Five Palms Restaurant

Nicole was our server and she was amazing! Very attentive and friendly. The steak and lobster dinner was to die for! The steak LITERALLY melted in your mouth. Never had any steak like it!! Definitely would recommend to anybody. And the prices were great as well!

Nice find. Have a good brunch and then walk from your table to the sand to take a stroll on the beach.

Beautiful restaurant with great service a must for receptions.

Five star views, four star food, three star prices (go for happy hour)

Good food. Great views. Prices as expected for area.

Ordered the calamari but I didn't enjoy it so they swapped it out for the bbq ribs, way better choice, very nice staff and super attentive. My gf had ordered a chichi and forgot to say no dairy, they swapped that too, awesome.

Huge disappointment all the way around!!! Got in line for HH seating, whrn we got up to the front we were offered a table in the grass by the water for $20. Lol, what a racket already, buy your table location?? Who does this??
We refused and was then offered a mediocre inside table with partial view. We decided to continue to wait for something else, in which we were then offered a table by a huge cement pillar and by the waitress station.
We sat down and ordered a drink and then spoke to a manager. He listened to us and apologized but that was it. We paid our $30 for 3 drinks and left.
As much as I'm in that area I would never return to this place nor bring any of my people. The Asian guy seating people was so rude to us with his comments, and when addressed with manager was discounted. I think the are banking on the one time tourist here!!!

Happy hour is the way to go. Half price sushi and drinks!

I ordered butternut soup which was not a soup but a puree and lamb. The lamb was tough, not seasoned, and drowned in a sauce. My first and last pricey tasteless entree, puree, and waterbug experience

Nice atmosphere. The food wasn't to my liking. High price for what you get.

Brian helped make my wife's birthday so special. Food and atmosphere was magical.

Beautiful restaurant located right on the Beach. We watched a lightning storm out on the water. A little pricey, by Island standards. The food was good, but did not justify the prices. Very attentive wait staff, and the food came quickly

5 Palms Restaurant in Kihei Maui hosted our wedding ceremony and wedding reception. This venue is absolutely perfect for a beach wedding, sunset photos, and a private dinner reception.

Great staff. Food was good. Good drinks and happy hour.

Nice beach....drinks are expensive but nice ocean view. Good place to chill.

Great place. We got the September special, filet mignon, lobster, mashed potatoes and and asparagus with a chocolate mousse dessert. It was the best meal we had in Maui and all of the meals were good.

Great location, service was delightful, and food was excellent.

Wow, beautiful Maui sunset and melt in your mouth filet mignon with a glass of sangiovese. All that and the company of my missus, life is good.

I visit Maui at least once a year and 5 Palms is one of my favorite stops, En Bastille a la Waterfront is my favorite dish.

Very, very nicely done, excellent location on the beach, attentive service, and food is fresh and prepared well

Lobster was great! View was even better. Service was impeccable.

Gorgeous view, nice customer service but pretty pricey.

Excellent cuisine, creative and meticulous.
At the edge of the beach, clean and organized.
The rating is a little high but the experience is correct.

Very nice location and view here. The wait staff are top notch and the menu has many tasty treasures. Ignore the prices and enjoy the experience.

Just perfect. Amazing food and great fun wait staff

Incredible view, especially during sunset. Also make sure to ask for the Macadamia Nut Chi-Chi, it s on their online menu, but not the in person menu.

Wow, what a view. Good menu. Mai tai was ok. They could make it more special. Pork tacos were good and worth the $20. I'd go back. If they tried a little harder they'd get 5 stars all day but still pretty good.

As a visitor, we loved 5 Palms for breakfast. We had Bloody Mary's, fried eggs and this amazing avocado toast. The toast had olive oil, Black Sea salt, almonds, lime, tomatoes, red onion and feta on top of the fresh avocado. So good. The view is incredible and the food was perfect and I sure hope we can come back here to eat again before we leave.

Excellent happy hour, drinks and appetizers were great. Good service.

We go two 5 Palms primarily for happy hour, which includes sushi. The sushi is really good. We have also been here for breakfast which has a good variety of new takes on standard breakfast fare.

GREAT LOCATION, FOOD DISAPPOINTING
We went for the beach next to it and were excited to find such a nice restaurant open in these times. Unfortunately beside location, the food wasn't very good nor fresh. Service was good, drinks are nice to have in such a great spot.

