Restaurants in Honolulu - Dining Guides - Nightlife
Many of Honolulu's restaurants are indeed world class, and are renowned for their unique atmospheres and mouth-watering food. It is a city that caters for any palette and pocket with your choice of cheap local takeaways or classy restaurant dining. Hawaii's cuisine consists of an exciting blend of 'east-meets-west' flavours: recipes imported from all over the world by decades of immigrants to the Hawaiian Islands.
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Chefs in Honolulu serve an exciting hybrid cuisine known as Pacific Rim or New Hawaiian. This is a combination of Eastern and Western traditions and local fresh ingredients and spices. There are some terrific restaurants in Honolulu that serve this cuisine. Tantalise your tastebuds at Alan Wongs (949-2526) (in the Manoa region) fast becoming Honolulu's most fashionable gourmet restaurant.
There are millions of tourists in Honolulu and Waikiki willing to pay top prices for good food, so as a result this huge demand is amply catered for. The number of good restaurants on Oahu is staggering. However, many of Honolulu's finest restaurants are hidden away from the usual tourist spots. To get your money's worth, explore the city a little and wander off the beaten track.
Scouting Honolulu's Restaurants
The area around the University of Hawaii has a wide variety of ethnic restaurants, coffee shops and health food stores. Most cafes and restaurants cater for students so you can expect reasonable prices. Try Coffeeline (947-1615) for your daily dose of caffeine and grab a vegetarian curry at Down to Earth (947-7678).
As to be expected, Chinatown features many Honolulu restaurants which have incorporated an Asian flare into their cuisine. The Maunakea Marketplace Food Court is home to numerous family owned stalls that will supply you with cheap, but good Asian snacks. Legend Seafood Restaurant (532-1868) is Chinatown's seafood specialist with a view of the Nu'uanu Stream. The lunchtime dim sum trolleys are not to be missed.
Other great 'mall dining' areas include the Ala Moana Centre ; offering a spectacular array of tasty take away outlets for those in a hurry. For a leisurely lunch try out California Pizza Kitchen (941-7715), a post-modern pizzeria on a bright deck n the top floor.
Restaurant Row, in the Aloha Tower Marketplace, is a mall that consists entirely of restaurants. Although the setting may not be particularly attractive, you are sure to get value for your money. It is home to such places as Ocean Club (526-9888), a loud, boisterous bar where downtown's after-work crowd hang out. On the other end of the spectrum is the trendy Sunset Grill (521-4409) . With its pleasant upscale atmosphere, this Honolulu restaurant is a favourite of discerning diners from around the world.
Finding a restaurant in Honolulu is an adventure and discovery all in itself. Atmospheres and flavours of plenty mingle together in the melting-pot of culture. Bon Appetit!
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