Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Kihei from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Kihei
Wailea holds the clearest concentration of serious wine programs, and Spoon & Key Market carries one Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
A chef-driven market and deli in Wailea with a wine list and a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Its rotating prix fixe dinners, à la carte options, and small plates sit alongside elevated deli offerings and Pacific Rim influences.
This Wailea restaurant pairs contemporary Japanese fusion with a wine list and a sake program. It offers omakase, tasting menu, and à la carte formats, so the wine and sake sit inside a room built around precision and premium seafood from Tsukiji with Hawaiian local ingredients.
Aurum Maui in Wailea runs a wine list alongside craft cocktails and beer, with both à la carte and prix fixe formats. The room uses a New American frame with Hawaiian influences and locally sourced ingredients in an elegantly casual space at The Shops at Wailea.
Kihei proper is where the guide shifts to easygoing seafood, tacos, and counter-service dining with less ceremony.
A family-owned, second-floor Kihei restaurant serving American seafood with sushi and Hawaiian fusion. The a la carte menu covers local seafood, sushi, and macadamia nut crusted mahi-mahi, with a middle tier above beachside counter service.
Paia Fish Market South Side is a casual Kihei counter-service spot for Hawaiian seafood, with an a la carte format. Fish tacos, fried fish plates, and blackened mahi mahi are among the customizable fresh catch preparations, served at picnic tables across from the beach.
Jawz Tacos is a Kihei fish-taco spot with a Maui Mexican focus and an a la carte format. It grew from a roadside truck serving beachgoers headed to Big Beach and Little Beach.
Wailea has the strongest wine programs in Kihei. Spoon & Key Market has a wine list and a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, while Morimoto and Aurum Maui also run wine lists. That concentration makes Wailea the clearest neighbourhood for wine-minded dining in our guide.
Kihei has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide; the Michelin award for Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea in Wailea is a hotel distinction, a Michelin 1 Key for 2026.
Wailea is the main neighbourhood for tasting menus in Kihei. Morimoto offers a tasting menu, and Humble Market Kitchen also offers a tasting menu. Spoon & Key Market uses rotating prix fixe dinners, which gives the area a few structured meal formats.
Spoon & Key Market, a restaurant in the Wailea neighbourhood, holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026. The citywide count in our Kihei guide is 2 Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Kihei.
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Havens landed on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list in 2021 at number 43, a rare national signal for a burger-and-Hawaiian spot in Kihei. The menu draws from the local ingredient logic that defines Maui's serious casual dining, sitting well outside the resort-corridor norm.
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Morimoto brings Japanese-American culinary precision to Wailea's resort corridor, where the Pacific horizon frames a dining room that takes its visual cues as seriously as its kitchen. Set within one of Maui's established luxury hotel precincts, it occupies the upper bracket of Kihei-area dining and draws from the same Iron Chef pedigree that anchors Morimoto locations across the United States and beyond.
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Spoon & Key Market occupies a suite in the Wailea Gateway Center, positioning it within the quieter, more local-facing side of South Maui's food scene. The format sits closer to a specialty market or provisions concept than a conventional sit-down restaurant, making it a different proposition from the resort dining that dominates the Wailea corridor. For visitors moving between Kihei's casual strip and Wailea's polished hotel restaurants, it fills a specific gap.
Kihei, United States
Positioned within Wailea's resort corridor on South Maui's most polished stretch of coastline, Aurum Maui occupies a different tier than the casual fish counters and plate-lunch stops that define Kihei proper. The address places it alongside the kind of fine-dining expectations that come with resort proximity, where the Pacific setting and deliberate sourcing do most of the editorial work before a dish arrives.
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Beachwalk Café fits the lighter, beach-adjacent side of Kihei dining, where the value lies less in ceremony than in proximity to South Maui’s produce, seafood culture, and resort corridor rhythm. Treat it as a casual stop in a town that ranges from fish-taco counters to polished hotel dining, with planning expectations kept flexible rather than formal.
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Cafe O'Lei Kihei occupies a second-floor address on South Kihei Road, positioning itself within a dining strip that ranges from casual fish shacks to sit-down island cuisine. The menu draws on Hawaii's cross-cultural pantry, offering a middle tier that sits above beachside counter service without reaching into fine-dining price territory. It is a practical anchor for the South Maui dining circuit.
