Melrose Place

Love this place! Family style and so ono! Love love love the corned beef hash and the French toast! All the food is so good and they are so friendly here! Can’t get enough of this place! If you want a gone cooked Hawaiian meal come and get it here. Best Hawaiian breakfast on the Island!

The food was delicious!!! Although it is cash only, the atm is right across the corridor, totally convenient. The portions are huge. Omg, we need a nap now!

Family owned and super friendly, food is really ono:) will definitely go back next time I’m on this side of Oahu

I got corn beef hash with fried rice.
It was amazing. I just wanted to keep eating it forever.
It was really sad looking at the empty plate in front of me after I finished.
But my stomach loved the feeling of having a satisfying meal!
My husband got loco moco, and he said it was very good.
Please open up a location in Vancouver! Or at least in LA!

Came here today breakfast and don’t let the looks fool you of the building. the restaurant is located inside on the left hand side. its a small restaurant, friendly workers. the wait wasn’t too long for food. ordered a Debra omlet side order French toast and my boyfriend got chopsteak. the portions are reasonable, prices are decent and food was good. will come back again to try more of their food

The feel here is like a family home. You can sit with others if there’s room. Or if you don’t have space you still can talk stories to anyone. It’s small but big enough. I love the ppl here. I’ve never had shells in my eggs. Been coming here for a long time. Bring cash bc it’s cash only. And say hi Aunty!!!

My boyfriend and I ordered one of their specials: corn beef hash loco moco with a customized order of their lup cheong kim chee fried rice. Of course, I also got a side of bacon. The fried rice was delicious, the corn beef hash patty had shredded fresh corned beef, the egg was cooked perfectly, and the gravy was yummy. :) The portions are big (I could only eat half of my loco moco), and my boyfriend (who I usually refer to as my garbage disposal because I always give him my left overs) told me to pack it up because he was full. :P
Aside from the food, the staff was extremely nice and friendly. It’s a small, hole in the wall type restaurant that can seat maybe about 15 people. There is minimal parking in the lot, but there is plenty of street parking around. FYI: they only accept cash.

Best mom and pop hole in the wall I have ever been to. The food was amazing and the customer service was superb! We got there before opening and were greeted warmly and seated immediately. Food service was prompt and the servings were enormous. Will recommend highly to everyone!
We had trouble finding it, you have to go inside the shopping plaza.

Came across this on Unilocal.It is a far drive from our hotel @ Waikiki beach, but we want to try the local Hawaiian food. It is definitely worth the deivw. I highly recommend this restaurant. You have to try it.

So glad we found this place on Unilocal.Very homey family-​style restaurant. I fell in love with the kimchi fried rice papa-​san makes.
Arigatou, we will come back :-)
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This is definitely the place to go for some good and local breakfast! I’ve had this place bookmarked since I moved to the island and finally found it to try this morning! It’s a hole in the wall, but definitely a local gem.
The ladies here were sweet and friendly. It took a bit of time for the food to come out but all was freshly made to order.
We tried the steak & eggs with kona lup cheong kim chi fried rice and the loco moco with the laakea’s fried rice. Highly recommend either of the fried rices, but the kim chi was my favorite.
Also recommend that if you’re gonna get the steak, get it cooked the way the the chef wants it done; we requested medium-​rare and although it had a nice sear, it was very (too) rare.
Tip: very limited seating and cash only!

I can no longer promote this restaurant:(I just found a roachs leg in my fried rice! I thought it was just an eye lash but upon closer inspection it had those little brown barbs on it. Id hate to know where the rest of the roach is?

WONDERFUL!!! The food is fresh and delicious and the owners are so friendly! The ambiance is similar to that of mom’s kitchen… The restaurant is small, brightly lit, and welcoming with simple, yet meaningful décor. Major feels, man. We came around 11AM on a weekday and fortunately, parking was no trouble at all despite the kinda small lot and the restaurant was relatively empty. No wait. Yay!
After we were seated and served strawberry guava flavored water (which was absolutely delicious and refreshing), we ordered the local scramble and turkey cranberry sandwich. Both dishes were really yummy and tasted like something straight out of mom’s kitchen. There aren’t very many options on the menu and we only tried two dishes, but there’s no doubt that all the other items on the menu are equally delicious.
Extremely pleased with Melrose Place! The owners are sweet as ever and the food is definitely made with love. Came with grandma and she’s extremely picky, but she loved this restaurant as well. If you haven’t already, you must try the yummy dishes! And if it’s not too crowded, hopefully you’ll have a chance to talk story with the owners too!