Great service and excellent view. Thanks 5 palms for a lovely easter

Great views any time of day.
Food has been tops & has improved.
Dinning staff was attentive. Noticed the improvement and professionalism.
Not sure if it's me or if there were changes but a 4.5 is worthy.
We like to take guests here for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

This is my favorite place for breakfast in the area. The view can t be beat and they have a large variety of very tasty items. I m a sucker for Mexican food so I lean towards the Paniolo which has rice layered with crunchy tortillas, homemade salsa, chorizo, and eggs on top. It also has a little fresh pico on the side. Very yummy. But you can also go sweet vs. savory and have the Hawaiian sweet bread French toast. YUM! Take me! PS they also gave a GREAT Happy Hour in the bar.

Absolutely horrible service and the food is just ok. The staff are rude! The view is amazing and it's too bad really. They could really do with a major staff and menu change. DON'T GO...

We were here for a period of 2.5 hours because it took way too long for them to take our order, way too long for the rolls, way too long for the food, way too long for the check. The servers only came to our table 4 or 5 times. Here, you can get a 13 dollar meal for the price of 30$ and it isn't all that great.

Always good....great service...very attentive...beautiful views

The food is awesome, I never had a bad meal. The sushi is to die for. I'd have to say this is one of my favorite places to eat and have a drink.

First visit was great. Friendly service, fresh food, great view. Definitely went back to try happy hour... Disappointing experience - slow service, poor food and watered down drinks. Shame considering the great first experience.

The view of the ocean and whales, along with the convenient location next to the beach and relaxed atmosphere are all fantastic. The food and service is also terrific and a great value, especially at happy hour.

Good food good views! drinks were off not mixed properly I still go often to happy hour

Update to my original review.....worst restaurant experience on Maui. Our server was pleasant but very lacking in customer service, long waits in between checking on us, never once checked on us after receiving our meals and lots of dirty dishes left on our table for long lengths.
We wanted a nice bachelorette get together for happy hour and ended up with a formal dining room and sushi roll for $36, just the beginning.....So costly it was unbelievable and very disappointing.

I was also way overcharged for my wine, if I hadn t paid close attention to my bill then, nice perk for 5 Palms. I ended up getting a credit on my card.

To sum things up, avoid coming here unless you have no regard for high cost, poor service, hot sun with no recourse in the early evening and very possible over charging.

Also, I had the ribs and they were very salty, the sweet potatoes were nondescript there was no salad unless I wanted to pay an extra $16! So ostentatious and overpriced... never again.

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We went for Happy Hour 3-7pm, arrived at 3:15 and there was only one table left and a few stools at the bar. Popular happy hour, turn over was relatively quick.
Parking can be tricky in the dirt parking lot, enter through the main hotel lobby, not clearly marked.
We ordered Calamari, Prawns and Edamame Hummus, all very tasty and beautiful presentation. Service was excellent also!
One really big negative were the tables and chairs, you can t pull up in the very bulky, heavy, stiff, uncomfortable chairs to the smallish metal patio tables without hitting your shins and legs so you have to sit sideways or far from the table.
Another smaller negative is the dipping sauces for the Calamari and Prawns. They are runny like water and don t cling like they should, disappointing because they were very tasty.
On a positive note, the view is amazing and the atmosphere is nice!

View is great. Wonderful sunset. Service was good. It was a little pricey, 200usd for a family of 5' excluding drinks. Food was average. To much sauce on the ribs, too much sauce for the pasta. Good ribeye.

The view is the best thing at this restaurant. The service is absolutely horrible. We called ahead for reservations and they told us we didn't need them, however when we got there We were told we needed one. They sat us to wait for a table and then got us up when one was available, only to give it away to someone else and we were stuck waiting with appetizer and drinks in hand. They were out of salmon so they recommended another fish, I let them know I was highly allergic to mushrooms about 4 times and when my meal came, there were mushrooms everywhere. This was about the worse restaurant experience I've ever had and they are not cheap!! So if you are looking for a nice dinner, please look elsewhere.

Excellent breakfast and there isn't a better view anywhere. Love the Bloody Mary

Baked pancake was amazing!! It is huge but you wouldn't be able to stop! Gabriel, waitress was incredible. Very friendly and accommodating.

beautiful view and cheap happy hour prices make the peeling wall paper and slightly dated decor acceptable.

Good food but slightly overpriced considering the portion size.

Service was very very slow food was not great it was ok but definitely not worth the price we paid
Very very expensive and not worth the price they charge

I called several days in advance and asked for a "front" table since we would be celebrating my hubby's birthday. Well, we weren't given a front table...the view was still good since there's a view pretty much everywhere, but still. Then, while we were still eating our salad, the entree was delivered! Seems like they were maybe anxious for us to eat and leave quickly! The food was delicious...we shared a wedge salad and the large opakapaka. No complaints about that! But, given the rushed feeling (even though there were plenty of open tables) and the neglect of my birthday wish, I gave them only the 4 stars.

