A tip from a local who chatted us up at the hotel bar on our first night: Eleven, tucked inside the Foodlands Farm market in the Ala Moana Center. What an odd location to find elevated small plates & fabulous cocktails! They also have quite an extensive spirits list.
Our welcome aperitivi - seltzer and some Italian amaro/bitter.
I started with one of their seasonal drinks, the Pear and Sage Spritz, a bit of a twist on a French 75 with prosecco rustico, Malfy lemon gin, pear juice, and sage syrup, then had the very good HNL sour (Milk & Honey single malt, pineapple, yuzu, lemon, egg white foam, juicy cabernet).
My PIC had the Kopa negroni with Kona coffee infused Bèrto Bitter, Mānoa cacao nib sweet vermouth,
Malfy lemon gin, citrus oil,
and a Lapsang Manhattan (Yellowstone bourbon infusedwith lapsang souchong tea, Hakata 10yr koji whiskey, Bèrto rosso sweet vermouth.
We shared the bacon fat popcorn with toasted parmesan & sage,
two orders of the oysters with chili pepper water vinaigrette (a lil heavy on the vinegar for me),
a fantastic yellowtail carpaccio with local heart of palm, Hamakua tomato, yuzu kosho, nori tsukudani, scallion wasabi oil, micro herbs.
The hearts of palm added nothing but kronch, and the tomatoes were devoid of flavor, but the fish was great & that chive wasabi oil found itself being spooned onto two of my oysters 
The final dish was the least interesting to me - bacon candy: Nueske’s applewood smoked bacon, bourbon molasses, black pepper. I would’ve preferred it less floppy & have never been a fan of eating bacon any other temp than hot out of the oven. This dish obviously cools down quickly, and room temp/cold bacon fat is unappealing to me.
Service was outstanding & friendly.
