Best Bakery
Komoda Store & Bakery
The staff at Komoda Store and Bakery prepare award-winning pastries pretty much the same way they were made when Takezo Komoda founded the landmark Makawao business in 1916. “It’s all by hand,” saidManager Calvin Shibuya. “The onlymachines we use are mixers.
“On a busy day, wemake 100-dozen creampuffs,” Calvin continued. “On an [...]
Best Steak House
Ruth’s Chris Steak House
No other Maui restaurant sizzles like this multiple winner, and its two Maui locations win hands down — each and every year. Sink your teeth into prime cuts of beef and chops, broiled in 1,800-degree incendiary ovens to lock in natural juices, flavors and tenderness. Pair them with big, red [...]
Best Sushi Bar in Maui
Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar
Continuing on its year-after-year roll as “Best Sushi” restaurant on Maui, Sansei draws in the fun crowd at its two hot spots on the Valley Isle — the original one in Kapalua and another in Kihei. Its two other locations on Oahu and the Big Island [...]
Cheap Grinds
(Great cheap food)
Aloha Mixed Plate
A local plate-lunch style menu with affordable prices and a location at the water’s edge in Lahaina make Aloha Mixed Plate this year’s winner in the “Cheap Grinds” category.
“My favorite place to go after surfing is Aloha Mixed Plate; it’s a great place on the water to hang out, the [...]
Best Caterer
Dani’s Catering
Throwing a party at the Honua Kai is as simple as picking up the phone and calling a caterer. So before you call Pizza Hut and insult your guests with warmed over pizza call a professional caterer and make the party memorable!
Nobody throws a party for locals better than Dani’s Catering in the [...]
Mama’s Fish House
Glistening moi is caught off leeward Oahu, then wok-fried with Kula vegetables and topped with mango-lychee blackbean sauce. Deep-water ahi is hooked by Kamaki Everett outside his home port of Hana Bay, then peppercorn grilled with Hamakua mushroom-basil sauce and served with a side of sweet potato “mash.”
Mama’s Fish House reigns as royalty [...]
Maui’s movers and shakers know the best place to take their important clients is Cafe O’Lei. The food is bursting with good tastes and the prices are reasonable — and Cafe O’Lei now offers four Maui locations from which to choose, including Wailuku, Kihei and now, Waiehu.
The flagship is Cafe O’Lei at the Dunes in [...]
Best Pizza on Maui?
Flatbread Company
One cook stirs organic fresh tomatoes in a cauldron hanging over a kiawe fire and then sweetens the soon-to-be sauce with maple syrup. Over the open fire next to it, another cook caramelizes organic onions in a humongous cast-iron skillet.
Flatbread Company in Paia has a “purpose” to use “clean food without [...]
Maui’s Best Cocktail
Tommy Bahama Tropical Cafe
“Life is one long weekend,” so Tommy Bahama Tropical Cafe upstairs in the Shops atWailea is the place to hang your hat for awhile. Sip an Island Estate margarita, munch Habana Cabana pork sliders, and listen to themusic as the cool breeze brushes past in the open-air dining room with [...]
Best Wine List
Son’z at Swan Court
For the third year in a row, Son’z at Swan Court has uncorked the “BestWine List onMaui.”What a beautiful setting in which to sip, say, a silky syrah.
Located at the Hyatt RegencyMaui Resort & Spa in Kaanapali, Son’z has been described by Robin Leach as the “most romantic restaurant in [...]