I had the eggs florentine which was very good. My server was awesome and I appreciated her patience in trying to accommodate getting a non dairy smoothie which was not an option. Can't beat the view for a breakfast on the beach

The only offering they have is a view. Poor service, over priced poor food. Potstickers over done, lobster risotto was undercooked with no flavor then has to wait 15 min for salt and pepper. If you are a foodie, Stay Away!

Good happy hour prices, food could been cooked in newer grease, fried ingredients was a bit burnt, slow on the service and waiting on bill. Otherwise, Beautiful view and cleanliness right off the ocean.

Excellent breakfast on their patio overlooking the Pacific. The food was very good. I recommend you visit them when on Maui.

The burger is amazing! A super good spot for enjoying the sunset.

The Manhattan style chowder with scallops, calamari, crab, shrimp was out of this world!!!
My companion ordered a mango mojito, and it was so good I had to get one as well. The mint, lime and mango combination will be something I try to recreate back home it was so good.
The main courses were quite tasty but in my opinion paled when compared to the starters and the beverages.
If you order the mudpie make sure you have at least one other person, better yet be a table of four if you've just had dinner. This thing is massive and like everything you ever wished a DQ ice cream cake could be if made with attention and the best ingredients.
I was here quite some time ago and it was delightful then. I'm very glad to have made an effort to come back on this trip.
If you get Dee as a server you'll be in for a treat, she is absolutely delightful and great with recommendations.

Stopped for a quick drink for happy hour. Bartender was good but we suffered some attitude from hostess. Then, on our way out a huge cockroach jumped on my wife, we'll never go back after that!

Great happy hour menu, service and pricing. Sunset topped it all.

You can't beat dinner with this kind of view! Plus, happy hour from 3pm-9pm is amazing. Food & cocktails were excellent.

Right on the water. Sunset full view. But the food steals the show. Raw fish banza. Don't hesitate. Reserve a dinner table. Happy hour at the lounge is FCFS 3-9PM.

Delicious breakfasts with lilikoi infused butter and an ocean infused view

Great atmosphere. Pricey. The food choices were limited. My food was overcooked and not prepped properly (Coconut Shrimp; over fried-hard and not fully peeled). My soup wasn't as savory as it looked. Vegetables were not completely cooked and stems particles were present.

Unreal sushi for an unreal price and the service was great! Cant wait to go back to kehei to enjoy the awesome sushi there.

Someone in management needs to explain why the tables closest to ocean and beach are only for breakfast. Happy hour involves long waits while all of the breakfast tables sit vacant bc of policy. Weird. We wont be back. Only good thing was draft MBC big swell for $6.

This place is really overpriced for what you get. And happy hour is unfortunately a joke, we ordered happy hour mai tai's and they were close to half the size as a non happy hour mai tai we had at dinner. Halfing the size and giving you less during happy hour is not the way it works. I was not impressed with anything I ate here

Went for dinner after seeing the reviews and the view. The view was amazing. The service was sub par at best, the hostess was put out by showing us to our table and our server had an attitude and was over whelmed and ignorant and unable to keep track of who ordered what.
5 out of 6 meals where good, one wasn t cooked and couldn t be eaten. They did comp a desert to try and make up. However, given the price go to mamas the food is far superior and food impeccable
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Great venue, good mai tai's little pricey, ribs were a bit dry but not bad. I would never pay full price but happy hour okay

It was AWESOME! We hadn t gone out to eat in a long while, and this experience was excellent!! We had a nice Burger and the Smoked Salmon Benedict with Spinach. Jody was fantastic, and made us feel right at home. The tables were spaced apart and the lunch was perfect. Going back next week!

Here for happy hour. Sat outside at the bar. Great sushi and calamari! Beautiful views.

Happy Hour 3pm to 9pm and late night happy hour 9 to 10. sushi over at 8pm

Amazing sunset happy hour. Not the cheapest but really good food and amazing views of the beach

Very poor fish tacos.. how can you get a bad fish Taco in Maui? Weird...bland and boring. Go for beer snd chips..nice setting

Service was good eggs cooked perfectly potato dry and chewy didn't taste fresh tasted like last night's potato

Food was excellent, service was terrible. Very slow. Out of several items and it took forever to take our orders. Then a half hour later they come back to tell us they did not have the food items we ordered & we needed to reorder. But the food was excellent

Service was great, food and drinks were excellent and the setting was perfect. Just off the water and the sun was low. The staff makes you feel right at home. One of our best island experiences. Highly recommended.

Setting is like heaven! Service is superb! Food is excellent! Totally enjoyable!

Happy hour starts at 3, half off drinks and sushi . Good view and good food.

The host was great. She was extremely accommodating.