Mountain View Stone Cookies munchies review

by Kris   ⋅   June 22, 2007   ⋅   Comment now   ⋅    RSS

Can you say ow? You might not be able to after eating a Mountain View Stone Cookie. These thick golden brown oblong discs are forged for fantastic gum-busting fury!! You’ll wish you were stranded on a deserted island somewhere just so you could invent new uses for them; building tiles, adze blades, frisbees, wakeboards. Who woulda thunk something so potentially painful could be so yummy?

Baked fresh (although seemingly awesomely tough and “stale”) in a little yellow corrugated tin-swathed bakery in Mountain View on the Big Island of Hawai’i, the stone cookie is much like the building it’s baked in. Bland as heck with just a tinge of sweet, I can’t explain why I gravitate towards them. Maybe it’s a Big Island thing. Maybe it’s because it’s so steeped in tradition. That might be it because even though they now sell chocolate chip (with a generous constellation of the teeniest tiniest choco dots) and soft versions, I still crave the plain.

Mountain View Bakery [BAKERY][$]
(808) 968-6353 - 18-1319 Old Volcano Rd - Hilo, Hawaii

About the Author:

Kris Kobayashi-Nelson is an avid food adventurist who has tried everything from jellyfish to sea cucumber to chicken gizzards. She loved liver and onions with ketchup and cayenne pepper ice cream as a kid.