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Is Hilo Bay Cafe Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update (Hilo, HI)

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As of September 2026, Hilo Bay Cafe is listed open on hilobaycafe.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

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What the source shows: The business's own website, carrying a 2025-12-03 build timestamp, lists current Tuesday-Saturday lunch and dinner hours and an active online ordering option.

  • Season / episode Season 34, Episode 10
  • Original air date
  • Address 123 Lihiwai St, Hilo, HI 96720

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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Hilo Bay Cafe for the episode 'Cookin' from Scratch' (aired 2021-09-03), spotlighting the restaurant's contemporary, made-from-scratch approach to local Hawaii Island ingredients. Hilo Bay Cafe is a sit-down restaurant in downtown Hilo offering lunch and dinner service, reservations, and take-away. According to the restaurant's own website, hilobaycafe.com, whose homepage carried a build timestamp of 2025-12-03, the cafe listed hours of Tuesday through Saturday, with lunch served 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and dinner from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m., and it offered both dine-in and take-away ordering with an online ordering option. The same site included active Facebook and Instagram links, a gift-card purchase page, and a careers page listing open positions. No closure or ownership-change announcements were found by any source in this review, and the address and coordinates from the Google Places record matched the site's own listed location.

Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Season / episode
Season 34, Episode 10
Original air date
Episode title
Cookin' from Scratch
What was featured
contemporary, locally sourced Hawaii Island cuisine for lunch and dinner
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Hilo Bay Cafe

Frequently asked questions

Is Hilo Bay Cafe still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Hilo Bay Cafe is listed open on hilobaycafe.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What happened to Hilo Bay Cafe after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Hilo Bay Cafe for the episode 'Cookin' from Scratch' (aired 2021-09-03), spotlighting the restaurant's contemporary, made-from-scratch approach to local Hawaii Island ingredients. As of September 2026, Hilo Bay Cafe is listed open on hilobaycafe.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

Where is Hilo Bay Cafe located?

123 Lihiwai St, Hilo, HI 96720. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Hilo Bay Cafe?

Season 34, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, first aired September 3, 2021. The episode is titled “Cookin' from Scratch”.

What do reviews say since Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

No closure or ownership-change announcements were found by any source in this review, and the address and coordinates from the Google Places record matched the site's own listed location. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

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Visit info

Address
123 Lihiwai St, Hilo, HI 96720
Venue type
cafe
Official website
hilobaycafe.com

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