Catch a tidal wave of flavor at Kainoa’s Hawaiian Grill in Rexburg

Kainoa’s infamous Wipeout Hawaiian platter offers 5 scrumptious nutrient entrées. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

REXBURG — Taste nan Aloha tone pinch nan champion Hawaiian nutrient this broadside of nan Big Island astatine Kainoa’s Hawaiian Grill successful Rexburg.

Since 2018, Kainoa’s has been making waves successful nan Rexburg cuisine scene, offering authentic Hawaiian-style sheet lunches and unsocial fusion dishes for nan full ohana.

Conveniently located crossed from Porter Park astatine Hemming Village successful Rexburg, nan Hawaiian edifice is owned by Jeremy and Rochelle Claridge. They moved to Rexburg from confederate Arizona six years agone and brought Kainoa’s to Idaho.

“We want our customers to sensation nan value erstwhile they eat it,” Jeremy said. “We don’t spell inexpensive connected ingredients. We bargain nan costly meat; we bargain nan costly chicken.”

The Wipeout

The Wipeout is 1 of Kainoa’s astir celebrated dishes. It features 5 types of meat: misoy chicken, bulgogi beef, chickenhearted katsu, fried spam, and kalua pork.

“When you spell to Hawaii, this is what would beryllium considered a Hawaiian sheet lunch,” Jeremy said. “You’ll get immoderate meats for illustration this and immoderate sides — achromatic sticky atom and mac crockery is beautiful overmuch what you’re going to find.”

The fried spam whitethorn beryllium a caller spirit for immoderate Idahoans, but it is simply a definite favourite of Hawaiians.

“You can’t person Hawaiian nutrient without fried spam,” Jeremy Claridge said. “We waste a ton of that stuff. Once (people) sensation it, erstwhile it’s done right, they really, really bask it.”

Kainoa’s chefs besides supply a patient Hawaiian eating experience, cautiously removing immoderate fat from nan kalua pork.

“It’s a good, salty smoked pork,” Jeremy said.

Additionally, nan platter includes chickenhearted katsu — “thinly-sliced chickenhearted bosom – seasoned and fried to perfection” and beef bulgogi, a delicious Korean-style dish, Jeremy said.

But Claridge’s pridefulness and joyousness is nan last entrée connected nan nutrient platter — a tender, misoy chickenhearted thigh marinated for 12 to 36 hours, dripping pinch flavor.

“It’s thing special,” Jeremy said, describing 2 visitors from out-of-state who erstwhile declared, “’We’re from Texas. We do nan champion barbecue. That’s nan champion chickenhearted we’ve ever had.’”

Every Wipeout Wednesday, you tin bid nan Wipeout for 20% off.

Ono Fries

For a unsocial Idahoan twist connected a Hawaiian favorite, effort nan Ono Fries — a heaping blend of chickenhearted katsu and cabbage piled precocious connected a furniture of French fries pinch ranch and Waikiki condiment dressing drizzled connected top.

“We’ve brought it retired to group before, and they’re like, I ordered fries, and this looks for illustration a salad,” Rochelle said. “I’m like, there’s fries successful there; support digging.”

Kainoa’s regulars petition nan Ono fries by nan dozen.

“You can’t hit it,” Jeremy said. “That point gets almost nan full nutrient pyramid.”

Kainoa’s Hawaiian Grill’s oft – requested Ono Fries. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

Hawaiian-style tacos

Kainoa’s is celebrated for its 4 delicious Hawaiian taco varieties — Lani ono, Blairstown, fish, and kalua — pinch atom and mac salad.

The Lani ono tacos see “our Waikiki condiment and our chickenhearted katsu wrapped up pinch immoderate cabbage and tortilla, and it’s conscionable a batch of flavor,” Jeremy said.

A Blairstown taco is “buffalo helping style” pinch chickenhearted katsu, cabbage, buffalo condiment and ranch.

These 2 taco varieties are a deed pinch nan assemblage students.

“They emotion nan price,” Rochelle added.

Kainoa’s Hawaiian tacos. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

Kainoa’s serves up 11 signature homemade sauces — ranch, location mayo, spicy house, spicy katsu, Kilauea, sriracha, house, Waikiki, mango tartar, katsu and orangish vinaigrette — that battalion successful nan spirit pinch each bite.

“All of our sauces are made in-house each day, caller from scratch, which is rather a feat, but we do it because it’s that good,” Jeremy said. “People tin really sensation nan difference.”

Kainoa’s besides offers a assortment of wraps, salads, sandwiches, basking dogs and chili.

For dessert, nan paper features 7 flavors of Hawaiian smoothies – Malia Mango, Kalia-lia, Parker Ripcurl, Aloha Alani, Kick’n Kaleo, Blairstorm and Kahuna Claridge — that harvester apple, mango, raspberry, orange, guava strawberry, pineapple, cranberry, peach banana blackberry, blueberry and guava.

The Hawaiian Grill is nan first franchise of nan original edifice successful Thatcher, Arizona, founded by Eric Blair and his woman Kainoa, who is Hawaiian. Jeremy and Rochelle scheme to grow to further locations successful nan adjacent future.

“We effort to do it caller and do it correct and make judge that everybody has a really awesome experience,” Jeremy said.

The edifice is unfastened from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. astatine 115 South 2nd West successful Rexburg. Check retired https://www.kainoasrexburg.com aliases travel them connected Facebook.

“You tin travel successful present and consciousness for illustration you’re getting a spot of nan islands,” Jeremy said.

Kainoa’s Hawaiian Grill is conveniently located crossed from Porter Park successful Rexburg.