Cajun King Kaneohe

Drove here from Honolulu and I tell you it was worth the 30 minute drive. We had the King Crab boil with Cajun & garlic medium heat and it was very flavorful. It wasn’t too hot, I could have tried it a little hotter. The fried bread pudding is must have to finish off your meal! Great all around!

Thought the food was okay. Sauce was pretty good. Thought they could have cooked seafood a little less. Place is pretty spacious and service quick.

This hotspot is Finger lickin’ good! The sauce is just as delicious as the aiea location which is a big plus. Food came out in a timely fashion and customer service was superb! I have to come back and try the lunch specials that everyone talks about next!

I’m a seafood lover so was very excited to try this place. I ordered Combo #4 with the Cajun garlic butter sauce and loved every bite. It came with snow crab, prawns, mussels, crawfish, corn, potatoes and sausage. They have all the tools for you including a bib and gloves, which give you the freedom to dig in and get messy. Everything was cooked well and tasted fresh. The beer selection wasn’t as extensive as what the menu showed but I was still able to pick one I liked. The service was great. I would definitely go back when I’m craving a bucket of seafood.

I love this place! I’ve tried practically everything on the menu and it’s all yummy. My favorite is shrimp with lemon garlic butter (I get the sauce on the side for dipping) with sausage, corn and potatoes. I also like to get the lunch specials if I manage to come before 3. Best seafood boil on the island :-)

I usually go to the Cajun King Aiea location but I figured I should try the Kaneohe location at least once. They did not disappoint! I had the mild Cajun and Garlic Butter shrimp and snow crab with sides of sausage, corn, and potato. It was so good! Sauce tastes the same as the other location. If you’re craving seafood and are in Kaneohe, definitely check this place out.

Friendly & attentive staff. Clean location and delicious seafood! Their fried oysters are epic! Food is always hot and drenched in seasoning. Other recommendations are salt & pepper shrimp, King crab legs, chicken wings and fries. I LOVE coming here to get elbows deep in seafood (literally).

This place is buttery messy awesomeness. This trip we got a pound each of the snow crab legs, the king crab legs & the shrimp with Cajun garlic butter. We got mild. It still has a little kick. It comes in a plastic bag. It’s delicious. And they have Heineken for $ 2.99. It’s tough to beat. They keep the A/​C a little cool for my taste. But aside from that it’s perfect.

Service was surprisingly AMAZING! water was always refilled and one of the waiter even helped tied my friends bib as the waiter noticed my friend struggling tying to tie his bib with his dirty hands (from eating crawfish). We ordered 1lb of shrimp and 3lb of crawfish for two — ended up being the perfect amount! The spice level is not spicy (we got the medium — barely spicy). Overall, the shrimps were big and juicy, the crawfish lacks a bit of flavoring, but just dip it in the sauce and you’re good to go :)

Salt and pepper lobster Cajun style sauces for your shrimp. Chicken wings that are giant AND tender. Excellent service you cannot go wrong with windward Cajun King. Décor is beautiful for the type of food served. Ample bibs and wet wipes available. Also Heineken on draft!

My nine year old son insisted we post a review so everyone will know «it is the best place in the world.» We come here about twice a month. The food is amazing. Our favorite is the king crab with Cajun butter garlic sauce. It’s so tasty and tender. Best of all, the staff is so nice, even when they are busy. Tonight they greeted us kindly and warmly. My son said «I feel so special.» This is a place where customer service matters.
My son says: This is were all family’s can enjoy nice family food and service!

I was a bit sad that Joyful Garden closed down, although, I had only visited there once. But it was the closest dim sum place; now I have to make the 20 minute trek to town for some dim sum. At any rate, I finally got to try Joyful Garden’s replacement, Cajun King!
I’m not sure why I wanted to try here because I rarely eat crab, lobster or those other fancy seafood. I dislike messy foods and definitely don’t want to have to work for my food. Hence my order for dinner ended up being: seafood fried rice and green beans. You may laugh, but I highly recommend both dishes! They were so yummy!
My friends got the pound of king crab for $ 25, which I suppose is a decent price? The pound of shrimp is only $ 11, which seems like a bargain! For the amount of food you get, I think the price is reasonable. The best part though is picking your sauce, lemon butter, Cajun, etc. You MUST remember to take home the leftover sauce because you can make new creations at home. If you take all the shells you can make a seafood stock or if you only take the sauce, you can fry up more shrimp, veggies or whatever you want doused with yummy sauce. Just a warning though, you will have garlic breath the next day or two!
The good thing is, you don’t have to be a seafood lover to eat here; look at me! There are other items on the menu like popcorn chicken, fish and fries! And of course, there is BEER! Nothing beats BYOB, but the next best is when the prices are cheap and they are cheap here. If only they installed TVs, I think it could become a popular sports restaurant/​bar. My friends already want to go back again! See you soon, Cajun King!

