Top Maui Fine Dining Restaurants: Best wine and dine in the valley isle
Maui’s fine dining restaurants are the perfect places to wine, dine, and listen to great piano music. Here you can enjoy mouthwatering cuisines and drinks in elegant ambiances and spectacular Maui views. But of the top Maui fining dining restaurants, there’s one that leads the list.
Seawatch Restaurant in Wailea in South Maui offers the best ambiance, best views, and best fine dining experience in the Valley Isle. Situated at the clubhouse of Wailea Gold Golf Course, Seawatch Restaurant’s location is ideal as it is high above the Wailea coastline. From the restaurant, one can have a sweeping view of the golf course, the ocean with the islands of Molokini and Kahoolawe looming in the distance, spectacular red-orange sunsets, and wintering humpback whales. The interior dining area is decorated with plants as well as murals and paintings of local artists. A white baby piano serves as lounge centerpiece.
Since it opened in 2004, Seawatch Restaurant has been a consistent recipient of different awards including Most Romantic Restaurant, Best Business Lunch, Best Ambiance by Maui News Readers’ Poll, and Restaurant of Distinction by Honolulu Magazine’s Hale Aina Award.
Fresh culinary approach is an admirable characteristic of the restaurant. Enjoy a wide selection of innovative dishes made of local ingredients prepared by “Maui’s Best Chef” Todd Carlos such as their macadamia nut crusted brie, tiger prawns over blue crab salad, Angus beef short rib, salads, and grilled monchong (fish) over salad. As for fish preparation, diners have five selections: peppered and flash-seared; macadamia nut - mango chutney-crusted and pan seared; shichimi-dusted and grille; lemongrass and citrus-crusted; and Grand Marnier-glazed and grilled. To complete your Seawatch fine dining experience, enjoy a glass or bottle of wine from their long list of some of the world’s finest wines.
Seawatch Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is also one of the best island locations for weddings and other special events.
