The Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity seeks to highlight, research and scale traditional practices that may have significant positive impacts on health for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Olive Tree Café: Classic, Comfort, Greek
(Sponsored) Twenty-six years, a change in ownership and one pandemic later, the Kāhala restaurant’s food, and philosophy, remain the same.
July 29, 2021
When I used to live around the Kaimukī/Kāhala area, Olive Tree Café was a staple in my diet. My go-to order was the avgo lemono soup which I’ve yet to find on any other menu on the island the lamb souvlaki and, of course, a piece of house-made baklava, flaky layers of phyllo dough saturated with syrup and stuffed with walnuts.
Now, six years later, I’m back at my old haunt and ordering the same three dishes. One bite into tender lamb and pita and I wonder, “why did I ever let geography get between us?”