Ray's Café

A true hole in the wall place, Ray's cafe is the perfect place to visit for true Aloha. Ray is so great at making you feel welcome and part of the family. We loved talking stories while we waited for our food. We always try to stop by at least once during our visits to Honolulu because the prime rib is a must. My husband and I usually split the prime rib and another plate (like their fried chicken).Please come to Ray's, this is a hidden gem!

Excellent little eatery on busy King St. Embodiment of "hole in the wall" with some of the best meals here. They have good food every day with good prices and nice portions, but where they beat all the restaurants on the island is their weekly specials, specifically their Alaskan Crab Legs & Prime Rib. For $67.50, you can get 1 lb of sweet beautiful Alaskan Crab Legs with dipping butter and a thick slab of medium rare juicy prime rib. OMG it was sooooo delicious! The crab was sweet, meaty and delicious, the prime rib was thick, tender and flavorful especially with the au jus. It was so much food I had to take most of the meat home. It was awesome!!If you drive here, you will have to "hunt" for parking on the side streets as there is Very limited metered parking on King Street. But despite the limited parking and limited seating (~7 tables) it's totally worth it. This is one of our favorite places to eat on the island, and the folks here are so friendly and welcoming.

CODY stopped by for breakfastCODY ordered spam and eggsCODY food was tastyCODY staff were friendlyCODY dining area was tiny, cramped, cluttered, with too many flies buzzing aroundCODY had to park on side streetsCODY will return to order more food

Food is always great tasting with great value. The auntie server is pretty nice. The owner is always pleasant. I will continue to give this local spot my business!

On Christmas Eve, I called in my takeout order...4 medium rare Prime Rib specials with toss salad for our Christmas Day brunch but still had to wait about a half hour due to rib wasn't quite done yet. When I finally got my order, I had 4 containers with the Prime Rib but only 3 salad containers so I asked them for the 4th. When I took it home, I opened the containers to cool because I didn't want the medium rare Prime Rib to turn to medium. Lo and behold, there was a missing au jus in one of the containers! Sharing 3 au jus with 4 large pieces was so disappointing BUT the Prime Rib was so tender and so tasty...everyone enjoyed it!I was going to give 4 stars BUT the Prime Rib was awesome so it went back to 5 stars! I will definitely check my order better the next time AND I will be back!Tips:1. Bring cash...CASH ONLY2. Hard to find parking...need designated driver to drop you off3. CHECK YOUR ORDER!!!!

Ray's Cafe is a little hole in a wall that serves up great home cooking!There is no parking lot only street parking and the cafe has only 5 tables that can seat 2 to 4 customers.I had the smoked ham steak breakfast with 2 eggs, toast and rice, the smoked ham was huge.My wife had the mushrooms omelette. Which she loved it was full of mushrooms and it came with toast and rice.Prices are very reasonable most of the plates run about $10.00.Someone on the next table ordered a rack of lamb with asparagus the price was $30.00. He does have different kinds of steak meals and breakfast steak plates also, but compared elsewhere Rays prices are lower and his food is delicious.I would have given it a 5 expect for the atmosphere and parking, but other then that the food is a 5!

Good old fashioned restaurant with 5 or 6 tables.We always get the prime rib but I promise one day I'll try something new.

Another REVIEW for RAY'S CAFE always LOVE & EATING here at this hole in the wall LOCAL joint in the heart of KALIHI, Located on North king street. For one this hole in the wall Resturant is like a HOLY GRAIL of LOCAL eateries on the island of Oahu and KALIHI area I'd would say. Also I can say that ALOT of people from around the WORLD travel to come stop by and EAT at Rays cafe (it's amazing to see different people from all over to drive and come Eat and try this hole in the wall eatery called RAYS CAFE) Service - Service here is GOOD but could be a little challenging when it comes to TAKING PHONE ORDER's But the UNCLES AND AUNTIES that take the phone orders try their BEST to fulfill all Phone orders that all customers call in for. But one thing I can say is that the OWNER "Uncle FELIX" He Always and I say Always TAKE care of his CUSTOMERS" Always greets all customers with a SMILE and a HI & HELLO. FOOD - FOOD here at RAYS CAFE is straight THUMBS UP all around I would say where should we even start from the *Fried Chicken thighs plate *Hamburger Steak plate *Oxtail stew (Thursday specials I believe) *Their FAMOUS PRIME RIB plate (buggah is Massive Aka huge cut) *There Steak & EGGS Is a Go to as well. *Their BENTO MIXED plate is A GOOD ONE as well to order comes with a SPAM, Teriyaki meat, grilled fish, & Fried chicken thighs on a Bed of White rice & Furikake. *Grilled pork chops is good too comes with two big thick pieces of pork chops. These are some of there plates lunch offers and they do offer more as well. Also to say they got DAILY SPECIALS. Let's talk PARKING - Parking Here honestly is challenging but they do offer STREET parking via metered parking (But please be aware of the Street parking signs on times when can park and when cannot park) this is a big HEADS UP. A BIG HINT for all you people driving down and looking for parking check the for street parking on *North king street (paid metered parking) *GULICK avenue (regular street parking (parking here is all day and it's not metered parking) but please don't block people house drive ways. So yups if you Reading this REVIEW mahalos and hope this helps you a lot with information before checking out and eating at RAYS CAFE in KALIHI. Yah You *posted on 8/19/24

Pefectly done grilled toro ahi. Didn't need the tartar sauce--it was that good. Paid for an hour of street parking, but was done in 30. Fast service!

The food was very good and the portions was generous. The price was very reasonable. The service was very good and attentive. It's the kind of place where you would order and take. It's actually a hole in the wall with no ambience