New eats: La Tour Cafe

By Mari Taketa
Nonstop

Three things I hear about La Tour Cafe before I ever set foot there:

1. It’s owned by the family that created Ba-Le, which through its 25 Vietnamese sandwich shops and wholesale baking for hotels, airlines and pizza chains, pretty much feeds leavened goods to the whole state, so

2. La Tour knows its bread, and

3. Parking sucks.

Since Tanaka Saimin and Party City opened in the same old Weyerhauser building on Nimitz, parking has been as scarce as mango chutney at the Punahou Carnival. Now that La Tour and Bangkok Chef have also opened, parking stands to be twice as bad.

So what’s the question? Whether La Tour’s sandwiches, pizzas, desserts and other fare are worth the hassle.

La Tour Cafe
888 N. Nimitz Highway
808-697-5000