Food and everything is great. But they charged us $10 for an “appetizer” of bread after our server asked if we wanted bread sticks with our pasta. Bread isn’t an appetizer. It’s barely even a side.Wheelchair accessibility: No steps or anything that would impede entry.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Meatballs, Linguini Scampi
Ruth Guischard
Delicious food. Great
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nicholas Tetreault
Food was unreal, everything is made from scratch. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Male RN
Surprisingly not quite as good as we expected.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Craig Bennett
Surprisingly some of the best bolognese I’ve ever had, also really good pizza.
Brandan Schild
The caesar salad is fantastic as well as the pizza
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Mikai Pene
Please bring back the crispy potato guys!! Those were one of my favorite things on the menu. The food here is always fantastic.
Anthony Calleja
My wife and I went to Mad Bene for Valentine's Day, and the food was terrible. The shrimp was burnt and the pasta on the scampi was super hard the same with the spagetti and meatballs no flavor the sause was super dry and pasta was hard a a rock. Cesar's salad was not a true Cesar; it had very little sauce and a wilted bag of lettuce. We enjoyed our wine selection and bottled water. Seating was uncomfortable. We could not eat our entre so we did not pay for it. We did not enjoy our meal, but the person who took our order was nice, so I gave her a tip anyway. I would recommend saving your money and going to Assagio's for pasta.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
Ouija San
We love their happy hour specials and Take advantage of them on Pau Hana Friday's. Our favorites are their wings, Caesar salad, and the garlic pizza but everything we've tried has been ono. With plenty of parking and a friendly staff it's always a nice start to the weekend.
Good food, great spritz pitchers, and great atmosphere with outdoor seating available. Dog friendly.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Caesar Salad Lunch, Linguini Scampi, Pappardelle Bolognese
Jonathan W.
Absolutely loved this restaurant. Wasn't busy on a Friday night but we had reservations for three. You can choose outdoor seating or indoors. There are also a few tables that would sit you next to the pizza oven window. Wait staff was attentive and friendly throughout our meal.The menu had a lot of items we wanted to try. We got the eggplant parmesan sticks and french fries to start. While I was hoping for something that resembled more of an eggplant parmesan stick, this was more mozzarella stick than eggplant. Nonetheless it was tasty. The french fries were really well seasoned and despite it being a thinner fry, it was not fried to a crisp and still maintained the potato-y-ness inside. The dip/sauce was so good we took the left overs home. This was a flavor bomb of garlic and truffle.We ordered the mad garlic pizza to share. The quality of the pizza here was superb. The crust was crispy and airy. I did wish that there was more garlic here though. So if you're looking to slay some vampires after dinner, this might not be it. The serving size of the pastas here are well worth it. While others ordered the Parppardelle Bolognese and the Tagliatelle Dolgana, i enjoyed my Linguine Scampi the most. I rarely go out to eat pasta as I enjoy cooking it at home most of the time, but this Linguine was so perfect that I would come back just for this. The flavor of the shrimp comes through very nicely in the sauce and you get a little crunch from the toasted breadcrumbs. The texture of this linguine though... perfection.While there were some mishaps with our drink orders, the staff quickly made things right. We ended the night with the mad tiramisu. I'm definitely looking forward to coming back here.
Alexander Utley
I'm giving this review, only because we ordered a pizza from here and it was nowhere up to par. We ordered the pizza with basil. When they brought it out, there were small blots of cheese around the pizza and 1 small leaf of basil in the pizza. It was all sauce and bread. At first I thought this was probably how they made it, me just being optimistic, but after we paid the bill and we're about to leave, we saw someone else get the same pizza but there's looked like a proper pizza. It had plenty of cheese and sauce as well as the basil on top. I'm thinking, how come they served us this saucy bread and the other people actually get a real pizza!? Especially how much it costs. None of the people, not the waiters or anyone who worked there that saw the pizza served to us, even said a word about how the pizza looked/was prepared. It's just too much money wasted on bread and sauce. Would not go there ever again. If this is what they claim to be the best Italian restaurant on island, I don't want Italian anywhere here. The only thing I could say good is the atmosphere and the salad.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 4
michisama 808
Their margarita pizza was delicious, the eggplant sticks were so good I wanted to order more.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Eggplant Parm Sticks, Meatballs, Pizza of the Week
Lorie G.
If you are ever in Kapolei and craving some pizza and Italian food, Mad Bene is a great place to go. Our family has been going here since it opened and is one of our go-to places to eat.Some of our favs: carbonara pizza, nyc pizza, gnocchi with truffle, shrimp scampi, kampachi, tomahawk steak.The service is great - always making sureour water is filled and checking if we need anything. Mad Bene is a great place to bring the family or even to go to a romantic date.
