Honolulu, HI

Waiolu Ocean Cuisine

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Waiolu Ocean Cuisine is a live-music venue in Honolulu, Hawaii. Open-air dining venue at Ka La'i Waikiki Beach with recurring evening live music and ocean-view hospitality. A refined open-air hotel restaurant with recurring live musicians several nights per week. Programming includes Lounge, local acoustic, Hawaiian, contemporary. Age access is 21+. The venue is located at 223 Saratoga Rd, Honolulu, HI 96815. For musicians evaluating a date, the established programming is the clearest guide to whether a set, instrumentation, and audience profile will fit the room. Artists can compare their sound and show scale with the venue’s existing live-music format before pursuing a date. Bands and solo performers can use the genre mix, audience setting, and performance style as practical signals when building a routing plan. For working musicians, that established performance pattern also provides useful context for deciding how much production, stage footprint, and preparation a show may require. The venue’s live-use pattern makes it a practical lead for suitable performers.

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21+
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Hawaiian, Lounge
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223 Saratoga Rd, Honolulu, HI 96815, United States
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808-683-7456
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