From Uncle’s Hawaiian Grindz:
A taste of the North Shore is coming to Harford County.
Uncle’s Hawaiian Grindz, a full-service casual dining restaurant and bar, will soon anchor Fallston Village Center (2315 Bel Air Rd., Fallston, Md. 21047).
A $1.2 million project has commenced to combine five individual retail spaces into a 4,800-square-foot restaurant and bar. The finished product will be a partnership between three owners with ties to Hawaii: Kaimana Chee, Jeffrey Cowart and Kosmas “Tommie” Koukoulis.
The grand prize winner on Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen, Oahu-born Chee also was runner up on the Food Network hit show, Guy’s Grocery Games. Previously, he was named Native Chef of the Year and one of America’s Top 100 Amateur Home Cooks.
In addition to being the executive chef and owner of Kaimana’s Katering in the Washington, D.C. area, Chee is a chef instructor at CulinAerie, where he is the resident specialist on sushi, Asian-style dumplings, Hawaiian and Polynesian cuisine. He also serves as chef concierge with Hampton Creek, the San Francisco-based food technology company focused on finding new ways of utilizing plants in food products.
Koukoulis resides in Fallston and owns and operates Café Mezzanotte in Severna Park. Among its many accolades, the restaurant has been named People’s Choice – Open Table, Best Service – What’s Up Annapolis, Best Restaurant/
Best Italian/Best Service – Severna Park Voice, Best Restaurant – Maryland Gazette and Best Italian – The Capital. It also received Trip Advisor’s Certificate of Excellence.
After spending his youth learning the restaurant business at his parents’ establishment, Tom & Tina’s Family Restaurant in Baltimore County, Koukoulis honed his skills at several restaurants before taking on the challenge of purchasing and rebranding Mezzanotte.
Inspired by last year’s trip to The North Shore with his Hawaiian wife (who coincidentally grew up in the same town as Chee), and with a strong nudge from Cowart (who lives in Fallston and has a second residence in Hawaii), Koukoulis was ready to recreate the experience back home.
“Our mission is to share Hawaiian food and culture with the world,” Koukoulis said. “Once our guests taste Hawaiian food, they’ll fall in love with it, like I did!”
Uncle’s is strategically positioned close to several of Harford County’s local farms, from which a bulk of their ingredients will be sourced. The cuisine will be complemented by Hawaiian cocktails, a diverse wine selection and local craft beer.
The restaurant will operate seven days a week for lunch, dinner and lite fare from the bar all day. In addition to indoor seating for 175, it will offer outdoor seating for 50 and a private room for parties of 35 or less. Additional amenities will include carry-out service and off-premises catering.
An early Fall opening is anticipated for Uncle’s Hawaiian Grindz. For more information, visit http://eatatuncles.com or email info@eatatuncles.com.
I’m amazed at how many new restaurants continue to open. All I hear about is how millennials can’t get jobs and are living in their parents’ basement, and how the economy is in the toilet. At the same time however, new restaurants are opening on virtually every corner, and are packed to bursting all week. I have a pretty good job, and we rarely, if ever, go out to eat because we are saving for our retirement and kids’ college educations. Where do all these families work who earn so much money to spend in restaurants every night of the week? I can’t figure it out.
There are 2 main demographics either they work for the US Government or they are in debt up to their eyeballs.
But people in private industry make way more than Government employees. Private industry year end 6 figure bonuses is all I hear about on the business news. Federal employees bonuses and raises have been zero for the last few years, and before that, the average Federal employee would be lucky to get a $500 cash bonus once a year.
You can get a job at Ft Meade starting salary of $80,000 with a college education and no experience. Jebus… Snowden at the ripe old age of 29 made over $200,000 and never finished college.
Tell me again how the private sector makes more. LOL
Snowden was a private industry contractor; not a civil service Federal employee.
Private industry contractor working solely for the government. His salary 100% came from tax payer dollars making him a government employee.
“Private industry contractor”
Like I said, Snowden was a private industry contractor; not a civil service Federal employee. Virtually none earn anywhere near the $200K pay level.
You can get a job with the government in Aberdeen as a double dipper making well over $175,000.
So sorry your job working at Kohl’s folding t shirts keeps you from enjoying a night out at a good restaurant
Do a little research on the salary – that is what he said but is not true
“But people in private industry make way more than Government employees”
People in the private sector can’t at 40 years old, retire from a job their employer trained them to do then get the same job back at a higher salary with benefits.
Ah the glory of federal government double dipping.
“People in the private sector can’t at 40 years old, retire from a job their employer trained them to do then get the same job back at a higher salary with benefits.”
The youngest a civilian Federal emplyee can retire is 55 with 30 years of service. See details at the links below:
https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/fers-information/eligibility/
https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/csrs-information/eligibility/
Clearly as a Harford resident you aren’t too bright. Another product of public schooling. You could have retired at 37 if you just would have applied yourself.
http://www.military.com/benefits/military-pay/the-military-retirement-system.html
The comment they made was regarding CIVILIAN Federal Government Employees.
JUST IN: You quoted military retirement information. There is a difference.
Must be that fancy private school you went to.
A lot of people are douchebag nutswingers.
You know the type, there could be a grilled cheese sammich restaurant open up and these nutswingers will stand in line for an hour to eat a grilled cheese sandwich.
Everyone foams out the mouth to try something new, about a month after a place opens up it dies down and usually, a lot of non chain restaurants don’t survive anyway. Like all things, customer service (which is in the crapper) and location matter.
This restaurant won’t make it a year before it closes.