Big Island of Hawaii Restaurants and Dining with Hilo and the Kona Coast

by Cindy Carpenter and Robert Carpenter

This inclusive guide to the special restaurants and dining spots on the Big Island of Hawaii is an essential for food enthusiasts, travel adventurers, and culinary vagabonds. Inside the authors take... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931752400
• ISBN13: 9781931752404
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Holiday Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Hawaiian Treasure

"Big Island Of Hawaii Restaurants and Dining" became a Bible, of a sort, for eating on a recent trip. Without it, selecting restaurants from the multitude of choices on the island would have been hit or miss. Every one of the places where we ate were listed in the book and fit their revues perfectly.

Best Big Island Food Guide

I recently visited the Big Island and brought the usual guidebooks including this new restaurant guide. This volume is well-researched and provides visitors with an unbiased, and well-written guide to many Island restaurants. There are reviews on every type of restaurant from high cuisine (Merriman's in Waimea) to local diners with huge portions (Hawaiian Style Cafe with real people and friendly service ). I agreed with each review of all the places visited and feel that the authors have done an excellent job of helping sort out too many dining choices. Tako Taco is an obscure place in Waimea but has some of the best Mexican style food anywhere in the Islands, and this guide does an honest evaluation of a place that should not be missed. I look forward to using the authors' other books when visiting Kauai and other islands next year. I found other guidebooks with restaurant sections to be too generalized and not as comprehensive.

Informative and On Target

Being a frequent traveler in Asia and Eastern Europe I have come to rely on culinary guides like the Hawaii Restaurant Guide Series. My enjoyment of diverse culinary experiences is enhanced when I have good understanding of what I will partake in. The Carpenters are very knowledgeable and straight forward in presenting the cultures, cuisines and preparations involved in a wide variety of dining experiences. This latest offering, "Big Island of Hawaii" is an education in the dining practice and an invaluable guide to individuals with a taste for adventure and a discerning pallet. I highly recommend this guide.

Big Island of Hawaii Restaurants and Dining

This book is an excellent guide for delectable dining on the Big Island. We were fortunate enough to visit both sides of the island and dine at several of the recommended establishments. After dining on excellent scampi at an Italian bistro in Hilo, we sampled dessert with the locals followed the next day by innovative pizza overlooking the bay. It all proved quite satisfying.

Big Island of Hawaii Restaurants and Dining

This book is much more than a restaurant guide. The selection of eateries is well diversified with regard to formal or fun, stylish or easy island laid back but the impressions section helps make it a memory creating travel guide. Thanks.