Got breakfast this morning ordered the banana pancake paid for the 3 stack when I came home there was only 1 pancake wow $5 for 1 pancake will not be going back. You would think when the girl close the container she would have caught it but I guess she didn't care either. read more

Came back to Hilo for a funeral, and decided to stop at Blaines to get something to eat prior to heading back to Oahu. I order the fried Saimin and my wife ordered the chicken wings, when we received our food my food was alright but my wife's chicken wings had no salt or pepper. I took couple bites into it and it was like they just threw the chicken in the fryer without seasoning it. My wife went to get our money back and the girl at the counter had the nerve to say that we have salt and pepper right over there. She had no clue what my wife was saying and she did not even apologize she just has bad customer service. Sorry, but for local establishment you should try and keep the clientele. That's how you stay in BUSINESS! read more

Start by saying, SLOWEST food service I've ever experienced!!! Once you get past that, food is quite good, and the Strawberry Slushes are like no other I've ever had! I had the Loco Moco, which was pretty good. Totally worth a try when here, but DON'T miss the SLUSH! read more

I ordered the Mini Chinese Chicken Salad - it was terrible! The only thing Chinese was the package fried noodle - the dressing was oil and vinegar! The chicken was some kind of frozen processed meat - tasted awful. This is the first time I've submitted a review, but it was so bad I had to post. read more

Sorry Hilo pepz the food here is salty or dry. I gave it a try 3 times eating different combos of plate lunches each time. Nothing did it for me. read more

Decent but not fantastic. We probably should have ordered something else, like the grilled ahi rather then the fried mahi mahi which was really doughy. I was really hungry and I love me a good plate lunch. The mac salad was OK but not da best. I'd for sure go back and order something else! read more

Seeing that this place had good reviews my mom and I stopped here so she could get an icee. First off, her icee wasn't good. My mom said she sucked the flavor out of the ice and was left with, well, ice. My mom got the grilled ahi sandwich (which was very greasy) and I had the mahi-mahi sandwich (which was fried). My sandwich was okay, my mom hated how greasy her's was. We also had macaroni salad (way too wet) and fries (soggy). A meal costing $17 should have been better and we won't be returning here anytime soon. read more

Blane's is always amazing! Great, cheap, greasy, high carb food. Good for you... not a chance. Delicious.....always! If you aren't familiar with the location, it can be difficult to get to. read more

The service was absolutely terrible! I called in a take out order for a pupu platter, and I was told that it would be ready when I got there 20 minutes later. When I arrived to pick it up I was told that they didn't even start making it yet because the last time a customer called in an order they didn't show up. How is that my fault, and why was I told that it would be ready? So I payed for the platter and told them I would be back to pick it up in 20 minutes. When I returned, the platter was ready, but the counter girl tried to charge me for it again! We've been long time customers of this local establishment, and the service has gone downhill over the years. We were late to our party because of their incompetence. read more

Your typical local drive in. The boneless chicken is good. Plate lunches and bentos are affordable.

Took over 30 minutes for three burgers. Ridiculous ! Customers were commenting that " lunch was going to turn into dinner." It might have easier to cook your own burgers. Lost faith in this establishment ... read more

After enjoying our day at Rainbow Falls, we decided to stop by Blanes Drive Inn based on yelp reviews. Let me start off by saying that the food wasn't that great, so I must sadly disagree with the hype and reviews. I tried the mahi mahi plate which comes with white rice and macaroni salad, everything was pretty bland and seemed almost like cafeteria food. My boyfriend tried the katsu chicken bowl which also wasn't impressive and had a weird tasting batter around the strips. Not to mention we couldn't even try the slush floats everybody is ranting and raving about on the reviews because their machine was out of order. I do have to say that the little young girl behind the counter was very polite with us, although there was another girl with black hair there that appeared to be very rude. We asked for refills and the younger girl told us it would be full price and that she was sorry, my boyfriend in shock said he had never heard of such thing as paying full price for a refill. The girl with the black hair rudely replied "Well it's Hawaii everything is expensive". I found her smart remark to be very rude and proves that she has no customer service skills. Solely on our experience here and the quality of food we were served, we will never be visiting Blanes again! If you are looking for good food in Hilo this is definitely not the place! read more

Bahrah...the breakfast fried rice plate is doubly ono. A healthy serving of well sculptured fried rice, a easy over egg with luncheon meat. Doesn't get any better...unless your overly health conscious. But hey, one or two days outta da week is just spoiling yourself. You deserve it. read more

so good. so solid. i love their loco moco. ugh, just going bonkers thinking about their loco moco!

