Oldies & goodies
Anna Miller’s
Oh, the pies. Anna Miller’s advertises (a suspiciously familiar) 31 flavors, and all of them are old-school delicious. Try the strawberry, which comes with at least a half-dozen whole berries and god-only-knows how much sugar. The model train that used to circle the restaurant is long gone, but it’s still worth a visit–the menu hasn’t changed in decades, and as far as we can tell, neither has the way the food is prepared. If you’re looking for eggs Benedict the way they served it in the 1970s–that is, with the hollandaise thicker than butter, and in gigantic portions–this is the place to be. Open 24 hours a day!
Murphyʻs burgers
The Counter serves up an amazing burger, but we can’t all spend our mornings in yoga pants, cruising the aisles at Whole Foods and then lunching next door when we get tired. Murphy’s burgers are no secret to the Reyn’s-aloha-shirt crowd, but everyone else is missing out–generous helpings of the fixings, good bread and great steak make this among the top hamburgers in town. Call ahead at lunchtime!
Mitzu-Ken
This School Street hole-in-the-wall is well-known for its garlic chicken plate, but it’s the breakfast that really broke da mout’. Put them together and you have one of Honolulu’s best-kept plate lunch secrets. Starting at 4am, Tuesday through Friday only, line up for the breakfast special: eggs-how-you-like-‘em, bacon and portuguese sausage on a heap of first-rate fried rice, with a couple of pieces of garlic chicken on the side. You won’t regret it anywhere but in your arteries.
Duc’s Bistro
Duc’s Bistro is the sort of restaurant where you could imagine Graham Greene having a cocktail in 1950s Saigon (or George Clooney in modern days, as was the case recently). It’s a fine-dining oasis in Chinatown but keeps with the laid-back atmosphere of the neighborhood. Eighteen years later, affable Duc Nguyen is still in the restaurant day in, day out, serving not so much fusion food nor Pacific Rim as Vietnamese food giving tribute to its French influences.
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