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Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch & Crab & Big Aloha Brewery
580 Nimitz Hwy, Honolulu, HI 96817
+1 808 545 7979
site: Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch & Crab & Big Aloha Brewery
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At this happy, carefree eatery, elegance and cholesterol be damned. Chef/restaurateur Sam Choy's crab house features great fun and gigantic meals (a Choy trademark). Imagine dining in an all-wood sampan (the centerpiece of the 11,000-sq.-ft. restaurant) and washing your hands in an oversized wok in the center of the room. A 2,000-gallon live-crab tank lines the open kitchen with an assortment of crabs in season: Kona, Maryland, Samoan, Dungeness, and Florida stone crabs. Clam chowder, seafood gumbos, oysters from the oyster bar, and assorted poke are also offered at dinner, which, in Choy fashion, comes complete with soup, salad, and entree. Children's menus are an additional family feature. Several varieties of "Big Aloha Beer," brewed on-site, go well with the crab and poke. Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.

Price

Main courses $5-$13 breakfast, $9-$40 lunch, $19-$45 dinner,M

Credit Cards Accepted

AE, DC, DISC, MC, V

Reservations

Reservations recommended for lunch and dinner

Directions

#19, 20

Area

Iwilei, Located in the Iwilei industrial area near Honolulu Harbor, across the street from Gentry Pacific Center

Parking

Valet

Hours

Sun-Thurs 6:30am-9:30pm; Fri-Sat 6:30am-10pm

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