When Pono Farm owners Shin and Ted Nakato announced they were opening a meat-centric soul kitchen based on their Japanese-American upbringing, we imagined a temple to their locally raised livestock—like a yakiniku grill with thin slices of beef from every part of the animal. Instead, (so far) Pono Farm Soul Kitchen is serving an unwieldy trifecta of Western-influenced Japanese comfort food, steakhouse cuts, and sushi; overshadowing their top-quality livestock.