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    Kailua Town Pub & Grill

    3.3 (547 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 2:00 AM (Next day)

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    KAILUA TOWN PUB & GRILL ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Happy hour specials

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    Loaded buffalo chicken tater tots
    Jamie P.

    The food is DELICIOUS! I always get the burger. It's so hard not to get it because they have the best burgers but, decided to try something different and was blown away. Great job chef

    The Pub Burger

    The food was very good and I liked the ambience! My waiter was very kind and attentive.

    Reuben Sandwich with Onion Rings
    Gil G.

    A Thursday afternoon and the place filled up quickly as the Pau Hana mode approached. Bloody Mary and tapped beer were all refreshing. Fish and Chips remains high on the must have list! Burger was an outstanding choice, big, thick and juicy. The Rueben also pleased my new guest. Glad to see a key business thriving once again! Service was very good and kudos to the very busy bartender!

    Great beer, fantastic food and great place to watch any sports!! Friendly and attentive bartenders

    Great beers on tap
    Sophia W.

    Awesome place .. for an early or late drink, dinner, appetizer etc Kat was great serving our drinks and chips

    It's been a while but back in town in contract so, here I am!!! Calamari and the cheeseburger.  Really tasty stuff!! Service on point
    richard r.

    Well, it's been a couple of years since I've been here. Back in town on contract, well on the other side of the island. I thought I would stop by here, so here I am. Ordered the calamari to start and the cheeseburger to finish. Took a bot to get back to me. Its a little busy, but they both came out at the same time??. Ugh, lol. She said she was sorry but it's not her fault. Anyway, they both tasted pretty good. I forgot to add bacon to my burger!!. It was cooked just right, though, medium rare!! Overall, not bad at all. Good atmosphere, good bar service. Friendly.

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    Food was good, especially the French dip sandwich. Server was welcoming and efficient.

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    Food was great and the service was excellent and quick and the place was clean. Good variety of drinks available too

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    1 year ago

    We went for their happy hour! Best deal in town! Had the fish and chips and the fried calamari! $10 for huge portions!

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    1 year ago

    Love it. Awesome staff great customer service food was awesome. Great place to go and hang out.

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    1 year ago

    I hated this place the food was burnt the fries were okay and the pizza what so thin and it was SO LOUD I COULD NOT HEAR ANYTHING

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    Kailua Tavern

    Kailua Tavern

    4.1
    (32 reviews)
    0.1 mi

    Food: GREAT AND TASTY!…read more Service: very kind to everyone! Ambiance: love the atmosphere

    Exactly perfect for what we were looking for. First and foremost on the list for our search, was…read morewe hoped to find a place that had televised sports (both Monday Night Football and the World Series were on--but remember, this is Hawaii--way-out in the Pacific, so live-games come on in the afternoon or even earlier). Multiple screens make it so there is not a bad seat in the house. We also hoped to find a place with more of a "neighborhood/locals" energy to chill and relax our tired dogs (feet) in...and also, if it wasn't asking too much, hoped that it would have a fun vibe. (*Check those criteria off). "Icing on the cake", for us would be if the location had decent food. (Check that one off and put an exclamation point behind it--as the nachos we had were, "Fire".) As fate would have it, a lucky break was to be had as we walked in to the very-full bar. There, before us, were two stools at the bar (*the last remaining spots in the place) and they happened to be open. Side note: The bar has a speak-easy attached to it, and one day, we are gonna try it. Going there has been mentioned a few times when we have chatted with locals and tourists regarding memorable and unique things to do. Our servers were pleasant and accommodating despite the fact that the place was "choke widd plenty-kine cust-a'mah" (local pidgin for, full of customers). It's a hard balancing act to make patrons feel welcomed, but also not leave other thirsty tables waiting for too long. The two pretty blondes working that afternoon did a fantastic job at this. My seasonal sour beer hit all the right notes, and my wife seemed to enjoy her less exotic tap beer (Blue moon with an orange slice--served ice cold). There is a ton of beers to choose from here. Lighting in the Kailua Tavern is kinda darkish (not a problem, as I like me a dark bar sometimes). The locals were very-welcoming. One guy offered his table to us when he noticed our food had arrived and our plates were a bit pinned in. Also, anyone who happened to be sitting near us immediately engaged in friendly banter about the games. One guy of Tongan decent, who was probably 6'5" and had muscles piled-on to his massive frame came over and leaned in very close to ask, "Hey DEN, Bradah, YOU MIND FOR IF I GO DANCE WICH YOU DATE?" (*That didn't happen, I thought channeling a classic moment from the bar-scene in, Animal House, would be funny...but like the Toronto Blue Jays in the late innings of last night's game, "Swing and a miss". ) The Kailua Town Tavern was the opposite of a swing and a miss for us. It was fun and a good place to "chill"; the vibe was what we had hoped for; and of special note were the steak strips on the nachos, as they were superb.

