There are some things on Maui that never change, like the fiery beauty of a Haleakala sunrise or the trade winds on summer afternoons.

Then there’s the Maui restaurant scene, where seemingly the only constant is change — oftentimes for the better. While it’s always hard to see your favorite restaurant close its doors, there’s an excitement surrounding the chance to try out someplace different and new.

Here’s a roundup of some of the best new Maui restaurants over the past few years that are now local favorites.

1. Fork and Salad

Fork and Salad is the place to go for a healthy lunch of freshly made sandwiches and salads. The fresh produce is sourced here on island, and the restaurant’s mission is to bring farm-to-table dining to the casual lunchtime crowd. Considering it’s run by the same chefs behind Three’s Bar and Grill, it’s little wonder that the healthy options have become an instant hit.

2. The Pint and Cork

A little bit further south in Wailea, another gastropub, The Pint and Cork, serves food until midnight for anyone looking for late night food in Wailea. The sports on TV and craft beers on tap help make it a popular gathering place for visitors and South Maui locals, and it’s carved out a classy but casual niche since opening in 2016.

3. Humble Market Kitchin

Just across the parking lot at the Marriott Wailea Beach Resort, Humble Market Kitchin is the latest brainchild of famed chef, Roy Yamuguchi. Specializing in breakfast and dinner, the restaurant stays true to its island roots with loco moco in the morning, and fancies it up with ribeyes and butterfish at night when the sun goes down.

4. Maui Teriyaki Company

For a casual South Maui meal that’s friendly for families as well as your wallet, Maui Teriyaki Company is located inside the Dolphin Plaza and across from Kamaole II beach. Most plates are under $10 and it makes for a casual, flavorful meal of teriyaki chicken or pork.

5. Baya Bowls

An affordable newcomer to Lahaina is the popular Baya Bowls food truck, which you’ll find parked on Waine‘e Street just a three-minute walk from Front Street. The healthy selection of acai bowls is a hit with the local beach community, as is the cold brewed coffee that serves as the perfect party-town pick me up.

6. Alchemy Maui

For another healthy Lahaina option that’s opened within the last year, Alchemy Maui is a located a bit off the well worn visitor track, but the menu of sandwiches and tangy kombucha makes up for the industrial setting.

7. Mauka Makai

For the latest installment of Hawaiian Regional cuisine in Ka‘anapali, Mauka Makai is the signature restaurant of the Westin Nanea Villas, and features a menu of dishes sourced from the mountain slopes (mauka) down toward the sea (makai).

8. Nylos

If you find yourself on the North Shore by night, the recently opened Nylos restaurant brings fine dining to funky Paia with three course dinners plus wine.

9. Acevedo’s Hawaicano

Or, if you’re simply looking for Mexican food with a local Hawaiian twist, Acevedo’s Hawaicano is a classic, family owned hole in the wall that’s conveniently located just five minutes from Kahului Airport. The industrial setting is the absolute antithesis of oceanfront dining on Maui, but the portions are huge, the taste is authentic, and it sometimes sells out by mid-afternoon—which means they’re doing something right.

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Photo: Tin Roof.

Standing in the parking lot outside of Tin Roof, you’d never guess that the mirrored windows hold some of the island’s best food.

Recently opened by Sheldon Simeon—the chef behind restaurants like Star Noodle and Migrant—this humble hideout in Kahului brings gourmet flare to traditional lunch plates at prices that don’t break $10. Order a bowl of Mochiko chicken and a side of ulu mac salad, and consider taking the food to go since seating is limited inside.

Set in a soulless Kahului strip mall off traffic-packed Dairy Road, the restaurant doesn’t even have a sign to let you know that it’s there. Turns out that they never needed one—the restaurant was already packed out the door on the very first morning it opened. Just look for the large, mirror windows to the left of Payday Loans and right of a shop named U‘i Gallery in the same parking lot as Piñatas.

*Note: Tin Roof has since acquired signage.

Taverna – Urban Drinks, Italian Eats

Photo: Taverna

All the way up in Kapalua, the Filipino flare of Tin Roof is swapped for the Italian ambience of Taverna, a “neighborhood restaurant” with Italian classics beneath the Kapalua pines. Dip your bread in olive oil that’s made right here on Maui, or slurp the savory bounty of the ocean with a succulent seafood salad. Add a selection of craft beers and a menu of wines by the glass, and Taverna is a welcome—and affordable—addition to often high-priced Kapalua.

The Mill House

Photo: The Mill House.

On Maui’s farm to table front, The Mill House restaurant at the Tropical Plantation is serving up plates of innovative food with items grown here on the farm. Not only is produce spectacularly fresh but is sometimes delivered down from the fields by a drone—rather than a truck—so the chef can call in small batch orders of produce almost on demand. Try the gnocchi with mac nut pesto or lemongrass pork bahn mi, though the menu often changes by the day to ensure the freshest selection.

808 on Main

Photo: 808 on Main.

Also in Wailuku is 808 on Main, an explosively popular panini shop that pumps out artisanal sandwiches—all of which are at modest prices that fit with old school Wailuku. It’s the perfect spot for a casual lunch on the drive to ʻIao Valley, and try the chicken mango chutney, served with Pepperjack on sourdough.

Hana Ranch Provisions

Photo: Hana Provisions.

Finally, as if Paʻia wasn’t already packed with a plethora of popular food choices, the scene just got stronger and a little bit fancier with the opening of Hana Ranch Provisions. Using food that’s certified organic and sourced from Hana Ranch, the restaurant pairs it with house-made bread and produce from local farmers. The result is dishes like the endlessly popular ulu and sweet potato gnocchi, and carnivores will crave the Hana Burger, which is topped with a tangle of caramelized onions and a twist of horseradish aioli. Package it up in a brioche bun, and eating grass fed, Hana Ranch beef has never tasted so good.

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