Restaurant:
Tiki Terrace
Address:
2525 Kaanapali Pkwy
Lahaina, HI 96761
Category:
Seafood
Average:
$20-40/person
Review:
Tiki Terrace is the restaurant located in the hotel that I stayed in during my visit to Hawaii. To be completely honest, I wasn’t super thrilled to try out this restaurant because the reviews it got online were not particularly exciting. However, since it is right downstairs, I decided to give it a try. The decoration of the restaurant was rather old and tacky. It had one side open to the plaza in the hotel facing a stage which had live performance of local dance every night. Service was average so what was left to see was their food.
For a quick meal, I only ordered one dish, Seafood Huki Hukilau. It is marked as the award winning signature dish of this restaurant so I believe this will be a good measure of the quality of this restaurant. Plating of this dish was quite standard, with the lobster tailed placed on top of shrimp and snapper. The lobster tail was overcooked a bit so it tasted quite dry to me. Paired with the prochini mushroom sauce, shrimp and snapper were well cooked and I tasted the freshness. I really liked the steamed bok choy, which had fantastic flavor with it soaking up the sauce. However, the use of purple yam was very interesting and I think that brought in an unnecessary texture to this dish.
Overall I think this is a pretty standard dish for a seafood restaurant in Hawaii. It has a prime location for anyone who is staying in nearby hotels. However, I would have to say that if you enjoy a good piece of seafood and looking for some innovative cooking, there are a couple other restaurants on the Kaanapali Beach that can offer you a better experience.
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