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Agnes Bake Shop
This bakery makes whole-grain breads, inexpensive pastries and tempting Portuguese malasadas served fresh. Match them with a cup of coffee and the newspaper and let the vacation begin.
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Assaggio
This restaurant serves very good Italian dishes in a somewhat upmarket setting. The menu is extensive, with more than 50 pasta, seafood, steak and chicken dishes, including chicken Assaggio, a tasty dish brimming with garlic.
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Banzai Sushi
Owned by a Brazilian, this sushi restaurant does more than just maki rolls. South American-style ceviche, surf videos and lounging on pillows helps to capture the post-surfing glow.
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Brent's Restaurant & Deli
From lox and eggs to sandwiches like the Banker and Gone to Brooklyn, this New York-style deli is the closest you'll get to Manhattan, plus the weather's better.
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Buzz's
Opposite Kailua Beach Park, this local hangout has an open patio, a straightforward lunch menu of fish and burgers, and surprisingly upscale dinner options for such a casual audience. Credit cards are not accepted.
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Cafe Hale'iwa
An unpretentious joint with Formica tables and walls plastered with surf memorabilia, Cafe Hale'iwa is a popular haunt for both local surfers and day-trippers. It offers good food at cheap prices. A popular breakfast choice is the egg sandwich or mahi and eggs. Lunch is mostly sandwiches and Mexican fare.
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Chao Phya Thai Restaurant
This family-run eatery serves very decent northeastern Thai food, including green papaya salad and sticky rice, along with Thai standards like pad Thai (stir-fried rice noodles) and curries. No liquor, but you can BYO.
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Coffee Gallery
Follow your nose to this mellow café serving fresh-roasted coffees (including local Hawaii beans), pastries and hearty sandwiches. Internet access is also available.
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Hale'iwa Joe's
The Haiku Gardens is half the attraction here - a romantic, open-air setting overlooking a large lily pond tucked beneath the Ko'olau Range, and dating from the mid-1800s. The restaurant features excellent Pacific Rim fare, including ceviche and coconut shrimp tempura, along with hearty meat dishes and prime rib. You can also drop by the gardens during the day, or just before sunset when it closes for a happy-hour drink and a predinner stroll.
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Hale'iwa Joe's
A hometown setting for hearty seafood-inspired meals, this North Shore institution is a weekly date for almost every resident and even more tourists. Favorites include Emma's Poke (marinated raw 'ahi ) and crunchy coconut shrimp, nibbled on the lanai overlooking the harbor.
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Hukilau Cafe
Just north of the elementary school, this friendly hole-in-the-wall serves Hawaiian-sized breakfast and lunch, like sweet bread French toast, or roast pork, salad and rice.
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Island Shack
Look for the giant wooden ki'i (Tiki) figure across from Rocky Point north of Waimea. It's open-air picnic style, complete with gravel floor and wobbly plastic tables. Fresh fish plates and veggie sandwiches dominate a menu with a Brazilian touch. 'Ahi tuna with rice and beans. Cash only.
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Kalapawai Market & Deli
En route to the public beach access, this local landmark is the place to pick up coffee or made-to-order sandwiches. Early morning customers often toast their own bagels while helping themselves to fresh coffee. There's also a broad selection of wine and beer.
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Kona Brewing Company
This hip eatery is known first for its microbrews, like Longboard Lager and Castaway IPA, and then for its local-style pupu (small plates), such as 'ahi appetizers and wood-fired pizzas. Hawai'i Kai is an eastern suburb of Waikiki.
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Kua 'Aina Sandwich Shop
Many locals swear that this cool eatery grills up the island's best burgers along with big salads and fresh fish sandwiches. It's a North Shore favorite and, with luck, you'll find a table on the shady lanai.
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Lei Lei's Bar & Grill
Of the resort's several eateries facing the golf course, this is a destination all on its own for locals in the know. The eclectic menu includes oyster shooters, sandwiches, baby back ribs and several Japanese-accented dishes, such as seafood scampi with udon noodles.
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Lucy's Grill & Bar
Nestled in windward Kailua at the end of the Pali Hwy, this contemporary bistro is one of the best dining and drinking options outside of Honolulu. The menu is a fusion of Hawaiian-Euro-Asian served among a breezy outdoor patio, full bar overlooking the dining area and open kitchen. And if you like exotic bar drinks, try local concoctions like the pineapple martini or Li Hing Mui margarita made from a famous sweet and sour 'crack-seed' candy.
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Matsumoto's
For many people, the circle-island drive isn't complete without lining up for shave ice at Matsumoto's tin-roofed general store. Often Honolulu families drive to the North Shore with one purpose: to stand in line here and walk out with a dripping, delicious shave ice cone, drenched with island flavors, such as liliko'i (passion fruit), banana, mango and pineapple.
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Roy's
Chef Roy Yamaguchi's namesake restaurants are sometimes referred to as the Spago of the islands. The O'ahu-born enterprise was an early innovator of Hawaiian Regional Cuisine, which emphasizes fresh local ingredients and blends European, Asian and Polynesian flavors. Today, Roy's restaurants have populated the islands and mainland, but this Hawai'i Kai location, east of Waikiki, is one of the originals.
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Shark's Cove Grill
This little white trailer parks along the highway 100yd north of Foodland and has good burgers, fish sandwiches and chicken teriyaki plates. There are a few sunny tables, and a view of the beach.
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Shrimp Shack
A sunny yellow truck parked nextdoor to Ching's is one of many roadside food attractions along this strip of highway. Deep-fried coconut shrimp and other plate lunches are devoured at shaded picnic tables overlooking the road and the ocean beyond.
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Southern Swell
A family barbeque recipe smuggled to the islands from Florida introduces the true grit cuisine of the mainland South to a worthy tropical companion. Cash only.
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Ted's Bakery
Beloved by all, this sweet-tooth mecca peddles piles and piles of cinnamon rolls and butter buns to surfers, daytrippers and construction workers. If you miss out on those, then settle for a slice of chocolate haupia (coconut) pie or moist carrot cake. It is opposite Sunset Beach.
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Wai'anae Ice House
Fish fresh off the boat land in this nondescript bunker run by affable Victor Rapoza. His daughters whip up the catch of the day into affordable plate lunches.
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Zia's Caffe
Opposite Windward City Shopping Mall, Zia's is popular with local families looking for good value and decent portions of Italian standards, like spaghetti and meatballs and shrimp scampi, along with mussels marinara, vegetable lasagna and Caesar salad. The place has an open feel and a kids' menu.
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