We didn’t try a new restaurant tonight, but tried four different things that we’d never ordered before from one of our favorite pizza places on the island, the Kona Brewery.
We were stoked to learn that you can mix two specialty pizzas on the same pie. Half and half, no extra cost. So we tried Kaloko Alfredo and Hawaiian Lu’au, two completely non-traditional pizzas.
The Kaloko Alfredo had a homemade alfredo sauce (slightly spicy), fresh spinach, mozzarella, herb chicken, roasted garlic and tomatoes. It was divine. When they say garlic, they mean garlic. One piece had 6 cloves on it, full cloves!
Our server suggested a couple substitutes to the Hawaiian Lu’au. Traditionally it has Canadian Bacon and Tomato sauce, but we added Imu Pork, smoked mozzarella, and a BBQ sauce base, plus the usual ricotta, fresh pineapple, and roasted onions. It was truly hard to determine a winner. The first night the Hawaiian Lu’au pizza won out, but reheated the next day, the Alfredo was better.
The Kona Brew is just as flexible with their beers as their pizza, as they have the sampler, so since we couldn’t decide between our favorites, The Wailua Wheat (a passion-fruit flavored light ale), and the Pipeline Porter (with 100% Kona coffee), and the two new limited releases, a Coconut Brown Ale, and a Ginger-based light ale, we had the opportunity to have a sample of all of them (4- 6 oz glasses). We circled through the various flavors from coffee, to lilikoi (passion fruit), to ginger to coconut. I still think the Wailua Wheat is my favorite, but I really liked the coconut beer as well.