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Is The Dolphin Restaurant Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 30 Hanalei, Hawaii

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Dolphin Restaurant is open — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.

What the source shows: Google Places lists The Hanalei Dolphin Restaurant as operational and Yelp's listing for the restaurant, updated September 2026, shows more than 2,100 active reviews. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited The Dolphin Restaurant in Hanalei, Hawaii, for the June 7, 2019 episode 'British, Hawaiian, and Mexican,' highlighting the restaurant's fresh Hawaiian seafood and fish-market plates. The business, listed by Google Places as The Hanalei Dolphin Restaurant, operates a restaurant, fish market, and sushi lounge on Kuhio Highway in Hanalei. According to Google Places, the business carries an operational listing status. A direct check of the restaurant's website, hanaleidolphin.com, on September 8, 2026, returned no response. Yelp's listing for the restaurant, updated September 2026, showed more than 1,300 photos and 2,146 reviews at the Kuhio Highway address. The restaurant's own site separately includes pages for its fish market and sushi lounge, describing the business as 'Restaurant, Fish Market & Sushi Lounge.'

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 30

Episode 4
Aired
Title: British, Hawaiian, and Mexican · What was featured: Fresh Hawaiian seafood and fish-market plates
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Nearest restaurants By distance from 5-5016 Kuhio Hwy C

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-dolphin-hanalei-2
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=The+Hanalei+Dolphin+Restaurant+5-5016+Kuhio+Hwy+Hanalei+HI+96714
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Record ddd-1131 · checked by Cal Marchetti.