My favorite Seattleites AK and DV went on a well deserved vacation to Maui, Hawaii with FT and me. We went with almost no food planning, as even food fanatics take breaks. That, or we were just lazy with planning...
Luckily, a leisurely yelp search while lounging on the beach showed a place in Kihei with almost a thousand great reviews. FT also had some kind of obsession with fish and chips during this week and badgered us until we went.
The place is in a pretty ordinary strip mall, but the inside has delightfully quirky shared surfboard seating: take your number, sit down, and make friends. Alas, being socially awkward people who also ate late on a weeknight, we had no strangers to meet, but the intent is good.
We all got the highly recommended fish tacos, which boasts as having fresh fish, a mango salsa, and 17 different ingredients. Not sure what all 17 would be, but it's delicious and comes in a giant portion to boot - each order contains two tacos and comes on two separate plates.
With each plate color coded, so you can't split your order with someone else then swap them in the middle... alas, for I would've tried, they were incredible. I'd place them on the heartier side of the fish taco spectrum - pretty filling and heavy.
FT had a hankering for fish and chips as well. Chips are fairly standard thin fries. The fish is a thin batter on two types of fish - I believe one is mahi, and the other one might be ono? The fish is great and fresh, but I personally like a fluffy batter better.
AK and DV also opted the ahi wasabi fish burger, which comes with a giant slab of ahi covered generously with the promised wasabi mayo.
And yes, before you ask, delightfully rare inside. I had a quarter and it's delicious with the wasabi mayo.
We also had an order of onion rings, which made for an insignificant photo when all the fish tacos are blurring your vision, but they were nice as well - thick slabs of onion with light batter, golden brown.
The Coconuts Fish Cafe website indicates they now have a location in Scottsdale, AZ - logical next step for a fish restaurant to expand its reaches? Who knows. But if you happen to be on the south side of Maui, Coconuts Fish Cafe is a great place to stop by. Good fish, casual and not really that touristy; I'd highly recommend both the tacos and the ahi wasabi burger. And hell, if you're being a tourist, just splurge and get an extra order of the tacos, or you'll be typing up a blog post a few months later salivating and wishing you had both of your tacos instead of splitting your order...
Kihei, Maui, HI
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