If you prefer home-cooked Japanese food with a side of ocean view, pick up a bento box with rice balls, fried Spam, teriyaki beef, and egg roll.
3 Teishoku (sashimi, sukiyaki, shrimp tempura, Japanese pickles, and a bowl of fluffy white rice). Many dishes from the Japanese-Hawaii menu, conceived in the 1950s, remain popular today, including saimin, beef curry stew, and the No. Red lanterns and vintage photos documenting the evolution of the family business hang on the wall, along with a portrait of the restaurant’s namesake, Grandma Teshima. One of the oldest restaurants on Hawaii Island, Teshima Restaurant, has been serving hungry diners in Kealakekua since 1929. End your meal on a sweet note with the shave ice with panna cotta, tapioca, azuki, and lychee sorbet, or the MW Candy Bar with peanut butter crunch, macadamia nut caramel, Valrhona chocolate ganache, and black sesame ice cream.
The desserts here are renowned, so it’s no surprise that Michelle Karr-Ueoko received a nomination for Outstanding Pastry Chef by James Beard in 2022. On the menu are the ever-popular mochi-crusted Kona kampachi, Chinese roast duck and pork hash quesadilla, and unagi and butterfish arancini with nori tsukudani (seaweed paste).
When MW Restaurant moved to its new space at the glitzy Velocity Honolulu last year, the Ueokas tweaked their popular dishes and added new ones. While that was nearly a decade ago, this husband-and-wife team continues to impress diners and critics with their innovative take on Hawaii Regional Cuisine. When chefs Wade Ueoka and Michelle Karr-Ueoka opened MW Restaurant in 2013, they immediately garnered the attention of the James Beard Foundation, earning a Best New Restaurant nomination.
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