Vintage Cave sister restaurant to open at Ala Moana Center
STAR-ADVERTISER / NOV. 2015
The multi-level Ewa Wing of Ala Moana Center. Vintage Cave Café, a sister restaurant to the exclusive Vintage Cave Honolulu, is scheduled to open in October in the shopping center’s Ewa wing.
Vintage Cave Café, a sister restaurant to the exclusive Vintage Cave Honolulu, is scheduled to open in October at Ala Moana Center’s new Ewa wing.
Owner Shirokiya Holdings Inc. announced today that it is spending $20 million on the 9,000-square-foot cafe with 150 seats and four private rooms, which will offer Italian cuisine and afternoon tea service. Prices for lunch range from $20 to $30 per person; afternoon tea from $15 to $25; and dinner from $50 to $100.
The eatery will be located on the street level next to Shirokiya’s Japan Village Walk, opening in June.
The menu will include Wagyu steak, seafood dishes, Milan-style pasta and Napoli-style pizza. Vintage Cave Café will be designed to look like an Italian cathedral with a fresco-painted dome ceiling, authentic murals, paintings and sculptures from Italy and other countries around the world.
As part of the Shirokiya Japan Village Walk, Vintage Cave Honolulu also will be unveiling the Wagyu plaza with six boutique restaurants and a seafood plaza featuring eight bistros and Vintage Cave Bakery.
Vintage Cave Honolulu, a “private society” restaurant that opened in 2012, will remain at its current location in Ala Moana Center’s Diamond Head Wing.
8 responses to “Vintage Cave sister restaurant to open at Ala Moana Center”
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Hmm, $20 million on a 150 seat restaurant that only serves lunch and dinner for $30 and $100 per person. Then they have to pay rent on top of that $20 million construction cost. There is no way that will make money even if it is cranking all 150 tables all the time. How do vintage cave and this place make money? I don’t think they do. More like a tax-loss money laundering center for it’s foreign owner?
I believe V.C. is a member’s only club of hoidy toidy types. Not sure about this new “cafe”. More proletariat?
Seems EVERYTHING down in that hood is now actively being sold to the p/t resident, gotta drop at least $2mil, foreigner crowd.
But at least they’ll have rail to take them from Ala Moana Center back home to Krakaako… LMFAO!
Maybe Ala Moana should build their own private monorail connecting to Ward. Much like Las Vegas.
This is great news, VC is one of the best meals you can enjoy, I mean it is fantastic so if for much less we can enjoy dining from a sister property I am there. Marking my calendar now, come on October!
Sistah, did you come into lots of kala!!!! that you can afford this Himaka Maka restraunt?
breaking news that’s not going to happen until October…brilliant!
Free advertising and PR in the meantime. SA staff must have gotten a free lunch voucher.
It sure isn’t the same as Zippy’s that was on the street level at Sears. I would like to see what the price would be for a Saimin and Chili and Rice, $25.00….