Is Umekes Fishmarket Bar & Grill Still Open? (Kailua-Kona, HI)
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 28 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Current status
As of October 2026, Umekes Fishmarket Bar & Grill is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: Umekes' own website returned fresh, actively maintained content on September 8, 2026, and Google Places lists the location as operational. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 28, Episode 13
- Aired
- Address 74-5599 Pawai Pl, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
- Website umekesrestaurants.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Umekes Fishmarket Bar & Grill in the episode "Italian, Hawaiian and Colombian," which aired June 29, 2018, spotlighting the restaurant's fresh poke and Hawaiian plate-lunch cooking. Umekes operates as a fish-market-style bar and grill on Pawai Place in Kailua-Kona, part of the Umekes Restaurants group that also runs a location near Kona International Airport. The restaurant's website, umekesrestaurants.com, returned an active page on September 8, 2026, with a server last-modified date of the same day, listing catering menus, locations, and ordering information. Google Places separately lists the Pawai Place location's business status as operational in a September 2026 check. The website content and the Google Places listing are the most recent evidence located for this address, both dated September 2026.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- umekesrestaurants.com https://www.umekesrestaurants.com/
- Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Umekes+Fish+Market+Bar+%26+Grill+Kailua-Kona+HI
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Record ddd-1044 · checked by Cal Marchetti.