Enchanted Lake Shopping Center

Love the improvements made! Waiting for more Restaurants and other food shopping choices!

Lots of great little restaurants, an outdated Safeway, Starbucks, Ben Franklin crafts, a McDonalds and Enchanted Lake Pets tucked around back. The most exciting thing to happen lately is they finally repaved the parking lot. The potholes were insane.

This place is our community essential and lifeline. Market, Dentist, Restaurants, First Food, Coffee, Hobby and more. The property is clean and well maintained. I love especially, Boots & Kimo's and Maui Fire-roasted Chicken! Thank you for more than 30 years service!

All I wanted was to sub round egg for sausage and they said the owner does not allow it. Not everyone eats meat! Lost a customer here and I get breakfast out everyday. Their loss.

Enchanted Lake Shopping Center is like many strip malls on O'ahu. High traffic, congested, overall decent tenants, inadequate parking, aging and in desperate need of a facelift.The anchor tenant here is Safeway. There's also a Ben Franklin, a Starbucks, Great Harvest Bread Company, and a pet store. But most of the businesses here are casual dining, including McDonald's, Subway, Round Table Pizza, The Food Company, and several more. There's even a church--Hope Chapel Olomana meets here in one of the storefront locations.The parking lot is always busy and you have to keep your wits about you. Some people like to think of this parking lot as a "DMZ" where the normal rules are suspended, like the laws of time and space. The pavement is in serious need of repair. Between the speed bumps and pot holes, this is a low rider's worst nightmare!Still, Enchanted Lake Shopping Center is a vital part of the neighborhood. I would just like it better if it didn't look so decrepit and they'd fix the asphalt.Yelp 365 Challenge #145/365

This busy neighborhood strip mall is a treasure trove of reasonably-priced eateries. Safeway, McDonald's, and Starbucks are visible from the street (Keolu Drive) as you drive by. Have many favorites here, including Kim Chee (different menu from the other fast food oriented Kim Chee's), The Food Company (two sides with different menus), The Fat Greek, and Saigon Pho. There's also a Ben Franklin Crafts store here. With all these great establishments, the parking lot can get crowded during peak dining hours. But there is sufficient turnover, so just circle around the lot and parking spots open up.

Enchanted Lake Shopping Mall is the other major shopping mall in Kailua, although the Aikahi Shopping complex may have gripes about this assessment. Nevertheless, this shopping mall is as cozy as they come, as it is nestled within the residential confines of Kailua - off the beaten path from the thoroughfare of Oneawa / Kailua / and Kuulei roads. The 57 and 57A public bus routes breeze through here, so there is an alternative mode of transportation to this shopping center, if you so desire. Coming here on a whim on a day trip from downtown Honolulu, is great, since there are plenty of places to go to on the bus. Compared to Kailua Shopping Center, this place is like Koko Marina and Aina Haina Shopping centers in East Oahu. Humble businesses for the every day consumer, rather than the glitz and glamour of high end retailers like Gucci and Bebe (i.e. Waikiki and Waikele Premium Outlets). I like the fact that most of the tenants at the Enchanted Lake Shopping Center is mostly eateries. McDonald's, Subway, and Starbucks are my favorites, although the Saigon Noodle House was my pick of the day, when I ventured in there to get my daily helping of Pho with beef and beef balls. The parking situation is fluid, although I can imagine that it can get tight to the max during peak times.The atmosphere is peaceful, as most are being set in a residential neighborhood. Well, a good, low crime area anyway. I felt safe here and wish I could live in and around Kailua / Lanikai sometime in the future.B++

Since the start of February 2015...I began my trek out to Enchanted Lakes Shopping Center to kill some time before I start work. Not a far drive from the highway, a few entrances and exits along the shopping center. I notice that not much business are open in the morning. Which is understandable since I'm there at 7-8:25am. Parking lot is pretty easy to move around in, even with the construction going on at McDonalds. All in all, I wouldn't mind coming back later in the afternoon or evening to try the Korean and Pizza restaurants.

E.L. Shopping Center is the perfect place for families who can never agree on what to eat. For the best Korean Food, there's E.L Kimchee. For Chinese food, there's Yen Yen's. For Mediterranean food, there's Yama's. Hungry for Vietnamese food? There's Saigon Noodle Shop. There's also Boot's and Kimo's, Waipuna Sushi, Round Table Pizza, L&L, Subways, Starbucks, Maui Mike's and McD's. OR...you can try something from Safeways Deli. If you're a crafter, E.L. Shopping Center has the only Ben Franklin Craft Store on the windward side. Kailua Happy Nails and E.L. Pet Store are also located here. In the other side, we have Texaco, Keolu Cinemas, Keolu Convenient Store, our very own pharmacy and even more awesome eating places. There's Blossom's Okazuya, The Food Company, and Nene Goose Bakery. All of those places are highly recommended!

Parking lot is terrible . Huge pot holes, uneven asphalt, shopping carts can't even roll on it. Not safe for small or electric vehicles.