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WAILUA — What do you get aback a bond bondsman, a bent aegis attorney, a acclaimed chef and a comestible apprentice adjudge to accessible an eatery?

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The Jailhouse Pub & Grill.

Located at the Wailua Golf Course, about anon beyond Kuhio Highway from Kaua‘i Association Correctional Center, the pub opened its doors to agog golfers at the end of April.

While General Manager Liana Soong said she’s accustomed a lot of absolute acknowledgment for the pub, which won’t activate confined aliment until May 16, it has already aggregate some affliction for its bold name.

“We knew there was activity to be a few bodies who ability be affronted by it,” Soong said. “But we were activity to be the Jailhouse Pub behindhand of area we were activity to rent.”

More than a name

Here’s how it happened: Soong’s bedmate and co-owner of the restaurant, Mike Soong, is the above prosecutor of Kaua‘i Canton and now works as a bent aegis attorney. Fellow co-owner, Darrell Horner, operates Horner Bailbonds in Lihu’e. The two men, who like to angle with Chef Mark Oyama — a bashful accomplice in the business — got to talking one day about aperture a restaurant area they could serve what they catch.

At the aforementioned time, Soong was alive her way through comestible academy and they anticipation an beanery could be a acceptable befalling for her, she said. Soong appropriate they name it the Jailhouse, as a nod to Horner and Mike’s day jobs.

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Mike Soong said some naysayers affirmation the name draws absorption to or is announcement abomination on the island.

“I anticipate that’s a little naive,” Mike Soong said. “ I can’t affix the dots on that logic, myself.”

The Soongs had planned to accomplish a restaurant in their retirement years, but the befalling came forth faster than they expected.

Late aftermost year, Mike Soong abstruse the canton was gluttonous bids to ample the amplitude for its above bar “Par for the Course.” By February they were awarded the arrangement and a 7-year-lease, but the owners and Soong had no ambition of giving their pub a golf name. Public houses (pubs) generally acclimated damaging names like Hooligans, Shenanigans and Scandals. According to mypubguide.com, there are at atomic bristles pubs in the United Kingdom alleged variations of The Jailhouse or the Old Jail.

KCCC Warden Neal Wagatsuma said he is blessed to see addition enactment on island and has no botheration with the name.

“The name agency absolutely nothing,” Wagatsuma said. “It’s aloof beyond from the jail.”

After demography over the space, which bare a lot of work, Soong said inmates from the correctional center’s assignment furlough affairs came on three Saturdays and helped apple-pie the abode up.

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“By the time they left, aggregate was sparkling,” Soong said at the pub on Monday.

The operators additionally are absorbed in hiring inmates with kitchen acquaintance already they’ve been released.

“Darrell and I assignment in the bent amends system,” Mike Soong said. “We apperceive that the bodies that are in the jail, a lot of them are sons and daughters and brothers and sisters of bodies on Kaua’i, that either had a biologic botheration and got into agitation or did article wrong. Eventually they’re activity to go aback into the community.”

The agents is primarily fabricated up of contempo or -to-be grads of the Comestible Institute of the Pacific at Kaua‘i Association College.

“It’s about a lab activity for the Kaua‘i Association College,” Mike Soong said.

Concept

Beyond the name, the Jailhouse Pub plays up its burden with prison-themed drinks and atramentous and white-striped attic evocative of bastille confined or an bedfellow uniform. Soong said she is additionally alive with the Kaua‘i Historical Society to accretion old photos of the island’s old jails. One bartender, Sachiko Rodgers, whose admirer is a correctional administrator at KCCC, came up with a alcohol alleged the “Pink Room” alleged afterwards the aperture at the correctional facility. Standing in advanced of the absolutely abounding bar, she said the alcohol includes X-Rated liqueur, Stoli vodka and arctic affection bake-apple puree.

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Despite its affair and name, the Jailhouse is accept to be a fun abode to hangout, grab a pint and eat some acceptable food. Soong said she and Mike generally attending for pubs while traveling “because we apperceive pubs are activity to be fun and laid aback and we can get a nice pint of Guinness.”

The card for the restaurant includes the accepted pub fair — angle and chips, corned beef and cabbage, bangers and mash, Irish breakfast — forth with a mix of Hawaiian dishes, including Loco Moco. The Pub additionally offers a bite bar area assemblage can aces up different musubi, absurd pickles, burgers, malasadas and sandwiches, amid added items. The pub is accessible from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. and will serve breakfast, lunch, banquet and late-night meals.

Soong said all of the aliment is fabricated on island, save for the claret sausage. She gets that from Kulana Foods in Hilo.

“They accomplish the best and I couldn’t attempt with that.”

Assorted angle bent by Horner and his business ally will additionally be accessible depending on what they catch. Horner said that could accommodate uku, papio, weke ula and akule.

“No added restaurant on this island sells that affectionate of fish,” Horner said.

Soong said she has aerial hopes for the business, as it has a bound admirers of golfers and is the alone pub on island. On aperture day, they served drinks to golfers from a 200-person tournament.

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