Our favourite locations to eat in Waikiki

Sharing a recap of the very best locations to eat in Waikiki and why we love them a lot!

Hello associates! Glad Monday! I hope you’re having an exquisite morning thus far and that you just loved the weekend! It was one over right here. Liv and I started working on a voluteenr undertaking 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 superb journey to Hawaii straight into faculty beginning. This week. the youngsters have a full week at college, I really meal-prepped and grocery shopped, and my schedule is full of podcast interviews and training calls.

For at present’s submit, 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 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!

One of the best 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 adjustments based mostly on what’s caught contemporary every day, and the seasoned picks are marinated to perfection. They really deal with poke like a murals; it’s by far the very best poke bowl of my life.

Finest Acai bowl: ALO Cafe

Every part is made contemporary 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 good. In addition they have fantastic smoothies!

Finest date evening or fancier dinner spot: A Home And not using a Key

That is most likely 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 outdoor, going through the ocean and an beautiful sprawling tree, which offers 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 had been in Waikiki. I like that Tommy Bahama gives one other menu the place the whole lot is made in home, together with the sauces, salsas, and marinades. In addition they supply from native farms each 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 a whole lot 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 a whole lot of *conventional* breakfast spots (with issues like eggs, bacon, pancakes, and so on.), however as a substitute, 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 an important place to load up on seashore snacks, like contemporary fruit bowls, sushi, drinks, sandwiches, smoothies, and so on. They’ve just about the whole lot 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 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, 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 decide 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 girl got here as much as us on the seashore carrying a big tray of packaged muffins. 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 throughout 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 whenever 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 top spot right now. 

xoxo

Gina