Hawaii's Best Restaurants
The Honolulu Advertiser published their annual restaurant guide last week, including
2007 ʻIlima Award winners and a mix of other restaurants deemed worthy by Advertiser editors. Overall, the representation was fairly well-balanced, with brand new and unusual ethnic restaurants seeming to have a slight edge. And yet as much as things change, they stay the same: Alan Wong's, Roy's and Chef Mavro always win something. Starbucks once again wrapped up an award for best Best Coffee Shop?!
The main value of this guide, besides smiling when favorites get a nod, is as reminder of the numerous places that still need trying. Hawaiʻi's restaurant scene is growing, and the choices are good.
2007 ʻllima Award winners as reviewed on māʻona
→ Alan Wong's Restaurant - Best Restaurant
→ Roy's Restaurant - Best Fine-Dining Restaurants (People's Choice)
→ Chef Mavro - Best Fine-Dining Restaurants (Critics' Choice)
→ Downtown@HISAM - Best Casual Restaurants (Critics' Choice)
→ Town - Best Casual Restaurants (Critics' Choice)
Hawaiiʻ's Best Restaurants as reviewed on māʻona
→ Liliha Bakery and Coffee Shop - Best Bakeries
→ Town - Best American Contemporary
→ Tudo de Bom - Best Caribbean and South American
→ Golden Palace Seafood Restaurant - Best Chinese
→ Olive Tree Cafe - Best Greek and Middle Eastern
→ Koa Pancake House - Cheap Eats, Coffee Shops and Diners
→ Like Like Drive-Inn - Cheap Eats, Coffee Shops and Diners
→ Manago Hotel Restaurant - Best Neighbor Islands, Hawaiʻi
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Alan,
As usual, I'm a bit disappointed by the winners, but oh well....c'est la vie!
Hi Alan - I guess what I find really strange...is that Alan Wong's is not considered Fine Dining, but Roy's is?
Reid- that's always the case, I'm afraid. I do find myself agreeing with the critic's choices more often than the people's choices. There's a lowest common denominator effect that comes into play when everyone votes, the result of which is the restaurant that offends the fewest people.
Kirk- Alan Wong's is definitely fine dining. I think the fact that it won overall best automatically excluded it from also taking best fine dining.