Category: Restaurant
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The Red Water Cafe
This was another recommendation from my coworker who lived here for awhile. Funky hippie kind of vibe…service and timing on dishes and drinks was terribly uneven but the food and cocktails were worth the visit and soooo much better than the food yesterday.
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Kona Brewing Co.
No reservations and we were really hungry. so when in the fisherman’s wharf of the Big Island (those of you who knows SF know what I mean)…I won’t say much about the food (kalua pork tacos and poke were better than the rest), but we did ultimately try 15 different beers and many of which
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Keei Cafe
It’s Thursday and yes we’re eating out but not at any of our usual haunts. No fine dining today since it’s more about the locale and some tasty fresh fish.
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Octavia
Wasn’t sure if we were going to eat out this Thursday since we ate out twice last week, but who am I kidding. We decided to go back to another low key place we enjoyed. Octavia is the sister restaurant to Frances at which we ate last Wednesday. Octavia was a 1 star restaurant until
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Eight Tables by George Chen
For this Thursday’s dining (yesterday was just a bonus), we decided to try Eight Tables. The building is also interesting because they have multiple concepts (like when we ate at O last week)… China Live restaurant downstairs and where we’ve dined on multiple occasions, a Scotch bar upstairs along with 8 Tables (and yes they
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Frances
Frances was one of our local go to restaurants pre-pandemic and there were periods where we would go monthly. They used to have a prix fixe menu which gave a taste of most of their dishes which was also the same format at their sister restaurant Octavia (which lost its Michelin star through the pandemic
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O’ by Claude Le Tohic
For this Thursday’s dinner we’re back to our regularly scheduled program – this is one of the restaurants with a newly minted Michelin star in the latest guide. Chef used to work at Joel Robuchon in Las Vegas; I’ve had a great dining experience there, so I was very hopeful. They occupy the entire building
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The Morris
No Michelin stars and no tasting menu this week. My expectations are different when we’re not expecting fine dining like last week. During the lockdown, we had a pick up meal from this restaurant. Back then, we had ordered broccolini with squid, brisket, smoked duck, donuts, chocolate pudding which was quite a treat for us