Tag: Big Island
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The Temple
We had picked up fruits and vegetables at the small local market in Kona and were just walking around and stopped here to get some drinks and some nibbles. We started with cocktails – A Dill With It Martini for Andrea and a Templue Resurrection with the upgrade to Monkey 47 Gin (same gin as
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Fried Spam and Eggs for Breakfast
I don’t eat breakfast and I don’t normally eat spam when we’re at home, but it’s a tradition for me to eat fried spam and eggs when I’m in Hawaii. We picked up this special Lilo & Stitch edition of Spam Classic when we shopped at Foodland Farms.
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Da Ramen Kind
We had just landed and were trying to find somplace quick to eat. We went into the food court at the Queen’s Marketplace in Waikoloa. Ramen sounded good. Andrea ordered a green salad, the Tan Tan Ramen, and I had the Tonkatsu Ramen. I also ordered some Friend Chicken Wings. It was all pretty meh,
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Legends of Hawai‘i Lūʻau at Hilton
It’s Thursday, our usual day to go out to eat and it’s Thanksgiving. But no turkey for us. We decided we may as well go to a luau and get some kalua pork. Food was as expected, but I was happy to get my pork which was seasoned well enough. The sunset was beautiful once
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Kamuela Provision Company
Short version: Food is basically hotel food, but the venue is great. Long version: Reservation was for the chefs 3-course tasting menu which reserved seating outside on the lanai. I scheduled the reservation for 5:15 which gave us time to make sure we would take in the sunset at 5:45. We don’t get to eat
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Merriman’s Waimea
Tonight’s dinner was only a block away from last night’s dinner. Definitely a contrast. Venue was more upscale and service was very attentive (we were in and out in less than 90 minutes). Menu was more refined, but some hits and some misses. Cocktails were both solid (ginger martini for Andrea and a Lilikoi mai
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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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