Music & Food in Georgetown

Last Saturday we ventured down to the Georgetown neighborhood, to the Kaua`i Family Restaurant. Our friend Gary Medeiros was performing with Auntie Manu from 11am-2pm. We stopped in after running some Saturday morning errands for some `ono breakfast and mele.

Gary plays the ukulele and sings the male falsetto. He is quite good! He and Auntie Manu make a great team, and we found out they will both be performing at the luau celebration after the Pineapple Classic Run we're doing on November 16th at Magnuson Park. And the Kaua`i Family Restaurant is catering. What a preview!

I had the standard Hawaiian breakfast (eggs with rice and Portuguese sausage) while Dan went for the loco moco w/ spam. We were both pleased with the low-priced and hearty plates, but the star of the meal had to be the bag of malasadas we snagged right as we ordered. Malasadas are a Portuguese donut - basically like a donut but 100 times better! The restaurant only serves them on the weekends and they sell out quickly. In fact, we saw many folks just coming in to order a bag of them to go. We took the rest home and ate them the next day.

The performance was lively, as the two sang many Hawaiian favorites including Iz's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." At times some of the patrons got up and performed an impromptu hula. It was fun to watch.

It turns out Gary and his partner are part of a halau with Auntie Manu that meets on Sundays, informally, so we are going to try our hands - er - waists at hula soon!

We unfortunately forgot the camera.

Tomorrow night we are headed to the Open House/sneak preview of the holiday line at the Hawai`i General Store and will hopefully remember to snap some pics to share.