Product Description

This inclusive guide to the "special" restaurants and dining spots on the Big Island of Hawaii is an essential for food enthusiasts, travel adventurers, and culinary vagabonds. Inside the authors take us on a tour of over 70 establishments. Each member of this personal A list gets a full page write-up loaded with information designed to empower the reader. Rounding things out enhancements appear covering interests like "Family Friendly" and "Old Haunts" with cultural background provided by "Island Cuisines" and "Hawaii Glossaries". Together this data rich collection covers the Big Island dining scene like nothing has done before. A positive approach combines with a travelogue style to produce a light, enjoyable read. Local residents and island visitors should all appreciate the comfortable calabash within.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82145 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

From the Author
Welcome to the Hawaii Restaurant Guide Series. Inside these four titles you'll find comprehensive coverage of the top dining spots on all six populated Hawaiian Islands. The research and writing was done in-house by two fortunate souls who live and travel extensively in Hawaii. Just as importantly, the information is timely. If you're looking for a current update list you've found it. So get that car out of the lot and take off exploring. Besides the big name venues we've included many hidden gems not normally found in mainstream guidebooks. Include one of them in a day of adventuring and you'll create an island memory. Until the next edition I remain at my computer on Maui, Cindy Carpenter, Author

From the Back Cover
Hawaii dining can be a truly fascinating adventure. This IS the crossroads of the Pacific where cultural influences from around the world have converged to create a blend of cuisines unlike any other found on earth. Terms like Pacific Rim and Hawaii Regional Cuisine have been coined to describe some of the various culinary spins. Beyond the neo-fusion experience lays the roots of it all where you'll find an amazing variety of authentic ethnic eateries. Then there's always the Hawaiian Everyman's favorite Islanders simple call Local Food.

Big Island Restaurants and Dining takes you on a tour of the special places you will encounter while exploring the island dining scene. The establishments we've chosen range from posh formal dining venues to hole-in-the-walls - but there's one thing you can always count on - in their own way they are all quite special. Come join us now on our journey down the back roads and boulevards of America's Pacific Paradise as we pursue exciting new culinary experiences on the magical Big Island of Hawaii.

Customer Reviews

Big Island of Hawaii Restaurants and Dining
This book is an excellent guide for delectable dining on the Big Island. We were fortunate enough to visit both sides of the island and dine at several of the recommended establishments. After dining on excellent scampi at an Italian bistro in Hilo, we sampled dessert with the locals followed the next day by innovative pizza overlooking the bay. It all proved quite satisfying.

Best Big Island Food Guide
I recently visited the Big Island and brought the usual guidebooks including this new restaurant guide. This volume is well-researched and provides visitors with an unbiased, and well-written guide to many Island restaurants. There are reviews on every type of restaurant from high cuisine (Merriman's in Waimea) to local diners with huge portions (Hawaiian Style Cafe with real people and friendly service ). I agreed with each review of all the places visited and feel that the authors have done an excellent job of helping sort out too many dining choices. Tako Taco is an obscure place in Waimea but has some of the best Mexican style food anywhere in the Islands, and this guide does an honest evaluation of a place that should not be missed.
I look forward to using the authors' other books when visiting Kauai and other islands next year.
I found other guidebooks with restaurant sections to be too generalized and not as comprehensive.

Big Island of Hawaii Restaurants and Dining
This book is much more than a restaurant guide. The selection of eateries is well diversified with regard to formal or fun, stylish or easy island laid back but the impressions section helps make it a memory creating travel guide. Thanks.