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Kauai offers a great variety of restaurants--there were some we ate at this trip!
**Poipu/Keoki's Paradise rates high with us--great food, love the open air. Excellent waitress and prices weren't bad at all.
**Marriott at Kalapaki Bay/Duke's Barefoot Bar--a tradition for us! First meal is always there, followed by Hula pie (which is also offered at Keoki's Paradise). It's mac nut ice cream, with a yummy mac nut crust all topped with hot fudge and whipped cream. Slices are HUGE--we had one slice for 7 of us and had plenty. This place is beach front on Kalapaki Bay, casual and fun!
**Sukothai in Kapa'a area. Look for the Shell Station in a small strip mall mauka side of the road. This has the best Asian food we've ever had, their spring rolls are to die for. Not big nor fancy but great food!
**TomKats in Koloa. Small open air, excellent food, loved their kalua pig sandwich. If you love cats, be sure to give the resident black cat a little loving!
**PukaDog in the Poipu Shopping Center. This was a new place for us. Great great lemonade freshly made--the only drink they offer. The pukadogs themselves were good, I don't like quite that much bread (the are wrapped all around with a dog sticking out one end. I just pulled some of the bread off. The first time, they were excellent. However, the last time the wieners themselves were absolutely charred--so badly burned the meat had pulled away from the sides of the dog casings--not good at all!
**Tropical Burgers, Poipu Shopping Center: We've had excellent food there before but this time it was very small portions, very very long wait for food even though few people were there, no ice for sodas or water. Won't be going back!
**La Bamba Restaurant (Mexican Food), Lihue Grove Shopping Center. Since we are from the southwest, three weeks with no Mexican food tends to have us starting to have withdawal pangs. We asked locals which was their favorite and this one came up twice. (Mexican food out of the southwest tends to be quite different than we are used to). Their salsa was hot but had little taste, food was so-so, wait staff was friendly. Probably won't be back but then we tend to be Mexican food snobs--others might like it.
**Paradise Cafe, Princeville Shopping Center: Good hamburgers, sandwiches, also serves dinner. Open air dining.
**CJ's, Princeville Shopping Center: Excellent but smallish salad bar, prime rib and steaks were wonderful! We make reservations and eat out on the lanai.
**Panda Stir Fry, Ching Young Shopping Center in Hanalei: had tried it last year and not impressed! Still not impressed. I had their kalua pig and it wasn't very good-mostly cabbage. If you can get a seat facing the main street, views are awesome. Probably will not try it next year--two years, two disappointments!
**Polynesian Stir Fry, right behind Panda Stir Fry, Ching Young Center, Hanalei: excellent food, big servings. Their Kalua Pig is awesome (our daughter danced hula with a Hawaiian troop for 13 years--have had a lot of experience with kalua pig! <g> We eat in the raised gazebo. They also have large shave ice which we always finish off with.
**Hanalei Gourmet, Hanalei Old School Shopping Center, still has the best lemonaide around. Food was excellent but this place on the inside is NOISY! We always sit outside on the lanai facing the main street and watch people as we eat. Lunch sandwiches are wonderful--get them wrapped to take to the beach or eat them there. They also offer excellent pasta dishes, seafood, etc. One of our favorites!
**BubbaBurgers--no trip is complete without at least one visit here! There are two of them: one in Kapa'a and another in front of the Old School Shoping Center, Hanalei. Attitude is fun, atmoshphere casual, burgers are greasy but good. We try to get one of the palm covered umbrella tables.
**Can't remember the name but in Hanalei at the Ching Young Shopping Center, (Sushi Blues???) across from Polynesian's raised gazebo, on the second floor next door is a sushi/seafood restaurant. My brother and SIL really like this place. No cheap but the restaurant been there a long time--usually a really good sign.
**Happy Talk Lounge in Princeville's Hanalei Bay Resort has food casual food and on Wednesdays live entertainment. The view from this one is drop dead gorgeous!
