Top Maui Mexican Restaurants: Island Eatin’ a La Mexicano
Craving for the taste of El Mexico while on vacation in the island of Maui? There are more than a dozen Maui Mexican restaurants and eateries to satisfy your taste for tacos, enchiladas, guacamoles, rellenos, quesadillas, and also margaritas, tequilas, and other Mexican dishes and drinks. What’s unique about Maui Mexican restaurants is that they don’t just copy Mexican cuisines to the bone; they combine local Maui with Mexican cooking. You can find the best of both worlds in the top Maui Mexican restaurants below.
Jawz Fish Tacos, located at 1279 South Kihei Road, has been frequently voted as the restaurant to serve the best fish tacos by locals. The restaurants fish tacos menu includes mahimahi taco, ono taco, and ahi taco. Staffed by friendly crew, Jawz Fish Tacos also serves other meat tacos such as shrimp taco, chicken breast taco, steak taco, and shredded pork taco. If you order their taco salad, you can mix it up with any number of the restaurant’s homemade salsa. And Jawz Fish Tacos boasts of having the largest salsa bar in the world! The restaurant also serves beer and shaved ice. You can enjoy your order in a casual, laid-back style. In the dining room, you can eat their tacos and burritos while watching surf movies on large video screens.
At 101 North Kihei Road, there’s another restaurant that offers unforgettable Mexican dishes on the beach. The restaurant has a dining deck where you can sip a margarita with your choice of fresh fruit blend while gazing into the deep blue Maui ocean waters, white sand, whales, palm trees swaying in the wind, and other islands in the distance. Margarita’s Beach Cantina is a local favorite. Its menu includes tofu tacos, tofu enchiladas, and garden burgers. But Margarita’s Beach Cantina not only serve Mexican specialties, there also a variety of fresh seafood to satisfy your cravings for local fare. The restaurant is open from 11:30 am to 9 pm for lunch and dinner.
