The Sunrise Shack

SPECIALTY

2335 Kalākaua Avenue, Honolulu, 96815

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The Sunrise Shack on Kalakaua sits in the Waikiki block where Royal Hawaiian Center traffic spills onto the sidewalk and surf school vans queue at the curb. The space is a counter and a wall of laminate, by design. The Termini brothers built the brand on butter coffee and acai bowls out of a yellow shack at Pipeline, and the Waikiki location runs the same playbook for visitors who walked over from a Kalakaua hotel. The crowd is morning beach traffic, surf schools mid-changeover, and locals who treat this as the take-out version of the brand. Order the Bulletproof if you want the butter coffee that built the operation. Order the acai bowl with peanut butter and granola if you want the version of Waikiki breakfast that goes back into a beach bag and ends up at Queens.

About Honolulu

Honolulu coffee runs across two registers at the same time. The Kaimuki bench, where neighborhood regulars settle in for a Saudi cardamom pour at Mirage Art and Coffee on 10th Avenue, a chasen-whisked Uji matcha at Daily Whisk inside Ten Tomorrow, or a Kona pour-over at Bean About Town on Waialae. And the downtown corridor through Fort Street Mall and Waimanu, where Drip Studio HNL anchors the contemporary specialty register and Cafe VNTG runs a Brazilian-leaning bar inside a vintage furniture warehouse in Kakaako.

Coffee here grows on the islands. Kona, Kau, and Maui lots show up alongside Ethiopian and Yemeni preparations. Most cafes pour something local. Bean About Town runs a 100% Kona program with the SL34 and Red Bourbon lots when they are in season. Talk Kaimuki, which Liz Schwartz opened as Coffee Talk in 1995 at the Waialae and 12th Avenue intersection, still runs a Sumatran-forward house program and the haupia latte regulars built years ago.

The neighborhood map is the city. Kaimuki holds the slow Saturday-morning bench. Kakaako runs the contemporary cafes around the SALT block. Downtown and Chinatown stretch from Fort Street Mall to Waimanu Street. Waikiki holds the visitor-volume rooms including the Junbi matcha bar at Royal Hawaiian Center and the Dean and Deluca outpost on Kalakaua. The result is a small city that drinks more carefully than its population would suggest, and a circuit that crosses three or four neighborhoods inside a half-day walk.