It wasn't the Ahi's I remembered. I think of panko-coated shrimp tempura and sauteed mahimahi with a sprinkling of fresh thyme. Maybe others remember this too, because the building is more crowded on a Saturday afternoon than it was when it housed Paniolo Cafe. During the Paniolo days, I could sit at any table in the house. On a Saturday at Ahi's, you have to settle for what you can get.
Tables fill up at the entrance, the main room and all along the enclosed lanai.
Oddly enough, the tempura style is the winner by default. The steamed, chilled cocktail shrimp had no flavor -none, nada. The deep-fried version seemed to be of the frozen, reheated variety. The scampi, for some inexplicable reason, also had a light breaded coating. To make matters worse, the scampi had little of the buttery, garlicky flavor I was expecting.