The Little Oven

What a sweet dessert shop!
The place usually opens Friday and Saturday nights from 7 – 11 pm. They take some weeks off so be sure to check their Instagram @liloven or give them a call to be sure.
The menu changes with the seasons and the chilled items always feature fresh fruits. The owner tries to use organic and local whenever possible creating out of this world desserts.
Their sorbets are must tries.

Whoops, past me was definitely in the wrong… Little Oven is super amazing — really innovative and tasty desserts! I just went there recently and ate the brownie fluff (nice brown, with torched marshmallow fluff, and a few fresh berries and deeeericious whipped cream), and the special ale ice milk with bits of crunchy pretzel, oat and nut streusel (also with fresh berries and creamy whipped cream) — holy moly, really nice dessert that was light and creamy with a hint of the ale flavor, contrasted with the salty, crunch textures was amazing! I still recommend going with 4 people or less, and also would go as early as possible (like within an hour of opening) to avoid waiting. Definitely on the must return to list, so that I can try all of the menu items!

To start I’m not much of dessert guy, but this place, The Little Oven, serves one of the desserts I have ever eaten. It is a little hole in the wall along King street that has a very simple yet welcoming ambiance. I tried the brownie fluff and this type of ale icecream, to simply put it in the local lingo,“it was broke da mout ono” I recommend everyone try it especially because i think their menu is always changing

Desserts here are so yummy! They are elegantly plated and served with petit utensils. If you haven’t tried this gem of a place, you should go! Hours and days are very limited. Good to call before you go down to make sure they are open.

The Little Oven features a small selection of Asian-​style desserts and a few drinks. These are petite treats, beautifully plated, with detailed, handmade touches. Most popular is their Brownie Fluff, a chocolate brownie with torched house made marshmallow on top. A light and fresh dessert is the Ume-​Meyer Lemon Kantan fruit cup with kantan gelatin, tiny mochi and a bite of sorbet. The Hot Chocolate was barely sweet and not very chocolate-​y; it was delicate, not indulgent. Other desserts might be a tart, cake, parfait, cobbler or sundae; the menu changes, so check their social media or call if you want to know the selection in advance.
If you want to stop by The Little Oven, here’s what you need to know: they have limited business hours, limited seating and a limited changing menu. If you are lucky to catch them when they are open, you may have to wait for a table, and expect to pay for all this cuteness, it’s $ 5-​$ 7.50 for a dessert and $ 3-​$ 5.25 for a drink.

I’ve been dying to try The Little Oven after my friend showed me pictures of the desserts she tried with her family. That was over a year ago! We tried to go a few times, but the store was always closed. I kind of forgot I wanted to come until a friend and I wanted to get some desserts after dinner. So I pulled up my Unilocal Bookmarks and there it was!
The Little Oven is pretty small so seating is definitely limited. Luckily it’s just a dessert shop so most parties order, eat, and go within 30 minutes. The dessert menu lists about 5 to 6 desserts daily on one main menu board with a coffee/​drink menu on the side. There’s also another menu board right before the entrance to the kitchen with frozen treats such as sundaes and sorbets of the day.
Our server was also the person who prepared a lot of the desserts in the front. She explained to us that the dessert changes depending on the season since they use a lot of fresh seasonal fruits. The Meyer Lemon Ume Kanten (w/​Fresh Fruits and Mochi Drops) and Brownie Fluff are regulars on the menu.
We ordered the Katen and the Berry Parfait with Port Sauce, both $ 7.50 each. The presentation was perfect but the portions definitely on the teenier side. They were good but the flavors didn’t exactly blow me away either. At $ 7.50 per dessert, I will probably try a cake or cobbler next time, but since we had a heavy dinner, we chose to go lighter on dessert.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you follow them on Instagram (@thelittleoven) for hours and menu items.

