Maple Garden has been a long-standing favorite of our family, with the same owner & waitresses still there since I was a kid! Their Chinese food is my standard for excellence, whatever you order is done well and well worth the price. We order family style, in courses, & share all dishes, so entree pricing is less representative of full meal costs, keep that in mind as final tabs tend to be much higher than a per person entree. And parking is tight, but there is street parking & it's worth it!

Best Burgers in town, hands down! Fresh toppings, grilled items, fresh thin french fries are perfectly hot & crispy & salty! YUM! Burgers so big, you'll have to strech your lips & still won't fit the top & bottom in the same bite! Bit of a wait, but line moves fast & well worth the average $7 price.

This is a vegetarian Deli inside a health food store that has remarkably well done & tasty dishes, but entree pricing goes strictly by weight, so a pile of rice could cost as much as the teriyaki tofu smothering it. This works out well if all you want is salad! No atmosphere to speak of, but calm.

Korean BBQ is one of the most outstanding oral flavors one can experience without sinning! This is a typical local plate lunch establishment, that features plates between $4-7 mostly, some amazing meat marinades, rice & cold Korean vegies...food quality/price is good, atmosphere is not great.

Sushi is not purchased by "entree", so pricing is difficult to determine, as you pay per piece or roll. Prices are standard, store is clean, sterile, as sushi houses should be. Everything one would expect from a sushi joint.

Duke's in Waikiki is a surf-theme hotel-based nice surf-n-turf restaurant & bar right on the beach, featuring live nightly entertainment, a romantic airy atmosphere & great food & drinks. As tropical island beachfront locations goes, it's hard to beat, and very popular, regardless of their really high prices. But get reservations and be prepared to wait, and whatever you do, find street parking, or the hotel will scalp ya!

Kua Aina has arguably the best burgers ever! ...gourmet additions like avocado, grilled peppers & onions and mushrooms, leave even the neatest eaters stretching their lips & wiping the drips! Store location is small & tight, but line moves fast & when you're waiting for the best, that's all that matters!

Rosie's Cantina is a Mexican cafe that serves average food (but hey, even average Mexican food is good!) at average/highish prices, but plenty of it!

This is a casual open air indoor-outdoor island style bar & grill. Offerings include standard bar-grill fare, all very good, but not particularly outstanding...still, a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere for meeting new friends or getting together w/old ones.

This place has fabulous food, I've never been disappointed w/anything I've ordered. Location leaves something to be desired, situated between two buildings, but overall a great experience... well then, it should be for the price! A real hidden gem in Kailua...

Cisco's offers a great margarita, as any good Mexican restaurant should. But Cisco's suffers from either need of a trained cook, or poor management... I can't cook Mexican, but I could've made seafood tamales better than they did, always my measuring stick for quality! ...Avoid the tamales! But the seafood enchiladas are good enough to make up for it!

This is primarily a take-out joint, offering some of the best luchtime entrees you will find on the windward side. Began as offshoot from local culinary school, amazing new ideas really took off & they've managed to maintain their focus on the food instead of service & their business has thrived! The make the BEST brownies EVER!

Jaron's is like a million nice restaurants, good food, kinda pricey, tranquil comfortable environment, good service...nothing remarkable, nothing bad. But after 9 Jaron's hosts live music & the place jams!

Brent's is an awesome sandwich shop w/hot offerings as well. Everything's good there...I haven't had a bad choice yet, and all the neighboring tables have food that looks equally enticing! I hate it when I can't decide!

Food here is excellent, margaritas, everything gastronomically lovely... but in my few experiences there, the service left so much to be desired, it quenched my would've-been 4 stars down to 3! (Let's hope it was just a bad day!)

This is more of a sports bar than anything, hairy smelly guys being loud w/each other at the bar, big screen TV's up all over the place, billiards, etc. Food is NOT what you go here for, this looks more like a men's club, and not one ladies will enjoy.

Little Dragon is popular w/their regular clientelle, but they suffer from a not so popular location, cheap atmosphere, and average food. I'd like to be more generous, but the best I can say is it's hard to wreck Chinese food... they didn't. They're ok.

Mui Kwai II, as we call it, is a decent place to get Chinese to go. The food's better than average, but not excellent; dining in atmosphere is cheap-looking & basic; service is average; prices are very fair.

Assagio's knows how to do Italian, aims at good service, and often are excellent. When they are busy, the place loses something of it's quiet charm. Decent, and just a notch below an exceptional fine dining experience (no Valet!)

Best Chinese food in Kailua, hands down! Still, that cheesey Chinese decor really robs from a warm atmosphere, and the servers mostly speak non-English. Still, we love it there for the great food (adore the walnut shrimp & spicey shrimp in the shell!) good prices, all around exceptional value.