Eleven is located on the ground floor of Ala Moana on the Piikoi side of the mall. It's actually connected/inside Foodland, but you can enter from the outside.
Eleven is one of the Foodland restaurants and it's nicely decorated and a little bougie. They usually are open for evenings and offer a wide drink selection and a small food menu.
I really love Foodland and all of this bougie new restaurants and concepts. Especially when they first came out with these fancy dining experiences, I would often go to the wine bar or et al at kahala. I've been to Eleven several times too and even came here with half of my wedding guests for drinks after our reception. It was great!
I've had a few experiences recently at Foodland restaurants that are less than great. I've also ran into former employees who have quit because they said things are different now. I hope this isn't an end to my love for everything Foodland.
The cocktails are interesting. I like fruity drinks and thought eleven would have fresh juice cocktails since Foodland offers like 12 different kinds of fresh juice and aqua frescas. I was wrong. When I asked the waitress for a fruity cocktail rec she said that the low alcohol pineapple cocktail or the rose cocktail are the only 2. Well I didn't want a low alcohol content beverage and the rose cocktail didn't actually have any fruit ingredients in it. So I asked if I could make the low alcohol pineapple cocktail more alcoholic and she said adding a shot would make it a $30 drink. No thanks. So I got the rose one. The waitress was right. It tasted fruity, but I was definitely skeptical because it didn't have any fruit in it.
I recently came to eleven for their weekend brunch. Usually I don't think eleven is open during the day, but on weekends, they offer a weekend brunch buffet for $35 per person.
The brunch included some pastries, chia seed parfaits, French toast, eggs, breakfast sausages, tater tots, fried rice, fruit, shrimp cocktail and a carving station. I actually really enjoyed the bunch because it seemed affordable and the offerings were all really good. It's not a very wide selection of foods, but everything was made really well. I liked that the carving station had precut slices of beef and it sounds crazy, but the chia seed parfait might have been my favorite part. The service was good and the brunch comes with iced tea, but at only $35 per person, I would maybe slpurge on a Bloody Mary or mimosa next time. read more