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901 Taraval St
San Francisco, CA 94116

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Jt S Island Cafe
Local(415) 661-3303

901 Taraval St
San Francisco, CA 94116

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Expert Reviews of Jt S Island Cafe

Citysearch | Hawaiian diner gives the Outer Sunset tropical flavor.

In the former home of greasy spoon JT's Diner, this brighter, cleaner, tropical-themed cafe is a welcome addition to the neighborhood, cutting through the fog day and night with Kona coffee, macadamia nut...
citysearch.com - expert review - 04/26/2007
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User Reviews of Jt S Island Cafe

Yelp.com Review - by GingerSnap G.

4.0 of 5 stars. I like it!! but please people, order the hawaiian food. the other things werent much to rave about. (such as the nachos...) The hawaiian bbq is awesome and their best selling dish, and now I know…
yelp.com - user review - 07/04/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Anthony L.

4.0 of 5 stars. Was tired and hungry after a day of walking around Alcatraz during a night tour. Which, by the way, was awesome! Kinda eerie. But yeah, was hungry and came here with a kind friend that drove me home…
yelp.com - user review - 06/28/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by cj d.

3.0 of 5 stars. i like their spam musubi, lau lau, kalua, and fried rice. I usually come here around midnight and it still takes them forever for the food to come even tho there's no other customers. The owners are…
yelp.com - user review - 06/25/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by clinton l.

3.0 of 5 stars. Another ho-hum place. I like their breakfast food, and I dig the spam musubi, but otherwise it's just your ordinary diner with a hawaiian twist. I usually order one of the combos, or get a burger with…
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Kelly G.

2.0 of 5 stars. i came here with some friends and they were super hungry but i just got the musubi...one spam and one portuguese sausage. the lady that helped us was really nice and helpful. the place isn't the…
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Beks B.

2.0 of 5 stars. i ordered their chicken adobo. it was pretty good. this is definately a place i would go back to and order the same food again. the service was horrible. our waiter didnt really do shit! its a good…
yelp.com - user review - 06/05/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Rommel N.

4.0 of 5 stars. All I really ever order from Hawaiian places is Spam, eggs, and rice (with the occassional chicken katsu, kalua pork or BBQ combo), and they serve REAL Spam unlike other places I've been to that claim…
yelp.com - user review - 06/01/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Julia C.

4.0 of 5 stars. 4 stars b/c/ it's Open 24 hrs (always a good thing)
yelp.com - user review - 05/17/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jena P.

4.0 of 5 stars. Hey it is a Diner, but they are open 24 hours and have pretty darn good cheesecake, when it is available... Coffee is good and just about everything on the menu. Mexican Hawaiian fusion i'd call it,…
yelp.com - user review - 05/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Aaron H.

2.0 of 5 stars. I like a lot of items on the menu, but the prices are too high, and the employees are consistently disinterested in helping you out. I don't want to come by more than once every six months. If you…
yelp.com - user review - 05/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by arvin l.

3.0 of 5 stars. one of few after hours spots we hit up after dance practice/events. good ol' JT's always hits the spot!
yelp.com - user review - 05/04/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Eileen L.

2.0 of 5 stars. I don't get what's so special about this place . Nothing on the menu looked appealing to me . The food was just mediocre . The pepper burger was okay . Just some jalapenos and the usual stuff . I…
yelp.com - user review - 04/21/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Tiffany L.

4.0 of 5 stars. When you've been knocking back pints of Guinness at Shannon Arms (or at any Irish pub in the Sunset) since noon, and it's now 2:30 a.m., you've got a slim chance of avoiding a hellish hangover. Some…
yelp.com - user review - 03/25/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Aivy C.

4.0 of 5 stars. What's not to love about a place where you can get Hawaiian food 24 hours a day? Denny's can suck it. Give me a Chicken Katsu mini plate any day!
yelp.com - user review - 03/11/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by eliz r.

4.0 of 5 stars. I work right next to this place and I love it! The service is fantastic, it's a great place to sit forever, and it's open 24 hours!
yelp.com - user review - 03/05/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by selena w.

