# Aloha Spotlight > Hawaiʻi's local businesses, and the people behind them ## Posts - [Best Restaurants on Kauaʻi: 6 Local Favorites Around the Island, Picked by Braddah Brand](https://alohaspotlight.com/best-restaurants-kauai/): Saimin in Līhuʻe, laulau in Kapaʻa, an ahi wrap on the North Shore and a sunset table in Poʻipū. Here are the six Kauaʻi restaurants Braddah Brand says you can't miss, one for every side of the island. - [Best Restaurants on Maui: Braddah Brand's 6 Picks, From Plate Lunch to a Pāʻia Splurge](https://alohaspotlight.com/best-restaurants-maui/): Mochiko chicken by the airport, dry mein in Wailuku, pie in Olowalu and the hardest dinner reservation in Hawaiʻi. Here are the six Maui restaurants Braddah Brand says belong on your trip, plus what to order at each. - [Best Shave Ice on Oʻahu: 6 Spots Braddah Brand Says Are Worth the Drive](https://alohaspotlight.com/best-shave-ice-oahu/): From the North Shore classics in Haleʻiwa to a little Kapahulu cluster where you can hit three shops in one afternoon, here are the six Oʻahu shave ice spots Braddah Brand would send his own ʻohana to, plus what to order at each. - [Hamura Saimin: From a Ford Sedan in the Cane Camps to a James Beard Classic in Līhuʻe](https://alohaspotlight.com/hamura-saimin-lihue-kauai/): Hamura Saimin Kauai: since 1952, Hamura Saimin has been ladling out homemade noodles and a secret-recipe broth from the same wooden building on Kress Street in Līhuʻe. - [Top 5 Places to Eat on Oʻahu: Braddah Brand's Food Guide for Your Hawaiʻi Trip](https://alohaspotlight.com/top-5-places-to-eat-oahu-food-guide/): Skip the tourist traps. From early-morning Spam plates in Waipahu to fish-auction poke on the Honolulu waterfront, here are the five Oʻahu food stops Braddah Brand says you cannot miss, plus what to order and how to hit them all in one day. - [Chambers VR: Oʻahu's Most Immersive Escape Rooms Are Hiding Inside a Bowling Alley](https://alohaspotlight.com/chambers-vr-escape-rooms-oahu/): At Chambers VR, you and your crew walk, reach and solve your way through dragon towers, sunken temples and runaway trains in free-roam virtual reality. It's private, it's for ages 7 and up, and it's hiding inside the Schofield Bowling Center. - [Big Island Delights: 30 Years of Hilo Sweetness, and a New Home on Kinoʻole Street](https://alohaspotlight.com/big-island-delights-hilo-cookies/): Since 1996, Big Island Delights has been baking Hilo's favorite cookies and treats with Hawaiʻi-grown macadamia nuts. This fall, the Takamine family celebrated 30 years by blessing a new home where the bakery and shop finally live under one roof. - [White Nene Coffee: From a Broken Back to a Champion Roaster in Kona](https://alohaspotlight.com/white-nene-coffee-roasters-kona/): At 19, a construction accident broke Mark Kove's back. Years later, a cup of coffee in South Korea set him on a new path. Today his White Nene Coffee Roasters is one of Kona's most exciting specialty coffee companies. - [Tanioka's: Come for the Poke, Stay for Everything Else](https://alohaspotlight.com/taniokas-seafoods-catering-waipahu-poke/): Tanioka's Seafoods & Catering in Waipahu has been Oʻahu's favorite poke counter since 1978. People come for the poke. They leave with a bag full of ahi patties, cone sushi, musubi and fried chicken. Here's how a one-man fish market became a family institution. - [Ohana DriftLab: Honolulu's Indoor Drift Karts Built for the Whole Family](https://alohaspotlight.com/ohana-driftlab-honolulu-drift-karts/): Ohana DriftLab brings indoor drift karts to Honolulu's Dole Cannery, with karts for keiki ages 3 and up, adults, and kupuna, plus birthday parties and group events. Here's why this Oʻahu family fun center works. - [Matsumoto Shave Ice at 75: The Accidental Shave Ice Shop of Haleʻiwa](https://alohaspotlight.com/matsumoto-shave-ice-haleiwa/): Matsumoto Shave Ice in Haleʻiwa started as a grocery store in 1951. How a slow month in 1956 turned it into the most famous shave ice stop on Oʻahu's North Shore. ## Pages - [Stories](https://alohaspotlight.com/stories/) - [About](https://alohaspotlight.com/about/): Aloha Spotlight shares the stories of Hawaiʻi's local businesses and the people behind them. - [Get Featured](https://alohaspotlight.com/get-featured/): Run a business in Hawaiʻi? Apply to be featured on Aloha Spotlight. It's free, and we'll tell your story the right way. - [Home](https://alohaspotlight.com/): We tell the stories of the shops, makers, farmers, and founders who make the islands feel like home. Getting featured is always free. [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)