Blane's Drive Inn

If you want an authentic American burger, Blane’s is the place. Handwritten signs, paper receipts with your order #, & coin gumball/Gachapon machines are the norm here. They still take Apple Pay but don’t expect there to be any other indications that it’s 2023, not even doors in/out. It feels a lot like the tire store it shares the parking lot with. Painted cement bricks, thin picture windows, open breezeway & hard Formica covered booths. With burgers, fries, loco moco & Portuguese sausage breakfast served all day who cares about fancy!

Simple, no frills, local diner, and 1.86 non-frufru coffee. Bacon Eggs Over Easy was a treat, with more than enough bacon and rice to satisfy this 5"9' frame. 🥓 Bacon, about 5 strips, was cooked perfectly on 2 scoops of George Washington hair-do shaped rice, yes not like some diners that gives you scoops of small ping pong balls for rice. Over easy eggs 🥚 🥚 x2 was big enough to smother all the rice after plugging my fork into its yoke. Picture says a thousands words, see my pic. Best thing over all is that this plate and coffee was under 10 bucks! My new go to wen in hilo.

So tonight we were those customers that came right at closing. With that said, they were still super friendly and kind to me and my daughter. The girl at the window gave us a great rec that's now a new favorite of ours (strawberry slush float with chocolate ice cream. Major props to them for making a last minute dessert trip with my daughter turn out to be a winner!

Very very bad the food was okay their breakfast sandwich was soggy we called in 25 minutes before we got there and we had to wait 15 minutes more and it not like we got alot of stuff we only got 1 cheese burger plain 1 breakfast Plate and 1 breakfast sandwich and while on the phone with them it was impossible for them to hear us unless we said it 15 times and this time we got lucky because half the time they don't answer the phone and when they don't answer the phone they are not even busy they are usually just standing around talking story . Blanes what happened?