This place should be renamed «Broken Oven.»
I came here with my bf on a Saturday night at 10pm, and was instantly disappointed. We were not greeted warmly, and the workers were too busy to even smile. They say, go early due to limited seating, but there were a lot of tables. We sat ourselves and gave this place a chance because we wanted a nice pleasant dessert to end our night.
We ordered the Ume Kanten, Brownie Fluff, Rootbeer Float, and a Decaf coffee. I think the taste of the Brownie Fluff was a little bland, but I don’t mind that. The Ume Kanten was an interesting combination and looked very lovely. However, $ 5.75 each was a bit pricey and not really worth it.
It’s common sense to serve the Rootbeer Float first. All it is are 3 tiny scoops of vanilla ice cream and pour a bottle of soda (yourself). We cancelled it because the service was too slow. I thought we were going to be there for ages before we got our refill on our decaf coffee (which we never got). Do they even do refills? I don’t know, the waitress has not offered. We left the place after the two desserts and got the hell out of there with no tip. No, I don’t think they need another waitress. Just hire one that can move faster.
All in all, the shop was a cute hangout, but the business needs to work on their work flow. Follow through with the business hours, get enough ingredients so it lasts the whole night, and re-​train the waitresses to move progressively.
I’m sorry, but I don’t see this place last at all.

You haven’t eaten dessert until you’ve eaten at Little Oven. This little Pop up café recently reopened and let me tell you, it’s definitely all the rage. They have very limited hours, and it’s so popular that they have run out of desserts within a couple hours of opening. That being said, go early, and expect a wait.
A friend convinced me that we had to go. I’m down to trying new places, so I happily obliged. We arrived about 10 mins before 7, when they were supposed to open, but they ended up opening at about 7:15. Already there were about 10 other people waiting to get in. There is very limited seating, but the desserts are worth the wait and the turn over is fast.
We ordered all of the specialty desserts. For $ 7.50 each, it’s a little pricey, but you can tell they put in a lot of hard work to make unique and very beautifully plated desserts. I loved every bite, and I’m sure my Instagram followers were drooling as well.
The customer service was excellent and they genuinely made me feel like they appreciated our business. :) love it. I’ll be back!
Park in the back lot, but make sure you pay the box! Or street parking is usually plentiful!

This place has to be the cutest little dessert shop in town. The Little Oven offers an array of one-​of-​a-​kind homemade treats.
Brownie Fluff: One of their signature dishes, always on the menu. Picture a sweet, soft, and moist brownie meets melted marshmallows coming together for a harmonious match made in dessert heaven.
Chocolate Pudding Parfait: Creamy chocolate pudding layered masterfully with whipped cream and topped with fresh fruit.
Cons: The days and hours they are actually open are quite spotty. Best to check for updates on social media. They often open later and close earlier than advertised. Also, if you are lucky enough to catch this elusive dessert white whale when it’s open, the menu changes daily, which sadly means that your favorite treat may be as transient as their hours of operation.

Atmosphere: This small shop offers 3 two tops, 1 four top, and a handful of counter seats. The décor is simple and the overall feel is quaint. The chalk board menu adds a trendy hipster vibe.
Parking: Street parking as well as an open lot.
Protip: It gets busy, go early. Follow their Facebook and Instagram feed for their hours of operation, menu, and to ensure they aren’t closing early because they are sold out. If you weren’t looking for this place, you’d never know it existed. The sign on the door is easy to miss.
Bottom line: If they are open, drop everything and head over. These deliciously decadent treats are truly the unicorns of the dessert world.

I tried their Brownie Fluff! Omg it was too sweet for me! Couldn’t even finish it. Looks for be deceiving, sometimes. But they have a lot of cutesy Desserts and I’m sure their yummy!
They have this interesting table colorful crystals idk how else to explain it but it’s really cool!

This is seriously every girls dream place for cute desserts that taste just as good as it looks!
Here are my recommendations when coming here…
Bring at least & at the most 4 people… why? Due to this place being open maybe twice a week, it’s a very small establishment but packed with a lot of different desserts, so if you come with four, you get to try four different things. Everyone wins in my book working this trick.
Secondly, be up to date… even though they’re not open every weekend, check via twitter for updates when they’ll be open. Seriously, the check is worth the taste!
Lastly, this place is cheap! Desserts that are semi bite size, under 10 dollars? You really pay for the quality of the food here and it really doesn’t dissapoint!

