order of the day 1 Kenny’s cozy interior confines 2 The Veggie Pizza with Spinach and Tomato ($12.50) 3 Roasted Turkey & Cranberry Salad ($10.25) 4 Flavored Pancakes — peach, chocolate chip and strawberry
apples have been replaced with Bosc pears and chunks of papaya. The revised menu will include four brand-new salads, all priced at $12.25: the Waldorf, the BLT, Taco, and Turkey & Cranberry. With a flourish, Chef Yeban delivers new breakfast dishes for sampling. The Peach Pancake and the Strawberry Pancake are accompanied by delicious toppings made with fruit, cream, and a bit of honey. Haupia and Chocolate Chip Pancakes are new entries, and Kenny’s famous French
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($10.25) 5 Chef Ernesto Yeban with the Ewa Sweet Battered Whole Fried Onion ($8.99) and Kim Chee Fried Rice with 2 Eggs ($9.49) 6 Teriyaki Chicken Pizza ($12.50) 7 Taco Salad
8 Sweet Potato French Fries with Kenny’s Restaurant Honey Mustard or Ranch Dressing Where: 1620 N. School St., Honolulu ($2.89) Call: 841.0931 9 French Toast — strawberry ($10.25) Kenny’s Express Hawaiian Barbecue 10 Ewa Sweet Battered Whole Where: 2201 Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu Fried Onion ($8.99)
Toast, made with huge squares of Hawaiian sweet bread, will now be available in Strawberry and Haupia versions. All are priced at $8.29; toppings are $1.90 extra. Like most of the other 6 items on Kenny’s menu, they’ll be available all day long. In 2008, Kenny’s Express Hawaiian Barbecue opened in the food court of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in Waikiki. The small eatery offers an abbreviated menu of Kenny’s favorites. “It’s our chance to try something a bit smaller, utilizing what’s good over here at our original location,” says Fujieki. “Eventually, when that takes off, we plan to expand.” Kenny’s Kalihi regulars needn’t worry that they’ll be forgotten. Traditional favorites on the menu will remain, including Chinese Chicken Salad ($10.79), Korean Style Chicken ($11.99), and the extensive fish list, subject to availability. Today’s offerings include Ahi Steak or Ahi Nitsuke ($11.99), Opakapaka Fillet ($16.99) and two whole-fish options: Akule ($14.99) and Menpachi ($19.99). “People come from all over just to eat our fish,”
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says Diggs. The restaurant will continue to offer a kamaaina discount of 20 percent on its specials, which change every two weeks. Kenny’s Restaurant is currently open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and open till 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Those hours may be extend8 ed after the restaurant secures its liquor license, which Fujieki anticipates will happen within the next four months; he says they’ll emphasize draft beer. “We’ll also introduce some new appetizers,” adds Diggs proudly. “We’re gonna be here for another 45 years!”
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