Molten Cafe The restaurant at the Mauna Loa volcano

A few years ago nobody would have ever thought you could eat grilled vegetables … the lava, but it is now possible, if you book a table at Cafe Molten. Where is it? Inside the volcano (active) largest in the world, Maumere on the island of Hawaii Loa, the largest of the archipelago.Because of repeated eruptions of underwater started about five hundred thousand years ago, this shield volcano spilled began to emerge from the water to reach the current nine thousand feet high (from the seabed). The meaning of his name, that is ‘long mountain’, it is not totally random …
Several eruptions have threatened, in fact, over the years, the residents of Hilo, the island’s capital, including the last dating back to 1984. However, local authorities were in possession and were responsible for the construction of bund walls around the towns, able to divert the lava. There is also a scientific base where scientists, geologists, namely the U.S. Geological Survey, designed to predict eruptions.

No danger to the tourists, then, and no danger to the guests of the restaurant‘s Cafè Molten, Samuel Pompay, where the crater of Mauna Loa, said Mokuaweoweo, decided to ‘complain’. Nine months of grueling work to obtain, from a cave, a room of 280 square meters of rock, with 50 seats and a panoramic view, more and more expensive as you sit near the windows.
And when the volcano erupted, the fire retardant material used to build the doors and windows to ensure absolute protection, in addition to the breathtaking spectacle of lava flowing down the mountain, ‘stroking’ the windows. At best, you feel a light shock.
The culinary delights are entrusted to the care of chef Don Hokake, enthusiastic individuals also provide energy to lava, which can give food a unique flavor to heat quickly and keep it warm longer.
Sure, prices are equally ‘Unforgettable’: $ 60 for a thread to the volcano, or $ 30 for a plate of grilled vegetables with lava! Dishes that are also desired, with at least six months before the fateful dinner!

Pompay but does not stop here, and already plans to open another restaurant in California, the San Andreas Fault