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The Seafood Bar offers a great place to sit back, relax and enjoy a fantastic mai tai.  The Seafood Bar has an indoor area with seats around the bar and a wrap around lanai to sit out on an enjoy a beautiful evening in Hawaii.  Their pupu (appetizer) menu is limited, but the food that is on there is great.  The Harbor Grill is conveniently located next door to give you a place to eat dinner if you would like.

You can often find live entertainment at night.  You can contact them at (808) 882-1368 to find out the schedule.

Cafe Pesto offers the quality of food you would receive in the resorts at a better rate.  The lunch menu is filled with delicious salads and pizzas made to your liking.  The dinner menu consists of some of the same items that the lunch menu offers, but also offers some other amazing dishes.  You can find amazing seafood dishes prepared with the catch of the day.  They also have a wonderful beef tenderloin with tiger shrimp.  Don’t miss out on the shrimp nachos for appetizer!

If you show up early you can enjoy a lounging area near the bar.  The Mango Colada is great for a tropical libation.

Cafe Pesto does not take reservations, but typically is not overwhelmingly busy.  Sometimes during the winter months there can be a rather long wait.

To get to Cafe Pesto, exit the resort and take a left traveling north.  When the road splits you will take a left and you will find Cafe Pesto just a few miles down on the left.

Fujimamas offers a nice Asian inspired cuisine in Waimea.  Open daily from 5-9 pm Monday through Saturday.  Althought the menus is fairly limited some of the items are very good.  The Four Towers sushi roll is excellent.  A lot of the menu items as well as drinks contain ginger so a taste for that is needed to really enjoy a lot of the menu items.  Being a small restaurant, if they are busy the service is lacking.

Directions: As you exit the Waikoloa Beach Resort, take a left onto the highway.  As you reach the end of the highway it will split.  Take a right up the mountain to Waimea.  As you enter Waimea you will find Fujimamas on the right just past the gas station.  If you reach the red light, you have gone too far.

Fujimamas Phone: (808) 885-9299

Pakini Grillis one of the newest additions in Waimea taking place of the Ranch House.  With a new menu and atmosphere, Pakini Grill is a great place to enjoy your evening.  You will find a bar located in the center of the restaurant with an area for entertainment on the right as you enter.  Local Hawaiian bands play throughout the week.  On the left is a slightly more quiet dining  side and an open kitchen.  The menu has some favorite local items along with some great appetizers if you choose to just enjoy the music.  Pakini Grill is open until 10 or 11 nightly. 

Directions:  As you exit Waikoloa Beach Resort take a left onto the highway.  You will travel until the highway splits.  Take a right up the mountain to Waimea.  Once you enter the town of Waimea, take a left at the red light.  Find Pakini Grill on the left past the shopping center.

Pakini Grill Phone: (808) 885-3333

Pasa’s is one of the newest restaurants in Waimea.  Here you will find a comfortable setting for all kinds of entertainment.  Pasa’s televises all the major sporting events on the big screen televisions throughout.  Throughout the week you will find live Hawaiian bands as well as karaoke nights.

Pasa’s offers reasonably priced cocktails and pupus (appetizers).  All the pupus are priced under $10, but the portions are large enough to fill you up.

You can contact them at (808) 887-6700 to find out what the entertainment schedule is for the week.

I would highly recommend Pasa’s for a place to go and have a good time at a reasonable price.

Roy’s Waikoloa Bar and Grill is located in the Kings Shops in the Waikoloa Beach Resort and offers a nice pacific rim cuisine.  The setting is on the Kings Pond and if you request a table in the lanai area you will have a nice water view of the pond.  The rest of the restaurant offers a typical restaurant setting around the open kitchen that is visible to all guests.

As you open the menu you will find a nice varitey of choices for dinner.  You can order a la carte from the menu or order a pre selected three course dinner.  All of the apetizers are amazing.  I would highly recommend trying the Paniolo surfah roll.  This is not your typical sushi roll as the main ingredient is filet mignon.  For entre, the seafood diablo is my favorite.  This is a dish that is a seafood medley in a spicy cajun style sauce that is spicy and to die for.

Along with great food, Roy’s Waikoloa Bar and Grill offers a nice cocktail menu and is the best value for cocktails in the Waikoloa Beach Resort.  Although all the cocktails are priced at $9, they are all very tasty and they do not hold back on their pouring of alcohol.  Roy’s mai tai is known on the island as one of the best mai tais!

Roy’s Waikoloa Bar and Grill is open from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm.  Call 808-886-4321 to make a reservation.

Buzz’s Sand Trap is the newest dining addition to the Waikoloa Beach Resort.  It replaces the Beach Grill Restaurant on the Waikoloa Beach Course. Buzz’s Sand Trap will offer an array of food with a Hawaiian touch.  From appetizers such as ahi ceviche to their signature dish, kiawe wood charcoal grilled steaks, Buzz’s Sand Trap has something for everyone.
Buzz’s Sand Trap opens at 4 pm for pupus and cocktails and dinner service starts at 5:30.
Enjoy an evening at Buzz’s Sand Trap while staying at the Waikoloa Beach Resort.