Hawaii's mix of many cultures has led to a unique variety of cuisines in Kauai Island. Innovative chefs trained in Continental and Asian culinary traditions have created Pacific Rim cuisine. Fruits, vegetables, herbs, seafood, and even chocolate grown in Hawaii are fresh and flavorful. If you haven't yet come face to face with the local phenomenon called plate lunch, Kauai is a good place to start. The plate lunch is more than a gastronomic experience — it's a part of the local culture. It's best to be ravenously hungry when you approach a plate lunch, or it can overpower you! Kauai Island accords visitors a warm welcome with a good selection and wide range of restaurants, all monitored for quality and standard in order to provide their clients with perfect dining, drinking and appropriate services as well. The Island area offers a variety of restaurants, bars, cafes and other eateries situated around the area to suit your needs.

There are a good few of pleasureful Kauai Island restaurants and bars of various ranges recommended by your fellow travelers.

Restaurants. Kauai Island area restaurants and other eating houses of different service standards and various price ranges offer a presentable diversity of dishes' tastes and a great variety of cuisines, both local and international, such as Hawaiian, American, Italian, Chinese, Vegetarian, Mediterranean, Continental, Mexican, Japanese, Seafood, etc.

Bars. There're several bars, and other entertaining imbiberies in Kauai Island area. The originality, calibre of the staff, variety of dining-drinking facilities and perfect services in such pleasing bars as Hanapepe Cafe & Espresso Bar, Roy's Poipu Bar & Grill, Hula-La-La Bar, and others, intensify travelers' interest to Kauai Island area, making this tourist destination much more attractive for visitors!

Bar-Restaurants. Such a composition of peck-and-tipple, dining-drinking and show-music-dance-entertaining enterprises in one establishment attracts much more visitors of Kauai Island, both those enjoying respectable, cosy atmosphere at the luxury-decorated dining-table or groaning board in magnificent restaurant's hall and those, who prefer perpendicular bub-and-grub with a pretty partner at the bar and smooth dancer to the get-up-and-go music accompaniment.

Cafes. One of the most convenient and pleasant forms of dining and rest is to take some refreshment and to sit with a cup of coffee at the table in cafe, coffee shop or tea-house. And there're quite enough cafes in Kauai Island area to supply all visitors' wants.