Sharing a recap of the perfect locations to eat in Waikiki and why we love them a lot!
Hello associates! Joyful Monday! I hope you’re having an exquisite morning up to now and that you just loved the weekend! It was one over right here. Liv and I started working on a voluteenr venture 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 really meal-prepped and grocery shopped, and my schedule is filled with podcast interviews and training calls.
For at this time’s publish, I needed 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 have been pumped to return to some favorites and in addition 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
Finest poke bowl: Poke Repair
We had SO a lot sushi and poke bowls whereas we have been there, however our very favourite is Poke Repair. The menu modifications primarily based on what’s caught recent every day, and the seasoned alternatives are marinated to perfection. They really deal with poke like a murals; it’s by far the perfect poke bowl of my life.
Finest Acai bowl: ALO Cafe
All the pieces is made recent 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. Additionally they have great smoothies!
Finest date evening or fancier dinner spot: A Home With out a Key
That is in all probability in my high 10 resturants ever, together with all the locations we’ve traveled. All the pieces is recent, vibrant, and you may’t beat the surroundings. You’re outdoor, going through the ocean and an beautiful sprawling tree, which gives a little bit of shade for the dwell music and hula dancers.
Household dinner spots: Tommy Bahama or Duke’s
We ate at each every time we have been in Waikiki. I like that Tommy Bahama gives one other menu the place all the things is made in home, together with the sauces, salsas, and marinades. Additionally they supply from native farms every time potential. Their mai tais are my favourite on the island!
Duke’s has a legit salad bar which you’ll add onto your meal for $9 (on the time of posting). Additionally they have lots of recent 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 chunk and breakfast spot: Duke’s Market
From what we may inform, there aren’t lots of *conventional* breakfast spots (with issues like eggs, bacon, pancakes, and so forth.), however as a substitute, we went into Duke’s Market every morning, the place the women obtained malasadas (the perfect donuts!), masubi or fried rice and egg bowls, we shared a fruit bowl, and I drank an almond milk decaf latte. This was additionally an amazing place to load up on seashore snacks, like recent fruit bowls, sushi, drinks, sandwiches, smoothies, and so forth. They’ve just about all the things 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 hen twice, and the women additionally beloved 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 take a look at extra issues! (Additionally, all the desserts are gluten-free!)
Finest 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 choose up on the pickup window to the proper of the doorway! The women 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 muffins. 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 recent daily 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 occasions! I can attest that this mochi butter cake is LEGIT. She additionally sells Filipino meals in the course of the day, together with hen 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 if you journey or any hiddent gems you may share?
As a lot as we loooooove Italy, I’ve to say Greece is my high spot proper now.
xoxo
Gina