Makai Cafe — Restaurant in Lake Havasu City

Not great. We’ve been to every breakfast place in Havasu and this was bottom of the barrel. $45 for breakfast. Same breakfast at a local hole in the wall was $30. We came in on a weekend - 2 hours before closing and received mediocre service even though only 4 tables were seated. Our waitress walked by every customer without stopping to take our order or even look our direction. We were seated for 15 minutes before she stopped. The employees seemed to be more concerned with cleaning up and tipping out than taking new orders. I ordered the country breakfast and most everything about it was disappointing. The eggs however were cooked perfectly but the mysterious grease on the plate from the gravy made them almost inedible. I don’t know if this is the way the gravy usually is but it was almost curdled. The gravy was sweet, very little flavor and needed pepper and salt - it also had way too much rosemary for my liking. Biscuits were dry and hash was not cooked throughly. Please Chefs - taste the food you are making - this gravy i would not serve to anyone. The authentic “chilaquiles”’was on a bed of overdone chips with barely any sauce. Originally when they were brought out i thought it was nachos!? It was dry and lacking flavor. My husband ate half then tossed the rest. Unfortunately we will probably never be back. We will stick to our local mom and pop eateries which are consistent and service is on par. It’s too bad because i really wanted to...

I'm shocked at how this place is going down, 6 minutes from sitting down to get water additional 12 minutes to get a menu another 18 minutes to get menus and then another 14 minutes to get one banana crepe That was supposed to be split. Not only that the cooks there are dirty I had bacon bits in my scrambled egg which means they are not wiping out the pans the banana crepe was okay you'll find better Crepes at IHOP especially Crepes that don't look like they have a giant poop in the middle of it. The service was horrible I had to flag down a random server to get my water refilled and she didn't even acknowledge that, my server was Sheree and only once she recognize that I worked at this place years ago she started to talk to me but only in a manipulative manner and trying to get my name because she forgot it. I honestly did not want to leave a tip but my mother is a better Christian than I am and she wanted to leave a tip to which she did. I would never recommend this place to anybody unless you just want to enjoy The View but do not expect good service and expect okay food but remember they are dirty Cooks they do not clean their Pan's if you have food allergies...

GREAT BLT! I was dropped off here with family during a jet boat tour excursion and decided to dine-in as it’s the closest eatery inside the Island Mall to the London Bridge dock. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the food at this restaurant. The crispy bacon inside my BLT was to die for and the sandwich was overall very tasty. The sweet potato fries were also yummy, but I was severely disappointed when they only placed four waffle fries on my plate. It’s restaurant 101, you need to have proper portions.

Our waiting service left much to be desired, our waitress didn’t really check on us and seemed a little standoffish. It felt like she was looking into my soul at some points, I’m not sure what her intentions were.

The younger staff were super nice and really hardworking! I need to give a major shoutout to them for taking their job seriously. I wish we could’ve gotten one of the younger staff members, they had great customer service from what I could tell.

Overall, I really liked the tiki aesthetic and Hawaiian decor at Makai. I think I’d give it another try when I visit Havasu again, however I’d come at a different time and order something else...