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Poipu
The Beach House
Kauai's most iconic oceanfront sunset table, Pacific Rim cuisine served right at the water's edge.
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For the food-led
Farm, fish, forage, and a chef in your kitchen.
Kauai's farm-to-table scene is unusually deep for its size. We build the trip around it.
Design This TripCommon Ground in the North Shore hills serves a four-course, in-season dinner on the working farm, with lei-making before you sit, and chef Justin Smith's Kauai Ono brings true farm, fish, and forage private-chef dinners into your villa.
Anchor the trip around the markets
Time the week around the Saturday Kauai Community College market in Lihue, the Wednesday Kauai Culinary Market at Kukui'ula with chef demos and a wine garden, and the Hanalei farmers market up north. Source local: Kauai coffee and cacao, Kilauea honey, fresh ahi and ono off the boat, and taro from the Hanalei lo'i.
A private chef plus a guided farm-and-market morning is the ideal luxury-food spine, with the oceanfront icons (The Beach House, Merriman's, Red Salt) reserved around it.
What’s inside
- A four-course dinner on a working farm
- Private-chef villa nights, farm to fish to forage
- Guided farm and market mornings
- The oceanfront icons, reserved
- Local sourcing: coffee, cacao, honey, fresh catch
A sample rhythm
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Market morning
A guided market and farm visit to source the week.
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Chef nights
Private-chef dinners in the villa, built from the morning's haul.
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Farm dinner
A four-course evening on the farm at Common Ground.
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Icons
Sunset tables at the oceanfront classics, reserved.
The Kauaiwe’d build in
The pieces that fit this trip.
The table
Sunset tables and farm-to-fork chefs.
Kauai's dining runs from oceanfront icons to North Shore wine rooms and true farm dinners. We hold the hard reservations.
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Poipu
Merriman's Fish House
Chef Peter Merriman's farm-to-table flagship at Kukui'ula, sourcing more than ninety percent local.
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Poipu
Tidepools at Grand Hyatt
Thatched bungalows over a koi lagoon at a waterfall's base, named a top hotel restaurant in America for 2025.
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Hanalei
Bar Acuda
The North Shore tapas-and-wine institution from Jim Moffat, a former Food & Wine Top New American Chef.
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Poipu
Red Salt
Frequently cited as Kauai's finest restaurant, a Kauai-native chef cooking local seafood at Ko'a Kea.
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Koloa
Eating House 1849
James Beard winner Roy Yamaguchi's plantation-era eatery at The Shops at Kukui'ula.
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Kilauea
Common Ground
A four-course, in-season dinner served on a working North Shore farm, with lei-making before you sit.
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In your villa
Kauai Ono (private chef)
Chef Justin Smith brings true farm, fish, and forage private-chef dinners into your villa or residence.
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Resorts and residences that hold the coastline.
From a North Shore wellness flagship to villa estates on the sunny south, these are the stays a Kauai trip is built around.
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Princeville
1 Hotel Hanalei Bay
Sustainable-luxury wellness flagship on the former St. Regis site, with six restaurants, two pools, and private Honoiki Beach below the Bali Hai peaks.
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Poipu
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa
The island's defining resort on Shipwreck Beach: a saltwater lagoon, lazy river, the vast Anara Spa, and Poipu Bay golf at the door.
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Lihue
Timbers Kauai Ocean Club & Residences
Oceanfront two-to-four-bedroom residences on the 450-acre Hokuala resort, MICHELIN Key two years running, with 17 miles of trail and the Ocean Course.
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Ko'a Kea Resort on Poipu Beach
An intimate 121-room oceanfront boutique built for romance and seclusion, home to the acclaimed Red Salt.
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Koloa Landing Resort, Autograph Collection
Villa-style resort with full Wolf and Sub-Zero kitchens and a 350,000-gallon pool complex, a short walk from reef-protected Poipu Beach.
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The Cliffs at Princeville
Spacious clifftop suites a hundred feet above the Pacific on a 22-acre North Shore plateau, ideal for longer, independent stays.
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Open-air spas and oceanfront calm.
Kauai is built for the slow restore after the big day: garden hales, cold plunges, and nature-forward programs.
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Poipu
Anara Spa at Grand Hyatt
The island's largest spa, forty-five thousand square feet of open-air rooms opening to gardens, with private hale bungalows.
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Princeville
Spa & Wellness at 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay
A nature-forward wellness program and the island's premier wellness-led resort experience on the North Shore.
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Lihue
Hualani Spa at Timbers Kauai
An organic, authentically Hawaiian spa within the MICHELIN-Key Hokuala resort.
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Food & chef experience
Let’s design it around you.
Share what you can already picture. A concierge fills in everything still open and sends back a plan, not a quote.