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FUUD: The Alley in Aiea

By Catherine Toth Fox • April 8, 2011 • Food, Musings, The Daily Dish

Hawaii has always had great restaurants attached to bowling alleys.

Consider Kapiolani Coffee Shop in Kam Bowl. Or the restaurant in Bowling City, where my grandfather used to serve his popular tripe stew.

And now there’s The Alley Restaurant in the renovated Aiea Bowl, an aging alley that got an expensive facelift a few years ago by brothers Gregg and Glenn Uyeda.

The restaurant concept was always a central part of their business model — and it’s obvious when you’re there how popular this alley eatery is.

While the menu remains fairly homestyle and local, it does offer gourmet twists to the usual fare, like the Tasty Chicken, essentially an upscale version of the popular Korean-style fried chicken. This blend of retro and nouveau cuisine is exactly what this restaurant works.

So after a morning of bowling — and working up an appetite — here’s what we ate:

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The Alley Restaurant, Aiea Bowl, 99-115 Aiea Heights Dr. Hours: 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, breakfast served from 7 to 10 a.m. daily. Phone: (808) 486-3499

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17 Comments

  • Reply matti2d April 7, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    fuud friday!! good eats there.

  • Reply M April 7, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    Hello Cat, Fuud pics Friday! Heard lots of guud things about this place. Got to check it out. Sorry I couldn’t make it. 🙂 Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

  • Reply 808marv April 7, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    Wow how many times did you turn 36? Party party party! 😉 Looks like you had a lot of fun. Yes Aiea Bowl has really made a transformation, it’s almost a sort of hip place to go to now. I just wish it was a little easier to just bowl and not have to book a party to do it, but that’s the nature of the business. Anyway I recommend the hamburger steak/loco moco and Tasty Chicken, and also the “Mama Miya’s Chocolate Cake” along with the famous Lemon Crunch. Still have to try quite a bit of the menu actually, taking it for granted ’cause it’s so close to me I guess.

  • Reply johngarcia April 7, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    I love The Alley! Isn’t it a shame that so many bowling alleys have closed?

  • Reply lihinggirl April 7, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    The Alley is onolicious. Looks like you had an awesome & onolicious time celebrating with your loved ones!

  • Reply DianeSeo April 7, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    Happy birthday, a few days late. Glad you celebrated with a good meal.

  • Reply Cat April 7, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    @808marv I actually still have some lemon crunch cake in my ‘fridge 🙂

  • Reply Cat April 7, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    @johngarcia YES! I miss bowling alleys. I used to bowl all the time. Hoping that Waialae reopens. It would be a shame to see that go, too.

  • Reply Cat April 7, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    @DianeSeo Thanks! I ate for a week!

  • Reply Ynaku April 8, 2011 at 1:11 am

    I like the food and Hilo Lanes too

  • Reply nonstopmari April 8, 2011 at 5:32 am

    LIKE! killer french fries, oxtail soup, tiramisu and of course lemon crunch cake. i even like eating to the crash of bowling pins.

  • Reply Cat April 8, 2011 at 7:51 am

    @nonstopmari I didn’t try the tirimisu. Honestly, I haven’t eaten any dessert except for the lemon crunch cake. I THINK I’m going to try something else — and I don’t. Never.

  • Reply Cat April 8, 2011 at 7:52 am

    @Ynaku What do they serve?

  • Reply J April 9, 2011 at 5:21 am

    Only been there once. Order was incorrect, they didn’t fix it. Only accepted the dessert order from the only guy at our table. Really, she asked him what he wanted and then left. The hot apple crumble was good, but we would have rather not had to share just one dessert for the table.

  • Reply 808marv April 10, 2011 at 11:58 am

    @Cat As a kid it couldn’t get any better than Waialae Bowl..a McDonald’s right next door to a bowling alley! lol Hope it reopens too.

  • Reply WERUreo April 12, 2011 at 6:23 am

    Ooo that tasty chicken looks ono! Seriously, I’m making a list of places to go eat when I come back next month, and like half the list is places I see on Nonstop!

  • Reply WERUreo April 12, 2011 at 6:27 am

    @johngarcia Last time I was in Hawai’i and I saw that Kam Bowl had closed, I was kinda sad. 10th grade PE at Kamehameha, we got to pick different sports to do, and one of my choices was bowling. Kam Bowl was where I basically learned how to bowl.

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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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