2.0 of 5 stars. arrived here against my will (f*ck gimme denny's!!!) at 2 am, inebriated, tummy grumbling, one saturday night. now im a fatty and ANYTHING and EVERYTHING tastes good to me when im drunk, but even the…
yelp.com - user review - 02/27/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jean R.

1.0 of 5 stars. One star for the non-shady diner feel. But there is nothing else mildly redeeming about this place. The food was so bland, so oily and so stale-tasting, I could only stomach a few bites. I don't…
yelp.com - user review - 02/26/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Amy L.

4.0 of 5 stars. This is NOT a place you go for a fancy sit-down dinner, nor is it date-worthy...but that said, it has its charms, and here they are, in easy to read list form: 1. This place is open 24 hrs.…
yelp.com - user review - 02/22/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Catherine O.

2.0 of 5 stars. Once again, Mediocre Hawaiian BBQ. It's a good place to find food if it is late, and there is no where else you can decide upon. It's not impressive, but the food isnt too horrible. I've ordered the…
yelp.com - user review - 02/09/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Lynn O.

3.0 of 5 stars. Casual diner, a few veggie dishes (samin, veggie burger, tofu katsu, burrito)... somewhat reminiscent of a Denny's or Norm's but with a Hawaiian theme. Given that impression, the prices were a dollar…
yelp.com - user review - 02/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Tiff L.

4.0 of 5 stars. 4 stars for being open 24hours, having good bbq chicken, and getting a perfect health score. When I'm craving hawaiian late at night, which is the only time I crave it...this is where I come. They…
yelp.com - user review - 02/02/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Rosalee C.

2.0 of 5 stars. i had high hopes for this place. go to seniore's next door.
yelp.com - user review - 01/27/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Linda D.

4.0 of 5 stars. All I can say is that I love a chicken katsu musubi at 2:30AM!
yelp.com - user review - 01/13/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jason C.

1.0 of 5 stars. I completely agree with Jung; this place is fricken nasty. Even the guy at the counter warned me not to order any pie from the glass display b/c "I'm not sure how old it is." lol I ordered…
yelp.com - user review - 01/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Espana S.

2.0 of 5 stars. I really, really want to like this place. The new owners cleaned up the old JT's and expanded the menu while keeping it 24hrs. The decor is much nicer, the whole place is cleaner and there's always…
yelp.com - user review - 10/30/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Terry T.

1.0 of 5 stars. So my friend was driving...it was around 1AM and we wanted to get something to eat. Originally we were going to eat at ABC's on noriega, but he was too lazy to drive all the way over there. So he…
yelp.com - user review - 10/27/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Sang N.

3.0 of 5 stars. Kudos for being one of the only places to get a meal in that neighborhood at 2am. The food was cheap and good, but there were ants everywhere.
yelp.com - user review - 10/24/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by angela l.

3.0 of 5 stars. dear god, any place that is open 24 hour is freakin' awesome in my book. AND it's close to SF state, which means that in my 3 AM drunken/high stupor i don't have to drive that far! so maybe i've been…
yelp.com - user review - 10/21/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Leif N.

3.0 of 5 stars. Experience #1 (Sober): Soon after they opened. Spam musubi- the rice was dry. 2.5 stars. Loco Moco - average, but not enough gravy. Visit overall: 2.5 stars
yelp.com - user review - 10/11/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Julienne G.

4.0 of 5 stars. Yes spam, spam, spam, spam, macaroni salad and SPAM! Dis is da kind brah! My family used to live on the 'Big Island' and i can vouch that this is the real stuff - down home Hawaiian soul food. 2…
yelp.com - user review - 10/07/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Zach T.

2.0 of 5 stars. in a city with so much good food, this was probably my worst eating experience. but probably because of the spam. i think i was just so spoiled with other amazing restaurants here and was so excited…
yelp.com - user review - 10/04/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Cheryl D.

4.0 of 5 stars. Island cafe - what memories... Portions are huge but you can get a mini plate for a little less or share. The katsu is super crispy. That could be good or bad. I order furikake.
yelp.com - user review - 09/21/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Todd F.