Not the most well-​rounded breakfast, Mel Rose Place serves up a variety of good carb-​heavy dishes. The Kim Chee rice was nice, but too simple and lacked flavor. The stand-​out meal of the bunch was the BLT on wheat: generous serving of thick bacon and fresh lettuce and tomato with a thick mayo that gave some much needed moisture. It was actually terrific.
Service was sweet and warm — it felt like we were eating in someone’s living room (a messy living room). Overall, a good spot if you want to feel like a local, but definitely not a place to bring a date or if you expect a healthy meal.

Wow, great food, great people, they deserve the best… And if you go here you will get the best.

I had their special
Fried rice w
Corned beef hash on top
And 2 eggs sunny side up
It was delish
Worth the visit

Went here for brunch on our first morning in Hawaii. We are staying on Kaneohe Bay so it’s nice and close. Service was great! The staff were so friendly and had awesome suggestions on other places to visit & eat during our stay. Plenty of aloha to be found here!!!
The food was great, too. I got the sweet toast with Portuguese sausage & a fried egg. Loved the Portuguese sausage! I only wished for real maple syrup to bring it to the level of perfection, but importing that stuff would probably be crazy expensive… Next time I’d get kimchi fried rice with an egg and sausage and then 1 piece of French toast on the side.
My husband had a special with fried rice, a corned beef hash patty on top and a fried egg with gravy on top of that! Really delicious and unexpected! Excellent savory breakfast!
We would definitely go back.
One tip: The place is a bit of a hole in the wall of a small building with other businesses in it. You have to go inside the building to see the restaurant entrance. Google GPS was accurate in getting us there, though.

This morning, we ate great food and met some wonderful people at Mel Rose Place. This cute little restaurant serves incredible food and has a warm, inviting, local atmosphere.
First, the food…
You need to try the hash moco and upgrade to Kim chee fried rice. This massive mountain of flavor is guaranteed to be a bright spot in your morning. The fried rice has lup cheong in it. I haven’t had lup cheong since I was a kid so this brought back some nice memories.
We also had the sweet bread french toast. It was perfect. Not too sweet and our coffee complemented it nicely. I need to also mention the Portuguese sausage. This place has the best I’ve ever tasted. Another thing that wow’d me was their water. They flavor it with natural fruit to give it a nice, refreshing taste. Our water today was lightly flavored with pineapple.
Now to the best part… the people.
Our waitress was such a sweetheart. She was super attentive the entire time and she took the time to walk us through some customer favorites since this was our first time here. We had some delightful conversation with a few of the other customers. The environment here exudes ohana so everyone is chatting with each other and having a great time. The chef was also a big part of our conversations. This woman has a big heart and you can taste the love she puts into her food.
Mel Rose Place was a great start to our Sunday morning.

Melrose place is like eating at grandmas house. I was lucky to have had a grandmother who retired as a chef, so as you can imagine I always ate well. Aunty Donna and her crew are able to replicate that same experience for me. The food is onolicious from the hash to the jr pork chop to the turkey cranberry sandwich to the French toast and fried rice. Everything is just as expected a wonderful feel good experience!
Loving the veggies and Mac salad too!

Don’t understand so few stars! Local to da max and although the selection isn’t large, what they do have is ono and worth the price. The Kim Chee lup cheong fried rice had a honking whole sausage in it, I swear, not no manini tidbits. You could see, chew and taste both the lup cheong and chunks of mild kimchee. Sunny side egg on top and bro couldn’t finish it. Well, true dat but could have been the ono chop steak and rice chaser he ordered. Big, meaty strips of beef, green peppers and onions was well seasoned and salty good. Not bland, this place!
I had the Hawaiian plate and was very happy except for the turkey tail laulau. I axed for pua’a laulau. Not the waitress’s fault. I heard Sista Lorraine order me the pig laulau. So kitchen lady, c’mon. Sorry but minus one star only because I HATE turkey tail. Would I, should I, could I have axd for another one? Yes, but we were starving. Too late.
The long rice, hoooo chock full of ginger and skosh green onions. Perfect. My opu, as they say, too much nui nui!
Lorraine, daughter of the owner was doting, fast with the bottomless coffee and pitcher of fruited iced water. She and her mom whom I met for the very first time are sweet, helpful and as you’ve probably read by other helpers, like family. The best part of a family. Cheerful, humorous, helpful pleasant, kind and generous. Extra dis and dat kine!
My only disadvantage is not bring able to get out Kaneohe side too often. But if I hear of a day they have salt beef and watercress, (I went there for that but neva have that day, shucks!) AM SOOOO THERE!
Old school style hospitality, the prices are good, the food is ono. They aim to please! In Kaneohe? Go! Sista Lorraine goin’ hook you up!