Sharing a recap of the perfect locations to eat in Waikiki and why we love them a lot!
Hello mates! Blissful 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 set to work on a voluteenr venture collectively, I met up with a buddy 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 college beginning. This week. the children have a full week at college, I truly meal-prepped and grocery shopped, and my schedule is filled with podcast interviews and training calls.
For at present’s submit, 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 in addition discover some new spots. I’ll have a submit 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 primarily based on what’s caught contemporary 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.
Greatest Acai bowl: ALO Cafe
The whole lot is made contemporary in home, together with their peanut butter. I 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 good. In addition they have fantastic smoothies!
Greatest date night time or fancier dinner spot: A Home With out a Key
That is most likely in my prime 10 resturants ever, together with the entire locations we’ve traveled. The whole lot is contemporary, vibrant, and you’ll’t beat the surroundings. You’re open air, dealing with the ocean and an beautiful sprawling tree, which offers 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 had been in Waikiki. I like that Tommy Bahama provides one other menu the place every part is made in home, together with the sauces, salsas, and marinades. In addition they supply from native farms every time attainable. 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 lots of contemporary and native choices, together with poke tacos (the ladies’ 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 lots of *conventional* breakfast spots (with issues like eggs, bacon, pancakes, and many others.), however as an alternative, we went into Duke’s Market every morning, the place the ladies acquired 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 a terrific place to load up on seaside snacks, like contemporary fruit bowls, sushi, drinks, sandwiches, smoothies, and many others. They’ve just about every part 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 along with the entire sushi and mai tais I’d consumed. I had the rainbow salad with rooster twice, and the ladies additionally liked their sandwiches and acai bowls. They’ve an enormous menu of salads, acai bowls, smoothies, wraps, and sandwiches, and I positively need to return and check out extra issues! (Additionally, the entire 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 women LOVE this udon place.
Shocking spotlight: the gluten-free mochi butter cake on the seaside
A lady got here as much as us on the seaside carrying a big tray of packaged truffles. When she informed 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 informed me she makes it contemporary 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 instances! I can attest that this mochi butter cake is LEGIT. She additionally sells Filipino meals in the course of the day, together with rooster and shredded beef with noodles.
And now after ending this submit, 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 may share?
As a lot as we loooooove Italy, I’ve to say Greece is my prime spot proper now.
xoxo
Gina
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