Wow i thought I came home from Vegas a few days ago. But coming here felt like i was still paying casino prices for my food. Don’t get me wrong, I could see these desserts coming out a of a celebrity chef’s restaurant on the strip. They are creative and you can tell the care put into each serving, from the detail of each dessert. They were delicious but small. $ 30 for 2 desserts, a coffee and a root beer float. Yikes!

Little oven is small desert shop where it open on weekend only. I don’t know their normal open hours. it seems like they are always close when i drive by.
The reason i’m a fan of this place is because of quality of the desert. it’s one of the most fancy desert i had in Hawaii. so many detail of making the desert that it cost about a same as if you were to go buy one lunch plate.
you better to bring some cash if you like to try their menu board. When i went they had 6 different items which she explains what the each item is and what is in the desert.
They know their sweets and they know what is a good combo with sweets.
They also sell drinks which i think they are very good. the food and the customer sale is great, i’m a fan and i would like to eat this desert again.

What can I possibly say about The Little oven, that hasn’t already been said… Well, let’s just say this would be a Honolulu Hidden Gem.
Honolulu is a Cosmopolitan city, but still has a small town feel. It isn’t like New York City, Los Angeles, or Chicago… that’s a good and bad thing.
I am always on the hunt for that ‘big time’ restaurant, but sometimes, here in the islands… it’s hard to find. Little Oven qualifies… and succeeds.
This ‘partially’ open dessert spot does it right. Homemade desserts, based on seasonal ingredients… all put together by people who care. The service is usually pretty good here and there are two small areas for dining… counter seating and table seating. Both are great… most of the time, you are just waiting in line and you get what you get… but if you sit at the counter, you get to watch the desserts being made.
I have many, many favorites here, but two have been on the menu a couple of times:
Healthy frozen hot chocolate
This is crazy delicious. It reminds me of the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity (New York, Las Vegas). It is so rich in chocolate and perfectly sweet… I don’t know how this can be made with soy… but it is. I order this every time I go.
Sorbet with yuzu (by itself or as one of the ingredients).
Yuzu is a Japanese fruit from the citrus family and it is super tasty. The couple of times I have had the sorbet, I immediately wanted to order another scoop. So refreshing and satisfying at the same time, it will put a smile on your face.
I don’t think I have ever been here and only tasted one item… that’s part of the magic of The Little Oven. You can eat multiple desserts here and you feel good about it. You wouldn’t normally eat two banana splits, or two bags of cotton candy (…or maybe you would), but here eating more than one dessert is normal.
Most of the desserts here are seasonal, and that’s what makes this a fun place. Every time you go, the menu is different.
Most of the time when you eat dessert, it can be overly sweet or over the top. Not here… all the desserts are very well balanced. I know that sounds strange… because it is dessert, but nothing here is crazy sweet or overly rich. Superior fruit is used a lot to make your taste buds wake up and tingle.
Presentation is as spectacular as the taste of the desserts. Meticulous would be the word I would use to describe how detailed the plates are. When your other senses are excited… it is easier to please your mouth.
If you have ever said to yourself…“I am skipping dinner and having multiple desserts”…this is your place!

I’m not a huge dessert person, but Little Oven has an assortment of creations that will keep me going back for more. Of what I tried, their Peach Melba and Vanilla Malt were my favorites. The Melba, made with fresh peaches, had a pleasant sweetness to it, and was served over their ice cream with raspberries and blueberries, and also had a marshmallowy chip that was pretty ridiculously good too. The Vanilla Malt… sounds plain but is really good. It’s served with sprinkles and a strawberry segment, and tastes rich and creamy, yet somehow very light at the same time. I also think it’s pretty cool to see them prep things right there too.
The parking is street, and there can be a line to wait to go in, but it’s worth waiting for. Prices are reasonable, and you’ll find yourself ordering more than one thing… the desserts are on the smaller side.

