Seaside Grill - Niu

As expected, food was overpriced — 28 for a burger and fries and then 18 for 4 chicken tenders, fries, and veggies. Burger was fine, just too expensive for how plain it was. The tenders looked similar to the type you can buy from the frozen foods section. The fries were way overcooked and too hard that some were inedible. Do not even bother eating the pineapple that decorates your plate— the thing was not ripe and could not be bitten through.Service was inattentive. Expect to wait between 5 to 10 minutes before staff come to assist, and I ate during the late afternoon, when the grill area was barely busy.As for ambience, don’t lean back on your chair. Pigeons and doves here are aplenty, waiting to eat your crumbs. So many of the chair backings have poop. I also had to deal with swatting huge-a pigeons away multiple times from our very table and chair, as they are very very bold. 50 minimum purchase to get validation. But easily covered by simply buying two entrees.

Sadly, some of the worst food I’ve ever eaten on vacation (and not cheap!)Hours: they have very limited hours, we saw countless people trying to order food after 5 that were at the pool- what a lost opportunity! Would also be a very convenient breakfast spot to grab a coffee and light breakfast if they expanded their hours but I assume they want people to opt into the buffet.Ordered exactly when they opened at 11am and were told it would be about 15 minutes, ended up waiting almost 45 and our food was cold.Food: We ordered the kids grilled cheese with fries, chips and dip, fish tacos (sub for shrimp). Everything was cold, we ordered it to go so we could eat it at the beach only steps from the restaurant so we weren’t traveling far once we got it. I feel like it’s hard to mess up a grilled cheese but it was super dry, over pressed and cold. The shrimp was done as a substitution so maybe that was the issue but there were only two small shrimp per taco and it was absolutely flavorless. Chips and dip was a sad sight, literally a box of stale store bought chips with a few sides of what tastes like also store bought guac and salsa. We only ate enough of the chips to finish the guac.Price: paid around $80 for those three food items plus sodas.Take away: bring your own food or order DoorDash to the hotel. The second day at the Kahala we ordered Taco Bell for $30 and then everyone around at the beach started doing the same once they saw us do it.Dietary restrictions: They were able to remove a salsa I was allergic too so that was good!

This place is right next to the pool and beach so easy to get a bite to eat when you are hanging out at the pool or beach. The food is good with Hawaiian prices. The service is fast and very friendly. The club sandwich is great to split. The fish Tacos were good but I have had better at other places.

We come to Kahala beach a lot and whenever we're here, we drop by this restaurant. Service and food are always good.

Horrible service and food not so good. Very expensive. Did not enjoy this stop at all. We went before swimming with the dolphins.