On the stretch of Uluniu Street between Kailua Road and Aulike Street, two of Kailua's newest counters sit a few doors apart. Cinnamon's Sweet Shop is at 315 Uluniu and Mānoa Chocolate's coffee bar is at 333. Lōkahi Kailua Market sets up across the street at 340 Uluniu every Sunday morning.

The City is surveying and restriping these same blocks this month. On top of that, the Sunday market has listed four late-season Sundays at other addresses. If you live in Kailua, most of your holiday season will happen within a few hundred yards of the Uluniu–Aulike corner. Over the next seven weeks, knowing which address is in use on which day matters more than knowing what's new.

Two June openings now anchor the Uluniu block

Cinnamon's Sweet Shop held its grand opening on Monday, June 1. Honolulu Magazine described it as a takeout dessert café with cookies, specialty drinks, coffee and soft-serve. It shares a building with Cinnamon's, the breakfast restaurant the family has run in Kailua for decades. In October, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that owner Alika Nam also has a retail shop in the works for part of the restaurant space. The paper also noted that longtime chef Carsie Green has been with Cinnamon's from the start and helped create the loco mocos, pancakes and eggs Benedict the restaurant is known for.

Honolulu Magazine's running list of 2026 openings puts Mānoa Café by Mānoa Chocolate among Kailua's June openings. The company expanded its central Kailua shop into a café and coffee roaster, open daily from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Honolulu Magazine's July review covers the menu, with prices:

• Mochas in salted caramel, coconut and honey cinnamon, all $8, made with Mānoa's own chocolate
• A chocolate cortado, where espresso melts pieces of Mānoa milk chocolate before steamed milk goes in
• Single-origin pour-overs from Maui and Kona at $10
• Bagged house blends for $12 to $14, including Kailua Sunrise and Island Time

Founder Dylan Butterbaugh started the company in 2010. He now also runs a larger factory on Kapaʻa Quarry Road, a farm in Waialua and a shop in Waikīkī, but the Uluniu location is where the café, roaster and tastings are.

Between the two openings, the 300 block of Uluniu now has coffee, chocolate and dessert within a short walk, right across from the Sunday market's normal site. On four Sundays starting November 29, the market will set up somewhere else.

The Sunday market spends four weekends at a different address

Lōkahi Kailua Market runs every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The organizers say it hosts more than 60 vendors on site each week, with food, artisans and crafters, farm goods, live music and keiki activities. Its normal venue is 340 Uluniu Street.

The market lists four relocation dates:

1. Sunday, November 29
2. Sunday, December 6
3. Sunday, December 13
4. Sunday, December 20

On those days, the market is listed at one of two other sites, 419 Uluniu Street or 25 Maluniu Avenue. The organizers say relocation dates are subject to change and post updates in their newsletter and on Instagram at @lokahi_kailua_market. Before heading out on any of those four Sundays, check the account to see which address is in use. The organizers also say street parking is free on Sundays and that several public lots surround the market.

The two relocation sites are both a short walk from the regular one, so the market isn't leaving downtown. It is moving into the same few blocks where the City has work underway.

The City is digging, restriping and planning on the same blocks

The City's Department of Design and Construction scheduled the last phase of its archaeological survey of the Kailua Municipal Parking Lot for November 2 through 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. The survey was supposed to finish in April, but the March Kona Low kept crews from completing it. According to the City's announcement, the work involves exploratory excavation at five spots in the lot. Up to eight stalls can be closed at a time, and the Aulike Street and Maluniu Avenue driveways may close temporarily, though at least one driveway stays open. The City named 25 Aulike Street, across the street, as alternate public parking.

The survey checks for culturally or historically significant resources before construction. The improvements that follow could start at the end of 2027 and include new asphalt, upgraded lighting, accessibility work, better pay stations and landscaping. For a lot that serves the Uluniu shops, the Sunday market and holiday shoppers, this November dig is the step that has to happen before any of that paving begins.

