Maui Food And Dining

At Ocean’s Beach Bar and Grill, the happy hour features $2.50 drafts, $2.50 Mai Tais, and $2 off all cocktails and appetizers from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The Kapalua Wine and Food Festival begins this Thursday, and continues through Sunday, featuring culinary exhibitions and wine tasting with Master Sommeliers and celebrated chefs.

Slow Food Maui and Whole Foods Market Maui are partnering to present Local Flavors, a series of chef demonstrations utilizing locally grown produce at the Upcountry Fair.

Beer and birds? Not the most natural combination of things, yet on June 24, the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project will join forces with the Maui Brew Pub to raise awareness and funds for rare and endangered birds struggling against extinction.

weet potato fries, garlic parmesan potato wedges, pastrami piled high on toasted rye bread, and brews on tap. These are just a few of the tasty offerings at the Ale House in Kahului.

Pizzas here are made with a wood-fired clay oven and use fresh local organic ingredients. Flatbread Company is more than just really good food.

During restaurant week, Nick’s has a pre-fixe three-course menu for just $49. Time dinner to watch the sun set behind the palms and torches.

Just in time for the summer travel season, OpenTable, Inc. a national provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations, today announced the 50 winners of its Diners’ Choice Awards for Best Outdoor Dining in the United States. Hawaii boasted eight winners, and half of them were on Maui.

Teddy’s Bigger Burgers in Lahaina opened for business last week and offers a better fast food-esque type burger experience.

Kai: This Japanese tapas and sushi restaurant is a much-needed addition to the distinctly Western food options sprinkled throughout the Shops at Wailea.

This Friday, the Grand Wailea resort’s restaurant, Humuhumunukunukuapua’a will offer guests an edible adventure in its monthly dining program aptly named, “Toast!”

You are a localvore if: you seek out the freshest ingredients from land to sea, and crave inventive dishes that utilize the ingredients’ naturally delectable flavors.

Mulligan’s On The Blue is a much-needed Irish injection into Maui’s plethora of pina-coladas, mai-tai’s and margaritas.

Slow Food Maui continues its Taste Education Series with session 4, Chocolate tasting with Melanie Boudar of Sweet Paradise Chocolatier.

It’s that time of year when the pre-fixe dinner menus come out en masse, and Wailea’s restaurants are booked, solid…from May 22 through May 28.

Beer. It’s got great head, amazing mouth-feel, and comes in all kinds of flavors and viscosities. The 3rd annual Maui Brew Fest is for the beer lover in you.

Wicked, decadent, dangerously smooth, are just a few words to describe the cocktails at Spago at the Four Seasons resort in Wailea.

Chef Dave D.K. Kodama took top honors in the Maui Onion Recipe Contest with his Kekaha Shrimp and Lobster Cake with Swiss Chard, Hamakua Alii Mushrooms and Lobster Uni Sauce.

You can’t get in, unless you surrender your keys. Botero Gallery Bar at the Grand Wailea, is just that kind of place.

The Banyan Tree Deli and Bakery have discovered an unlikely top-selling snack.