I’ve bookmarked this place for the longest time, however, due to the limited business hours, I never made it down here. This past weekend, my girlfriends took me out for my birthday dinner at On Dong, so we walked over and it was open. Halaluyah!
I love the décor of this place. It’s very cozy! Since there were a few of us, we got to order a bunch of desserts and tried it all out. We tried Brownie Fluff, Meyer Lemon, Red Wine Poached Pear, and Moscato D’Asti Jelly and of course ice cream sundae. All for $ 7.50 each. I have to say, the desserts are much prettier than its taste. The taste is great, but it’s not extraordinary. My favorite of the night was definitely the poached pear.
All in all, it’s a great place for a date night, or girl’s night. Nice cozy place to sit down and enjoy a nice dessert and chat.

So I’ve been meaning to come to this place every weekend. But every weekend I try to go, it’s closed! Whyyyy?! Well, recently I found out from my friend that the owner randomly close and open the store because she has another job as a wedding cake designer/​planner or something.
One night it was open. It was full with only 3 seats on the counter side. So 4 of us squeezed in that area. The desserts look so pretty, looking at the other customer’s orders. The names sounds fancy, but are the desserts as good as it sounds. Yes… it’s pretty, but it looks really basic. I ordered a meyer’s lemon ume kanten. It’s mostly fruits with this pink ume gelatin. Gelatin was really a small amount. It was good, not too sweet, nothing sour. My friend had a brownie thing, it was brownie with marshmallow melted.
Desserts are pretty. But nothing special or super amazing about it. Pricing was expensive. $ 8 for a small cup of fruits. Worth a try I guess.

Everything is good. Made there. Portions a little small– make up for it by ordering more.
Worth it, note times they are open. Fri sat nights only. Always a line– sigh I really hate waiting.
What’s good? Well it’s all preference. So round up a crew and order it all. The sponge cake was my fave.

I’m not sure when The Little Oven opened. I don’t recall them being in the small King Street location for that long, but I stumbled across it while looking for a coffee place on a Friday evening.
It is easy to miss this place as you are driving past, although there is a standing sign outside. The interior is nice with both counter seating and a handful of tables. Strangely, this place is only open on Friday and Saturday evenings, so perhaps it is intended to be an after dinner date spot, and it definitely gives that sort of feeling.
What is neat about this place is that the menu is changing constantly. I think this might be something of an experiment for the chef in charge to try different ideas or something.
I had a very interesting dessert with my coffee. It had a lot of ingredients including some sort of candied peach, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, sliced peaches, a few berries and a slightly crunchy and crumbly wafer as a base. It seemed like a lot to pull together but the flavors intermingled very nicely.
Overall, if you can work with their very limited hours this seems like a great place to have some after dinner coffee and dessert.

Every. Single. Time. I. Came. Here. The. Place. Was. Closed.
Doesn’t help that their location and parking situation makes it a super creepy area to be walking around in at night.
BUTTTTT, recently. I think about last month (?), the Little Oven has finally re-​opened. The Little Oven is extremely small and I say, can sit about 20-​ish people at a time. Given their hours of operation, only on Fridays and Saturdays from 7−11pm… you have to really plan out when to go… especially since the two times I’ve been here — I had to wait about 15 – 20 mins for a seat to open up. My best bet is to go in the middle of the night and hope people aren’t hogging the seats. If you go early, there will surely be a wait and if you go too late… well the desserts will probably be all gone.
Since staff is limited, it’s given that service would be slow. No surprise that people would also prolong their stay here even more to chat, not caring for the ones waiting in line outside. Um, hello… we see your bill right on the table… Oh! The couples that choose to sit at the tables are my favorites. They rather take up space that they don’t need instead of sitting at the counter. Lovely.
I really wanted to rave about the Little Oven. SO MUCH. But service during my first time here was chaotic. When me and my friend stepped inside, we expected to be greeted, but nothing. guess everyone was busy. I would suggest getting take-​out if you really can’t afford to wait, but that will take away your presentation of the desserts AND REALLY ISN’T THAT WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR?!
Both times here, I’ve observed one girl who prepares all the desserts. She carefully decorates EVERYTHING so delicately and beautifully, that there’s no need to use instagram filters! Haha… apparently the menu changes every week or so, making the Little Oven really hard not to resist trying everything and coming back. Most desserts average about $ 6.75 and I think you’re just paying for the presentation because in my opinion, the desserts are really small!
Taste-​wise, okay, I admit there’s something unique about it. Probably because everything is made from scratch and created on the spot… literally right in front of you. Besides the yummy, delicious desserts — they also offer drinks, coffee, and free water you get for yourself.
Little Oven definitely hits the spot if you’re craving fancy sweets after dinner or you just like desserts in general. But be prepared to wait and spend!

