About 1 hour and 50 minutes by car from Naha Airport. It is a buffet restaurant located in the Okuma Private Beach & Resort Hotel in Yanbaru, about 1 hour and 50 minutes by car from Naha Airport. It is an all-day dining restaurant open for breakfast, lunch, cafe, and dinner.
Point 1: What is the location of “Surfside Cafe”?
（The Surfside Cafe is a spacious, resort-like space.)
Surfside Cafe is a restaurant on the first floor of the Okuma Private Beach & Resort hotel, located in Okuma, Kunigami-gun, in the so-called Yanbaru region.
Although the hotel is located on a large site, it is located near the main building and is easily accessible to guests.
It takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes from Naha city, so I thought it would not be so crowded in off-season, but there were quite a few guests, so it is a popular hotel with constant guests not only during the season when marine activities are held, but also throughout the year.
However, Okuma Private Beach & Resort offers a free shuttle bus service once a day.
The shuttle picks up guests at two locations in Naha City before 1:00 p.m., stops at the Igei Service Area on the way, and arrives at the hotel around 3:00 p.m. Guests can spend the time until dinner while leisurely strolling along the beach or taking a bath in the large bathhouse while enjoying the view of the ocean.
Point 2: What is the breakfast buffet at “Surfside Cafe” like?
(The onigiri balls made by the grandmother, who says “I enjoy talking to all kinds of people,” were extremely tasty.)
The Surfside Café offers a breakfast buffet (2,500 yen for adults), which features dishes such as Po-Tama rice balls and Okinawan soba noodles made by an old lady from Kunigami Village.
Although you cannot see the ocean from the Surfside Cafe in the morning, you can enjoy breakfast in a refreshing mood while feeling the morning sun pouring down on you.
After being shown to your seat and setting down your luggage, you will enter the breakfast buffet section!
The buffet offers a wide variety of dishes, from the usual omelets, ham, bacon, and salads to Japanese dishes such as grilled fish, Chinese dishes such as siu mai, and the standard Okinawan dishes, so you can’t eat everything.
(My grandmother made me a poh-tama onigiri (rice ball) with oiled miso, and it was delicious!
) Although it was mainly my own favorite food, the poh-tamago onigiri that my grandmother made for me was very tasty and different from those sold at convenience stores, as it was topped with oiled miso and had good nori seaweed.
In addition to standard Okinawan dishes such as jushi, carrot shiririri, and bitter gourd stir-fry, there was also a wide variety of “fresh bread accompaniments” such as seekwasa jam and beni imo margarine made with local ingredients.
For a hotel breakfast, I thought 2,500 yen was a reasonable price for this volume of food.
I thought, “Oh, how I wish I could eat this breakfast buffet every day!” I thought so, even though it would never happen.
Point 3: What is the dinner buffet at “Surfside Cafe” like?
There are not many restaurants around “Okuma Private Beach & Resort”, so we decided to have dinner inside the hotel.
Unluckily? The relatively inexpensive izakaya “Okame” was closed, so our other options were a Japanese restaurant and teppanyaki, but the teppanyaki restaurant requires reservations by the day before, so we ended up having a dinner buffet at “Surfside Cafe!
The price was a little over our budget at 5,000 yen for an adult, but we could not turn our backs on it.
I made a reservation by phone from my room and headed for the Surfside Cafe restaurant.
It was early for dinner, but there were already several groups of guests seated.
Heading to the buffet section, I found a large selection of hot meals. Using fish and meat produced in the prefecture, the restaurant seems to focus on local production for local consumption.
Okinawan dishes included standard favorites such as Goya Chanpuru (bitter melon stir-fry) and Jimmamy Tofu, as well as more unusual items not found elsewhere, such as Okinawan-style Yakisoba, Hijiki Ilichee, and Sunshi!
Western cuisine included a wide variety of standard dishes such as scrambled eggs, bacon, and salads, but perhaps because of the quality of the ingredients, even the dishes that we usually eat were very tasty.
At the chef’s live counter, a female chef was carving roast beef. It was very tasty with a garlicky sauce!
There were also countless varieties of desserts on display for all to see. Although they whetted my appetite for a “separate stomach,” in reality, I could not eat that many kinds of desserts.
After a hearty meal, I gave up after only three kinds.
Looking at the photo of the buffet counter afterwards, I realized that there were still some things I hadn’t eaten, and I reflected on how I had gradually lost my appetite for buffets.
At first, I thought the price of 5,000 yen was too expensive, but I realized that the price of 5,000 yen was rather inexpensive for a buffet with such a wide variety and high grade of food. In this day and age, even if you eat out for a short time, you can still blow 2,000 yen on lunch.
At night, the soft down-lighting is comfortable and the atmosphere is very nice, so I recommend it!
