I was super excited to try the #1 rated place on Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in the US. We were lucky since Da Poke Shack was only a 5 minute walk from our condo. We showed up right when it opened, but a crowd quickly amassed.
Category: Big Island
Tex Drive In
I’ve never had a malasada before. They’re sorta of like Portuguese donuts. Yummy, sweety, yeasty, fried dough balls. Hard to go wrong. At Tex Drive In, they serve a whole host of Hawaiian classics, but the place is mostly known for the variety of malasadas. You can choose malasadas with different fillings. We opted for…
Pine Tree Cafe
After a grey morning in the mountains touring the Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation, sampling fresh Kona coffee, we Yelped our way to this nearby Hawaiian cafe. It’s a really casual joint. Order, take a number, and pick up your food on a tray. The menu is quite extensive and it was hard to widdle down…
Lemongrass Express
So I’m finally getting around to my Big Island vacation eats from the summer. I didn’t really plan on any specific places to hit up. In fact, I did very little planning for the whole trip. Thanks to Fat-Skinny-Fat-Less Fat and Dairy Queen, I just hopped along for the ride and kinda played the fooding…
Overworked. Underfed. 