Eat & Drink
Tin Roof Maui: Sheldon Simeon’s Plate Lunch in Kahului
Top Chef alum Sheldon Simeon's takeout spot — modern plate lunches with mochiko chicken, pork belly, garlic shrimp. Sells out by mid-afternoon.
Plate Lunch & Local
The counters Maui families have eaten at for decades. Cash is easier, the lines are worth it, and most of them close before 3 PM.
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Eat & Drink
Sam Sato’s: Three Generations of Dry Mein in Wailuku
Family-run since 1933, hidden in the back of a Wailuku industrial complex. Order the dry mein and the manjū to go.
Eat & Drink
Geste Shrimp Truck: Kahului’s Iconic Plate
Hawaiian scampi, spicy pineapple, lemon pepper, hot & spicy — Maui's most famous shrimp plate, served from a truck off Kahului Beach Road.
Eat & Drink
A Saigon Cafe: Wailuku’s Best-Hidden Foodie Gem
Famously hard to find (the exterior has almost no signage) and a perennial Aipono Award winner. Vietnamese in a place you'd never guess held it.