3.0 of 5 stars. Living so close to King of Thai Noodle House, I've been slacking on checking out other places in my semi-new 'hood. So, with my car out of commission and my head about to split open from the I haven't…
yelp.com - user review - 09/09/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Chelsea P.

4.0 of 5 stars. Good hours, great variety of food and decent taste. Reliable outlet for midnight munchies so you can always swing by and get food fairly quickly, as opposed to Seniore's late night on the weekend…
yelp.com - user review - 09/02/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Carleen W.

2.0 of 5 stars. I don't personally like hawaiian food that much so I ordered a breakfast thing. It is basically just average and normal food. The service isn't exceptional but I suppose the waiter is kind of nice. It…
yelp.com - user review - 08/09/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Kevin H.

2.0 of 5 stars. There were dead gnats floating in the top of my iced tea. Maybe it's gotten better, or maybe the food's worth it anyway. I don't know, because I gagged, and then I left. (I gave them an extra star…
yelp.com - user review - 07/31/2007
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Neighborhood best!

Best in the Sunset. Great restaurant with the Aloha spirit. Good food and good service. The owners are super nice, a great dining experience. Try it, you'll love it.
menupages.com - user review - 07/31/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Mark B.

3.0 of 5 stars. since my first trip to honolulu, where my friend (an oahu native) introduced me to the hawaiian plate lunches at the rainbow cafe there... I've oft searched for the same here on the mainland. I suppose…
yelp.com - user review - 07/06/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Tiffany Y.

1.0 of 5 stars. I didnt even eat here, I came with my friend while she got chicken katsu or something. I had some of hers and it was AWFUL. The sauces were allllllll wrong. Im sure this place wouldnt be that bad if…
yelp.com - user review - 07/05/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Barry A.

4.0 of 5 stars. i really am not a "harsh" reviewer. I would like to believe I keep my level of critique consistent with what I feel each place of business is "expected" to offer. For example....
yelp.com - user review - 07/02/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ti N.

3.0 of 5 stars. I like this cafe, I usually go with my boyfriend when it's not that busy. Usually, I go when there is no one so my food comes very fast. Very generous proportions. I LOVE Hawaiian food, YUM!
yelp.com - user review - 07/02/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Mandi A.

5.0 of 5 stars. After an incident with one of the employees I was very happy to find the owners helpful and attentive. Since I live 4 blocks away this is the place I and the people I live with enjoy getting a burger…
yelp.com - user review - 07/01/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer M.

4.0 of 5 stars. 4 stars. Let me explain... Every night I drive home down 19th avenue around 1am hunger will strike. Not many choices. Seniores, how I love thee, but sometimes pizza just dont cut it. I was the…
yelp.com - user review - 05/26/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Tyler W.

4.0 of 5 stars. Late hours, decent space. Grub is pretty tasty. might be a little overpriced, but hey I'll go back for sure and what's 10 bucks for an Island Plate??? I mean hey check the prices at hukilau and then…
yelp.com - user review - 05/23/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Christopher L.

2.0 of 5 stars. Not a place I would really recommend. The food was not that great and the price made it seem so much worse. Overall I just wouldn't go here again. There are other places to go out there. On a bright…
yelp.com - user review - 05/18/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Mike C.

1.0 of 5 stars. I was surprised to see this place had good reviews. I thought it was terrible. The food was terrible, the service was terrible, and the price seemed terrible. I wouldnt mind payting ten dollars for…
yelp.com - user review - 05/15/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Fady A.

5.0 of 5 stars. Great food!!Nice people. What more can you ask? Check out this place if your looking for good authentic Hawaiian food. They also have nice waiters and a tv. Scrat
yelp.com - user review - 05/14/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Cort Z.

3.0 of 5 stars. I have had a love hate relationship with this place for quite some time now. Although now it's mostly just a hate relationship. Not only because of the severe shits I have the next morning after…
yelp.com - user review - 05/04/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Mark G.

2.0 of 5 stars. The food is decent. They're open late. They have hawaiian food. That's really all their is but there's a lot more going on here. They have some stuff that I've never even thought of before. Teryaki…
yelp.com - user review - 04/21/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Stephen W.

