Sharing a recap of the very best locations to eat in Waikiki and why we love them a lot!
Hello pals! Pleased Monday! I hope you’re having an exquisite morning thus far and that you just loved the weekend! It was one over right here. Liv and I started working on a voluteenr mission collectively, I met up with a pal for brunch and took hoy yoga.
That is the primary week that I really feel like we’re lastly again within the swing of issues after our wonderful journey to Hawaii straight into faculty beginning. This week. the youngsters have a full week in school, I truly meal-prepped and grocery shopped, and my schedule is full of podcast interviews and training calls.
For immediately’s publish, I wished to share a recap of our favourite locations in Waikiki and why we love them a lot! We additionally visited Waikiki a few years in the past, so we had been pumped to return to some favorites and likewise discover some new spots. I’ll have a publish up subsequent week with a recap of our time at Aulani, too!
The most effective eating places in Waikiki
Greatest poke bowl: Poke Repair
We had SO a lot sushi and poke bowls whereas we had been there, however our very favourite is Poke Repair. The menu adjustments based mostly on what’s caught contemporary every day, and the seasoned choices are marinated to perfection. They really deal with poke like a murals; it’s by far the very best poke bowl of my life.
Greatest Acai bowl: ALO Cafe
The whole lot is made contemporary in home, together with their peanut butter. I really like these acai bowls as a result of the bottom isn’t too candy, they’ve gluten-free granola, and the ratio of acai to toppings is right. In addition they have fantastic smoothies!
Greatest date evening or fancier dinner spot: A Home With no Key
That is most likely in my prime 10 resturants ever, together with all the locations we’ve traveled. The whole lot is contemporary, vibrant, and you may’t beat the surroundings. You’re open air, dealing with the ocean and an beautiful sprawling tree, which supplies a little bit of shade for the reside music and hula dancers.
Household dinner spots: Tommy Bahama or Duke’s
We ate at each every time we had been in Waikiki. I like that Tommy Bahama provides one other menu the place every thing is made in home, together with the sauces, salsas, and marinades. In addition they supply from native farms every time doable. Their mai tais are my favourite on the island!
Duke’s has a legit salad bar which you’ll be able to add onto your meal for $9 (on the time of posting). In addition they have quite a lot of contemporary and native choices, together with poke tacos (the women’ fave), ginger and scallion fish (my fave), steak, and extra informal fare, like burgers and pulled pork sandwiches.
Our favourite fast chew and breakfast spot: Duke’s Market
From what we may inform, there aren’t quite a lot of *conventional* breakfast spots (with issues like eggs, bacon, pancakes, and so forth.), however as an alternative, we went into Duke’s Market every morning, the place the women acquired malasadas (the very best donuts!), masubi or fried rice and egg bowls, we shared a fruit bowl, and I drank an almond milk decaf latte. This was additionally a fantastic place to load up on seashore snacks, like contemporary fruit bowls, sushi, drinks, sandwiches, smoothies, and so forth. They’ve just about every thing at Duke’s Market.
For wholesome informal fare: Nalu
We had Nalu twice this previous time as a result of it was so good, and my physique was grateful for a vegetable to go together with all the sushi and mai tais I’d consumed. I had the rainbow salad with rooster twice, and the women additionally liked their sandwiches and acai bowls. They’ve an enormous menu of salads, acai bowls, smoothies, wraps, and sandwiches, and I undoubtedly need to return and check out extra issues! (Additionally, all the desserts are gluten-free!)
Greatest udon noodles: Marukame Udon
This place is consistently packed – the lined wraps down the road from the time they open till they shut!- however our greatest tip is to order it on-line after which decide up on the pickup window to the precise of the doorway! The ladies LOVE this udon place.
Shocking spotlight: the gluten-free mochi butter cake on the seashore
A lady got here as much as us on the seashore carrying a big tray of packaged truffles. When she instructed me the primary possibility was gluten-free and it smelled DELICIOUS, I fortunately paid the $10 to eat mochi cake from a stranger lol. (She instructed me she makes it contemporary each day and I may see households round us additionally having fun with it, so I went for it.)
The household and I shared it, and we ended up shopping for it from her two extra instances! I can attest that this mochi butter cake is LEGIT. She additionally sells Filipino meals through the day, together with rooster and shredded beef with noodles.
And now after ending this publish, my abdomen is formally growling 😉
The place is your favourite foodie vacation spot?? Favourite eating places to go to while you journey or any hiddent gems you’ll be able to share?
As a lot as we loooooove Italy, I’ve to say Greece is my top spot right now.
xoxo
Gina