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    Buzz's

    Buzz's

    3.4
    (1.7k reviews)
    1.2 mi
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    This is my first time to dine at Buzz's although I have dined at Buzz's when they were also at…read morePearl City . I must say it's a gem and ambiance here near the beach is great. Could tell it was a very popular spot and people kept coming in but luckily we made reservations. The menu was not very extensive but it had a good variety of beef ...chicken .. vegan and seafood . I ordered the Teriyaki Flap steak 6oz with rice/vegetables and my friend ordered a Teri burger not on the menu but the waitress said it could be done as only had a Teriyaki chicken burger . My Teriyaki flap steak was okay (little on the dry side) but was tasty. On the other hand ..my friend's Teri burger was not what she expected as the burger was grilled but Teri sauce on the side . So was not like a grilled Teri burger which was marinated in Teri sauce . ( server did not mention this) The server was very nice and offered us a birthday treat ... Vanilla ice cream in a brownie in honor of my birthday. It was very nice to sit and dine comfortably and chat without being rushed. I would like to return at dinner and try their regular steak dinners and the Artichoke surprise... with a night ambiance . Until the next time !!

    We walked into Buzz's on a Sunday around noon during Mother's Day weekend. The place was absolutely…read morepacked -- buzzy in every sense of the word. Families hovered around the hostess stand hoping for a table, conversations floated through the air like music, and somewhere beneath it all you could feel the pulse of a place that had been feeding people and creating memories for generations. "There was a guy, his name was Buzz, a greater guy there never was..." Two haole boys and a haole girl from Oxnard, California stood in the middle of it all -- directly across the Pacific from our own modest beach town known as the Strawberry Capital of the World. Farming communities understand something important: the sacred relationship between people, food, and land. Buzz's felt like it understood that too. The sun-kissed, freckled-faced hostess greeted us warmly. The wait? About an hour. Not surprising. Places with soul usually require patience. Knowing my way around restaurants, I told her the best seat in the house is almost always the bar. That's where the stories live. That's where you meet the people making the magic happen. To my surprise, she smiled and welcomed us in. And there it was -- the perfect bar. Open, timeless, alive with character. Across from us sat an elegant woman in traditional Hawaiian attire, facing the ocean, staring through the front windows like she had done it a hundred Sundays before. She had it right - positioned on the best side of the bar. You don't turn your back to the view of the ocean, so we sat next to her. The room hummed with warmth and familiarity. It didn't feel transactional. It felt communal. "Seat da people, spock da chicks, Buzzy always got his pick." Then came the bartender -- commanding the room with charisma, warmth, and effortless aloha. Her energy moved through the restaurant like a tide. Every server who approached her bar carried away drinks and a little piece of her spirit. You could feel it. The laughter became contagious. The hospitality felt genuine. I wasn't drinking that day, but she kept the non-alcoholic daiquiris flowing with the same care and enthusiasm as every cocktail she served. Somewhere between the ocean breeze, the company, and the aloha spirit, I started questioning whether my drink secretly had alcohol in it. Maybe that's just what happens when people make you feel welcome. And then there was the food. The Teriyaki Steak was exceptional -- tender enough to cut like butter, rich with flavor, perfectly balanced alongside rice and vegetables. My cousin ordered the Fish Burrito and couldn't stop talking about it. By the end of the meal he declared it the best thing he'd eaten on the island. "Steak & lobster, salad bar, with a place like this he could go far." As we walked out and continued our adventure through Oahu, Buzz's kept circling back into the conversation. The people. The food. The laughter. The feeling. A little part of me wants to protect this place like a local secret. But that wouldn't be in the spirit of aloha. So much love and respect to everyone at Buzz's. Mahalo.

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