Sharing a recap of the perfect locations to eat in Waikiki and why we love them a lot!
Hello buddies! Completely happy Monday! I hope you’re having a beautiful morning up to now and that you just loved the weekend! It was a great one over right here. Liv and I set to work on a voluteenr undertaking collectively, I met up with a good friend 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 superb 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 right now’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 in addition discover some new spots. I’ll have a publish up subsequent week with a recap of our time at Aulani, too!
The perfect eating places in Waikiki
Finest 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 modifications based mostly on what’s caught recent every day, and the seasoned choices 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
Every part is made recent 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. Additionally they have fantastic smoothies!
Finest date night time or fancier dinner spot: A Home And not using a Key
That is in all probability in my high 10 resturants ever, together with all the locations we’ve traveled. Every part is recent, vibrant, and you’ll’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 had been in Waikiki. I like that Tommy Bahama presents 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 at any time when 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 quite a lot of recent 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 chunk and breakfast spot: Duke’s Market
From what we might inform, there aren’t quite a lot 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 ladies 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 ideal place to load up on seaside 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 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 wish to return and check out extra issues! (Additionally, all the desserts are gluten-free!)
Finest 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 choose up on the pickup window to the appropriate of the doorway! The ladies 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 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 every single day 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 in the course of 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 if 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 high spot proper now.
xoxo
Gina