Maui Content Drip: 2024
May 20, 2024
Pride of Maui: Top 33 Restaurants on Maui
While visiting the illustrious Island of Maui, make sure to check out all of the different flavors of the island. They range from trendy food trucks to some ultra-fabulous 5-Star dining spots. We have carefully researched and done the legwork for this article so that our readers could enjoy the very best Maui restaurants of 2024. Save your appetite, get excited and read on with us!
May 1, 2024
Island Life Hawaii: The 15 Best Restaurants in Maui
Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places in the world, especially the island of Maui. There are incredible sights, friendly locals and plenty of mouth watering Maui restaurants to choose from. Being a secluded island, Maui’s food scene aims to support local resources and to produce dishes with the freshest products and seafood possible. It can be a tough choice when deciding where to eat, so here is our guide to the best restaurants in Maui!
Mar 22, 2024 / Shannon Wianecki and Bill Addison
Eater: The 21 Essential Maui Restaurants
Maui’s reputation for beauty is deserved: Strings of perfect crescent beaches give way to lush rainforests and rolling green ranchlands. Opulent resorts line the island’s leeward shore, each with a flashy restaurant offering front row seats for the nightly pyrotechnic sunset. But increasingly, the island’s best chefs have migrated away from big hotels to humbler kitchens. High rents have forced independent restaurateurs to maximize unconventional spaces, so many of the most righteous meals on Maui can now be found in plain-faced strip malls, food trucks, and farms.
Jul 20, 2023 / MARTHA CHENG
The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In Maui
When it comes to food, Maui does it all. Hawai‘i’s second largest island is home to everything from some of the state’s swankiest dining rooms to its diviest bars. While the resort areas of South and West Maui feature the majority of the high-end restaurants, slippers, or flip-flops, are the preferred footwear for the casual spots in smaller neighborhoods like Paia. And in parking lots from Kihei to Kahului, you’ll find some of the island’s best poke served right out of a food truck. (Looking for a beachfront mai tai? We got you there, too.)
Jul 1, 2023
Dining Maui: Top 30 Maui Restaurants
Maui’s collection of high-end hotels and restaurants has attracted crops of top chefs- like literal Top Chef finalist Lee Anne Wong. Meanwhile, the island’s melting pot of cultures has inspired big-name culinary stars- namely, Sheldon Simeon, Roy Yamaguchi, Jeff Scheer, and Bev Gannon. Today, new eateries are popping up across the island, whether in the form of a resort’s on-site five-star restaurant or a humble food truck.
Jun 6, 2023
Honolulu Magazine: 2023 Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: The Best Restaurants in Hawai‘i
The Hale ‘Aina Awards are the state’s longest-running and most prestigious dining honors, started by HONOLULU Magazine in 1984 to elevate the best restaurants in Hawai‘i. Whether you’re looking for weekend brunch spots, your new favorite cocktail or the best places to indulge your sweet tooth, we got you. This list of Hale ‘Aina-winning restaurants is your all-year, can’t-miss dining guide.
Feb 21, 2023 / MATT KIROUAC
Tasting Table: The 20 Best Places To Eat And Drink In Maui
Like any good tropical oasis teeming with tourists, Maui has its fair share of top-tier resorts and beautiful beaches. While plenty of hotel restaurants here are strikingly good, this is Hawaiian island requires a bit of off-the-beaten-path exploration. Throughout the island, you'll find iconic traditions like shave ice and Hawaiian-style plate lunches, along with plenty of meals where the food is matched by the view. This is a far-flung locale where tried-and-true poké and loco moco share menu space with novelties like tuna cooked with volcanic ash and malasadas dunked in lilikoi butter. Between the old and the new, and the tourist-trod to the old-school gems, we rounded up the 20 best places to eat and drink in Maui.
Feb 21, 2023 / Lori A May
Time Out: The 14 best restaurants in Maui
So, you’re in Maui to soak up some serious sun, sea and sand, try out a spectacular road trip, see some creatures of the ocean up close and possibly visit a volcano or two. Well it won’t disappoint – Maui is a beautiful, unique island, and it offers up a whole host of activities to get stuck into. But don’t sleep on Maui’s fantastic food and drink scene.
Sep 1, 2022
Maui Nō Ka ‘Oi Magazine: 2022 ʻAipono Maui Restaurant Awards
What’s in a name? In Hawaiian, ai means “to eat,” and pono means “excellence.” Put them together and you have an awards competition that honors the island’s best restaurants, as voted by the readers of Maui Nō Ka ‘Oi. Every year, we announce the winners at our ‘Aipono Gala, an event that this year raised funds for the Maui Food Bank and the University of Hawai‘i Maui College’s Culinary Arts Program.
