Evolution Bakery & Cafe

Kailua-Kona, United States

4.4

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20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards
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Telephone:
+1 808-331-1122
Website:
www.evolutionbakerycafe.com
Address:
75-5813 Alii Dr, Kailua-Kona, HI, 96740
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Accepts Apple Pay
Yes
Good For
Breakfast
Parking
Street, Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Divey
Noise Level
Quiet
Alcohol
No
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
Free
Has TV
Yes
Dogs Allowed
Yes
Waiter Service
No
Caters
No

Today

Today 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Open now
Local time (Kailua-Kona) 10:47 Monday, 30 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Tuesday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Wednesday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Thursday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Friday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Saturday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Sunday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm

Description

Specialties

Aloha!

Our bakery & café is breakfast menu is available from 7:00 am (8:00am on Tues & Wed) until 11:30 am. Smoothies, juices and coffee available until 3:00 pm. Pastries sold until 9:00 pm.

We located in Coconut Grove downstairs from the popular «Jack’s Diving Locker» and across the street from the famous «Huggos restaurant».

We space with «Get Sum» pizza. PLEASE NOTE: We are 2 different businesses that work out of the same space.

Our food menu is served daily until 11:30 am. After that, the pizza guys serve slices, whole pizzas & salads.

Our Café and Bakery specializes in creating delicious vegan and gluten free meals and pastries. We make NY Bagels from scratch (hand rolled, boiled and baked). The bagels are vegan (organic flour, salt, yeast and water). We also make a gluten free bagel too!

Enjoy a bagel with cream cheese or non dairy spread. We also make delish bagel sandwiches using fresh, local and organic ingredients.

Our café also has an awesome paint your own pottery studio next door so you can create something while you sip on a latte made with award winning, 100% Kona Grown Coffee. We also sell local products for the mind, body & spirit such as Coffee & Avocado scrubs, delicious smelling ‘oli mists by Luana Farms, Hawai’ian style prayer flags, «Feel Good» cards and more.

A trip to our café feeds your body, mind & spirit!

History

Established in 2011.

Evolution Bakery & Café was born through our Captain Cook Location: «Up Country Bakery & Café».

Our passion and foundation remain the same:‘To offer simple, delicious, healthy food using the very best products we can.

We are a small, family run business working super hard to offer you healthier choices. It’s a labor of love (I lovingly look at my husband and daughter asleep on the couch at 8:00 pm). We hope you enjoy your visit.

Meet the Business Owner

Antoinette S.

Business Owner

Aloha!

I’m Antoinette and my husband is Johnny. I was born and raised in Taos, NM. Jon’s family is from NY but he was also raised in Taos.

I love creating spaces that are relaxing, quirky and inviting. I’m a Cancerian so making people feel good by feeding them and giving them a place to feel comfortable and safe is my passion!

Jon is my amazing husband and our baker. He really puts a lot of love into what he makes. He’s a Taurus & can work like a madman. (He was a longline fisherman in Alaska and is now vegan). He has a love for beautiful things, especially food.

Our 15 year old daughter, Luna is homeschooled and works the front of the house a few days a week. She will greet you with a smile, give you amazing customer service and make you a mean latte!

We hope you’ll come see us soon

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20 reviews of Evolution Bakery & Cafe

