While vacationing in Waikiki, Hawaii recently, we had the pleasure of dining in The Oceanarium restaurant inside the Pacific Beach Hotel. The up-scale restaurant featured a huge aquarium that took up an entire wall. The wall serves as a window into this giant aquarium filled with a variety of fish and rays as well as the occasional scuba diver who not only popped in to feed the fish, but would also hold signs with messages to diners (ie: "Happy Birthday Sally!"). In addition to the amusing aquarium antics, we also enjoyed the food. The Oceanarium offers an extensive buffet for holiday meals that includes a variety of selections including assorted sushi, traditional Hawaiian dishes, traditional holiday dishes with a Pacific flair, fresh fish, shrimp, and several types of crab legs as well as salads and desserts.
Not to be missed is their signature pineapple drink, the "smoking pineapple." Big enough to be shared by two, this tasty alcoholic mixed drink is the perfect accompaniment to this Hawaiian dining experience. Served in an oversized hollowed-out pineapple, this fruity concoction is a blend of pineapple, banana, and coconut flavors and the pineapple sits atop a bed of dry ice, which creates a mist that seeps out from underneath...a very cool drink which turns the heads of the nearby diners.
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