Sharing a recap of the very best locations to eat in Waikiki and why we love them a lot!
Hello pals! Joyful Monday! I hope you’re having a beautiful morning to date and that you simply loved the weekend! It was an excellent one over right here. Liv and I started working on a voluteenr mission 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 in school, I truly meal-prepped and grocery shopped, and my schedule is full of podcast interviews and training calls.
For right now’s put up, 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 likewise discover some new spots. I’ll have a put up up subsequent week with a recap of our time at Aulani, too!
One of the best eating places in Waikiki
Greatest 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 adjustments based mostly on what’s caught contemporary every day, and the seasoned picks are marinated to perfection. They honestly deal with poke like a murals; it’s by far the very best poke bowl of my life.
Greatest Acai bowl: ALO Cafe
Every thing 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 right. Additionally they have great smoothies!
Greatest date evening or fancier dinner spot: A Home With out a Key
That is most likely in my prime 10 resturants ever, together with all the locations we’ve traveled. Every thing is contemporary, vibrant, and you’ll’t beat the surroundings. You’re open air, dealing with the ocean and an beautiful sprawling tree, which gives a little bit of shade for the stay 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 provides one other menu the place every thing 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 be able to add onto your meal for $9 (on the time of posting). Additionally they have a variety 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 chunk and breakfast spot: Duke’s Market
From what we might inform, there aren’t a variety of *conventional* breakfast spots (with issues like eggs, bacon, pancakes, and so on.), however as an alternative, we went into Duke’s Market every morning, the place the women bought 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 seaside snacks, like contemporary fruit bowls, sushi, drinks, sandwiches, smoothies, and so on. 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 along with all the sushi and mai tais I’d consumed. I had the rainbow salad with hen twice, and the women additionally cherished 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!)
Greatest udon noodles: Marukame Udon
This place is continually 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 appropriate of the doorway! The women LOVE this udon place.
Stunning 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 muffins. When she advised 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 advised me she makes it contemporary daily and I might 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 throughout the day, together with hen and shredded beef with noodles.
And now after ending this put up, my abdomen is formally growling 😉
The place is your favourite foodie vacation spot?? Favourite eating places to go to whenever you journey or any hiddent gems you possibly can share?
As a lot as we loooooove Italy, I’ve to say Greece is my prime spot proper now.
xoxo
Gina
