Waikiki Market, the grocery store on the second floor of Lilia Waikiki at 2380 Kuhio Avenue, has reopened after construction; local outlet Aloha State Daily put the grand reopening on August 25. It is where we walk for vegetables, fruit, beer and wine when we are in Waikiki — about fifteen minutes on foot from Hokulani — so a closed or half-open Waikiki Market changes our week more than most restaurant news does.
What makes it worth a closer look now is the building, not just the store. The restaurant inside the market, ‘Olili, has a 4 pm happy hour, and the bar on the ground floor, Piko Kitchen & Bar, lists one that starts at 2 pm. Groceries and an early beer, under one roof. Everything below was checked on November 10, 2026.
What reopened
Local outlet Aloha State Daily reported on August 24 that Waikiki Market and ‘Olili would hold a grand reopening on Tuesday, August 25, and that the market had closed earlier in the spring for construction. The store’s own site now opens with “Aloha Waikiki, we’ve re-opened!”
According to Aloha State Daily, the new pieces are:
- a loco moco station where you pick the protein, rice and toppings, with braised short ribs, chicken katsu cutlets and salmon chazuke patties named as the proteins
- more than 12 kinds of musubi
- mochi malasadas, with ube, yuzu lilikoʻi and strawberry lemonade matcha among the flavors
- new plate lunch options and a larger selection of locally made products
The store’s site confirms the outline without the detail. It names a Braised Beef Loco Moco station alongside Kalua Pork Nachos, North Shore Garlic Shrimp and fresh poke, and it lists meat, seafood, deli, produce and everyday groceries. It also calls itself “Waikiki’s only full-service grocery store” — that is the store’s description of itself, not a count we made. The store’s highlights page gives different examples, though. For build-your-own loco moco it names a Kalua Pork Hash Patty with Mushroom Gravy and a Salmon Patty with Ginger Teriyaki Sauce, not the three proteins in the news report. It lists Ube Mochi Malasadas at the bakeshop and musubi among the grab-and-go items, without saying how many kinds. So the “more than 12” musubi figure comes only from Aloha State Daily, and the loco moco lineup depends on which source you read — check at the counter.
We have not seen the new stations yet. What we can say from our own trips is what the store has been for us: the place for greens and fruit, a case of Kona Brewing, a bottle or two of wine, and ready-made poke for the room. We do not season raw fish ourselves, so a poke counter we can walk to is the useful kind.
Two happy hours in the same building
This is the part we did not expect to be writing about a grocery store.
| ‘Olili (inside Waikiki Market, 2nd floor) | Piko Kitchen & Bar (ground floor) | |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant hours | 4 pm to 10 pm, Wednesday–Sunday | 8 am to 10 pm daily |
| Happy hour | 4 pm to 6 pm, Wednesday–Sunday | 2 pm to 6 pm daily |
| Draft beer | $5 | $6 (local draft brews) |
| Wine by the glass | $8 | $9 (house sparkling, white or red) |
| Food | $6 pupu | $6 bao and burgers; fries $5 add-on |
| Cocktails | $10 (one $20 cocktail serves two) | $12 tropical cocktails |
Sources: the hours are from each restaurant’s site (ʻOlili, Piko); the prices are from the happy hour PDFs those sites link to (ʻOlili, Piko), all read November 10, 2026.
At ‘Olili, the $6 pupu list is lemongrass chicken satay, crispy coconut shrimp, crab rangoons, char siu pork ribs, braised short rib and pineapple sliders, and curry chicken spring rolls. At Piko, the $6 items are bao buns with braised smoked slab bacon, a kalbi burger, a hot honey chicken katsu sandwich and a fish katsu sandwich.
The two ‘Olili sources do not quite agree: the ‘Olili happy hour PDF says “Everyday, 4–6 pm,” while the restaurant’s site says happy hour runs Wednesday through Sunday and lists the restaurant itself as open only on those days. We read that as every day the restaurant is open, and we would not show up on a Monday or Tuesday expecting it.
Piko also lists a “Night Shift” happy hour from 8 pm to closing every day. We are reliably asleep by then, so consider that one reported, not field-tested.
What we would do
The 2 pm one is the one that fits us. Our afternoons start early. By 4 pm we are usually already in the room with a beer from the fridge, and once the second one is open, nobody is putting shoes back on. That makes ‘Olili’s 4 to 6 pm window the harder one for us, even though its $5 draft is the cheapest beer on either menu. Not for us on most afternoons — but if your day runs later than ours, it lines up nicely with the start of an evening.
Piko’s 2 to 6 pm window is a different story. A weekday at 2 pm is exactly when we would want a cold local draft and something salty, and a $6 bao or kalbi burger is the kind of food we order with beer anyway. We have not eaten at Piko or ‘Olili, so we cannot tell you whether the bao is good. We can tell you the timing works.
The order we would do it in: happy hour first, groceries second. A beer and a plate at Piko around 2, then upstairs for greens, fruit, poke and the beer and wine for the next few days, then the fifteen-minute walk back. Shopping first means sitting at a bar with grocery bags at our feet, which is effort, and we are against it.
We would still carry everything home. We do not rent a car, so the store’s distance is the whole reason it is our store. The Target on Kuhio Avenue is at 2345, in the same 2300 block, so one walk can cover both.
If you drive: Piko’s site lists validated parking at $4 for two hours in the Lilia Waikiki garage on Walina Street, ‘Olili’s site lists “2 Hours for $4 with validation,” and the market’s site lists $4 for two hours in the same garage.
Before you plan around this
- The ‘Olili happy hour PDF carries a “JUL 2025” date in its footer. Its prices match the ones Aloha State Daily reported for the new happy hour on August 24, 2026: $6 pupu, a $20 coconut wireless and a $10 tiki torch. Piko’s PDF carries a “May 26” mark in its footer.
- The loco moco proteins in the August news report differ from the examples on the store’s own highlights page, and the musubi count appears only in that report. Counters like these get reshuffled, so ask at the counter rather than plan around a specific item.
- Neither happy hour menu says whether the prices apply at the bar only or throughout the room, or whether they carry over to Piko’s takeout. Ask before you order.
- Hours and prices were checked on November 10, 2026, and can change. Re-check on the Waikiki Market, ʻOlili and Piko sites before you go.
Details
- Waikiki Market: 2380 Kuhio Avenue, second floor, Honolulu, HI 96815. Open 6 am to 10 pm daily. (808) 923-2022.
- ‘Olili Waikiki: inside Waikiki Market, second floor. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 4 pm to 10 pm; happy hour 4 to 6 pm. (808) 923-2095.
- Piko Kitchen & Bar: first floor of Lilia Waikiki, below the market. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily; happy hour 2 to 6 pm. (808) 923-2032.
For a store we mostly visit for broccoli and beer, it turns out there is a 2 pm happy hour one floor down.