4.0 of 5 stars. Cheap, fast diner food. The hours are great, I have no complaints about the service and I find the food pretty tasty. It is a place for greasy diner food and greasy Hawaiian food. (hence all the…
yelp.com - user review - 04/18/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ethan K.

2.0 of 5 stars. I had been here once late in the night with some friends for a late night meal during the weekend. I had ordered a dish that consisted of rice, some form of ground meat drowned in a milky gravy, and…
yelp.com - user review - 04/17/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Richelle Mae R.

1.0 of 5 stars. I have been here twice but never tried any of the entree, I just ordered Musubi, cheesecake and a soda. One reason: I am not hungry whenever we go here and am very thankful about it. The first time I…
yelp.com - user review - 04/14/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Solomon C.

4.0 of 5 stars. you really have to have respect for any place that is open waaayyyyy late into the night. I had dinner there around midnight, and if I read the sign on the front door right, they are open 24 hours?…
yelp.com - user review - 04/13/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Art W.

5.0 of 5 stars. Great place. The owners are really, really nice. They know us so well, we don't even have to look through the menu, they already know what i want. it's a great place for the kalbi ribs or chicken…
yelp.com - user review - 04/07/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Jeffrey B.

2.0 of 5 stars. 10 dollars for sub par, brick hard, over cooked chicken katsu. The food took forever to be served, and my very impatient brother kept threatening to leave, i kept telling him to stay hoping the wait…
yelp.com - user review - 04/01/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by B L.

2.0 of 5 stars. My roommate is Hawaiian so we decided to give this place a try. We came to a consensus of 2 stars. The food was mediocre at best. I had the Kalua Pig and she had the Lau Lau. The Kalua Pig was kind…
yelp.com - user review - 03/03/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Danielle F.

2.0 of 5 stars. Food is a necessary thing in the middle of the night sometimes, and so I ended up at Island Cafe. I got pancakes and hot chocolate. Pretty much Denny's quality. One star for late night hours (2 am…
yelp.com - user review - 01/18/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Carlos A.

4.0 of 5 stars. Good burgers just dip them in that hot sauce they got on every table. MMMMMMMMM. Good quick service and they have a nice flat screen tv that they'll change for you.
yelp.com - user review - 01/11/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Faithy L.

3.0 of 5 stars. Man I love this place! (At least the one time that I've been...) I was with my bf one Saturday, craving for spam baaaddly... so we started rolling down 19th Ave to head to Lucky Chances for some…
yelp.com - user review - 12/23/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Teri C.

3.0 of 5 stars. Thank gawd, something other than Denny's after the club! I searched and searched on the menu until I found it...the Pork Lau Lau. You can't call yourself a Hawaiian restaurant if you're not serving…
yelp.com - user review - 12/19/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Reggie M.

3.0 of 5 stars. i said to myself, "wow, a hawaiian restaurant to grub at after clubbing in san francisco and im not at home in vegas!" a damn BIG "UPS" for that. im actually wondering when LL will become 24hours…
yelp.com - user review - 12/19/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by anna c.

3.0 of 5 stars. It's like Diner food, with a Hawaiian twist. Not great for non-meat eaters and health nuts. We went there once last month and had a decent meal. For some reason, I felt like a Loco Moco (that doesn't…
yelp.com - user review - 12/07/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by robyn s.

2.0 of 5 stars. Not so good, but perhaps a step up from the Lucky Penny... I don't know what I was expecting, but my husband had a hankering for fried rice for breakfast like he had in Hawaii, and they didn't have…
yelp.com - user review - 11/19/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by chip n. c.

4.0 of 5 stars. I used to go when it was Zim's, so clearly it's been a while. Parking wasn't bad for the weekend. The menu was pretty good, quite the selection, particularly since I'm used to the (mostly) take out…
yelp.com - user review - 10/28/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Marisa L.

4.0 of 5 stars. Dropped into this cafe, on the site of Zim's and JT's, last night for a quick dinner. It was a little distressing to see how few folks there were, so I hope that this place fills up on other nights.…
yelp.com - user review - 10/23/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Merri L.

