Waikoloa Coffee

Waikoloa Coffee sits inside the Lagoon Tower at Hilton Waikoloa Village on Waikoloa Beach Drive, a resort cafe on the Kohala Coast roughly a half hour south of Kawaihae. The counter pours Kona coffee and espresso drinks alongside fruit smoothies, acai bowls, croissants, quiche, and pastries, the kind of menu calibrated to feed a resort morning without making guests think too hard. Hours run weekdays 6 to 3, which captures the early surfers, the conference attendees, and the beach-day families on their way to the lagoon. The room is small, marked, and easy to find on the property map. Order the Kona drip if you want the Big Island morning the resort built the cafe around. Order the iced latte and an acai bowl if you came for the lagoon and needed something portable on the way.