Pono Hawaiian Grill

Fun little lunch spot! Great food with generous portions, and staff was personable and friendly. Our server added some extra spice to our poke bowl and it was ! Loved it!

If you've been to the Santa Cruz location, but haven't tried San Jose, you are missing out. Night and day. Almost like eating a two different restaurants. San Jose is bar some of the best Hawaiian-American food out here. Santa Cruz, trash. Tried it twice and both times requested a refund. Food was not edible. Hate SJ went to limited hours. It was my go to on Uber Eats.

Really good food. Made me nostalgic for when I was younger. Definitely going back!!!!

I'm just writing this review because I'm looking for a good place to go eat and my im impress with all h reviews here and with the owner or who ever is person In charged the way he cares a lot about each negative review I have never ever seen each bad review try to get fixed I can't wait to come here hopefully this Wednesday and try many items on this menu

Big portions and great tasting BBQ plates

Kalua pork was awesome.

11/1/23 finally manage to get here. this joint is just like the OG ones in Santa Cruz and i lived there for 3 years. when i moved from SC to SJ recently then saw this, i was surprised. anyway its the same vibe like the one in sc downtown and capitola. same food, same result. the only thing i dislike for this joint is the hours. i would just keep the joint in SC than to be here in San Jose.

literally such a good poke, I wasn’t even ready for how good it was going to be. Also pretty good brownie.

The staff was so helpful and nice the food was delicious. I recommend the coconut shrimp and the chicken teriyaki bowl.