2.0 of 5 stars. I..ve always gone past this Island Cafe and wanted to try it. After all, I like pineapples.. So, the other day, my friend R went there and we got it to go. I had no idea what Hawaiian food was like,…
yelp.com - user review - 10/20/2006
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It's a family business, expect family-type food

The breakfast is similiar to the ones you find at other small neighborhood cafes unless you order the Hawaiian specials, like the Portugese sausage, which is pretty good. Tried the BBQ chicken saimin which...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/15/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by sonia m.

1.0 of 5 stars. nasty....we ate here and went right over to seniore's pizza next door.
yelp.com - user review - 09/26/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Hello K.

3.0 of 5 stars. Tried this place tonight with one of my girlfriends. The place had a few people in it so we decided to give it a shot since we always pass by it on our way to school! Anyways the menu has this really…
yelp.com - user review - 09/20/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by ally o.

2.0 of 5 stars. blah. i expected more out of this place for some reason. on the outside, it appeared as a potential regular eating spot as i'm often in this part of SF. i didn't feel like making the drive to…
yelp.com - user review - 09/17/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Ryan L.

4.0 of 5 stars. UPDATE: Yelp has spoken. Their water tastes MUCH better now, so don't worry about that anymore! Definitely try the furikake chicken, it's amazing. All the current reviews have pretty much summed up…
yelp.com - user review - 09/15/2006
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$ Decent Hawaiian BBQ, huge portions.

The food her is pretty normal for Hawaiian BBQ. The prices are a bit high, but the Mini Plates are so much food that you probably do not need to get the large ones. The macaroni is good. Im not usually fond of...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/29/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by sindy w.

5.0 of 5 stars. I love this place. I've only lived in San Francisco for a little bit over a month, only gone here twice.. but both times were very pleasant. The waitstaff is very nice, very quick. Their food is…
yelp.com - user review - 07/23/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Jeffrey H.

5.0 of 5 stars. Hawaii food AND breakfast - open 24 hours on the weekends, and EVERY OTHER day until 2am! They even have da lau lau. Furikake chicken was tasty, the mac salad can use a little work, but hey, I'm not…
yelp.com - user review - 07/19/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Peter H.

4.0 of 5 stars. Randomly went to this place when I tried to get pizza next door. Turned out to be the best discovery in a long time. This place has huge portions and a good selection of Hawaiian food choices. The…
yelp.com - user review - 07/16/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Cassandra J.

4.0 of 5 stars. Island Cafe is Hawaiian/Asian/American version of a Denny's so of course it's 24 hours. I love the variety of Hawaiian favorites. Their portions are HUGE and the prices are reasonable too. My…
yelp.com - user review - 06/27/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Chris C.

3.0 of 5 stars. The loco moco is pretty good. i've yet to try anything else, though. the waitstaff seem friendly enough, if they're not super-busy. i could be wrong, but i think they're open 24 hours.
yelp.com - user review - 06/24/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Rio K.

4.0 of 5 stars. happy hour on an empty stomach plus bar hopping on a Thursday night equals a craving for hawaiian breakfast. We were very pleasantly surprised and pleased with Island Cafe. Spam musubi (sp) was…
yelp.com - user review - 06/23/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Jung L.

1.0 of 5 stars. this place is absolutely horrible. I wish i could give it 0 stars, but the least amount you can give out is 1. The waitstaff is cool and everything, but the food is atrocious. The food is down…
yelp.com - user review - 05/28/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Netty L.

4.0 of 5 stars. I didn't think I'd ever be into spam as a breakfast food, but the aloha burrito here convinced me otherwise. Good Hawaiian food served up hot in a clean and reasonable priced setting. The portions are…
yelp.com - user review - 05/13/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Shane L.

3.0 of 5 stars. I was looking through Yelp to find someplace to eat at 11:45pm on a Saturday, but really wasn't feeling like taking Muni anywhere. I then remembered that JT's was open late and that it had recently…
yelp.com - user review - 05/07/2006
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