Honu Kitchen-Cocktails   

363 New York Ave
Huntington, NY 11743
631-421-6900
www.honukitchen.com

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With soft lighting and swanky ultra-modern furnishings, this American-Hawaiian restaurant looks more like a swank Manhattan lounge than a waterside tiki hut. The huge dining room is a mix of private booths and communal tables. The handsome, late-night bar and cozy fireside lounge are perfect for people-watching, or working up the courage for that first kiss. On weekends, the restaurant cooks until midnight, serving up Honu lettuce cups of wok-seared chicken and black trumpet mushrooms with a Thai chili sambal dipping sauce, and a Maui mahi crusted with panko and pulverized macadamia nuts and laced with a roasted banana sauce. It would be criminal not to mention the bar scene, which cranks until the early hours and puts many area night clubs to shame. On Friday and Saturday nights, as the restaurant thins, the bar area swells with dancers. While the food is not as expensive as you'd imagine from the surroundings, the drinks are. Still, one or another of their analgesic concoctions will dull the pain of sticker shock.