Here is the detail that decides the afternoon: ShoreFyre has two locations in Waikiki, and they do not run the same happy hour. The Koa Ave bar discounts drinks and bar food from 3 to 6 pm every day. The bigger open-air one inside International Market Place runs the same 3-to-6 window Monday through Friday. Same brand, same published price list, different calendar.
We fly to Waikiki twice a year, we do not rent a car, and our drinking starts early enough that a 3 pm happy hour is a normal part of the day rather than a warm-up for a night out. So the gap between “discounted every day” and “discounted on weekdays” is not trivia to us. It decides which door we walk through on a Saturday.
Two ShoreFyres, two different afternoons
Both addresses sit in central Waikiki, close enough that we would walk between them without thinking about it. Here is how the two differ, from the location pages, checked September 8, 2026.
| Koa Ave | International Market Place | |
|---|---|---|
| Address | 2446 Koa Ave | 2330 Kalākaua Ave #396 |
| Billed as | ”Open-Air Beach Bar & Grill" | "Grill, Bar, Live Music & Nightclub” |
| Happy hour | 3:00-6:00 pm, daily | 3:00-6:00 pm, Mon-Fri |
| Open | Mon 7:30 am-11:00 pm; Tue-Sun 7:30 am-2:00 am | Sun-Tue 8:00 am-10:00 pm; Wed-Sat 8:00 am-2:00 am |
| Breakfast | 7:30-11:30 am | 8:00 am-2:00 pm |
| Live music | Not offered here | Daily, 5-8 pm most nights, no cover |
| Late night | Tue-Sun, 10 pm-2 am | Fyre By Night, Wed-Sat from 9 pm |
The site describes the Koa Ave location as “Steps from Waikiki Beach — less than a 2 minute walk.” International Market Place is the one most visitors picture when they hear the name: the open-air Fyre Lanai inside the mall on Kalākaua Avenue, where the live music schedule lists a performer every night of the week, 5 to 8 pm on most days and 5 to 7 pm on Thursdays, with no cover charge.
That split produces a genuinely annoying weekend situation: on a Saturday afternoon, the ShoreFyre with the music has no happy hour, and the ShoreFyre with the happy hour has no music. There is no ShoreFyre door that gives you both on a weekend.
What the happy hour actually discounts
The happy hour page publishes one shared list for both locations. On the drink side:
| Drink | Happy hour price |
|---|---|
| Kona Big Wave (draft) | $5 |
| Maui Big Swell (draft) | $5 |
| Maui Bikini Blonde / Tecate (can) | $4-$5 |
| Opera Prima Brut (sparkling) | $7 |
| Mimosa | $7 |
| Premium spirits | $7, plus $3 for a mixer |
| Coconut Mojito / Hawaiian Mai Tai | $10 |
And on the food side: ShoreFyre Fries $9.50, Fried Brussel Sprouts $10.50, Hibachi Chicken $12, Tropical Shrimp Ceviche $13, Popcorn Shrimp or Fresh Ahi $13.50, Hibachi Steak $13.50, Fresh Ahi Tuna Tataki $13.50, Coconut Shrimp $15.50, Mango Barbecue Pork Ribs $19, and a four-item Happy Hour Sampler at $40.
Now the part the happy hour page leaves out: how big is the discount? The International Market Place menu page keeps a set of scanned menu pages marked “Current Menu — Updated October 2025,” and they carry regular prices for the happy hour items. Against that scan (International Market Place only, checked September 26, 2026):
| Item | Happy hour | Regular (scanned menu, Oct. 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| ShoreFyre Fries | $9.50 | $12 |
| Fried Brussel Sprouts | $10.50 | $14 |
| Fresh Ahi Tuna Tataki | $13.50 | $18 |
| Tropical Shrimp Ceviche | $13 | $18 |
| Mango Barbecue Pork Ribs | $19 | $29 |
| Kona Big Wave (draft) | $5 | $8 |
| Maui Big Swell IPA (draft) | $5 | $9 |
| Coconut Mojito / Hawaiian Mai Tai | $10 | $16 |
Most of the food comes down $2.50 to $5, the ribs come down $10, and the two drafts come down $3 and $4. The scan is about a year old, so use the regular column as a guide, not as today’s check. At Koa Ave the fries are $11 on the regular menu, so the $9.50 happy hour price saves $1.50 there.
