Hawaiʻi Eats · Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi
Kapaʻa restaurants: plate lunch & drive-ins, poke, shave ice and more
In and around Kapaʻa: 2 plate lunch spots, 1 poke counter, 1 shave ice stand and 1 Hawaiian food or okazuya spot. The Hawaii lists were checked by hand in October 2026 against 2025–26 sources. The Hawaiʻi Eats app and the web search include 83 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in Kapaʻa, closest first once you share your location.
A place outside Kapaʻa is listed here only when Kapaʻa is the closest of our 20 city pages and it's within 15 miles on the same island, so each place is on one city page. Kapaʻa is on Kauaʻi.
Plate lunch & drive-ins in and near Kapaʻa
Places in Kapaʻa first, then others closest to Kapaʻa. Each one was read against a 2025–26 menu or news story in October 2026. Every island: 19 plate lunch spots in Hawaii.
Kīlauea Fish Market
4270 Kilauea Rd, Kīlauea · 12 mi from Kapaʻa
Plate lunchPoke On the menu: poke bowls, ʻahi wraps, Korean barbecue chicken
A family-run fish market and grill in the Kīlauea Plantation Center that has served food since 2004.
Hanalei Taro & Juice Co.
5-5070 Kūhiō Hwy, Hanalei · 15 mi from Kapaʻa
Plate lunchHawaiian food On the menu: poi, taro mac salad, lomi lomi salmon, kalua pig plate
A food stand founded in 2000 by the Haraguchi family, whose farm has grown kalo in Hanalei since the 1920s.
Poke in and near Kapaʻa
Places in Kapaʻa first, then others closest to Kapaʻa. Each one was read against a 2025–26 menu or news story in October 2026. Every island: 13 poke counters and fish markets in Hawaii.
Kīlauea Fish Market
4270 Kilauea Rd, Kīlauea · 12 mi from Kapaʻa
Plate lunchPoke On the menu: poke bowls, ʻahi wraps, Korean barbecue chicken
A family-run fish market and grill in the Kīlauea Plantation Center that has served food since 2004.
Shave ice in Kapaʻa
Places in Kapaʻa. Each one was read against a 2025–26 menu or news story in October 2026. Every island: 5 shave ice stands in Hawaii.
Wailua Shave Ice
4-831 Kuhio Hwy, Kapaʻa
Shave ice On the menu: shave ice
A Kapaʻa shave ice shop.
Hawaiian food & okazuya in and near Kapaʻa
Places in Kapaʻa first, then others closest to Kapaʻa. Each one was read against a 2025–26 menu or news story in October 2026. Every island: 10 Hawaiian food and okazuya spots in Hawaii.
Hanalei Taro & Juice Co.
5-5070 Kūhiō Hwy, Hanalei · 15 mi from Kapaʻa
Plate lunchHawaiian food On the menu: poi, taro mac salad, lomi lomi salmon, kalua pig plate
A food stand founded in 2000 by the Haraguchi family, whose farm has grown kalo in Hanalei since the 1920s.
What Kapaʻa eats
The most common kinds among Kapaʻa's 83 places to eat, counted from open map data.
| Kind of place | Places |
|---|---|
| Bakery & Sweets | 12 |
| Coffee & Café | 11 |
| Bar & Pub | 9 |
| Hawaiian & Local | 6 |
| Mexican | 6 |
| Japanese & Sushi | 5 |
| Burgers | 3 |
| Healthy & Vegan | 3 |
| Thai | 3 |
| BBQ | 3 |