Chicken Kiev in Side: the Garlic Butter Chicken Roll at Hawaii Restaurant & Bar

Chicken Kiev at Hawaii Restaurant & Bar in Side old town is a chicken roll filled with garlic butter, served from the Chicken Specialities section of our menu. Hawaii has cooked in Side since 2000, opens daily from 10:00 to 02:00, and today's price is always on the live menu.

One Roll, One Job: Getting Garlic Butter Inside Chicken

Chicken Kiev is a dish with a single, brilliant idea behind it: seal butter inside chicken, cook it, and let the butter finish the job from the inside. Cut into a good one and the garlic butter runs out across the plate. That moment is the whole point of ordering it.

Our menu describes ours in six words: chicken roll filled with garlic butter. That is exactly what arrives at your table. No reinvention, no gimmicks. It lives in our Chicken Specialities section, and like everything else in the kitchen it is built on ingredients bought fresh every day. Hawaii has been cooking for holidaymakers and locals in Side old town since 2000, and this is precisely the kind of plain-spoken plate the place was built on.

Who Should Order It, and When

Chicken Kiev is the friendly one on the menu. The flavours are ones everyone already knows — chicken, butter, garlic — which makes it a safe, satisfying pick when you want a proper cooked dinner with zero guesswork. It is also a very good reset meal after a week of working your way through kebab boards and grill platters.

It is a quietly smart family order too. Kids tend to get on with it for the same reason adults do: nothing on the plate needs explaining. We back that up with a dedicated kids menu and alcohol-free kids cocktails, so the small ones get a proper drink of their own. And because Hawaii is open daily from 10:00 to 02:00, Chicken Kiev works as an early dinner while the karaoke stage is still warming up just as well as a properly late plate at the end of a long evening.

What to Drink With Garlic Butter Chicken

Garlic butter is rich, so the best partners either cut through it or lean into the holiday mood. Something crisp and cold — a chilled white wine or a cold beer — slices through the butter nicely, while tables in full holiday mode usually head straight for the cocktail list. If that is your table, our guide to Hawaii's signature cocktails is a good place to start, and timing your drinks with Happy Hour, daily 19:00–20:00, is never a bad idea. Curious about local bottles? Our Turkish wine guide covers the basics.

The kids are covered too: alcohol-free kids cocktails mean the junior members of the table get a proper drink of their own to clink. The full drinks list, like the food, lives with today's prices on the live menu.

Where It Sits on the Hawaii Menu

Chicken Specialities is one corner of a deliberately wide menu. If garlic butter chicken is your kind of comfort cooking, you will probably also want to look at our schnitzel, which comes from the same school of satisfying, familiar plates, and the full roll-call in our guide to chicken dishes in Side.

The rest of your table does not have to follow you, either. Hawaii runs a real wood fire and charcoal grill for the steak and köfte crowd, and thin-crust 33cm Italian-style pizzas come out of the same kitchen. One booking covers everyone's cravings, which is exactly why mixed groups — grandparents, teenagers, one committed pizza loyalist — tend to settle arguments by coming here.

Prices, Reservations and Getting to Side Old Town

We do not print prices in blog posts because they change with the season. The live menu always shows today's price for Chicken Kiev alongside everything else in the Chicken Specialities section, so check it just before you visit.

Hawaii Restaurant & Bar is on 512. Sk. in Side old town, open every day from 10:00 to 02:00. If you are staying at one of the selected hotels nearby, we will pick you up and drop you back free of charge; staying farther out, we can arrange an affordable two-way transfer instead. Book a table online or message us on WhatsApp at +90 533 930 12 83 — and if the sunbed has fully claimed you for the evening, takeaway and delivery to nearby spots are available too.