The new owners of a cute little coffee shop called the Sunrise Shack at Sunset!
Koa Smith, his brothers and Koa Rothman have opened a cute little coffee shack on Oahu’s North Shore. Called the Sunrise Shack it’s located right across from Sunset.
If you’re in town for the Triple Crown you might want to swing by. Not many spots nearby to grab a snack or early morning cup of joe. Kammie’s is long dead. You’ve got Ted’s down the road, which is amazing, but is always jam-packed and it’s too hard to resist grabbing a crab and bacon sandwich with a slice of haupia pie on the side. Tasty in your belly, terrible for an afternoon session.
Sunrise Shack features a minimal menu. Coffee, tea, papaya bowls. I’m not a huge fan of the last. Papayas are kind of gross. But I fucking love coffee. Suck down far too much each morning. Expensive local-grown jitters before I can face the world.
They’re selling Bulletproof coffee, something I’d never heard of before today. It’s coffee with butter in it! What will they think of next?
Prices are a bit high, but that’s to be expected in Hawaii. Nothing comes cheap here.
It’s been a long time dream of mine to run something similar. A little joint on the side of the road, stocked with tasty local goodies. Set outrageous prices, offer kama’aina discounts.
Coffee for locals- $2
Haole surcharge- $10
I’d be surly and rude, operate under a policy of “the customer can go fuck himself.” I’d let regulars cut the line, kick people out for the most minor transgressions.
With the right marketing, who knows? Maybe I could sell that as part of the appeal. Like one of those “insult restaurants.”
It’s a terrible business model, I know, so it’ll have to sit on the back burner until I’ve lucked into a ton of money and can afford to piss it away on what amounts to a very expensive prank.
the 7-11 in haliewa has a good choice of fresh coffee. would go there every morning before work. jamie obriens old monkey boy(Ruben tejada), not his current one(poopies), tried to fight my boss one morning. my boss slammed the door shut on reubens hand. it was great, hawaii is a real special place.
Is Koa Smith the spawn of Gary Busey? And why is Koa wearing his mom’s sarong? Well, I guess if Busey is your dad, you can do whatever the F you like. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
What if, say, somone wanted to bring their own bad vibes since they are out?
I love you Beach Grit. You write the way I like to read.
Boy oh boy would you just LOVE Trouble Coffee.
Does someone from Beach Grit have a trust fund? Since you only have ‘one’ recent advertiser here–for good reason–how do you pay the bills?
Wait… what’s the “good reason?”
Let me rephrase that. How do you guys pay the bills with only one advertiser?
Free BJs; haha, sorry BG, I couldn’t help myself.
It takes two blowy’s and a few box dig outs a month but it works.
List of things unlikely to make you bullet proof:
1. adding butter to your coffee
2. Sharkbanz
3….
Not only is Bulletproof Coffee a thing, it’s a trademarked thing! Like Crossfit(tm).
UGH…
The koa smith looks like he will cage it in the basement and make it clean itself.
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