Driving through the Haleiwa you’ll find a strip of famous shops and eateries. It’s a tourist haven and I don’t mean that in a bad way. There’s a ton of famous eateries here, like Cholos, Matsumoto Shaved Ice, Haleiwa’s Joes, Rosie’s Cantina, Spagettini, and Haleiwa Eats. Everytime we drive by I’m like, let’s eat there, but I usually get overruled and we end up getting Mexican. It’s not so bad because tacos after a day at the beach is pretty fucking phenomenal. Anyhow, today I got my way and I finally got to check out Haleiwa Eats for myself.
I walked in and was super excited, this place is totally adorable.
On the wall behind me was a decorative display of Mac Computers. Since I’m Mac 4 life I could totally appreciate the art here. My younger sisters actually had one of these, the blue one. What a great innovative, and creative way to recycle Macs.
Here, we have the Thai Summer Rolls, $5.00, fresh rice paper wrapped with veggies and served with peanut sauce. This was a vegetarian’s dream summer roll. I’m use to summer rolls with some kind of meat like, shrimp or shredded pork, but these babies were meatless. Veggies like green beans and cucumbers that I love, but am not use to seeing in a summer roll was used. The peanut sauce made me nut myself, if you know what I mean. It was different than any other peanut sauce I’ve had, like a creamy, curry, peanut your mouth kind of sauce. Fan.
I believe this is the Thai Spicy Basil, $9.00, chili basil sauce, with string beans, zuchinni and onions. The portion was kinda skimpy, but it was no doubt delicious.
After eating the summer rolls and ordering some steam rice, I had just enough to eat to satisfy my hunger and curiosity. I left with a very happy belly.
Haleiwa Eats
66-079 Kamehameha Hwy
Haleiwa, HI 96712
(808) 637-4247
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October 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am
We were in Haleiwa last week and were really surprised to find that Haleiwa Eats is under renovation/reconstruction/new ownership? The parking lot was full of construction-worker pick-up trucks. The guys were tearin’ the place apart. Was the FBI looking for clues in the walls or will something new spring u p from the ashes?
Since we were hungry and were too lazy to boot up the laptop and see what pther places you really liked to eat at, we ended up at the Food for Thought food truck at the Haleiwa Supermarket shopping center. MMMmmm – good. My husband (who is not Mexican, but we live in Tucson, so does that count?) and I enjoyed their lunchspecial: the Sloppy Joe on a toasted pita, replete with delicious, local caesar salad (romaine and toms). The food is mostly locally grown and the tableware is completely recyclable. You have to go there.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:24 am
This sounds great! Be sure to post this review at http://tinyurl.com/26okadh to let others know!