Lanakila Kitchen

Lanakila Kitchen is a catering operation in Honolulu, Hawaii, based at 1809 Bachelot St. It prepares meals and treats for seniors, schools, and businesses, and its kitchen work supports Lanakila Pacific Meals on Wheels, which delivers meals to kupuna across Oahu. The kitchen also serves as a training ground where adults with disabilities gain hands-on food preparation experience through Lanakila Pacific Employment Services. The business holds a rating of 5.00 based on two reviews.

The kitchen's parent organization, Lanakila Pacific, was founded in 1939 and has built a family of programs and social enterprises around a single mission: building independence and an improved quality of life for individuals with cognitive, physical, social, or age-related challenges. Its programs include Teaching and Learning Centers, which offer weekday life skills instruction in areas such as personal hygiene and early money management, and Employment Services, which provides job readiness classes, individualized plans, and one-on-one coaching for adults with disabilities. Meals on Wheels began in 1971 in partnership with the City & County of Honolulu as the Honolulu Nutrition Program, serving meals from a lunch wagon in Aala Park, and has operated for 55 years. The kitchen is exploring whether medically tailored meals could one day be offered to Meals on Wheels recipients with specific dietary needs. Other social enterprises include custom screen-printed and embroidered shirts and accessories, and grounds services for commercial properties.

The kitchen sits on Bachelot Street in Honolulu, about 0.1 miles from both the Rehab Hospital of the Pacific and Kuakini Medical Center. Puehuehu waterfall is roughly 0.1 miles away, Waikahalulu Falls about 0.2 miles, and Lili'uokalani Botanical Garden also about 0.2 miles. Nuuanu Avenue is a short distance of roughly 0.2 miles from the location.

Lanakila Kitchen's catering work is tied directly to its mission, turning meal preparation for seniors, schools, and businesses into employment training and nutrition support for Oahu's kupuna and adults with disabilities.