This was our last wake up in Maui and we had planned to have breakfast at the Kihei Caffe.
It's a very popular place and starts to get busy around 7am and becomes passable (as in "Look at the queue! Let's pass.") at 8:30 'til 10:00am.
Here it is.
Pop in for a really good feed and then whip out the back for some ink
This is what Greg had.
A pretty good feed for ~$8.
Tiz and I had one of these each.
It's a very large cinnamon roll with lashings of macadamia nuts
stuck on top with either caramel or coconut icing.
Cheap for what you get.
The coffees are good, which is a rarity.
To make them even better
they serve them with ice cubes made with coffee.
Now there's an idea we should all pick up on.
We had our breakfast and left just as the crowds started to arrive.
The drive to the airport was uneventful and went without a hitch.
Fifty minutes after boarding the plane in Maui we were landing in Honolulu.
We had chosen to stay at the Waikiki Gateway Hotel, located at the end of the main Waikiki tourist strip, and decided to book a cab to take us there instead of the shuttle circus we used last time.
The cab driver was a really nice bloke so we booked him to take us back to the airport tomorrow morning.
After checking our bags into the hotel we took a walk down to Dukes for a drink and a bite to eat.
Coo-ee! We're baaaack!
What you see above is the easiest way to spend US$70 (which, nowadays, is about AU$3,542,979 ;-) ) that I know of.
The rest of the afternoon was spent doing a little shopping and having a wee nap.
For our last night in Oahu we had planned something special.
Ros Thieme had told me about a wonderful old time restaurant called Hy's Steakhouse and how the waiters wear suits and the decor was elegant dark wood panelling.
Go here to take a look at their site.
Our meal, the service and our waiter, Paul, was beyond expectations.
I did notice that their "Shoes and collared shirt" dress code is somewhat flexible.
I dressed appropriately, to meet the code, but some of the other dinners thought that Nikes and a polo shirt met the code equally well.
To me it showed a lack of respect that a wonderful place like this should not tolerate.
Hy's Steakhouse is not the sort of place one should be taking pics of the food, but let me say that the food was amongst some of the best tasting, and presented, food both Tiz and I have ever had.
Tiz had seared sea scallops with a pistachio and herb crust, served with a blood orange hollandaise and I had a fillet mignon with foie gras and baby spinach.
Anyone that goes to Honolulu should not miss this dining experience, albeit a little expensive.
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