My wife and I enjoy eating out and Honolulu’s restaurants respond to our dining initiatives by closing down.
The Tower Grill in Aloha Tower Marketplace closed just a week or so after our last visit. Add it to the list.
Somehow our dining habits have resulted in the closure of many of Honolulu’s most notable restaurants. Remember On Jin? Yep, we loved that place. We had dinner. On Jin closed.
Remember Bobby McGee’s in Waikiki? Or, the American Bistro or Helen’s on Kapahulu? Or Hanatei in Hawaii Kai? Even local plate lunch eateries cannot escape the curse. Remember Masa’s on King Street?
Our family restaurant curse dates back to the late 1980s and a wonderful dinner at Canlis in Waikiki. What? You don’t remember fine dining, Canlis style? It’s been awhile since they closed their doors. A few years ago we stopped for burgers at Burger King on King Street near Dillingham. The building sells cars now.
Since then, no less than a dozen Honolulu dining establishments have closed following one of our dinner visits.
To be fair, we’ve been tempted to assist with the closure of some restaurants which we deem no longer worthy of our dining out efforts.
On three occasions we stopped at Alan Wong’s Pineapple Room in Macy’s, Ala Moana Center, only to decide to leave without being served. The service was slow, the menu boring, and cleanliness appears not next to Godliness at Alan Wong’s in recent years. So we left before ordering dinner, thus saving the Pineapple Room from becoming the latest victim of our family restaurant curse.
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