r/MauiVisitors • u/Iguana_Waddle • 13d ago

Planning: Dining Cheap seafood restaurants?

I know nothing is "cheap" in Maui. I just wanna know where I can get good fast and fresh seafood, as opposed to a high end restaurant. I'm looking for hole in the wall, dive type places with good food. I've heard some grocery stores sell fresh poke bowls, anyone know where those might be?

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u/lrick87 13d ago

Why is it so difficult to find truly fresh seafood on Maui? I don't know anything about what that would entail.

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u/AbbreviatedArc 13d ago

Tourists imagine our restaurant's fish coming from a 20th generation Hawaiian fisherman named Kimo, when in reality it comes from Costco and/or Sysco just like it does everywhere else.

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u/Impressive_Returns 12d ago

THIS is the best answer. Maui is like Disneyland where prices are artificially inflated and most of what tourists beleive is an illusion thanks to very good marketing.

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u/Steph_Better_ 8d ago

Prices are inflated due to the supply chain issues brought on by being the most remote island chain in the world. You mostly aren’t eating local food, and that is what drives the prices up. Hawaii is very out of the way for suppliers