Kihei · Azeka Shopping Center

Breakfast like
you live here.

The hole-in-the-wall locals drive across the island for — loco moco, hand-made malasadas, and Portuguese sausage, since 6:30 in the morning.

★★★★½  4.4 · 378 Google reviews

Call to order · (808) 874-6035 🍳 Mon–Sat 6:30a–2:00p · Sun closed
A plate of Home Maid Cafe's loco moco — rice topped with a hamburger patty, eggs, and brown gravy. Best loco moco on the island Malasadas made by hand
A box of fresh malasadas dusted in sugar at Home Maid Cafe.
The reason people line up

Malasadas, fried to order and rolled in sugar.

Some folks come in just for these — pillowy Portuguese doughnuts, the cream-filled ones “not too sweet,” pulled hot from the fryer. Grab a box for the drive home, or eat one standing at the counter. No judgment.

A plate of golden French toast dusted with powdered sugar.
From the griddle

Loco moco, omelettes, and the best French toast around.

Generous, customizable, and unfussy — the way a local breakfast should be. Spam and Portuguese-sausage breakfast sammies pack easy for the beach. This isn’t a resort buffet, and that’s the point.

Inside Home Maid Cafe — the counter and hand-written menu board.
A Kihei hole-in-the-wall

Family-run, and it tastes like it.

Tucked into Azeka Shopping Center off South Kihei Road, Home Maid Cafe isn’t trying to impress anyone with the room — it’s the food and the welcome. Honeymooners come back three mornings in a row. Regulars get greeted by name. As one review put it: “the welcome mixed with great food makes me feel like I am home.”

4.4★378 Google reviews
6:30aopen six days a week
$local prices, local portions
Straight from Google

People don’t whisper about this place.

★★★★★

“Truly the best loco moco on the island. Hole in the wall… this is a local gem.”

Daniel Kim · Google review
★★★★★

“We discovered this hidden gem on our honeymoon and came back several times. The malasadas… oh my.”

Norma Boston · Google review
★★★★★

“The welcome mixed with great food makes me feel like I am home. Best French toast around.”

Chris Parker · Google review
★★★★★

“The restaurant was very busy and it makes sense why — the food was amazing and the staff were very nice.”

Michael Ferrara · Google review
Come hungry

Find us in Azeka.

1280 S Kihei Rd #106Azeka Shopping Center · Kihei, HI 96753
Mon–Saturday · 6:30am – 2:00pmClosed Sunday
(808) 874-6035Call ahead — takeout and malasadas by the box
Home Maid CafeOpen Mon–Sat · 6:30a–2p
Call to order