Sam Choy's Kai Lanai - Kailua-Kona

Friendly staff, great drinks, great visibility and solid happy hour snacks. it blows me away, how many of these cripples for this place shy their servier style. are they open, on the same time, when they treat the waitress with the respect they deserve, they will be happy to help them. the spring rolls with Korean Bbq sauce were delicious, the calamari was in a form I never experienced and had a wonderful soak to accompany them. that was great. we spent our visit to observe various shipping along the coast.

I had visited this restaurant often when I had a guest before the covid. This restaurant has a great ocean view and it was a great joy to eat something nice food while enjoying the great view. However, once the covid hit the island, I was not able to visit the restaurant. Before the covid, this one was my favorite restaurant in Kona since my guest always liked here. However, the covid changed every thing including this restaurant. They now serve the food on the paper plate, and you need to make an order from the front desk. You also need to pick up the food. You do every thing except cooking. (Even we had to wipe the table by ourselves since it was wet) Okay! I can understand well of this because of the covid. They are short of the staff, and they probably try their best to put the restaurant on the right track. Then they also need to think of the price or their service. They said that the server will come to take our order for the drink. However no server came up to us even after the food came. Eventually the server came and took our order for the drink, but the drink did not come finally. They said that the fountain machine does not work properly. I was thirsty but I was not able to ask them to get me some water since they were super busy. Even we did not get any service, we paid the full price including the tip. When I made an order, I had to pay first and I assumed that the service will be fine. However it was horrible. I brought a guest to the restaurant but I was very sorry to my guest. I was so disappointed by Sam Choy, and I will not bring any guest to here anymore for this year. Probably I will try to find another alternative restaurant for my guest.

The former Wendy’s location is impressive; great sunset view. eating is good, not spectacular. the service was attentive and thoughtful. there was a mix on our wine order and they have us 2 glasses; beautiful geste. her fish is fresh and well prepared. Fish trio was nice combo. recommended reservation for the front line table.

Sam Choy's Kai Lanai restaurant has awesome views. The food is excellent. There are plenty of selections on the menu. It's great that breakfast may be ordered all day Saturday and Sunday. My favorites are the fresh fish sandwich and house salad with Oriental dressing.

The evening meal of my man was good, but I had the worst dinner we've ever met there. I ordered a chrispy duck court, but the half of it was huh. duck is dark meat the half of this overly baked, then fried plate had white meat in it. they wanted to save it. it is an expensive restaurant to expect good food. DON’t order this dish!