808 old town

To start this off this is not about the service, our server and busboy were fantastic. This is about the quality of food. Before changing new owners this was a go to spot to eat. Everything made from scratch delicious quality for a great price. However the focus isn’t on quality anymore it’s on their profit. 1st off I ordered the shiitake melt and my girlfriend ordered the strawberry salad with “candied walnuts and walnut vinaigrette “ how can I put this nicely, the salad was abysmal except for the dressing. They may have put two grains of sugar on each walnut but you cannot say they are candied. The chicken tasted like it was boiled in water tossed in a trash can and put back on the plate. As for the shiitake beef melt. You are falsely advertising this sandwich, they are bell button mushrooms in the sandwich not shiitake. It was subpar especially with the wrong fungus among us. Last but definitely not least. I was so excited for pudding, one thing that this restaurant was known for, world famous almost! The waitress came back after asking for lilikoi pudding and said that they are stopping the puddings , they had a lemon pudding with butter cookies and a blueberry lemon loaf which was 100% from Costco. I got the pudding thinking of the last time I had their pudding. This was a store bought lemon pudding not sour and tasted like sweet lemon floor cleaner from the store and again it had graham crackers not the butter cookies as advertised. Cutting down on quality to use ingredients bought from Costco has turned me away from here forever. Putting profits over the quality of the food will lose you business in the long run. I sincerely hope you consider thinking about quality instead of the quantity of money you had hope to make by taking these lazy shortcuts. I will be driving 35 minutes to Kihei now to go to the real 808 whose quality is impeccable and pudding indescribable. I want to reiterate that the waitress and busboy were AMAZING. The food left something to be desired.