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Place rating: 5
Seattle, WA
Cute café serving excellent food. Had the Caveman bagel which was absolutely delish! Nice size serving accompanied by a couple slices of fruit and small slice of banana bread.
Place rating: 3
Costa Mesa, CA
This is a vegan/​vegetarian/​GF kind of café/​bakery. I didn’t try any of their baked goods, but I LOVED their mermaid drink with pineapple juice (as they ran out of apple juice). It was sweet, refreshing and quite energizing. Unfortunately, I didn’t like their latte as it tasted burnt and bitter.
I’d go back for their juices and perhaps banana bread though.
Place rating: 5
Seattle, WA
Hidden gem behind the hustle of the Main Street of Kona. We started our
first morning here splitting a ghandi bagel and coffee. Very filling and absolutely healthy and delish. We loved their bagels so much we bought them
to enjoy at our condo for the week. Also love that the staff is a full supporter of their vegetarian and vegan menu and in support of the lifestyle. If you traditionally shy away from vegan food, you should shake it off and give this place a try.
Place rating: 4
New York, NY
It’s a vegan place in kona. I actually really liked they offer vegan breakfast. Most vegan places just offer sandwiches and such which frankly is more lunch than breakfast. I got the Gandhi bagel sandwich on gluten free everything bagel. The food was good albeit too rich with cream and melted cheese and lacked a bit of seasoning. I would have made it with pesto (chucked the cream cheese) and seasoned the tofu (a little lemon and salt goes a long way) and then added the daiyya cheese. We also got cold pressed juice (rainbow) which was delicious!
Place rating: 5
Honolulu, HI
This is our second trip to the Big Island. Our second time here. We both ordered the warrior bagel. Mine was vegan my friends was cheese. I had mine with the Salted bagel. Black Island rock salt. Everything was tasty.
Place rating: 5
Kailua-Kona, HI
Banana Bread and Kombucha. Yum!
Place rating: 5
Peoria, AZ
After pizza at Get Some we grabbed a few treats for the kids. A brownies, a few cookies and a loaf of banana bread with macadamia nuts and chocolate chips. I had a chocolate chip cookie with mac nuts and tried the brownie as well. The loaf was sliced up as well later that day and everything we had was top notch and super tasty.
Headed back there in a few days for more goodies!
Place rating: 5
Scottsdale, AZ
Gluten free chocolate chip macnut cookie was so good with our ice coffees with coconut milk!!! And serve was awesome even though we came in a few minutes before opening.
Place rating: 2
Boston, MA
Kind of pain in the ass. It took forever to place our order and get our food. I understand I am a mainlanders and used to faster service but his was SLOW. I guess if you are vegan you might like it here but we are not. Ordered 2 egg and cheese on a bagel. Bagels were good, I don’t know what they did to the eggs some weird spices/​onions/​basil/​something weird in it. We just wanted eggs on a bagel and it was more like an omelet that was way overpriced. Would not go back here even for coffee.
Place rating: 5
Troy, NY
Ordered a Vegan Birthday Cake at Evolution. Needed to pick it up on a Sunday, but we flew in on Sunday and could not check into where we were staying until later in the day. The space occupied by the Bakery in the morning is occupied by a restaurant in the evening. The owners made sure I could pick up the cake from the restaurant at night. Not only did they provide great customer service, the cake was among the best vegan cakes I have had. It was moist and full of flavor.
We decided to have dinner at the restaurant when we picked up the cake. Dinner was very good too.
Place rating: 5
Hoboken, NJ
As someone who eats GF & dairy free, this shop is a dream come true! So many delicious choices of bagels, pancakes, cookies & more. Cool ambiance too. Check them out!
Place rating: 5
Seattle, WA
We came here for take-​out bagel sandwiches to pack on a hike. I don’t recommend doing that, actually, because their sandwiches are HUGE open-​face affairs and not easily packable. That said, they are delicious. We really regretted not making it back here for breakfast another day.
Place rating: 4
Seattle, WA
Evolution Bakery & Café offers a refreshing retreat from the traditional tourist fare. It’s tucked away off the main drag (Ali’i Drive) so it’s quiet (but still buzzing with business).
We ordered the breakfast bagel sandwiches and the portions were perfect and included some fresh fruit and a slice of the banana bread. The coffee is outstanding.
Place rating: 4
Chandler, AZ
Was looking for a good hearty breakfast and found the Evolution Bakery & Café. Ordered the Warrior Bagel and Tiki Mana. The Warrior Bagel itself was very tasty with the garlic spread, spinach, egg and tomatoes. It was a bit over toasted (some burnt edges) but didn’t ruin the taste. The Tiki Mana smoothie was really refreshing with the Strawberry, Apple, and Banana.
Overall, it was a great experience and would definitely come back to try some of their other Bagel combinations and smoothies.
Place rating: 3
Düsseldorf, Germany
Nice bakery connected to another café so it’s a bit confusing when you walk in. Make sure to get in early, because the selection is better. They also have a lot of vegan options and probably the only place around the area that sells vegan baked goods. Other than that, their smoothies are worth trying!
Place rating: 5
Honolulu, HI
We came here for breakfast before we left Kona. They have some great bagel options. We picked out the lava salt bagel, which I highly recommend. It had great flavor and the bagel was topped with lots of veggies. Perfect to split because it was so large. We split the bagel and the mermaid magic juice. The mermaid magic was yummy as well.
This place has a lot of options if you want vegan or gluten free.
Before we left I ordered a breakfast dessert! A peanut butter chocolate cookie. It’s was large and amazing.
This place is nestled in the shopping center and is pretty easy to find.
Place rating: 4
Vancouver, Canada
Pretty good GF bagel and GF cookies will go back for the pizza. Nicely tucked away off Ali’i Drive with plenty of parking in the back this bakery shares a spot with another business (pizza, I believe).
Can’t wait to go back to sample more of their delicious food.
Place rating: 5
Pleasant Grove, UT
I you this space the five because it’s really good. So if you’re in area you might want to try it out the prices are very reasonable and I enjoyed myself kind of a low-​key idea it’s kind of the heart of the city so you’re looking around in my have our time finding it but I totally enjoyed it and they got some really good healthy choices to
Place rating: 4
Honolulu, HI
Weekend trip to Kona. We found this place on Unilocal by typing in VEGAN, my daughter is vegan. We had juices and smoothies and a bagel. They were all delicious. I went back on our last morning and picked up more juices to start the day! Service is a bit slow because they make everything to order so everything is very fresh! We had the: Trancendental, Mauka Mama, Peles Kilauea & Super Natural High
All amazing!!!
Place rating: 4
San Francisco, CA
Stopped by Evolution Bakery to grab some treats for hiking the volcano…
Brownie — all kinds of awesome w/​a nice chew factor to it & although it was a little dry, there was a chocolate ganache-​coconut topping that made it all fudgy & delish
Everything bagel w/​lettuce tomato sprouts cucumber carrots & garlic cream cheese. The bagel was piled way too high & it was very difficult to eat — the toppings kept sliding off the bagel & all over the ground. The taste was spot-​on but maybe a smaller sandwich that is manageable to eat would be better?
Banana bread — amazeballs!
Have to say we were fans but will need to learn a more efficient way to eat their sandwiches