Wahooo Seafood Grill & Bar
Reviews
terrible service and food. how does it have such good reviews? server was super slow and not knowledgeable. the soup tasted like it came out of a box. the fries were some of the worst I've had. really bad.
Food: Good Service: Fair Ambience: Fair Price and Value: Fair Our first night on Kauai and we decided to find someplace close to our condo. Wahooo Seafood Grill was right next door to an L & L, and honesty, L & L may have been a better value. We were sat right away, and there were 3 or 4 other table occupied, but nowhere near full. We honesty thought we were in a basic, casual dining restaurant until we looked at the menus and saw the average price per plate was around $30. The décor and ambience was not that of a upper scale restaurant for sure. We ordered a round of drinks and it took the waiter two additional trips back and forth from the bar to confirm our order and ask the questions he forgot to ask initially. I had a dirty martini, and my aunt had a glass of white wine. They must have made my martini first, and then opened the wine because my drink was just cool, not cold. When we ordered the waiter seemed nervous and tentative of his knowledge of the menu. He must have been new. He was fine but was unable to answer the 3 questions we had about the menu. He brought over someone else to help. The waiter told us there was a great salad bar for an additional $5. We all decided to have salad. The salad bar turned out to be pretty disappointing. Something like you might find at a pizza joint; lettuce, 5-6 toppings, a couple of prepared salads, fruit and just 2 dressing choices. It got the job done, but I was expecting something more. The entrees came, and, to be honest, the food turned out to be pretty good. I ordered the Moonfish, and it did come out hot, and well prepared. The lobster brandy sauce was tasty, but no lobster, just a couple shrimp. My wife is not a seafood girl, so she ordered a Kahlua pork sandwich, and she said it was good. My aunt had the prime rib, which looked great, but she said her backed potato was ice cold. Wouldn't even melt the butter. My uncle ordered the teriyaki rib eye. They did not ask him what temperature he preferred, and it came out well done. He said it had good flavor, but was very tough. No desserts were ordered. All in all, if this place was half the cost, I would say it would be a great value. We had several other meals with at restaurants with menu items around $30 - Duke's, Roy's, and Hukilau Lanai, all of these spots make Wahooo Seafood Grill look like Shari's or Denny's. Good if that is what you are looking for, but disappointing if you are thinking you are going in for a higher end dining experience.
It was great and we had good food.
My husband and I went in just for dessert on a Saturday and got seated very quickly. The service was great and the bananas and cream was out of this world. They serve you homemade vanilla icecream in a caramel cup with lightly torched bananas and drizzled syrup, just heaven on a plate!!! If dinner is anything like dessert we will be frequenting more often.... The prices are a little high but the dessert was worth it!
My wife and I ate here and there was no waiting we sat where we wanted and the service was great. The food was awesome and the dessert were delicious. Whoever cooks puts a nice effort into it. The decoration was minimal but very elegant. The only incovenient with sitting outside is the noise of the street, specially when there's bikers around. I noticed the toilets were a little smelly but no visual rubbish or gross things around besides that everything was great.