Owner Keiko Napier grew up working beside her father, a Master Japanese Chef. In his restaurants, she learned the Japanese tradition of using super-fresh, high-quality ingredients.

With its local take on Japanese cuisine, this smart little restaurant has earned a sky-high, island-wide reputation.

The only restaurant open for dinner service in Hanapepe, Japanese Grandma’s Café sources the finest local ingredients and has family connections to the Japanese fishing industry.

Locally sourced Japanese-style cuisine and there are plenty of shopping opportunities.

Christina House from Los Angeles Times featured Japanese Grandma in her article called “On Kauai, where to eat for cheap: 20 places to chow down for $20”

Sit for a spell at Japanese Grandma’s, a restaurant where colorful tropical upholstery meets Japanese minimalism.

The indoor-outdoor Japanese Grandma’s Cafe, which debuted in Hanapepe in July, serves poke bowls, sushi, and entrees that include local grass-fed beef rib-eye, organic chicken teriyaki, and kurobota pork tonkatsu.

Every Month, Japanese Grandma's Cafe has a Five-Course Tasting event held by our very own executive chef, Thomas Falchini, and sushi master and chef, Shinji Ueki.

Japanese Grandma's Cafe was one of the featured "New Restaurants"on Kauai in a recent article

Following the first visit to Kauai’s astounding Waimea Canyon, Keiko Napier stopped in the tiny town of Hanapepe. She was smitten.