Awesome food at an awesome price. First time here and am very impressed. Nice and large dining area. Everything is clean. Staff is friendly.
Ordered the lunch combo of half a lobster n abt seven or eight jumbo shrimps with fried rice at only $ 12.99. Very good deal. Much better than the shrimp plates from those run-​down food trucks at the north shore.
I urge locals to bring your friends n family who r visiting to this place.

My roomate is from Louisiana and it has been almost 2 years since she’s had authentic cajun food. We thought it’d be appropriate to make a visit to Cajun King in Kaneohe for a bag (or two) of crawfish. So, we arrive to CJK and park the car right in front of the restaurant. Plenty of parking space? Plus. We walk into the restaurant and we’re seated right away in a large booth. Spacious interior with lots of seating? Plus plus. The menu is pretty simple, really. You can order things ala carte or you can order a combo bag for different prices. We ended up getting a bag of crawfish (cajun seasoning), combo #4 (cajun & garlic butter seasoning), and a side order of cajun fries. The combo included snow crab legs, crawfish, mussels, shrimp & clams. Variety? Super.
Now for the food. Dun dun dunnnnn… Here’s where the 3 stars come in. Alright, honestly, the food was allllllllright, A-​OK, average, whatevs, *shoulder shrug*, etc. When the bag of seafood came out, it smelled amazing and looked delicious. The amount of food in the bag was astonishing– I mean, shit was heavy. And the crab legs? Huuuuuuge, meaty, super filling. However, the seasoning? Man, underwhelming & disappointing. I was really looking for that cajun «kick» when we ordered the cajun seasoning, but it was rather bland & super oily. What’s up with that? Why is it so oily? But I do have to give it to them. The crab legs, crawfish, mussels, shrimp & clams were all large and the food itself was very filling. I can eat most seafood without any seasoning, so I enjoyed the food either way. But obviously disappoined since we came looking for some Louisiana flavor!
So, in conclusion: Ample parking spaces, plenty of seats, decent service, mediocre food= 3 stars.

If you want a giant greasy bag of pre-​frozen seafood microwaved to order you’ve come to the right place. Just kidding, it’s a fun restaurant that makes you wear a silly bib and you can re-​live your childhood by eating with your hands. The seafood leaves something to be desired as the food tests not your tastebuds but your ability to wrestle with small, oily crustaceans.
We had the fried oysters (good), garlic fries (very good), bag ol’ seafood with garlic butter sauce (ok), and two gigantic cokes in to-​go containers. The crawfish were terrible, shrimp were fine, corn cooked beyond recognition, potatoes were fine, king crab legs were good, and the clams were good.

My fiancé & I talked about eating at the Pearl City location sometime soon, but after seeing a friend of ours send a pic of their food in a group text, it surely got my fiancé craving! We decided to come to this location to check it out, and it was really easy to find. It’s located at the same shopping center where there’s Ross, Foodland, Genki Sushi, etc… it’s located right by Genki & KJ’s. This location is HUGE compared to their Pearl City location. We were greeted and seated as soon as we walked in.
I wasn’t able to get our servers names but they were really friendly, patient (due to me being annoyed at the fact that my son spilled water all over the place, and my fiancé surely not making things better by annoying me even more) and very attentive. They changed the paper that they use as a table cover very quickly after having my son spill water, and always asked if we were ok & refilling our waters. Food was yummy, they use JASMINE RICE (OMG I LOVE JASMINE RICE!.. im picky about my rice haha) but we just wish we ordered more snow crab legs. My opted to buying my son their chicken wings with French fries since hes not such a big fan of shellfish (yet!) and we were really surprised on how big their wings were! They were super hot when we got them, so we had to cool them down for him before he ate it but it was really good!
I can see us coming here in the future… seems not so well known of so the crowd ain’t something to be worried about.

Unilocal 100 Review Challenge 2015: ³⁰⁄₁₀₀
After trying Kickin Cajun and Raging Crab… I have finally found The One: Cajun King!!!
Service: I opted to visit the Kaneohe location because the Aiea one has disappointing Unilocal reviews (mostly on customer service) but the Kaneohe location has WONDERFUL service! From taking our order, refilling our water or even just checking up on us, all three staff members we interacted with were kind and courteous.
Food: We ended up here on a Thursday evening and ordered 1 lb of King Crab ($ 25/​lb), 1 lb Shrimp ($ 11/​lb) and an order of Cajun Fries ($ 7). By far the cheapest per-​pound seafood! The King Crab was in mild, garlic butter and the Shrimp was mild, cajun. We ended up loving the garlic butter though I can see how it can be overwhelming for some. The «mild» sauce was actually pretty spicy so it maybe intimidating to order anything above mild. The Cajun Fries are the BEST cajun fries I have ever had! They offered us ranch and ketchup for dipping sauces which was perfect because my SO always opts for ranch and I love simple-​dimple ketchup! Thank goodness for the scissors! They provided 3 seafood-​eating devices, gloves and a bib but expect to get down and dirty.
Atmosphere: This is the largest crab location I have been to. It’s spacious with tons of tables, very well-​lit and clean. I appreciate their 3 sink counter to wash down after your meal.
So maybe 2 lbs of seafood and fries were too much for us by I have no regrets! Will definitely be back!