**Poipu/Keoki's Paradise rates high with us--great food, love the open air. Excellent waitress and prices weren't bad at all.
**Marriott at Kalapaki Bay/Duke's Barefoot Bar--a tradition for us! First meal is always there, followed by Hula pie (which is also offered at Keoki's Paradise). It's mac nut ice cream, with a yummy mac nut crust all topped with hot fudge and whipped cream. Slices are HUGE--we had one slice for 7 of us and had plenty. This place is beach front on Kalapaki Bay, casual and fun!
**Sukothai in Kapa'a area. Look for the Shell Station in a small strip mall mauka side of the road. This has the best Asian food we've ever had, their spring rolls are to die for. Not big nor fancy but great food!
**TomKats in Koloa. Small open air, excellent food, loved their kalua pig sandwich. If you love cats, be sure to give the resident black cat a little loving!
**PukaDog in the Poipu Shopping Center. This was a new place for us. Great great lemonade freshly made--the only drink they offer. The pukadogs themselves were good, I don't like quite that much bread (the are wrapped all around with a dog sticking out one end. I just pulled some of the bread off. The first time, they were excellent. However, the last time the wieners themselves were absolutely charred--so badly burned the meat had pulled away from the sides of the dog casings--not good at all!
**Tropical Burgers, Poipu Shopping Center: We've had excellent food there before but this time it was very small portions, very very long wait for food even though few people were there, no ice for sodas or water. Won't be going back!
**La Bamba Restaurant (Mexican Food), Lihue Grove Shopping Center. Since we are from the southwest, three weeks with no Mexican food tends to have us starting to have withdawal pangs. We asked locals which was their favorite and this one came up twice. (Mexican food out of the southwest tends to be quite different than we are used to). Their salsa was hot but had little taste, food was so-so, wait staff was friendly. Probably won't be back but then we tend to be Mexican food snobs--others might like it.
**Paradise Cafe, Princeville Shopping Center: Good hamburgers, sandwiches, also serves dinner. Open air dining.
**CJ's, Princeville Shopping Center: Excellent but smallish salad bar, prime rib and steaks were wonderful! We make reservations and eat out on the lanai.
**Panda Stir Fry, Ching Young Shopping Center in Hanalei: had tried it last year and not impressed! Still not impressed. I had their kalua pig and it wasn't very good-mostly cabbage. If you can get a seat facing the main street, views are awesome. Probably will not try it next year--two years, two disappointments!
**Polynesian Stir Fry, right behind Panda Stir Fry, Ching Young Center, Hanalei: excellent food, big servings. Their Kalua Pig is awesome (our daughter danced hula with a Hawaiian troop for 13 years--have had a lot of experience with kalua pig! <g> We eat in the raised gazebo. They also have large shave ice which we always finish off with.
**Hanalei Gourmet, Hanalei Old School Shopping Center, still has the best lemonaide around. Food was excellent but this place on the inside is NOISY! We always sit outside on the lanai facing the main street and watch people as we eat. Lunch sandwiches are wonderful--get them wrapped to take to the beach or eat them there. They also offer excellent pasta dishes, seafood, etc. One of our favorites!
**BubbaBurgers--no trip is complete without at least one visit here! There are two of them: one in Kapa'a and another in front of the Old School Shoping Center, Hanalei. Attitude is fun, atmoshphere casual, burgers are greasy but good. We try to get one of the palm covered umbrella tables.
**Can't remember the name but in Hanalei at the Ching Young Shopping Center, (Sushi Blues???) across from Polynesian's raised gazebo, on the second floor next door is a sushi/seafood restaurant. My brother and SIL really like this place. No cheap but the restaurant been there a long time--usually a really good sign.
**Happy Talk Lounge in Princeville's Hanalei Bay Resort has food casual food and on Wednesdays live entertainment. The view from this one is drop dead gorgeous!