Yakitori Hachibei - Chinatown Hawaii

Amazing valentines experience and prefixe menu!!

Valentines Day dinner. What a great experience. Fortunate to be sat at the "bar", which is like a sushi bar. Tried a lot of different yakitori sticks and they were all good. Miso eggplant was a winner. Owner was very gracious and appreciative along with the rest of his staff. Oh, and don't forget the chocolate cake. That's a must have to end your meal. Cant wait to go back and try other items on the menu.

Excellent eating experience.. from walking in the door and being greeted by employee (owner, Robert) seating was ready for us and drink order taken, was maybe 5 minutes. Meal was served hot and excellent taste. Server was very friendly and helpful. Will be back again! Doomo

Owner, Robert, is a most personable and gracious host. I felt like I was in his home enjoying wonderful food we loved everything we had!

Great food. Meet owner Robert and he was very hospitable and quite impressed with all of his staff. Aloha spirit and professional. Will spread the word about the experience and will be back when visiting.

I came to eat here at the end of Dec 2018 and I have to say... it was by far my FAVORITE meal in 2018. (and I'm a HUGE foodie- traveling all over the world to eat at the various places including multiple Michelin Star restaurants).

So, when I was back in Oahu a month later, I HAD to come back... and let me say... the team at Yakitori Hachibei did not disappoint. Not only is the food amazing, the service is impeccable and the fact that the food is locally sourced and ALL of the animal is used, makes me very happy to know/hear/eat here.

I definitely would recommend this place... hands down!

Wow the food was small so small i needed a microscope. They have one grill meaning you need to wait for your microscopic food to come out in the queue. Everything tasted delicious but it was so small even after several orders i was HUNGRY my advise skip this one.

Great food, we decided to try a bunch of different things vs the fixed course menu. Favorite was the pork belly swirled with a basil-like leaf. Great ambiance. We will definitely be back.

A reservation is a must, request the counter if available. Suggest early reservation (5 - 5:30) so you can get the discounted starters. The goma salmon, goma kampachi, spicey ahi rice crisp, yamaimo fries, and tempura calamari were perfect. We then enjoyed the following skewers: pork belly (butabara), enoki maki (mushroom), tomato maki, and the expensive (but great) A4 Japanese Wagyu. Finished up the dinner (about 2 hours) with two orders of the chicken ramen. Kirin draft beer only $5 during the 5-6 Happy Hour. This is our second visit. We learned to order most of what you think you will eat all at once and let the waitress and yakitori chef pace the food for you. We will be back!

Chicken skew was dry and felt like frozen chicken. The others were ok. Only good dish was eggplant denngaku. Very disappointed.

Very sketchy location in Chinatown, but once inside everything was excellent.

The food comes in small quantity for its price, service lacked that attention to detail, it seems that they avoid eye contact with their customers for whatever reason. The whole experience should have been tolerable if it wasn’t for the group we were seated next to! They were inconsiderately loud! There is something to be said about this place. We saw a lot of out of Japanese people
From out of town so maybe we will give it another chance.

This is the best Japanese restaurant I've ever been to. Unique to-die-for flavors. Not too expensive.

Second time visit and loved it again. Say at the bar and enjoyed the set menu which was delicious. Staff are friendly and welcoming.

Well, it's been a year since we last ate here on our annual return to Honolulu and still one of my favorite restaurants in Hawaii. Robert, the manager, makes us feel so welcome and we had our same server, Sasha that we had last year. The service and food was awesome and reminded us of why we like this restaurant so much. They had a few new items on their menu and was a great addition to their outstanding menu.

Not bad but not good either. I'm particular with Yakitori and this place would be below par if it was in Tokyo. Of course if I compare it to my favorite yakitori place in Tokyo, Masakichi this place would be below average. I don't like places that try to present themselves as good but fail to deliver.

Great service excellent food

焼き鳥に加えメニュー全て外れ無し。コスパも良いと思います

Everything was very nice, but the counter was a bit too energetic, and it was difficult to have a nice conversation without having to raise one's voice. The seafood chawanmushi is one of the best we've tasted in Honolulu.

The timing of our food service was hampered only by our unfamiliarity with the most efficient way to order it. We should have ordered our happy hour selections along with the other items (mostly skewers) we wanted. Then, if we wanted more, we could have ordered more. We caused a break in the service because of ordering from the Happy Hour food menu, then later ordering the other items we wanted. Talking with the manager, who is wonderful by the way, we learned that we could have ordered everything at once and our server would have managed the timing of the food for us. We learned and will order this way the next time we go.

The following items were exceptional: Spicy Ahi Rice Crisps, Yamaimo (sweet potato) Fries, Fried (tempura) calamari, Tongue, Shishito peppers, Pork Belly (Butabara), Minced chicken. They did not have the pate so we cannot rate. Skewers are 1 per order, enough for a good taste for two. I suggest at least 8-10 different skewers as well as at least 3-4 different Happy Hour discounted starters if you are smart enough to arrive at 5 PM.

The menu is extensive beyond just skewers. We are looking forward to at least 5+ visits just to try most of it.

Reservations essential. We did not sit at the counter, not critical like at a sashimi bar. We could see the food being grilled from our table. If you get a table, be sure to get up to take a look at the prepared skewers at the counter refrigerated display case.

Staff top notch....manager/owner told us the entire crew was brought in from Japan.

This place had the most amazing food and service with a reasonable price. We tried the chef's tasting menu which was great but definitely too much food for one person.

Practically perfect in every way! Gracious owner and staff. We are gluten free with celiac and they were very accommodating. Can’t say enough about our experience and the food was exquisite.

It was a birthday for my son. It’s his ritual
Now to come here to celebrate annually for dinner.

Outstanding food, lovely service, great cocktails. Loved this meal.

Delicious and affordably priced! I wish they would give more bread for some of the dishes. They only give 5 slices from a tiny baguette and an extra order of bread costs $1.

Awesome, selection. In tasting menu

Food is bad and service is bad. I ran into my neighbor. We all agree this place is over rated.

Very nice venue for a quiet relaxing dinner, food takes a little to prepare but worth the wait!

Service is as poor and food was not great

Great food and service.

This was my FAVORITE meal in 2018... love love love it here!

Food is consistently good. Management is very friendly.

Phenomenal

Good food, good service, and someplace I'll definitely come back to eat at.

This was my second time to the restaurant. I wanted to revisit some tasty dishes, as well as to try some new ones. They had some interesting unique dishes (uni tempura), but their best ones were probably the simplest on the menu (like the pork skewers, the butabara).

満席だったためか、ホールが回っていない感じでした。料理は美味しい。

Quality of food, presentation and service are fantastic. Too bad I can’t go more often cause it’s too expensive.

Yakitori Hachibei is the best! Sit at the counter to watch the Yakitori chef do his magic. Our server Emi was the best. Great knowledge and she knows which dishes are good to eat and drink Happy hour was great too! Owner Bobby was kind, gracious and humble and friendly with all customers!

It was our first time to Hachibei and my husband loved it. I lived in Japan for ten years a couple of decades ago and had missed going to a good yakitori shop, so when I found Yakitori Hachibei on Open Table, I decided to try it out. The dishes were very tasty and I especially loved their seafood chawanmushi, which was a special for that day and was not listed on their regular menu. The custard part of the chawanmushi was done to perfection, the texture not being hard. I could've probably had 5 of those for dinner alone, but there were too many other interesting dishes to try. We will definitely go there again in the near future.

The service and food were excellent. We had the Hacibei selected $58 course and we loved it. I will definitely be back again.