RumFire is on fire, especially with a backdrop of traditional Hawaiian torches and fire pits galore that give off the energy of when fire meets water. Located on the ground floor of the bustling Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort along the main thoroughfare of Kalākaua Avenue, Rumfire is the Oceanfront Restaurant and Lounge that serves as the main restaurant for the Sheraton Resort. There is actually a similarly themed and named restaurant on the island of Kauai at the Sheraton Resort there so I was familiar with the concept when I had visited that restaurant in the past, but what I wasn't familiar was the fact that Rumfire is one of a handful of restaurants that hosts an after-dinner Aloha Hour or Happy Hour as us on the mainland happen to call it. From 4:30 to 5:50 p.m. and again from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. diners can enjoy a selection from their beverage and dinner menu offered at a reduced price. Of course, with Rumfire being both a busy restaurant during their normal business hours, they have a constantly changing menu and when we arrived on a warm weeknight, the menu was already different from what many have posted in the past.
After checking in with their host stand, we were told that the Aloha Hour menu applies to the entire restaurant but we would get faster service by sitting at the bar. We were lucky enough to find two available seats at their bar, with the interior of this location of RumFire a tad on the dated side, especially with the wall of spirits and liqueur going from floor to ceiling and basically cutting off the view of the restaurant in its entirety. Their Aloha Hour menu had two cocktails to choose from along with various house wines and local draft beers, in addition to four food items. In addition to regular cocktails, and other beverages, the regular dinner menu is separated into categories including For the Table, On the Light Side, Entrées, Sides, their Keiki menu for children 12 and under and their Dessert menu. With four options to choose from, we ordered their Kalua Pork Quesadillas, which consisted of Monterey Jack cheese, Chipotle lime creme, cilantro served in a grilled flour tortilla and served with Chef Darren's house-made chili pepper water; their Loaded Poke Nachos, which was fried white corn tortilla chips, topped with Hapa poke, guacamole, and spice poke sauce; and their Pipikaula Parmesan Dusted Truffle Fries which were served with Sriracha ketchup and truffle aioli. Neither of the two cocktails being offered for their Aloha Hour intrigued me or my dining mate, so we took a look at their regular cocktail menu and found two blended drinks that we each have enjoyed in the past, as I ordered their Passionfruit Daiquiri and my dining mate ordered their Lava Flow.
Both blended cocktails would be prepared for us first, and although not on their Aloha Hour menu, these two drinks were fun festive drinks to sip and savor over the course of our stay at their bar. Then our food would come out next with the highlight being their Loaded Poke Nachos which featured more poke chunks than we were expecting and their Truffle Fries which combined a local-style of beef jerky and your traditional French Fries. There was so much food with these two dishes that we could have been satisfied with both entrées and had a happy meal, but with the Quesadillas added in, it only helped to provide a more satiating meal. Since my dining mate was able to take advantage of their Happy Hour draft beer prices with a pour of a locally produced beer our meal was complete. Our total bill was only about 46.07 dollars a person with the three dishes, two cocktails, and one local draft beer. An affordable meal offered when many other restaurants in the area do not cater to serving them at that particular hour set against a backdrop that is fiery and ever so romantic with its own Hawaiian charm, RumFire may stay on fire as long as possible! read more