We love a buffet, but sometimes it’s just nice to sit back and, well, be waited on…and enjoy a generous plate instead of lots of small bites (since our tendency is to try a taste of this ‘n’ that at the buffet).
Guests at Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, head to Makahiki for breakfast and dinner, where the buffet stretches with dozens of global tastes. At breakfast, you can have all-American eggs and toast, or a taste of the islands with miso soup with dried seaweed and pickled vegetables. The dinner buffet is equally interesting, from fresh seafood to roast chicken, fried noodles, nishime (Japanese vegetable stew) and roasted veggies.
The new a la carte dinner menu is a nice combo of tastes, from a classic Caesar salad to pork and vegetable spring rolls and a simple shrimp cocktail for starters. Entrée standouts include amazing island-style barbecue pork ribs, a half-pound Angus bacon cheeseburger, and country fried chicken with mashed potatoes. You still can get a curry bowl with chicken and steamed white rice, or teriyaki-grilled salmon with Japanese noodles, but most of the dinner choices are more mainstream, such as bow-tie pasta with veggies and creamy basil pesto or a rib-eye steak with roasted red potatoes and creamed spinach.
Kids get a choice of cheese or pepperoni pizzas, pasta or chicken. And for sweet endings, sip a cup of Kona press pot coffee and eat a New York-style cheesecake with fruit sauce, Hawaiian chocolate cake or apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Sit back, relax…ahhhh, that’s vacation.
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Thanks for this post, Aulani is wonderful, but the food options were sorely lacking when we were there last month. So happy to hear they are addressing this. Just a note, we had one day where it poured rain all afternoon and evening. We learned from a cast member that 65% of the seating at Makahiki is outside and it was closed due to the rain. The seating situation moved our dinner reservation back by an hour and forty-five minutes, and we were not given advance warning of the change, hence had to scramble to find some snacks for hungry kids. I don’t believe the rain afffects the other restaurants in this same way. Aloha!
I, too, am glad that the food option are increasing. We were there in February, and that was on of my issues. (Still hoping the lounge chair situation improves before our next visit, when the resort is fully open!)
Just in time for our trip on 4/18/2012. cant wait to get there
I am glad to see Disney working to improve the food at Aulani. My husband and I were there in January and the minimal food options were the only negative thing about Aulani. Can’t wait to go back sometime to see all of the wonderful improvements.
We are going to Aulani in a week and this just made my day!
This…has made my night, I’m even more so excited to go to Aulani now. Thanks for this post!
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