Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Wailea from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Wailea
Spago Maui holds a 5,000-bottle inventory, and The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW) holds a 14,030-bottle cellar. Both hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and DUO Steak and Seafood holds Award of Excellence with an exceptional, sommelier-led programme and an extensive list.
The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW) is a prix fixe restaurant for modern seasonal fine dining in Wailea, at a Relais & Châteaux hotel. Chef Ryan Cruz and wine director Jeremiah Allen work with a 14,030-bottle cellar of French and Californian depth. The restaurant holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and a Relais Chateaux Award for 2025 and 2026.
Spago Maui is Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant in Wailea, serving Hawaiian-Californian food from the Four Seasons Resort lanai, with Pacific Ocean views. Wine director Katie Schwend oversees a 5,000-bottle inventory with particular depth in Burgundy, France, Italy, and California. Dinner is a la carte, and the wine programme is exceptional. The restaurant holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025 and 2026, and a Star Wine List.
DUO Steak and Seafood is a poolside, open-air steak and seafood restaurant at the Four Seasons in Wailea. It serves a la carte and buffet, and the kitchen works with premium cuts and local seafood. The wine programme is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive list and craft cocktails. The restaurant holds Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2026.
The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW) serves prix fixe in Wailea, and Chef’s Garden Table serves a tasting menu and a set menu in the gardens at Hotel Wailea. Spago Maui serves a la carte.
The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW) serves prix fixe modern seasonal fine dining in Wailea, at a Relais & Châteaux hotel with ocean views at sunset. Chef Ryan Cruz and wine director Jeremiah Allen anchor the dinner. The cellar holds 14,030 bottles, with French and Californian depth. The restaurant holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and a Relais Chateaux Award, both for 2025 and 2026.
Chef’s Garden Table is a private table in Wailea, set in the gardens at Hotel Wailea for 2 to 8 guests. It serves a personalised five-course tasting menu, and it also serves a set menu. The wine programme is exceptional, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
Spago Maui serves Hawaiian-Californian food a la carte in Wailea, at the Four Seasons Resort. Wine director Katie Schwend oversees a 5,000-bottle inventory with particular depth in Burgundy, France, Italy, and California. The wine programme is exceptional, with an extensive list and craft cocktails. The restaurant holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025 and 2026, and a Star Wine List.
Wailea has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Spago Maui and The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW) hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. DUO Steak and Seafood has an exceptional, sommelier-led wine programme and holds Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
Wailea is the neighbourhood for Spago Maui, The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW), DUO Steak and Seafood, and Ka'ana Kitchen. Spago Maui holds a 5,000-bottle inventory with particular depth in Burgundy, France, Italy, and California. The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW) holds a 14,030-bottle cellar of French and Californian depth. DUO Steak and Seafood and Ka'ana Kitchen hold Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
Spago Maui and The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW) hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and DUO Steak and Seafood and Ka'ana Kitchen hold Award of Excellence. That is our guide’s count of 2 Best of Award of Excellence and 2 Award of Excellence in Wailea.
Chef’s Garden Table, in Wailea, sits in the gardens at Hotel Wailea and serves a tasting menu and a set menu. The tasting menu is a personalised five-course menu for 2 to 8 guests. The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea (RHW), in Wailea, serves prix fixe modern seasonal fine dining, with chef Ryan Cruz.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Wolfgang Puck's Spago at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea brings the California-rooted American-Asian cooking that made his name to a setting where the Pacific feels immediately present. Wine Director Katie Schwend oversees a 5,000-bottle inventory with particular depth in Burgundy, France, Italy, and California. Dinner pricing runs at the $$$ tier, placing it firmly among Wailea's most serious dining options.
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The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea occupies a price tier where Hawaiian fusion is taken seriously as a culinary tradition rather than a tourist concession. Chef Ryan Cruz and Wine Director Jeremiah Allen anchor a dinner program backed by a 14,030-bottle cellar with deep French and Californian depth.
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Poolside dining in Wailea has its own grammar: resort ease, ocean-facing leisure, and menus that need to work in heat rather than fight it. Cabanas Poolside Restaurant, part of Hotel Wailea and listed among Relais & Châteaux restaurants for 2026, puts chef Ryan Cruz’s creative cooking into that casual-luxury frame.