If the service was better, this place would have received a 5 star. The food was absolutely delicious. We ordered a lb of snow crab legs with Cajun and butter seasoning. I wanted to bring the bag of sauce home. We also got A lobster in black bean sauce. Salt and pepper shrimp, spicy eggplant and an order of Cajun wings for the picky keiki. Everything was so tasty. Again though, if they had delivered the fried catfish when we had ordered it as opposed to when we inquired about it after most of us had eaten our meal, this place would have gotten five stars. Also, if they had cleared our table after we ordered dessert and BEFORE the dessert arrived, they would have received 5 stars. Also, acknowledgement of having forgotten our catfish would have been appreciated.
The dessert was also delicious. The fried bread pudding with vanilla ice cream. It was like fried French toast sticks cut into cubes. Sooooo good. I will definitely come back when I can. I’ll just have to prepare myself for the service.

This was our first time coming to Cajun King,
I’ve been craving shrimp for the longest time, we’ve usually gone to these types of places before but since my friends liked it so much I had to try it.
Service: As soon as we walked through the doors, the guy at the front gave us a huge smile and said «Howdy!» Lmao! Me being sick wasn’t in the friendliest mood so I just smiled and giggled a little. He was very polite though, he sat us and our waiter came to the table, once again very nice young gentleman, he explained everything to us, the specials the menu, how it worked (simple just like any other crab place). As we ate, they constantly checked on us, checked on our drinks, made sure we were okay. Service was grade A+ I liked them.
Food: when it first came out it was HOT!!! Hahaha of course me being me trying to peel the shrimps while its hot I burned my hands couple times, all my fault. Eventually I got into it and peeled all my shrimps before I ate. We did get the lemon garlic Shrimp, which was delicious and the garlic butter snow crab.
Prices weren’t bad, $ 15.00 for a lb of snow crab and $ 11.00 for a lb of shrimp, all in all not to shabby for my wallet.
I would definitely come back again!

Another first for Kaneohe! More diversity and new dining options than ever before! We are moving into the future whether we are ready or not. Dean’s Drive-​in is moving and expanding. Genki Sushi is closed for modernization. Big City Diner is coming to Windward Mall. Big changes for Kaneohe.
Location and History: Located behind Foodland in the vicinity of Genki Sushi. You can’t see this group of shops from any street. It’s in the location of a former Chinese Restaurant which had closed because of a fire. The place was cleaned up and repaired but never reopened. Now Cajun King opened in October 2014. I was one of many Kaneohe residents who didn’t even know about this new restaurant until recently. I learned about it from a Unilocal search.
Venue: So the inside of Cajun King looks like a large elegant Chinese Restaurant, complete with chandelier, banquet rooms and fish tanks. Lots of tables and space. All the tables are set up for the cajun seafood boil experience. You know, paper towels, paper table cloth and bibs/​aprons/​plastic gloves/​crab crackers etc.
Food:
Lunch Menu: Special Plates with lobster, shrimp, steak or pork chop. The cajun boil is not available at lunch. We did not have lunch there.
Dinner Menu: Special Combos with no substitutions allowed. These serve 2 to 3 people @ $ 48 to $ 55. Comes with some side dishes. Or you can make your own boil by selecting crab, shrimp, clams etc and pay per pound. There are also some raw oyster, clams and abalone available. Also some fried baskets and Asian Style specials. So lots of options are available on the dinner menu.
Messy is good: Well apparently that is the whole cajun experience in a nut shell. We saw tables of four to six to eight fully encased in plastic digging in like it was going to be their last meal. These guys were loving it! Two tables of 6 were eating like that when we came in and were still going at it after we left!
Noobs: I admit it. My wife wasn’t sure how she felt about the messy part. So she opted for a chicken wing basket. I had the spicy eggplant and rice since I don’t eat meat or fish. Some of our Kaneohe neighbors were at the table next to us and it was their first experience too. But, they went for it. So we experienced the cajun seafood boil as voyeurs. Our neighbors decided they really liked it and said they would be back with their kids and parents. They were checking it out before bringing everyone else. The chicken wing dinner was good and pretty big for the price. The eggplant serving was huge and was very flavorful. Went great with white rice.
Service: 5 star service from the waiter, waitress and helper. Food came out quickly from the kitchen. Very helpful and attentive pros who were intent on taking care of everyone. Beer and wine is available.
4 Stars: Although we didn’t have the complete paper table cloth, bucket with plastic bag, plastic glove and apron experience we still liked the experience. So I think 4 stars is fair for our first visit. My impression is that this place is well run, comfortable, reasonably priced and the food was good.
I highly recommend trying Cajun King.