{"id":2407,"date":"2009-05-08T20:48:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T06:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2009-05-08T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T06:48:25","slug":"edible-briefs-haleiwa-joes-kaneohe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/08\/edible-briefs-haleiwa-joes-kaneohe\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Briefs – Haleiwa Joe’s, Kaneohe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Took my mom to dinner at Haleiwa Joe’s at Haiku Gardens for an early Mother’s Day dinner.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I started with a Gordon Biersch Marzen draught – it arrived lukewarm.\u00c2\u00a0 Mom had the $29 Filet which was properly cooked according to her request – on the rare side of medium rare.\u00c2\u00a0 That looked like an A.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I got the $20 salmon with a $3 starter house salad.\u00c2\u00a0 The salad was 60% iceberg and 40% romaine with three tomato wedges, two thin slices of English cuke, a sprinkle of dessicated carot gratings, and 8mm-wide strips of nori <\/em>laver.\u00c2\u00a0 The salad was obviously premade, covered with plastic wrap, and stockpiled in the fridge.\u00c2\u00a0 The miso-sesame vinaigrette was indistinct and flavorless, not unlike the mystery dressing at the Whistler Village Brewhouse Restaurant that made the salad wet<\/em>, but didn’t make it taste good.\u00c2\u00a0 Salad gets a D – skip this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Salmon was served with seasoned mashed potatoes and cooked julienned carrot and zucchini.\u00c2\u00a0 The salmon filet was covered with a macadamia nut pesto and fried potato strings.\u00c2\u00a0 The flavor was good, but the salmon was overcooked and dry.\u00c2\u00a0 I found a half-dozen pin bones, and\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0blood line wasn’t cleaned from the filet, leaving a bad tasting region adjacent to it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve had good luck with the salmon before, but this time it gets a C+.\u00c2\u00a0 Dessert was the “Paradise Pie” which\u00c2\u00a0was a giant wedge of Oreo-crusted coffee ice cream pie sprinkled with toasted almond slivers\u00c2\u00a0and drizzled with Belgian chocolate sauce.\u00c2\u00a0 It was good, but the base ice cream quality was pedestrian.\u00c2\u00a0 It still gets an A though.\u00c2\u00a0 Desserts are all\u00c2\u00a0“share” size.<\/p>\n

They don’t take reservations, so go early and expect to chill out for a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 We waited about 15-20 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fairly busy tonight, but it was a Friday.\u00c2\u00a0 If you get there before 17:30, it is usually less crowded.<\/p>\n

Total was $65 plus tip.<\/p>\n

Service was very good<\/p>\n

Three-and-a-half out of four grinning monkeys\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Took my mom to dinner at Haleiwa Joe’s at Haiku Gardens for an early Mother’s Day dinner.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I started with a Gordon Biersch Marzen draught – it arrived lukewarm.\u00c2\u00a0 Mom had the $29 Filet which was properly cooked according to her request – on the rare side of medium rare.\u00c2\u00a0 That looked like an A.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-CP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}