Lani's Recipe Box poster: LANI, a retro stewardess with a hibiscus in her hair, holds an open wooden box of travel postcards on a palm-lined beach under a swirling psychedelic sky.

Lani’s Recipe Box

Served up by LANI, the Stewardess with all the world’s recipes.

Every day a new Shore Grub recipe takes the Recipe of the Day spot on the home page. When the next one shows up, yesterday’s lands here in Lani’s box. These are home-cook recipes inspired by small eateries we love, especially ones run by surfers and surfer chefs. Each card links to the real spot. Go eat there.

Poster-style illustration with a cream title band naming the recipe: Lani, the Island Surflines hostess, waves a gloved hand from the driver's seat of a woody wagon with longboards on the roof, a picnic basket of Spam musubi on the hood, and a curling wave at sunset.

Featured Oct 31, 2026

Woody Wagon Spam Musubi

Seared, soy-glazed Spam on a block of warm rice, wrapped in a strip of nori: the hand-held island snack that rides in the cooler to every…

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Poster-style illustration with a cream title band naming the recipe: Lani, the Island Surflines hostess, strides along the beach balancing a wooden tray of oat and chocolate-chip bars high on one hand, toward surfboards standing in the sand under a swirling sunset sky.

Featured Oct 30, 2026

Quiver-Bag Oat & Date Bars

No-bake oat bars held together with dates, peanut butter and honey, with toasted coconut and dark chocolate chips: a snack that rides along in your board…

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Poster-style illustration with a cream title band naming the recipe: Lani, the Island Surflines hostess, turns glazed chicken thighs and pineapple rings on a charcoal grill in a beach parking lot, an old pickup with surfboards behind her and a curling wave and sailboat at sunset.

Featured Oct 28, 2026

Tailgate Huli-Huli Chicken

Chicken thighs grilled sticky and smoky with a pineapple, soy, ginger and brown sugar glaze, plus grilled pineapple rings: a parking-lot cookout classic.

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Poster-style illustration with a cream title band naming the recipe and the eatery that inspired it: Lani, the Island Surflines hostess, tastes gravy from a wooden spoon at a beach-shack stove beside a loco moco bowl of rice, burger patty, fried egg and brown gravy, with longboards and a curling wave at sunset.

Featured Oct 27, 2026

Encinitas Loco Moco

Hot rice, a juicy burger patty, a fried egg and a puddle of brown onion gravy: the island-style comfort bowl, inspired by Breakers in Encinitas.

Where to eat it: Breakers

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Poster-style illustration with a cream title band naming the recipe and the eatery that inspired it: the Island Surflines hostess winks as she holds a rice bowl with blackened fish, avocado and chopsticks by a coast-highway guardrail, with a pier, palms and a swirling orange sunset under an "After Sesh Grub" banner.

Featured Oct 19, 2026

PCH Blackened Fish Rice Bowl

Spice-crusted, pan-blackened fish over rice with avocado, cucumber and a sesame-soy drizzle, a home-cook bowl inspired by the fresh-fish surf restaurant scene on PCH in Seal…

Where to eat it: Mahé

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About these recipes

Our recipes are original. They are not the restaurants’ own recipes, and we’re not affiliated with any of these places. Every “Where to eat it” credit is checked against the eatery’s official site or reputable press, and we only call a place surfer-owned when a source says so. Sources are listed at the end of each recipe.

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