BLTsteak-Honolulu

 Bistro Laurent Tourondel or BLTsteak is located in the Trump Tower in Waikiki.  This is the only luxury Hotel on Oahu.  My wife decided to take me to BLTsteak for my birthday.  The menu is on their website, so before we left for town, I already knew what I was going to order.  22oz Bone in ribeye.  More on that later.
We had reservations for 6pm.  Pulled up to the valet at the Trump Tower and step to the right, follow the hallway to the end about 30 or so yards, and you will be there.
We were joined by a few of my friends, brother and sister-in-law.  Six of us steak eaters, and my wife the vegan at a high scale steak house.  We were seated immediately at a sorta corner booth, with three people in chairs, and four of us on a nice comfy booth style bench.  They started us off with some drinks, then brought out a meat tray (compliments of the chef), some chicken pate and toast, as well as some cheese bread with bacon, and then the big popovers.  With that who needs the steak? I ordered my ribeye, with creamed spinach, and jalapeno mashed potatoes.  Others on the table ordered their steaks, and sides.  In all I think we got the sides covered, Kahuku bbq corn, grilled asparagus, potato and leek hash browns (my fave of the sides), scalloped potatoes.  The chef's wife is a friend of my mother in law, so he sent out many different things throughout the night.  One of the sides was the onion ring stack.  All the sides were $8 each.  Not bad, but they were pretty small.  The corn looked like less than a can!  Anyway, on to the steak.  Mine, the bone in ribeye was $45.  My brother ordered the porterhouse for 2-40oz, and his was $85.  Others were the filet and NY strip. $34 for the 8oz filet, $32 for the 12oz The NY strip went for $37, $43 and $49, 14, 16, and bone in 20oz.  All the desserts were $10, and very small portions, yet very sweet, and any more and it would be overkill.  An awesome looking sundae walked by and I asked a waitress what it was.  She replied, "it's a pineapple sundae, and very refreshing!"  No one at the table ordered that, yet our chef sent one out to us.  She was completely correct.  I don't think there is any other way to describe that sundae.  "Refreshing." It was great, with the pina colada sorbet.  He also sent out some brownies, and peach cobbler.
Stuffed.  Only thing to describe how we all felt at the end of the meal.
A HUGE thank you to Chef Johan Svensson for awesome steaks and wonderful service by the staff at BLTsteak.

BLTsteak
Trump International Hotel Waikiki Beach Walk
223 Saratoga Road
Honolulu, HI 96815
Telephone: 808-683-7440
Dinner
Sunday – Thursday
5:30PM – 10PM
Friday & Saturday
5:30PM – 11PM    .

Nico's @ Pier 38

So I watched the Triple D with Guy when he visited Hawaii. One of his stops was at Nico's on the Pier so I thought I better check them out. They have a counter inside where you order and pick up your food, then go outside under sorta a big patio and eat on the tables and chairs outside. It was a Monday lunch time, and was very crowded. I found parking, and walked into order. I had no idea what to get, so just picked the first thing on their menu, or their most sold "plate-lunch." THis was a Furikake Ahi. Cooked to order, just like a steak. I ordered medium rare, but got more medium well. Had brown rice and toss salad, instead of white and mac. Plate was good, but I was wanting more fish at the end of the meal. Brown rice, was well, brown not really dry like some places, but only about 1.5 scoops, verses other places that give you a hearty 2 scoops, and the toss salad was good mixed greens, with a house dressing. The fish since it was a bit over cooked was somewhat dry, so I used the tarter sauce, which I would normally never use on ahi, and it was boring. Not much too it, some mayo, and maybe pickle juice and some
I need to go back and try some of the other specials. The double cheeseburger sounds great, as well as the loco moco. Here are a couple of shots from my lunch. Looks good huh? Closed on Sundays-big bummer.

Zoomed in shot of the plate.

Nico's Pier 38

Monday - Friday
6:30am - 5:00pm
· Saturday ·
6:30am - 2:30pm
1133 N. Nimitz HWY
Honolulu, HI 96817
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Tel: 540-1377
Fax: 540-1376

Big Kahuna's Pizza -n- Stuff

Big Kahuna's is located in the Airport Trade Center. It used to be a hole-in-the wall place, but moved here a few years back. They serve pizza, sandwiches, shakes, garlic bread balls (pictured above) and a couple of desserts. One of the cool things here is that any pizza they have on their menu, you can get in sandwich form. Tonight I decided to order the BBQ pizza as a sandwich. Thin sliced bbq chicken red onions on cheese with bbq sauce, then sprinkled with cilantro. As a pizza a 7" personal pan would run you $7.55 and a 12" medium would be $19.95. The sandwich is $7.95 (pictured below). My wife ordered the grilled eggplant as a sandwich. Grilled eggplant, garlic, 5 cheeses, carmelized onions, sweet roasted red peppers & sundried tomatoes. She liked it, but probably would have liked the club or blt better, but went healthy. The garlic cheese balls go for $5.65 (12) and $3.15 (6).
The food here is really good, always hot, and made to order. A favorite of my wife and I, along with our friends. We will definitely be back many, many times.


Big Kahuna's
Open 7 days a week
M-F 10-9*
Sat-Sun 11-9*
*or until they run out.
550 Paiea St. Honolulu, HI 96819

808-833-5588 Give them a call to place an order so you don't have to wait so long...