Dinner is cafe-style informal, the tables without linens, and the plantation style windows, with the modern addition of screens, sliding open for evening breezes, or closed for occasional showers. The cuisine is exceptional, both in concept and execution, and everything is generous and fresh, prepared without meat, poultry, or chemicals. The dinner menu is small, only seven entrees featuring local, organically grown vegetables, or fresh island fish. Fresh ono was cleanly cooked, moist, flavorful and flaky, and although we sampled all four sauces on the menu and enjoyed each unique flavor, particularly the coconut, we preferred the fish cleanly grilled. Of the three pasta choices, two vegetarian, we liked 'Seafood Sorrento,' a combination of shrimp with medallions of all four fresh fish on the menu.
Desserts are elegant.
Passion fruit mousse arrives in a lovely colored tumbler, and chocolate cake is amazingly light for its dense chocolate flavor. Waitpersons are friendly, following the example of the owners who circulate among the guests, stopping to chat and give sound vacation advice to diners whom they treat as guests. Postcards Cafe is a must stop on the north shore for excellent, imaginative cuisine served in an attractive, comfortably informal dining room. For more restaurant reviews, consult your Kauai Underground Guide .