The Little Oven… the myth, the legend. After seeing amazing picture after amazing picture on my Instagram feed, I just had to try it!
My first thoughts upon stepping into this establishment? This place is little. And this was not because I am a large guy. This place is small with only a handful of tables and limited counter space. I actually could not sit down right away as every table and chair was taken.
I had to wait outside. I had to watch people eat the most amazing things in front of me while I watched through the window. I had to be patient. I tried not to make it too obvious, but the food looked so good! Also, there was not much else to do while standing in line on the sidewalk. Thank goodness for Unilocal line buddies! They are awesome friends who keep you company while you wait in line!
Wait time was close to an hour! I kept thinking to myself this better be worth it. Apparently it is as I stopped by two nights in a row! Prepare to be cozy when you do sit as tables and chairs are close together.
Desserts are a little pricey, but they are constructed with painstaking detail. All they serve are desserts and coffee, but it was great desserts and coffee. My only gripe? These desserts sure are tiny. Sometimes I wish I was a small girl who eats very little.
On the first night, I settled for a New Year Trio which featured mochi two ways and a mixed fresh fruit bubbly apple drink. All this was $ 8.50. Cathy T was also super nice and shared her Fondue for Two with me! That chocolate ganache was so ridiculously good and addicting. I may have eaten more than my fair share! Served with fresh fruit, the fondue made eating fun. It was awesome being able to dip all sorts of fruit and marshmallows into delicious chocolate.
The second night bestowed upon me the Meyer Lemon Ume Kanten dessert. This dessert had mixed fruit, ume kanten, and a small scoop of sorbet. It was refreshing, but I wished that I had chose an ice cream dish as it was very little food. This was $ 6.95.
Service was good on the first night, but on the second night it was not as good. Their water machines were empty. I was thirsty. Service was slow. I was served my dessert without any napkins or utensils. Paying the bill took a long time. Preparing the food took a good amount of time.
On the plus side, there’s lots of street parking available right across the street. People seem to avoid parking there because of the homeless encampment in the park and on the sidewalk. If the homeless make you nervous, parking around the corner or in the back works.

WHY?! WHY can’t Little Oven be open more often?! Their desserts are DE-​LICIOUS & you’d be lucky to make it there during their meager operating hours!
Hours:
I still can’t believe they’re only open Friday & Saturday from about 8−11pm. That made me so sad I minus-​ed a star… on the other hand, I guess the limited time adds to the specialness of the experience.
Parking:
It’s on King St. and there’s no designated parking lot that I know of, so it’s all street parking. On the other hand, since they’re open kind of late on a Friday & Saturday, there hasn’t been much trouble getting street parking nearby.
Food:
They make desserts AND drinks, but I prefer enjoying my sweets in bites rather than sips. I’ve only been there once, but I really, really, really want to go again! I would say that everything is pretty reasonably priced based on the quality of dessert you’re getting. They make everything themselves and the staff is very small, so don’t be alarmed if it takes a little while for your desserts to get to you; it’ll be worth it.
Their main «regular» menu is on a really large chalk board, but they also have a changing specials board. For example, around Thanksgiving they were offering a mini tart combo (Candied Yam with Marshmallow tart & a Fresh Cranberry with Persimmon tart) that really fit the season!
Overall:
I WANT TO GO BACK NAO (that’s not a spelling error)! I wish they were open more often so I could have a better chance at going back, but alas, I’ll settle for finding the right moment to sneak into the night to enjoy my sweets on my weekend nights. :P