A small family restaurant in Kāne'ohe has grown from a five-seat counter into a 25-table community spot, and it is now adding dinner service — good news for a town with few local food options.

• The place started when a daughter wanted to open a restaurant, then quit after three months because the work was too hard.
• The family took it over instead, built the menu around home cooking, and eight years later has expanded five times over.
• The menu leans local: corned beef hash loco moco made from fresh corned beef, three kinds of fried rice, and Chantilly-topped pancakes.
• Kāne'ohe has almost no local-food sit-down options, so customers have been pushing for dinner for years.
• A side shop sells merchandise and coffee from local vendors, and live music runs on weekends.

Outlook: Dinner service starts slow — Wednesday through Friday — and will expand if demand holds.