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DUO sits within the Wailea resort corridor at 3900 Wailea Alanui Drive, placing it inside South Maui's most concentrated stretch of upscale dining. The address alone signals a certain kind of evening: planned, unhurried, oriented toward the Pacific. For visitors building a dinner itinerary around Kihei and Wailea, it belongs on the short list worth investigating before you arrive.
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Set over a saltwater lagoon at Grand Wailea Maui, Humuhumunukunukuāpua'a is one of Maui's most recognisable oceanfront dining addresses. A comprehensive 2023 renovation refreshed the space while the kitchen's focus on Pacific-sourced seafood and Hawaiian ingredients remains central to the experience. For visitors to Wailea's South Maui resort corridor, it occupies a distinct tier among dining options.
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Ka'ana Kitchen sits within Wailea's resort corridor and operates in a part of the Hawaii dining scene where farm-to-table sourcing is the entry price of credibility, not a differentiator. The kitchen draws on Maui's agricultural network, positioning it inside a tier of island restaurants where provenance and local producer relationships shape the menu's character more than any single technique.
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Monkeypod Kitchen by Merriman in Wailea sits at the intersection of Hawaii regional cuisine and the island's casual-upscale dining tradition, drawing on Peter Merriman's decades-long role in establishing farm-to-table cooking across the archipelago. The Wailea Gateway location pulls a mixed crowd of resort visitors and Maui locals, with a cocktail program and kitchen that both reflect the same sourcing philosophy. It occupies a distinct position in south Maui's dining scene, pitched above casual beachside spots but below the resort fine-dining tier.
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Chef’s Garden Table brings Wailea dining down to the scale of soil, shade, and proximity. Its garden setting matters because Maui’s resort corridor often turns local sourcing into décor; here, the stronger editorial question is how closely the meal can stay tied to the island’s growing culture rather than the usual oceanfront script.
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Lineage sits in the heart of Wailea, where Hawaii Regional Cuisine has matured into something more precise and culturally rooted than its resort-era origins. The restaurant draws on Hawaiian culinary tradition with a seriousness that places it in a different conversation from the island's hotel dining rooms. Reservations are recommended, particularly during peak season on Maui's south shore.
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Hotel Wailea operates at the quieter, adults-only end of Wailea's luxury hotel spectrum, with 720-square-foot suites, cliffside ocean views, and rates from $1,002 per night. The Star Wine List 2026 recognition, suited to couples seeking access to Wailea Beach without the scale of the neighborhood's larger resort complexes.
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Grand Wailea Maui, A Waldorf Astoria Resort occupies 40 acres of Wailea Beach frontage, combining one of Hawaii's most elaborate pool complexes with a 50,000-square-foot spa, multiple dining venues, and Hawaii's largest private resort art collection. Recently renovated rooms and a newly opened Italian-Hawaiian restaurant, Olivine, signal a property in active reinvention.
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Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort occupies 15 acres of Mokapu Beach frontage on Maui's south shore, with 320 rooms, suites, and villa-style accommodations shaped around a non-traditional Hyatt Andaz format. The property runs four distinct food and beverage venues, an apothecary-led spa, and a full meetings program, placing it in Wailea's upper tier of integrated beach resort experiences.
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Fairmont Kea Lani occupies the southern end of Wailea's resort corridor on Polo Beach, offering all-suite and villa accommodations ranging from one-bedroom suites with lanais to two-story oceanfront villas with private pools. The property carries an award-winning dining collection, a newly opened open-air cocktail lounge, and the Hale Kukuna cultural center, which hosts Hawaiian language and hula programming open to both guests and Maui residents.
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Positioned between Ulua Beach and Wailea Beach on Maui's south shore, this Marriott property delivers five oceanfront pools, Roy Yamaguchi's Humble Market Kitchin, and a Te Au Moana luau at sunset. The adults-only Maluhia Serenity Pool with overwater cabanas marks it as a credible retreat option within Wailea's competitive resort corridor.
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Set within Wailea's resort corridor, Lehua Lounge occupies a quieter register than the area's louder hotel bars, a place where Hawaiian ingredients and tropical cocktail traditions meet with some care for the glass. The address at 3550 Wailea Alanui Dr places it in one of Maui's most concentrated hospitality stretches, making it a natural stop for visitors working through the south shore's drinking scene.
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