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Coconut's Fish Cafe occupies a strip-mall address in Kihei that belies its standing as one of South Maui's most consistently packed fish counters. The menu centers on fresh local catch prepared in the direct idiom of Hawaiian plate-lunch culture, with a casual, order-at-the-counter format that keeps the focus on the food. Walk-ins are the norm, and the crowd on most afternoons tells you everything about local loyalty.
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Gather on Maui occupies the Wailea Golf Club grounds in Kihei, placing it at the quieter, more residential edge of South Maui's dining scene. The setting frames a different pace from the resort corridor, one where the collaboration between kitchen, floor, and cellar carries more weight than the view. Visitors planning ahead will find this an instructive counterpoint to Kihei's more casual waterfront options.
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Humble Market Kitchen occupies a Wailea address on Maui's resort-heavy south shore, positioning it within Kihei's growing tier of restaurants that trade on local produce and a grounded cooking sensibility rather than ocean-view spectacle. The name signals intent: a kitchen that favors restraint and ingredient clarity over the performative luxury common at neighboring resort restaurants.
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A roadside taco stand on the South Maui shoreline road, Jawz Tacos has built a following among Kihei locals who treat it as a default rather than a destination. The format is casual and quick, priced for repeat visits rather than occasion dining, and positioned at the opposite end of the spectrum from Kihei's sit-down restaurant scene.
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Set within the Fairmont Kea Lani on Wailea's southern shore, Kea Lani Restaurant operates inside one of Maui's most established luxury resort addresses. The dining room draws from the island's agricultural and coastal traditions, placing it within a broader Wailea fine-dining tier that balances Hawaiian sense of place with resort-caliber execution. Booking ahead is advisable given the hotel's consistent occupancy.
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Where South Maui Meets the Bazaar South Kihei Road runs the length of a coastline that has, over the past decade, shifted from surf-shop strip to a genuine dining corridor. The stretch around the 1280 address sits close enough to the water that...
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Manoli's Pizza Company on Wailea Ike Drive brings a casual, pizza-focused format to Kihei's dining mix, operating in a part of South Maui where the default register skews toward resort dining and Hawaiian plate lunch. The menu architecture centers on pizza as a serious category rather than a convenience option, placing it in a distinct position within the local casual dining tier.
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Maui Brewing Co. in Kihei puts Hawaii-made craft beer at the center of a relaxed, high-volume brewpub format that fits the South Maui dining corridor. It occupies a different tier than the fine-dining rooms along the Kihei waterfront, but serves a clear function in the area's broader food-and-drink scene.
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Nalu's South Shore Grill sits along South Kihei Road, serving casual beachside fare in one of Maui's most food-dense resort corridors. The kitchen draws on Hawaii's proximity to Pacific seafood and island-grown produce, positioning it within a Kihei dining scene that increasingly values sourcing transparency alongside relaxed, open-air dining. A dependable address for direct coastal cooking after a morning on the water.
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Located at 34 Wailea Gateway Place in Kihei, Oao sits within a stretch of South Maui dining that ranges from casual fish counters to more considered restaurant formats. See the EP Club Kihei guide for verified alternatives and context across the area.
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Paia Fish Market's South Side location on South Kihei Road brings the same casual, counter-order format that made the original Paia outpost a fixture of Maui's seafood scene. Fried fish plates, fish tacos, and fresh catches sit at the center of a menu shaped by Hawaii's fishing traditions and the island's multicultural food culture. It's the kind of place that draws locals and visitors equally, without ceremony.
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South Shore Tiki Lounge on South Kihei Road sits inside Maui's casual bar culture, where the tiki format, rum-forward cocktails, tropical garnish, and a deliberately unhurried pace, still holds ground against the island's newer restaurant arrivals. The address places it within reach of Kihei's beachside strip, making it a plausible stop between afternoon and evening. Sparse booking data means visiting on spec works better than planning around a reservation.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Kihei.
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The Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea earned a Michelin 1 Key in 2024 and a 97.5-point placement on La Liste's Top Hotels list for 2026, and it operates at a scale, 380 rooms across 15 oceanfront acres, that few Hawaii properties attempt without sacrificing coherence. The resort's U-shaped architecture keeps most rooms oriented toward the Pacific, its three restaurants include a Spago outpost, and the filmed familiarity of White Lotus Season 1 has done nothing to diminish the place in person.
Kihei
Selected entries from the current guide for Kihei.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Kihei.
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