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Eating and nightlife
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Most of Hilo's (eminently missable)
nightlife
is in the Banyan Drive hotels, though there are a few shows at downtown's restored Palace Theater. As well as its
restaurants
, early risers will enjoy the daily 7am
Suisan Fish Auction
, at Banyan Drive and Lihiwai Street, where you can buy from the night's catch of marlin and other big fish.
Bears Coffee 110 Keawe St tel 808/935-0708. Hilo's most bohemian breakfast hangout, one block back from the ocean in the heart of downtown. CafA© Pesto 130 Kamehameha Ave tel 808/969-6640. Large, Pacific-influenced Italian restaurant, facing the ocean from downtown Hilo, serving tasty calzones and pizzas. Pescatore 235 Keawe St tel 808/969-9090. Formal Italian dining opposite the visitor center, with lunch specials ($7-10) and wonderful fish stews for dinner ($25).
The Seaside Restaurant
1790 Kalanianaole Ave tel 808/935-8825. Located just over two miles southeast of town, this superb, if plain, fish restaurant presides over thirty-acre fishponds brimming with trout, mullet and catfish. A full fish supper costs under $20. Other useful information
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