Best Authentic Hawaiin Cuisine in West Maui?

The tour books are a little overwhelming, then this site doesn%26#39;t offer much in the form of easy to navigate listings of types of restaurants. So, where%26#39;s the best restaurant for price and quality of food? View is icing on the cake, when it comes to good food in my opinion. We can walk after dinner and burn a few calories to see the sunset.

thanks ahead of time!

Best Authentic Hawaiin Cuisine in West Maui?

Here you have a difficult question.

If you are asking about Pacific Rim Cuisine the answer is quite different than if you are looking for the best chow fun, laulau %26amp; poi!

';Hawaiian Cuisine'; being ';local food'; is spam musubi, plate lunch w/2 scoops rice, mac salad, portugese sausage, chicken katsu, loco moco and shave ice.

Pacific Rim Cuisine is Sam Choy%26#39;s, Roy%26#39;s etc

Best Authentic Hawaiin Cuisine in West Maui?

We liked the Aloha Mixed Plate. It is just before Lahaina if you are coming from the west. It%26#39;s not fancy, but has a great ocean view, the food was good, and I really liked the Mai Tai%26#39;s.

We were sitting at the railing closest to the ocean at Aloha Mixed Plate between 5 and 6PM and kept seeing these carts being wheeled from the kitchen to the Old Lahaina Luau grounds next door. I asked the waiter and he confirmed they do all the cooking for the luau. I don%26#39;t know if that gives them more ';authentic'; cred.

They definitely have prices on the low end of the Maui scale, good food, good view and you can see the sunset.

Funny ';Maui'; quirk though: When you enter the outdoor seating from the parking lot there are a half-dozen or so tables, then you go down a couple of steps and there are another 6- 8 tables nearest the water. Well, this lower level seating is over some invisible line that makes it illegal to serve alcohol - good to know!

ScubaTim is correct and I just wanted to add that West Maui is more touristy. To get really authentic go to Wiluku where locals live.Also try Kahului near the air port.

If you want good Pacific Rim there are many choices in West Maui.

1.Roy%26#39;s as already stated

2.Pacific O

3.SanSei

just to name a few

To scubatimm%26#39;s requirements: Aloha Mixed Plate has your scoops of rice and mac salad, chicken katzu and loco moco. Also kalua pork. My best loco moco so far has been at Kihei Caffe. That brown gravy rocks! That%26#39;s a good thing about this forum: things it gets you remembering.

There%26#39;s authentic -- e.g., poi. And then there are local restaurants that are not chains that have good food. Asian fusion is a good example ... and Portugese. It%26#39;s not so clear cut. And local fish ... is everywhere.

So what I am asking is ... are you looking for traditional, historic Hawaiian food -- or great local restaurants ... that may have a great shrimp scampi (Leilani%26#39;s upstairs).

Another example: Hula Grill at Whaler%26#39;s Village (outdoor seating) has macadamia nut crab wontons that are to die for. Garlic chili oil dip! Yum! Not Hawaiian traditional ... but definitely Hawaiian.

Aloha Mixed plate is considered to be an imitation of authentic food and is made more for tourists tastes.

Local authentic food is very salty and some from the lower 48 find it to be too salty so Aloha made a menu geared to tourists with local dishes but it is not considered to be authentic. Here is a link to Chowhound with several reviews about it.

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/374050

Hawaii regional cuisine is great but not what the locals eat. Hula Grill which I love is Hawaii regional cuisine. To get authentic food on Maui you need to go to other neighborhoods that are nto in the tourist areas with a few exceptions such as the deli that was mentioned.

Actually a plate of ';authentic Hawaiian Cuisine'; would probably include some dog meat and lots of sea food no one would recognize. So Global what do you consider Hawaiian cuisine to consist of?

thanks everyone! I appreciate all of options. We%26#39;ll try them out, and I%26#39;ll be back in 2 weeks to give my HO...

The SPAM comment was hilarious, and while some might contend that it has a legit place in Hawaiin cuisine, its origin leads me to think otherwise. I consider it to be like the tumble weed that tumbled its way from Siberia across our great land. You can draw your own conclusions on that analogue.

To those who asked me about what I meant by authentic Hawaiin cuisine, I%26#39;m no expert. That%26#39;s why I%26#39;m here. I left that up to your instincts upon my conditions, price and quality of food. In our town, we have two new fast food hawaiin restaurants, Ohana and another whose name escapes me. I can only guess they are authentic, and they do have infusions of other cultures. However, I was looking for those memorable places that cause you to salivate when thinking of them without breaking the bank.

thanks again!