Kona Grill amazes me

My kids love Scooby Doo. They are obsessed. Lucas more than Will, but that doesn’t matter. We have around 15 Scooby Doo movies on our Tivo.

One of the many is called Aloha, Scooby Doo. It’s about a little Hawaiian Island that they think is haunted and it, as expected, turns out to just be one of the natives.

Scooby Movie screen on my tivo. exciting stuff.

There is a little lady, I think she’s a witch doctor, or she thinks she is, I can’t remember, that makes a mean macadamia nut pie. Well, I assumed it was good. It made Shaggy’s mouth water and convinced Scooby to lure the bad guy, so it had to be good.

I like to bake. Really. I do. I had no desire to seek out the recipe for Macadamia Nut Pie. I just didn’t have it in me.

Well, because I’m an all time Konavore, I get Kona Grill emails. You should sign up. They will feed you on your birthday. Seriously.

No I do not get a kick back if you sign up. I just think you should. You get free food.

Anyways, back to the emails. A few weeks back I get an email that talks about a new temporary menu. They call it Bliss.

Seriously. They call it the The Bliss Menu.

Yes, I used the word Bliss in my 9 year anniversary instagram picture and I’m just now realizing how perfectly fitting this is.

Back the the pie.

Macadamia nut pie is on the BLISS MENU!!

I immediately tweet out that I would totally be willing to review the pie (which was aaaaaaaaahmazing) if I could try it for free.

A few emails and tweets here and there and I’m told to email Scott at my local restaurant and he’ll hook me up.

I email Scott, tell him I have reservations for 6 on my anniversary and we’d love to try the pie. Done.

I email him back and ask him if they have champagne, but he doesn’t see it before we arrive. No biggie. If they do, they do; if they don’t, they don’t.

Traffic and parking sucks so we end up running just a little late but as soon as I roll in I am greeted with the Kona smile and directed to a table.

I wish I had gotten a picture of the entire table. It was lovely.

There was already a chair removed just for me, they had a beautiful display of pink roses, 2 champagne glasses, and an awesome card signed by the staff.

While I didn’t capture the entire table, I do have this picture of the flowers.

Pink roses given to us by the staff at Kona Grill in Austin

Our server, Christie, approaches and our lovely evening begins. I won’t bore you with all the details but we are treated to champagne and Scott’s personal favorite sushi roll. It’s not on their menu, but I was instantly blown away. It was probably the 4th or 5th roll I tried and the only one I’ve loved. I can’t wait to have it again.

I was also shocked when Christie asked if I wanted one of my favorites. I usually order their sweet and spicy shrimp AND the tomato bisque soup. When I didn’t order the soup, Christie asked if I would be having that as well. She remembered!! Now that is service!

I know the beginning of this post was all about the pie, but as I continued to write and think I realized it was much more. It was about the power of social media. It was about the connections that can be made between managers and customers. It’s an amazing thing.

Anyways. Pie. We were almost to full to try the pie, but we were not disappointed. It was a very generous serving and we even had some leftover for the kids to try!

They loved it to.

I forgot to take a picture of the pie, but it was definitely deserving of being on the “bliss” menu.

This post was 100% my opinion. The only “compensation” I received was a lovely night out at Kona Grill. I did receive flowers, champagne and one sushi roll COMPLETELY free but it was nothing more than kindness of the manager. I wrote this post because I truly love good service and appreciated the effort to give us a lovely anniversary night and good service deserves to be talked about!