Where to Eat in Kahului

Kahului is Maui's working center — the airport, the harbor, the big-box stores, and the neighborhoods where most of the island's residents actually live. It isn't pretty, and that's the point: the food here is for locals, priced for locals, and open the hours working people eat.

This is plate lunch and saimin country — the plantation-era standards served fast and cheap. The spots below are central Maui's everyday favorites, ranked by the people who eat them on a Tuesday.