A.K.'s Café

A.K.'s Café Review

Nearly hidden between auto-body shops and karaoke bars is this wonderful, bright café serving good Island fare. Chef-owner Elaine Nakashima not only knows how to make everything taste delicious, she knows how to make local flavors more healthful, too. Her Thai chicken, baked chicken, local fish preparations, roast turkey plate, even her sweet potatoes—either steamed or fried—are excellent. And her crab cakes are so good—some say the best on Maui—that retail markets around the island stock them in their freezers and their prepared food sections. The place takes on a lovely warm glow at dinnertime and impromptu contemporary Hawaiian music is not uncommon.