Pāʻia Fish Market Opens in Waikīkī With a Great Happy Hour

Posted byKatie KennyPosted inFood and Drink, Honolulu, Work Experience, Writing

Shrimp taco fans, unite! The casual Maui restaurant just opened its first location on O‘ahu and we’re hooked.

Photo: Katie Kenny / HONOLULU Magazine

Shrimp tacos. Shrimp tacos. Shrimp tacos.

I’m truly invested in the Beetlejuice theory that if you repeat something at least three times, it will appear. Ever since the North Shore Tacos food truck up and left Waikīkī without any warning, I’ve been on the search for a taco fix of the shrimp variety.

I annoyed neighbors, colleagues and visiting friends almost on a daily basis about the lack of a decent substitute to the food truck that ghosted me.

And then it happened.

Shrimp tacos. Shrimp tacos. Shrimp tacos. Voilà!

A smiley blond lady outside of the entrance to The Laylow hotel on Kūhiō Avenue handed me a flyer for a new eatery opening that day and it had my dish of choice listed next to a variety of fresh fish plates: Pāʻia Fish Market was the answer to my excessive rambling.

Originally from the hippie surfer town of Pāʻia, Pāʻia Fish Market now has a total of four locations, with the brand-spanking-new Waikīkī spot being the first outside of Maui. It’s still early, so here are our initial reactions:

Read the full story on HONOLULU Magazine. 

Published by Katie Kenny

Professionally, Katie Kenny is a digital content producer, social media manager and lifestyle writer from Hong Kong. Outside the office, she has a love of adventure travel, medium rare steak and suspenseful TV shows, consumes way too much Italian wine and is shamelessly obsessed with her ridiculous rescue dog named Lily. Katie made the big move to O‘ahu in March of 2018 and started working at HONOLULU Magazine as the digital editorial specialist that July. During her four years with the company, she managed digital editorial content, SEO and all of HONOLULU’s, HONOLULU Family’s and Frolic Hawai‘i’s website functionality and day-to-day management, recorded data, tracked progress, studied trends, worked on overall strategy, and also rounded up the best events for both the print issues and online.

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