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15 places · 204 meals · Updated 2026

Everywhere we have eaten on Maui since 2001. Of these, 10 are places we go back to and 2 are gone. Seeing the whole set is the point, because a recommendation only means something once you can tell how many places it was chosen from.

Kihei3Wailea2Lahaina2Kaanapali1Paia2Makawao1Kula1Wailuku1Kahului1Hana1

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Verdict
Kihei CaffeBreakfast, outdoors, order at the counter. The line looks bad and moves fast. Roughly forty breakfasts here and never a bad one.Kihei200238×Go every tripMama's Fish HouseYes it is expensive and yes it is worth it, once per trip. Book the moment your flights are ticketed. The fish is named after the person who caught it that morning and that is not a gimmick.Order Whatever came in that morning, cooked the simplest way on the menuPaia200119×Go every tripSam Sato'sCloses early, closed Sundays, same family for generations. Half the room is people who have been coming since they were kids.Order Dry meinWailuku200316×Go every tripTin RoofSheldon Simeon's counter near the airport. We land, we drop bags, we come here. Tiny room, quick line, worth building your arrival day around.Order Mochiko chickenKahului201614×Go every tripKomoda Store & BakeryThey sell out. Get there before nine or do not bother. A hundred years old and still a screen door.Order Cream puffs, and a stick donut if they have themMakawao200412×Go every trip808 DeliSandwiches to take down to Kamaole III. This is a logistics recommendation more than a dining one, and it has never once let us down.Kihei201221×Worth going backStar NoodleLost the original Lahaina location in the fire, reopened in Kaanapali with a shorter menu. The garlic noodles survived the move intact. The room does not have the old view and that is fine.Order Garlic noodlesKaanapali201114×Worth going backPaia Fish MarketPicnic tables, communal seating, fish tacos. Reliable rather than exciting, which on a travel day is exactly what you want.Paia200611×Worth going backMonkeypod KitchenGood, busy, slightly overpriced, and the mai tai genuinely is as good as everyone says. Go at four for happy hour, not at seven.Order The mai tai with the honey lilikoi foamWailea20149×Worth going backKula BistroWorth the drive up. Bring your own wine, they do not charge corkage. Portions are enormous and the pie case is a problem.Kula20137×Worth going backCoconut's Fish CafePerfectly good fish tacos in a strip mall. Everyone online loves it. We thought it was fine and went to 808 Deli the next four times.Kihei20152×Went onceKo at the FairmontWent for an anniversary. It was lovely and we have not felt the need to return. That is not a criticism, it is just the truth about how we travel.Wailea20191×Went onceThai Food by PraneeA truck in Hana. Good, and after four hours of driving almost anything would have been. Honest caveat: we have only been the once.Hana20181×Went onceAloha Mixed PlateLost in the August 2023 fire. Plate lunch on the seawall with the water right there. Twenty two visits across twenty one years.Lahaina200222×Closed 2023Kimo'sLost in the August 2023 fire. We ordered the hula pie every single time.Order Hula pie, shared four waysLahaina200117×Closed 2023
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