Hanks Cafe Honolulu Hawaii

Hanks Cafe Honolulu Hawaii “I opened it as an art gallery to showcase my paintings and prints. But I put the bar in to pay the rent. Artists starve!”
Hank Taufaasau

11/23/2009

We're open on this beautiful Hawaiian Sunday. Stop by...especially if you're heading to town or east side. I want to meet my FaceBook Friends...Aloooooha!

11/21/2009

oin us at "Hanks Place" in historic Chinatown Honolulu! We open ad 1pm and look forward to meeting you all!

11/21/2009

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave it up. Reading, that is. - Henny Youngman

11/19/2009

Join us at "Hanks Place" in historic Chinatown Honolulu! We open ad 1pm and look forward to meeting you all!

11/02/2009

I hope everyone survived Halloween! Have a great week and stop by sometime.. We open at 1pm to 2am.. Let me know you heard about us from FaceBook!

10/23/2009

Quote for the day: "As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the bar or lobby" Beau Bridges

10/22/2009

Yes..we have free Wifi!

A wedge of a bar on lower Nu'uanu, Hank's in many ways serves as the missing link between urban Honolulu's more raucous ...
10/22/2009

A wedge of a bar on lower Nu'uanu, Hank's in many ways serves as the missing link between urban Honolulu's more raucous frontier days and its somewhat tamer 21st century persona. Namesake Hank Taufa'asau's art -- portraits of Hawaiian royalty along with more modern Island scenes -- is featured on the walls, and you'll usually find Hank himself there: delivering drinks to those unwilling (or unable) to negotiate the crowd squeezed into the narrow space; and also simply making the rounds to ensure everyone knows everyone else.

As is often the case at Hank's, half the crowd on this night consisted of musicians, and things soon evolved into a high-spirited game of musical chairs, with instruments changing hands so often that it was soon unclear who'd actually been hired to play in the first place. Guitarist moved to drum kit, bassist went to bar stool, drummer picked up bass, and a barfly that at first glance seemed too sauced to stand was suddenly punching out a perfect tempo on the communal congas … and on and on.

Somewhere late in the evening, at just the moment when I'd all but given up on making sense of anything and was contemplating my own potentially tragic debut in the rhythm system , the band went through another rotation.

Suddenly, squeezed into the corner that at Hank's passes for a stage, were representatives of virtually every ethnicity to be found in Hawaii: Samoan on bass, Maori on guitar, Hawaiian on drums … putting the "poly" in Polynesia, as it were. Three notes in, the crowd was with them word for word: Neil Diamond's I Am, I Said.

It occurred to me that this band playing this song could never have happened anywhere but right here. It was Honolulu's own Downtown Sound. At last I knew I had truly arrived at the sweet core of the Big Pineapple.
Stu Dawis, Hana Hou!

Address

1038 Nuuanu Avenue
Honolulu, HI
96817

Opening Hours

Monday 1pm - 2am
Tuesday 1pm - 2am
Wednesday 12am - 2am
1pm - 2am
Thursday 12am - 2am
1pm - 11:59pm
Friday 12am - 2am
1pm - 2am
Saturday 12am - 2am
1pm - 2am
Sunday 12am - 2am
1pm - 12am

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