Kid Friendly Restaurants
by James & Molly Jacobson, TopMauiRestaurants.com
 Most Maui restaurants are resigned to feeding your young while they're here, but a few truly welcome little ones. These four restaurants exemplify the spirit of Aloha and treat keiki (kids) like Ali'i (royalty).
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Seafood, Wailea, Maui
The Grand Wailea Resort is a Disney-esque fantasyland designed to offer adults an over-the-top Hawaiian luxury vacation while catering to their children with, among other things, a fabulous water park complete with rapids. The main dinner restaurant, Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, is a sprawling thatched roof hut floating in a saltwater lagoon stocked with what is widely - if unofficially - recognized as Hawaii’s state fish: the colorful, pig-shaped humuhumunukunukuapua'a.
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American, Kahului, Maui
Ruby’s Diner is a spotless, open, and cheerful way to fix your craving
for very good burgers, terrific milkshakes, crispy shoestring fries,
vanilla cokes, and other American comfort food standards. Styled like a 1950s diner with a pan-pacific theme, an airplane hangs
from the ceiling with propellers slowly twirling. Servers in
red-and-white-striped uniforms hustle your order, and if it’s your
birthday the entire staff gathers to sing and clap. This is good
old-fashioned fun.
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Hawaiian Fusion, Kihei, Maui
Celebrated Chef Roy Yamaguchi is one of Maui’s culinary treasures. World-famous for his creativity and passion, Roy masterminded Hawaiian Fusion cuisine in the early 1990s. Every night at his restaurants – 34 locations including Tokyo, San Francisco, Austin, and New York – the evening’s menu is created anew based on what’s fresh that day.
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Seafood, Lahaina, Maui
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. is a theme chain restaurant built around the popular movie Forrest Gump. Before you groan at the shameless commercialism, dig a coconut shrimp out of the paper cone and have a sip of the strawberry lemonade. We are thoroughly charmed by this breezy open-air Front Street shrimp joint, where we bounce through supper as easily as the movie bopped through the life of Forrest.
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