HAWAIIAN FOOD RESTAURANTS IN NYC
Find your Aloha
Unique among Hawaiian food restaurants in NYC, Chef Luis Pous crafts a year-round island reverie, even as the floor-to-ceiling vistas frame panoramic SoHo scenes. Here, modern island flavors converge with sunlit dining and sensory escapism.
Hours of Operation
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Monday - Sunday
6:30 AM - 10:30 PM - Complimentary Coffee & Tea
Daily | 6:30AM - 11:30AM
DINING EXPERIENCES
Meet Chef Luis Pous
Chef Luis Pous’s inspiration and influence for El Ta’Koy began when he opened a restaurant on the small island of Kauai in Hawaii. After visiting local restaurants, farms, farmers' markets, and food truck events around the island, Chef Luis found that the food wasn’t only influenced by Polynesian culture, but also by Caribbean, North Latin and South American, European, and East Asian cultures.
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Just one example of this cultural evolution, which arose around 1850, would be the New England whalers, who introduced the culture of eating salted fish, which later evolved into Hawaii’s lomilomi salmon. From 1850 through the 1930s, immigration brought cuisines from China, Korea, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Portugal.