Kilauea Market + Café

Kilauea Market and Cafe sits on Ala Namahana Parkway in Kilauea, a few minutes from the lighthouse and the Kong Lung shops, working as both a North Shore Kauai grocery and a daytime cafe. The store runs 7 to 7. The cafe runs Friday through Tuesday, 8 to 1:30, with a coffee bar, beer and wine, prepared foods, and made-to-order plates. Indoor and outdoor seats both fill on cafe mornings. The crowd reads exactly like Kilauea: surfers from Rock Quarry and Kahili, parents on a school-run loop, visitors holding a list of beaches and stopping for sandwiches. The room is unfussy and locally run, the kind of stop where you walk in for coffee and leave with dinner. Order the coffee with a fresh prepared plate if you want a Kilauea morning that doubles as a beach lunch. Order a sandwich and a glass of wine if you came after the lighthouse.