Ted’s Bakery is a family-run bakery and plate-lunch shop in a green building at 59-024 Kamehameha Highway at Sunset Beach (Haleʻiwa mailing address), about 2½ miles past Waimea Bay. The Nakamura family opened the Sunset Beach Store on family land in 1956. Ted Nakamura, a trained baker and Kahuku High graduate, opened Ted’s Bakery inside the store in July 1987. The official history says he first sold doughnuts, cornbread and a few pastries.
Pies followed, including a chocolate haupia pie Ted has described as “like a mistake,” combining leftover haupia and chocolate cream in one crust. The bakery now sells pies in supermarkets around the state and still operates from the same 1956 store. The website lists garlic shrimp, loco moco, a fried rice special, chocolate haupia pie and pineapple macadamia nut cheesecake among its most popular items, and it offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is still a family operation; as of 2020, Ted’s daughters Torey and Caylen were overseeing the business.
Regular hours are daily, 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. For Thanksgiving 2026, the bakery is taking pre-orders through Tuesday, Nov. 24, for pickup on Wednesday, Nov. 25, or Thursday, Nov. 26. Thanksgiving week hours are 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 25 and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 26, with regular hours returning Friday, Nov. 27. A 9-inch chocolate haupia pie is $19.95 on the bakery’s Thanksgiving price list as of Oct. 7, 2026.
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