Measured in percent, the shape of this happy hour is clear enough: the drinks carry it (38% off Big Wave, 44% off Big Swell), and the food comes down roughly 15 to 35%. That is the opposite of Yard House down at Waikiki Beach Walk, where appetizers and pizzas go half price and the draft beer only comes down $2. Two happy hours in the same walkable stretch of Waikiki, rewarding completely different orders.
The loco moco is not part of it
We have eaten here, at the International Market Place location, on a visit years ago. Our bill that afternoon came to $52.93 for drinks and food, and it included the signature 50/50 loco moco at $18.55, ahi tataki at $6, loaded cheese fries at $6, and a happy hour PBR at $3 — those are prices from that visit, not today’s. It was a good, unfussy afternoon: open air, breeze coming through, the kind of place you sit down at on the way past without making a plan of it.
Two things about that bill have not aged well.
The PBR is gone from the published happy hour list — the cheap end is now a $4-$5 can of Bikini Blonde or Tecate. And the loco moco went from $18.55 on that old bill to somewhere between $29 and $31 today, which is 56 to 67 percent more depending on which location and which menu you land on. As of September 8, 2026, the Signature 50/50 Loco Moco is $29 at Koa Ave on both the breakfast and the lunch-and-dinner menus, and $30 at breakfast or $31 at lunch and dinner at International Market Place.
More to the point: the loco moco is not on the happy hour list at all. If the plan is “loco moco and a cheap beer,” only half of that plan is discounted. You can absolutely order it during the window — the restaurant does not close at 3 pm and the regular menu keeps running — but you will pay the full $29 to $31 for it while your $5 draft sits next to it.
That is worth saying plainly because it is the thing we would have wanted to know. A happy hour is a window inside normal hours, not a different restaurant.
What we would do
On a weekday, we would go to International Market Place and arrive at 3. Two Big Swell IPAs and an order of ShoreFyre Fries is $5 + $5 + $9.50 = $19.50 before tax and tip, which is a cheap way to sit outdoors in the middle of Waikiki. By the October 2025 scanned menu, the same three at regular price would be $30 — $12 for the fries and $9 each for the IPAs. Arriving at the start of the window also means arriving before the dinner room fills.
If we wanted the music too, we would stay until 5. Happy hour ends at 6 and the music starts at 5, so on a weekday there is a one-hour overlap where the discount and the live set exist at the same time. That is the only hour we would deliberately wait around for, and it is comfortably before we would rather be back in the room anyway.
On a Saturday or Sunday, we would walk to Koa Ave instead and accept that there is no live music there. If the music is the whole point of the trip out, then go to International Market Place on the weekend and pay full price, knowingly. There is no cover charge, so the premium is simply the regular menu price on everything you order.
What we would not order: the $7 spirits headline, the mojito, the mai tai. Not a criticism of anyone who does — that is just not what we drink. We are beer people, and Maui Big Swell is the IPA on the happy hour list, so that is our $5 pour. If you want a steakhouse happy hour instead, Ruth’s Chris runs one daily from 4 to 7, at the bar only.
Before you go
The single most important line on ShoreFyre’s own happy hour page is the fine print: “Specials may vary — ask your server for today’s full happy hour menu at either location.” That is the restaurant telling you the published list is a guide, not a contract. Sitting down and asking what today’s happy hour is takes five seconds and settles it.
Everything above was checked on the official site on September 8, 2026, and every one of these numbers can move — prices, hours, which nights the music runs, and whether the weekday-only rule at International Market Place stays weekday-only. Re-check the happy hour page and the locations page before you plan an afternoon around them.
Details
- ShoreFyre Koa Ave — 2446 Koa Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815. Phone 808-923-7007. Happy hour 3-6 pm daily.
- ShoreFyre International Market Place — 2330 Kalākaua Ave #396, Honolulu, HI 96815. Phone 808-672-2097. Happy hour 3-6 pm, Monday through Friday. Live music nightly on the Fyre Lanai, no cover; the schedule is subject to change.
- Both are inside the part of Waikiki you can reach on foot from most hotels, which is the only transport note we are qualified to give, since we do not rent a car.
