukilau Cafe. The service is fast, and the food is sooo ono. Mahalo    [23 Jun 2005 23:32:53]

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Recommended Dishes: Da best is Coconut Pancakes!!

     ­Anna Basso   

Which is worse: the food, or the service?
I ate at Hukilau Café and the food was terrible and the service was even worse.

On my first and last visit to Hukilau Café, I had pancakes and had already eaten half of them when a horse fly plopped out of my syrup bottle onto the stack. My wife almost gagged. I calmly tried to speak to the “manager” to lodge my complaint. The lady was indescribably curt and rude, and never apologized or attempted to remedy the situation. Suppressing the urge to gag, I spat the lingering syrup residue that the fly had been marinating in, onto my plate. The reprobate “manager” audaciously screamed at me in front of all of the customers to “beat it.” Her reaction could have been understandable (but not excusable) had I spat in a belligerent manner, but I had done so very discretely, being motivated by the repulsiveness of the thought of the fly remnants that I had ingested and not by a desire to offend her. My wife and I were appalled at the entire situation and promptly walked out. The manager dramatically continued to scream from across the restaurant, and to our surprise, when we were about 4 yards out the shabby screen door, we heard yell that she would be looking for me and that I should “watch [my] back.”

I do not understand how a business like this could be allowed to operate in Hawaii, or any of the 50 states for that matter. Furthermore, I am dismayed that a business would employ a person of such a poor caliber in a management position. My personal recommendation is to avoid this rundown business at all cost. (FYI- it is not the Hukilau Café from the movie Fifty First Dates.)    [16 Sep 2006 17:49:36]

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Recommended Dishes: Horsefly pancakes! Yummy...

     ­Anonymous