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Rock Island Cafe

  • May 5, 2009
  • Rated 4 of 5 by LenR from Townsville, Australia
Rock Island Cafe

Tel: 488 1010

The Rock Island Cafe is a very popular economic family-style restaurant. It has possibly the most prominent street frontage in the whole of Koror so you are not likely to miss it. It is just past the court house in the main street as you head towards Malakal. The menu is extensive, the portions are large and the costs are very reasonable. We went there several times and never had a bad meal.

Unlike most of the other central restaurants which offer Japanese, Korean and other Asian food, Rock Island is an American style cafe. It reminds me of the old-style dinners that you used to see in 1960’s movies with their stalls and straight forward meals with plenty of mashed potatoes and gravy. You can get burgers, steaks, pizzas, fish and much more.

The restaurant has quite an extensive menu but each time I visit I somehow find myself asking for the ribs ($8.65). This is served in the traditional way with plenty of barbeque sauce, mashed potato and thick gravy. They are quite delicious. You also get a token coldslaw salad and a bread muffin. After weeks of Asian food (which I thoroughly enjoy) the ribs just seem to hit the spot and I struggle to finish the generous helping.

On one occasion I had the tuna fish dinner ($7.95) with a tomato salsa, coleslaw, rice, beans and dinner roll. Again I struggled to get through it. Other options are a T-bone steak ($16.50), meatloaf ($7.95), curry ($6.95) and taco dinner ($8.10). Bottomless iced tea is $2.00 and soft drinks $1.50. If you decide to share a main meal, it might be possible to have a dessert. Sundaes are $2.00 while chocolate chip cookies are 30cents of 4 for $1.00.

Don’t expect this to have great atmosphere. The ambiance is dated, the waitresses are matter of fact and the food comes very quickly without a great deal of style. It’s pretty much a ‘fast-turnaround’ operation but the Palauans flock there and you will often find the odd expat. or Asian and Western tourist there as well. The entrance is in the centre of the restaurant and one side is nominally smoking and the other side non-smoking. Everything else is the same in each section. The restaurant also operates a very successful take-out business and there is a separate cafe and internet cafe in the same building but with a separate entrance.


The restaurant is closed from 6.00pm Friday to 6.00pm Saturday as the owner is a Seventh-Day Adventist. Other days it operates from early morning until late at night.

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