Honolulu Magazine’s 2011 Best Hawaii Restaurant Award Winners

Each year, HONOLULU Magazine recognizes Hawaii’s top restaurants through their prestigious Hale Aina Awards. The 2011 award winners have just been announced and will be featured in their January issue. In the meantime, here’s a snippet of the award winners by island.

Best Oahu Restaurant
Gold – Alan Wong’s Honolulu
Silver – Le Bistro
Bronze – Azure
Top 5 – Ruth’s Chris Steak House
Top 5 – 3660 On The Rise

Best Maui Restaurant
Gold – Pineapple Grill
Silver – Lahaina Grill
Bronze – Mama’s Fish House
Top 5 – Casanova’s Italian Restaurant
Top 5 – Mala Ocean Tavern

Pineapple Upside Down Cake from Maui’s gold award-winning Pineapple Grill was worth the trip alone.

Best Kauai Restaurant
Gold – The Beach House Restaurant
Silver – Mediterranean Gourmet
Bronze – Kaua‘i Grill
Top 5 – Red Salt
Top 5 – Bar Acuda

The view from Kauai’s gold award-winning The Beach House Restaurant is just as delicious as the food.

Best Big Island Restaurant
Gold – Merriman’s Waimea
Silver – Kaleo’s Bar & Grill
Bronze – Huggo’s
Top 5 – Brown’s Beach House
Top 5 – Café Pesto Kawaihae

If I counted correctly, there are 29 Hale Aina award categories in total. You can check them all out through this link.

I’ve written dozens of articles on some of Hawaii’s best restaurants. Here’s a quick cheat sheet on how to find those articles by island:

Oahu – All Oahu restaurant related articles

and a summary of how to find the best Oahu restaurants

Maui – All Maui restaurant related articles and a summary of how to find the best Maui restaurants

Kauai – All Kauai restaurant related articles and a summary of how to find the best Kauai restaurants

Big Island – All Big Island restaurant related articles and a summary of how to find the best Big Island Restaurants

What’s your favorite Hawaii restaurant?

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