Nakoa Pabre owner Umekes Kona a Kailua-Kona resident has actually had the opportunity to require a standard Hawaii preparation in food and convert it into a form of haute cuisine. This local-style and brand-new poke lunchtime eatery, Pabre, is constantly developing and playing around with brand-new mixes. He never jeopardizes on the real integrity from the meals.
Poke Kona - Pabre a matured 35, was obviously a plumbing contractor for upwards of 11 years. He and then decided to leave the comforts of his profession while focusing all his creativity directly into poke. He mentions how the response he gets from pleased customers 's what helps to make the entire process satisfying.
While he was becoming an adult, Nakoa Pabre owner Umekes Kona was consistently assisting within the prep works of food for parties, constantly discovering and seeing. Even his 2 children Kanoa aged 5 and Kamalu 3 has already been learning knife-handling capabilities.
In 1999, Pabre helped inside the opening of the neighborhood poke eatery but left to start their own. Just recently, he was named the overall winner of the competition called “Sam Choy's Keauhou Poke” for 2013. He previously a chance to excite the crowds together with his “Poke Bombs”, which can be sushi by means of a cone topped with assorted poke.
Pabre opened Umekes to convey his interest and origins in meals. He's got stated that poke is way more when compared with simply skilled dices of raw and fresh fish. It also expands beyond typical coral reef and briny fish, salt, limu, inamona, shoyu and the chili peppers.
Umeke in Hawaiian means bowl, along with a variety of these bowls include pulehu meanings that to become broiled over the fire. Teriyaki beef, laulau pork or kalua, char siu (chicken) and poke or smoked fish. Along with these bowls all of the visitors have the choice of side recipes including: quinoa, rice, poi, kimchee salad, lomi salmon, hoio salad, broccoli and crab salad and seaweed tossed salad. The rates of these meals vary from $7.50 to approximately $18.
The octopus or greater called tako and the shrimp pokes are available in a wide variety of flavors. These pokes start about $11.99. Sweet treat poppers with haupia, lilikoi, and chocolate and banana cream cost around $3 each. Throughout the last few years, Nakoa Pabre proprietor Umekes Kona originates to be a lot more daring and declares that his customers are gone for good up being much more prepared and open minded regarding eating raw fish. For any seafood or fish enthusiast Umekes simply calls for big cravings. Poke has become a very large staple inside the areas of Hawaii and it has became a frequent main course.
Umekes Kona is open from Mondays to Sundays through the trading hours of 10am during the early mornings into 7pm in the evenings aside from Sundays they close 5pm. The restaurant catches the eye of various and varied day-to-day specials, and customers can select in the stunning setup with the outdoor dining location. The brand-new preferences and everyday specials maintain the diners returning for further to see the enjoyable and amazing mixes and meals that Pabre is offering.