Cafe Pesto Hilo Bay
7 expert reviews
“This well-established Italian eatery has adopted distinct Asian flavors and fresh island ingredients in a sly menu of gourmet pizzas and seafood specials.”
– Gayot
"Café Pesto offers exotic pizzas... Asian-inspired pastas and risottos, fresh seafood, delicious salads, and appetizers you can make a meal of." Full review
"Occupying a 1910 building that has survived more than one tsunami, this causal café is in a lovely setting near Hilo Bay."
4.2
""Brilliant" Eclectic creations await at this "dependable" twosome, one of the Big Island's "best-kept secrets" "tucked away" in Kawaihae and "conveniently" located in the "heart of Hilo."" Full review
"Café Pesto is a safe choice, whether for business lunches or dinner with your mother-in-law." Full review
"Thin crust pizzas are the draw at this Italian restaurant looking out over Hilo Bay. The use of organic island grown produce is evident in the flavor and presentation." Full review
"The menu of wood-fired pizzas, pastas, risottos, fresh local seafood, and artfully prepared “creative island cuisine” such as mango-glazed chicken is much the same as at the original Kawaihae location, and that’s a good thing" Full review