Best Casual Restaurants in Honolulu

My go to place. I love this place! Best loco moco in town. Everytime i visit Hawaii, i come here.

Excellent service; impressively prompt at the start of dinner service. The environment is true to Japanese style. Most importantly, the sushi was exquisite.

Food was delicious, and loved the ambiance with the live music, dim lighting, and the restaurant being right next to the ocean. Me and my wife went on Valentine’s Day and we were able to get in right at our reservation time. She had the margarita pizza and I had the ribeye with jalapeño mashed potatoes and Swiss chard. The jalapeño mashed potatoes were incredible and so was the rib eye, which was cooked perfectly medium and tasted better than most nice steak houses I’ve been to. I would always recommend monkey pod to people looking for a good place to eat with a nice environment and setting.

Fantastic experience! Daniel the host took great care of us when we ended up coming late from North Shore. Garret, our server was very attentive, and even grabbed us our parking validation when he gave us our check. Great service and even better food! The miso on the salmon is out of this world! Maybe a little too much kale with the ahi haha! Overall fantastic experience!

Everything from start to finish was amazing!! We had the tasting trio, the octopus, the pistachio crusted ahi, the monchong Mediterranean style, and the Brussel sprouts. Everything was perfectly cooked and full of flavor! Impeccable service and great ambiance! We ordered 2 desserts but our favorite was the Greek yogurt with olive oil and salt.....to die for!!!!!!! Can't wait to return!