Brunch—like twilight, sporks, skorts, friends with benefits, and so many other things that make life worth living—is not quite one thing and not quite another. Celebrate everyone's favorite mutant mealtime with today’s Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Saturday or Sunday brunch at Hula's Modern Tiki on North Central Avenue. Brunch is served from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Specializing in modern island fare, Hula's brunch menu fuses Polynesian and Hawaiian dishes with worldly and supernatural influences. Recover faster than an action star after a boat explosion with Hula's hangover hash (two eggs stacked on a heaping helping of Luau pork hash over a bed of hash browns, $9). The ahi-tuna eggs benedict is a classy twist on a classic ($12), and the two-egg breakfast injects two shots of tradition into morning stomachs ($7). Purveyors of lunch need look no further than the Maui onion-smothered Hula burger ($8), shrimp tacos ($8–$14), or mango-chicken salad ($13). Add a side of fried Spam ($2.50) to show the world you haven't forgotten this beloved piece of Americana.

Renovating the iconically symmetrical Heap's Big Beef building, Hula's Modern Tiki takes a decidedly refined take on Tiki décor by combining wood-paneled walls, metal, and smooth, buttery lighting to form a retro-modernist cool atmosphere with the razzmatazz of a swinging ’50s spaceship. Enjoy tropical cocktails on the sizable patio to add a sufficient dose of Vitamin D to your weekend feasting, while taunting the sun with cuisine it can never hold as everything it touches turns to fiery, blazing gold.

Reviews

Reviewers are too busy thinking about their brunch to write about it, but Yelpers give Hula's Modern Tiki 3.5 stars, 76% of Urbanspooners like it, and the Downtown Phoenix Journal reviewed it:

• Never to be outshone, of course, there is an extensive menu of island-bearing cocktails, completing (or beginning?) the establishment’s perfectly pitched tiki theme. – Justin Lee, Downtown Phoenix Journal
• Great food, drinks, and atmosphere. – CenPhxFan, Urbanspoon