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Your favorite breakfast spot

By Catherine Toth Fox • August 1, 2013 • Food

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Last night Morning Glass Coffee + Cafe in Manoa hosted a breakfast at night event, featuring spiced banana pancakes, huevos rancheros and a breakfast bruschetta with applewood-smoked bacon and aged Vermont cheddar cheese.

Got me thinking — naturally — about breakfast.

I hear this complaint a lot from friends who want to meet up for breakfast — not brunch — during the week: they can’t find a lot of variety out there.

Sure, there are the 24-hour regulars like Anna Miller’s Restaurant in Pearl City and Zippy’s with locations all over the island. And yeah, there are coffee shops and fast food places that serve breakfast.

But I’m talking major breakfast dishes, more along the lines of meals than just bacon and eggs.

Here are three of my favorite breakfast spots on Oahu that boast delicious dishes, great coffee — because that’s important — and the kind of ambiance that makes you want to linger a little longer:

• Sweet E’s Cafe (Kilohana Square, 1016 Kapahulu Ave., 808-737-7771) is a quaint little breakfast and brunch spot — with its only downfall being parking. Its menu features signature items such as banana and blueberry pancakes, French toast stuffed with blueberries and cream cheese, and kalua pig eggs benedict (shown above). Breakfast and lunch is served until 3 p.m. daily.

• Moena Cafe (Koko Marina Center, 7192 Kalanianaole Hwy, 808-888-7716) opened last year by husband-and-wife restauranteurs Eric and Nicole Chang in Hawaii Kai — and it’s been my go-to breakfast spot since. This charming little eatery features items like fried rice, eggs benedict, sweet bread French toast and Belgian waffles. But worth trying are its more signature items like the short rib loco moco, the cinnamon roll pancakes, and the homemade scones. Moena Cafe has lunch items, too, including sandwiches, salads and burgers. Lots of parking is a plus.

• Cinnamon’s Restaurant (Kailua Square, 315 Uluniu St., 808-261-8724) is a popular breakfast spot in Kailua with classic morning items like omelets and pancakes. But it also serves up specialities like crabcake eggs benedict, open-face frittata, red velvet pancakes and homemade cinnamon rolls. Huge menu, so you can keep going back.

So what are your favorite spots?

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9 Comments

  • Reply Annoddah_Dave August 1, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    CAT: I like original Pancake House on Kapiolani and Asahi Grill off Keeaumoku. If I wanted to drive maybe Boots & Kimo, but they have become a tourist trap and too busy to enjoy a leisurely breakfast.

  • Reply eddyo August 1, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    Good Morning,

    Zippy’s is opening today in Hilo. Don’t know how well they will do, we’ll see…

    Don’t forget Liliha Bakery!

  • Reply dbjack August 1, 2013 at 3:55 pm

    Frankly I like dim sum for breakfast… that is when I am where I can get it for breakfast. Other than that I’d rather make it at home myself. Besides, what self respecting redneck doesn’t know how to make a killer breakfast?

  • Reply Old Man August 1, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    Moena Cafe is also our favorite go-to for breakfast. The Food selection, ambiance, pleasant workers and location has us going back several times a month.

  • Reply Eric August 1, 2013 at 10:50 pm

    Ever since Brent’s in Kailua closed I’ve never been real happy with breakfast places. It’s especially bad trying to find a good sit down eat-in place on the west side. Any suggestions?

  • Reply Glenn Swanson August 4, 2013 at 9:40 am

    Boot’s and Kimo’s Kailua

  • Reply Val August 13, 2013 at 10:43 am

    Definitely Julia’s Cafe downtown, which is open during the week!

  • Reply DanS August 21, 2013 at 12:45 pm

    Cafe Kaila, Pancake House, Big City Diner, Cafe Kaila, Eggs ‘n Things, Longhi’s, Cafe Kaila, IHOP, and in case I forgot, Cafe Kaila.

    • Reply Catherine Toth August 24, 2013 at 11:32 pm

      Thanks for your suggestions!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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