No-frills spot specializing in custom-seasoned seafood meals, plus combo dishes & daily specials. Based on 765 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.5 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
1314 S King St STE G2, Honolulu, HI 96814
Phone: (808) 952-6990
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Hours
| Saturday | 5–10 PM |
| Sunday | 5–9 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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4–9 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 4–9 PM |
| Thursday | 4–9 PM |
| Friday | 2–10 PM |
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Reviews
Dr. Jan West
$92 per pound King Crab destroyed by gobs and gobs of garlic. Haven’t they tasted their food? Atmosphere and service ok but nothing special. Tacky storage shelves at front door. Server impatient with tiny requests. Crab not even split, lots of work. Could have offered to split the legs for additional charge (normally $30-70/lb). Could have offered plain drawn butter. Could have offered a flight of sauces instead of forcing a choice. Should have served any sauce on the side and not drowned entire order in it. Could have cleaned their filthy front door. Difficult parking.
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David Lau
Sweet stuff, super fast serving speed, and delicious food make it worthy of 5 star. Recommend the catfish, any shellfish with the spicy Cajun flavor. The snow crab is either not fresh or overcooked, that’s what I would not recommend.
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Victoria Ang
Food was okay, I have had better, in comparison to Cajun seafood boil places. I was not sure what to expect at Kari…but Karai did a wonderful job with their sauce selections! We tried them all, my favorite was the pesto! Great idea and tasted amazing!!! Their margarita mock tails were soooo good!
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Tom
Wow this place was seriously amazing. You wouldn’t really think to eat crabs in Hawaii, but the stellar reviews and the amazing pictures had me sold. And oh boy, it did not disappoint. I got the Dungeness crab, garlic, honey wings, and the combo. If you’re getting the karai sauce, I suggest habanero spice as it’s not too spicy but super flavorful. The honey garlic sauce was generous and unlike any honey garlic I ever had. They are also extremely crispy and crunchy. The karai combo was also very good and a good selection of other seafood besides crabs. The sausage was particularly very tasty. Next time maybe I’ll try the king crabs!
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Lina Nguyen
Crab is a 10. Expensive as is crab so go ready. We got the crab for 2 , fried calamari and sweet potato fries. Crab was perfect? Portion. Big enought for 2 ppl, fried calamari the best I had in my life no lie and I did travel around the world. It was perfect not burn dry or overcooked just amazing. Sweet potato portion was crazy. Only thing we went around 2000 and they close the kitchen 2030 so Sunday night you feel the frustration of the staff trying to close all and go home so idk if that’s OK or they just should literally not take nobody else after 2000 or just don’t go that late. If they not getting paid overtime bc some customer like us show up late I don’t blame it but it was weird. I definitely will go back another time. Cons: no parking lot, good luck parking on the street!
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Suzanne Smith
The food was amazing! My husband and I shared their Snow Crab Combo and it was plenty for the both of us. The truffle fries and sauce were also amazing.
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The One MVP
Karai Crab was awesome. The Karai wings were crunchy and seasoned perfectly. The fries were cooked just right with a crunch. My wife loved the shrimp and chicken. Food came out 7 minutes after ordering and my drink never went empty and I got 8 refills. Amazing service and food.
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Karen Scott
Delicious dinner at Karai Crab, the waitstaff were kind, informative and prompt. We had a party of 10 people, 3 of which were picky kids.
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Tabitha Morris
Was craving seafood and this hit the spot. Ordered the garlic noodles, snow crab legs, clams & garlic shrimp. Top win was the shrimps. The sauce definitely be killer on wings too. We could have ordered 4 of those & be happy. Not to knock any of the other dishes because they were just as delicious. Shrimp was on another level.
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T Mack
This is our last night in Hawaii and this dinner did not disappoint! The food was well seasoned and was provided in generous portions. The calamari steak was so tender and crispy – if you like calamari, do not skip this! The honey garlic shrimp.was flavorful and crispy. We literally were licking our fingers!! Everything was sooooo delicious!
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