Food is decent, but... It was horrible to see employees cleaning the serving area, with detergent, while food is still being served. Plate lunch open, fries being bagged and detergent dripping all over the place! read more

Some locals love this as an easy meal (take-out mostly). There are both mainstream (mainland-style) basic meals as well as Asian style - bento box and miso dishes, etc. Blanes has 3 (that I know of) locations in Hilo, all pretty much the same, and sometimes they offer daily specials a bit different than their standard menu. Chicken, pork, etc. Consistent. Like most places in Hilo, they are not open late (check hours!) read more

Good food. Sometimes oily. Don't recommend going on weekends as the service is so slow! Ordered three burgers, and 45 min later, they're ready. Understaffed for crowd. read more

I've given this place chance after chance, and each time I do, they let me down. If it wasn't for the slush floats, I'd have no reason to come here, then again Kozmic Cones has slush floats in more flavors now. For many years their chicken katsu was basically breading surrounding a thin piece of barely visible chicken. Their boneless chicken which is decent, also consists of barely any chicken and mostly the breading. I also had the Teri hamburger steak. The hamburger was a cheap frozen patty looking, dry as hell with little to no Teri sauce, and the rice was hard. My daughter had a cheeseburger and couldn't stomach more than two bites, so I tried to eat it and threw it away after my first bite. Just recently my coworkers and I bought food from there, and it was just awful. I don't like to be negative and I see many people here with good reviews, but I vow not to eat here again, both Hilo locations. The staff is always friendly and nice though, they just need to revamp their recipes. read more

whoa, special pak bento. chicken, teri beef, spam and musubi. uhh whoa

Yummm. So, if you are looking for health food, maybe not. But if you want good, quick, local fare, then this is it. I stopped in several times during my stay in Hilo and had several different options off the menu. Don't know what to get? Choose the special and you should be happy.....just ignore the carbs and calories. read more

Good food, good prices, friendly cashiers. The breakfast special and chili burger is great!

Beware! They took over an HOUR to make my 2 cheeseburgers and one order of fries today. They need more workers or a more efficient process.

o no way...wit regards fo my loco-moco order. had hardly any rice underneath da burger and da egg but choke gravy to masked it all. not a happy camper and still left a very hungry one. rating only fo dis order only. read more

This place is terrible. I ordered coffee and one of the cashier hands was wet and it was dripping into my coffee. my son told me dad did you see that are you going to drink that , I said he'll no let's go to Starbucks..... read more

I was hungry for sweet sour spare ribs today and Blane's had it as a lunch special at their Industrial location. It took long to get my order but, it smelled Great when I got it. Took it home and man it was a big disappointment, it was too vingary!!!! It's not how they used to make it, must have lost the recipe or a bad cook. Hope their other locations haven't lost the recipe. read more

With so many good reviews we had hoped for better. Family of 7 ate here on a recent trip to Hilo. We were looking for a quick, inexpensive lunch. I guess by HI standards is was probably fairly inexpensive (food is so expensive on the islands!) but even an inexpensive meal that disappoints makes it feel as though you paid too much. Menu items included the roast pork with gravy, a bacon cheeseburger, chili burger, some beef plate lunch, and a few other items unexceptional enough that I can't remember them. The kids were OK with their burgers. Not thrilled, but at least they ate them. The chili burger was gross - an assembled burger with chili dumped on the top of the bun. The roast pork and gravy left something to be desired. I'm not a fan of mac salad and theirs didn't win me over. The rest of the meal was edible but not exceptional. Not worth the money and definitely didn't live up to the reviews. read more