Sharing a recap of the perfect locations to eat in Waikiki and why we love them a lot!
Hello pals! Glad Monday! I hope you’re having an exquisite morning to this point and that you simply loved the weekend! It was an excellent one over right here. Liv and I set to work on a voluteenr venture 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 really meal-prepped and grocery shopped, and my schedule is filled with 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 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 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 perfect poke bowl of my life.
Finest Acai bowl: ALO Cafe
Every part 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!
Finest date evening or fancier dinner spot: A Home With no Key
That is in all probability in my prime 10 resturants ever, together with all the locations we’ve traveled. Every part is contemporary, vibrant, and you may’t beat the surroundings. You’re outside, going through the ocean and an beautiful sprawling tree, which gives 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 have been in Waikiki. I like that Tommy Bahama gives one other menu the place every thing is made in home, together with the sauces, salsas, and marinades. Additionally they supply from native farms at any time when doable. 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 loads 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 may inform, there aren’t loads of *conventional* breakfast spots (with issues like eggs, bacon, pancakes, and many others.), 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 contemporary fruit bowls, sushi, drinks, sandwiches, smoothies, and many others. 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 beloved 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 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 best of the doorway! The ladies LOVE this udon place.
Stunning 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 throughout 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 whenever 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.Â
xoxo
Gina