Food and everything is great. But they charged us $10 for an “appetizer” of bread after our server asked if we wanted bread sticks with our pasta. Bread isn’t an appetizer. It’s barely even a side.Wheelchair accessibility: No steps or anything that would impede entry.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Meatballs, Linguini Scampi
Delicious food. Great
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was unreal, everything is made from scratch. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Surprisingly not quite as good as we expected.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Surprisingly some of the best bolognese I’ve ever had, also really good pizza.
The caesar salad is fantastic as well as the pizza
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Please bring back the crispy potato guys!! Those were one of my favorite things on the menu. The food here is always fantastic.
My wife and I went to Mad Bene for Valentine's Day, and the food was terrible. The shrimp was burnt and the pasta on the scampi was super hard the same with the spagetti and meatballs no flavor the sause was super dry and pasta was hard a a rock. Cesar's salad was not a true Cesar; it had very little sauce and a wilted bag of lettuce. We enjoyed our wine selection and bottled water. Seating was uncomfortable. We could not eat our entre so we did not pay for it. We did not enjoy our meal, but the person who took our order was nice, so I gave her a tip anyway. I would recommend saving your money and going to Assagio's for pasta.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
We love their happy hour specials and Take advantage of them on Pau Hana Friday's. Our favorites are their wings, Caesar salad, and the garlic pizza but everything we've tried has been ono. With plenty of parking and a friendly staff it's always a nice start to the weekend.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Eggplant Parm Sticks, Mad Garlic Pizza
Excellent food and service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Good food, great spritz pitchers, and great atmosphere with outdoor seating available. Dog friendly.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Caesar Salad Lunch, Linguini Scampi, Pappardelle Bolognese
Absolutely loved this restaurant. Wasn't busy on a Friday night but we had reservations for three. You can choose outdoor seating or indoors. There are also a few tables that would sit you next to the pizza oven window. Wait staff was attentive and friendly throughout our meal.The menu had a lot of items we wanted to try. We got the eggplant parmesan sticks and french fries to start. While I was hoping for something that resembled more of an eggplant parmesan stick, this was more mozzarella stick than eggplant. Nonetheless it was tasty. The french fries were really well seasoned and despite it being a thinner fry, it was not fried to a crisp and still maintained the potato-y-ness inside. The dip/sauce was so good we took the left overs home. This was a flavor bomb of garlic and truffle.We ordered the mad garlic pizza to share. The quality of the pizza here was superb. The crust was crispy and airy. I did wish that there was more garlic here though. So if you're looking to slay some vampires after dinner, this might not be it. The serving size of the pastas here are well worth it. While others ordered the Parppardelle Bolognese and the Tagliatelle Dolgana, i enjoyed my Linguine Scampi the most. I rarely go out to eat pasta as I enjoy cooking it at home most of the time, but this Linguine was so perfect that I would come back just for this. The flavor of the shrimp comes through very nicely in the sauce and you get a little crunch from the toasted breadcrumbs. The texture of this linguine though... perfection.While there were some mishaps with our drink orders, the staff quickly made things right. We ended the night with the mad tiramisu. I'm definitely looking forward to coming back here.
I'm giving this review, only because we ordered a pizza from here and it was nowhere up to par. We ordered the pizza with basil. When they brought it out, there were small blots of cheese around the pizza and 1 small leaf of basil in the pizza. It was all sauce and bread. At first I thought this was probably how they made it, me just being optimistic, but after we paid the bill and we're about to leave, we saw someone else get the same pizza but there's looked like a proper pizza. It had plenty of cheese and sauce as well as the basil on top. I'm thinking, how come they served us this saucy bread and the other people actually get a real pizza!? Especially how much it costs. None of the people, not the waiters or anyone who worked there that saw the pizza served to us, even said a word about how the pizza looked/was prepared. It's just too much money wasted on bread and sauce. Would not go there ever again. If this is what they claim to be the best Italian restaurant on island, I don't want Italian anywhere here. The only thing I could say good is the atmosphere and the salad.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 4
Their margarita pizza was delicious, the eggplant sticks were so good I wanted to order more.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Eggplant Parm Sticks, Meatballs, Pizza of the Week
If you are ever in Kapolei and craving some pizza and Italian food, Mad Bene is a great place to go. Our family has been going here since it opened and is one of our go-to places to eat.Some of our favs: carbonara pizza, nyc pizza, gnocchi with truffle, shrimp scampi, kampachi, tomahawk steak.The service is great - always making sureour water is filled and checking if we need anything. Mad Bene is a great place to bring the family or even to go to a romantic date.