One block over, the Department of Transportation Services expects to install quick-build pedestrian safety improvements at Kuʻulei Road and Aulike Street sometime in November. The City's Complete Streets page for Kailua describes a pedestrian refuge island at each crossing, so people cross one direction of traffic at a time, along with curb extensions to make waiting pedestrians easier to see. It will all be built with pavement markings, signs and delineator posts. The job should take one to two weeks, weather permitting. It is an interim measure until a planned traffic signal goes in, and the school zone speed limit there is dropping to 20 mph.

The same page says the City will mark new crosswalks on Kalāheo Avenue at the beach access points near ʻAinoni Street and Kuʻuniu Street. Longer-term walkway projects on Kailua Road, Kuʻulei Road and Kalāheo Avenue are moving into design with federal funding.

If you walk from the Aulike side of the municipal lot toward Uluniu in late November, you may see fresh paint and posts at Kuʻulei and Aulike, closed stalls in the lot, and the market at a different address than usual. These are separate projects with separate schedules, all landing within a few weeks of each other.

The holiday calendar, by date and address

Most of the season's events are within a short walk of that corner. Two of the outliers, Lanikai Park and Maunawili Elementary, are a short drive away.

Thursday, November 12 is the busiest evening downtown. Alexander & Baldwin presents the Holiday Sip + Shop, with holiday shopping, food, music and promotions at more than 30 local businesses. Food and drink on the event page come from 10 Empanadas, Aloha Graze Co., Bar Coco, Island Popper Popcorn, Kalele Eats and Mochi Momma. The Hawaii Farm Bureau's weekly Kailua Farmers' Market runs the same three hours at Kailua Town Center, in the lot by Longs/CVS and UFC Gym. That makes two crowds downtown in the same window, so parking in the lots near Kailua Road and Aulike is likely to fill faster than on a typical Thursday.

The Farm Bureau schedule runs every Thursday through December 24, including Thanksgiving Day, November 26, and Christmas Eve. If you need produce, flowers or a last-minute dish for either holiday, the market is scheduled on both days.

Kailua Town's free music series plays in the parking garage behind Longs/CVS on Saturday, November 14, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., featuring Kalaʻe & Kalena.

The Lanikai Association's annual holiday Lanikai Craft Fair is on Saturday, November 21, at Lanikai Park, with more than 80 vendors. The association says the fair supports maintenance of the park and the beach rights of way.

Sunday, December 20 packs the most into one day. That morning is one of Lōkahi's relocation dates. At 2 p.m., the Olomana Christmas Parade starts at Maunawili Elementary School, according to the Kailua Neighborhood Board's October 1 meeting summary. That leaves enough time to shop the market downtown, pick up a mocha on Uluniu, and drive out toward Maunawili before the parade starts.

A short checklist for the next seven weeks

• Thursday, Nov. 12: Plan for two events downtown from 4 to 7 p.m. Check in for Sip + Shop outside Lau Hala Shops.
• Any weekday in November: Expect possible lane and crosswalk work at Kuʻulei and Aulike while the refuge islands go in.
• Sundays, Nov. 29 through Dec. 20: Look up @lokahi_kailua_market before you leave to find out whether the market is at 419 Uluniu or 25 Maluniu.
• Weekday mornings: Mānoa Chocolate's café opens at 7 a.m. at 333 Uluniu, a few doors from Cinnamon's Sweet Shop at 315.
• Thursdays through Christmas Eve: The Farm Bureau market at 609 Kailua Road runs 4 to 7 p.m., including Thanksgiving Day.

The municipal lot survey this month is the first step toward a repaved lot with new lighting and pay stations, which could start as early as the end of 2027. The Kuʻulei and Aulike crossings are a stopgap until a traffic signal arrives. Both will shape how people get around downtown Kailua for the next few years. If you own on the Windward side and want to understand how projects like these could affect your street, your rental or your plans, Chip Lewis follows them block by block. Work directly with Chip to start your search or get a valuation.