Mirage Art and Coffee

Mirage Art and Coffee sits at 1425 10th Avenue in Kaimuki, a Honolulu coffee shop and art gallery built around Arabian coffee tradition. The bar pulls Saudi coffee from a dallah with cardamom, Turkish coffee, and Ethiopian preparations alongside espresso and the house Honey Rose Latte. The room is dense with art and runs warm. Saturdays bring belly dancing, live music, paint nights, and open mic. The owner is around, eccentric in the way good Kaimuki regulars are eccentric, and will tell you about the cardamom if you let her. Hours run Tuesday through Saturday only, 9 to 3. Mornings pull Kaimuki regulars who treat the place as their living room, art crowd from the gallery side, and visitors who came for one Saudi coffee and walked out with a print. Order the Saudi coffee in the dallah if you want the Mirage version of mornings. Order the Honey Rose Latte and stay through a Saturday set if you came for Kaimuki and want the room at full volume.