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Reserve Koali Ranch Cottage today! 
Some of the best meals are the do it your selves and consumed on Koali Ranch Cottage's lanai.
The Hana Maui Hotel offers pricy food and sometimes it is very good. Two of our recent guests really liked the mahimahi and said a risoni dish was excellent (10/10/9). We ate there on 10/11/9 and again on 1/27/10. The food was excellent. In August some folks reported eating lousy burgers at the Hotel bar.
The Ranch Restaurant is usually open for lunch and often for dinner before 8PM. We ate here in August and the baby back ribs were good and two of us had Opa fish and declared it good.
Longhi's of Lahaina has taken over the both restaurants and reviews are still equivalent. Some good some not so good.
On the North road to Hana, starting at Skippy’s Nahiku Mall (at Mile Marker 29) there are several eateries. You can get regular coffee early in the morning and the rest of the day at the Nahiku Cafe. At another booth, Carl and Linda offer smoked fish and pork and make sumptious tacos and wraps for lunch and very early dinner. Another booth serves Tai food, but at 4 pm I was too late to sample
Near the Hana Airport, mm 31+ are two produce stands offering soups and banana bread.
At mm 33 are two lunch stands which are open often. Excellent smoked pork tacos at Uncle Ben's Hana Tacos are on the makai side of the road in a tent. Tell Ben to go easy on the garlic sauce or leave it on the side unless you like hot. Service with a smile. On the makua side, is the 'Aina tent where they do excellent wraps, smoothies. They close at five or when they run out.
After another half mile, or so, the Hana Health Center is just before the police station. They serve healthy lunches, espresso and produce from their commercial garden. Their little cherry tomatoes make excellent snacks. We understand their organic food is Grown In Accordance With The Organic Farmers of America (GIAWTOFA).
After you go past the police station (past mm 34 on the right fork at the police station) there are often a couple sign boards advertising food.
Down at the bay (the left fork in the road at the Police station) is Tutu’s.
Just up from the bay, opposite the softball field, is Prawnie’s lunch stand that is open on Sundays and Saturdays. I’ve enjoyed her fried Thai noodles very much.
If an event (athletic or entertainment) is going on in the ball field in the afternoon or evening, there are usually several local families offering food.
Further down the road, Hasegawa Store and the Ranch Store (up from the post office) offer hotdogs, spam musubee, chips, produce and ice cream snacks. Hasegawa sells produce from Hana Health. Both stores are open from 7 AM to 7 PM.
The gas station sells snacks and drinks.
Two doors down from the gas station Ono Farms has a fruit stand often with some exotic fruit as well as pineapple, guava, tomatoes, avocado, papaya, citrus in season,. It is GIAWTOFA.
On many Mondays Troy opens a brunch/lunch stand just a little past the Ono Farms stand. People report excellent fare. If the Ono stand isn’t there, Troy’s is on the Hana Town side of the Buddist Temple.
Another 200 feet is Brudda Hutt’s outdoor grill. Lunch and sometimes early dinner. When they are open they make good food. People rave on their shrimp noodle dish and I like their grilled flattened chicken.
Brudda Hutt’s is the last real food for many miles. A couple families offer shaved ice and drinks further out toward Koali Ranch Cottage and the national park at Kipahulu.
In Hana, the mile markers from the north route stop at 34 then south of Hana the mile markers start counting backwards from 51.
Sometime after ten in the morning a group of vendors set up shop at a bridge in front of a spectacular water fall (when there is water) near MM 44. David sells excellent banana bread. Other items for sale, coconut hats, jewelry.
Keep going to Haleakala National Park at Oheo Gulch. Spectacular, but no food or liquid for sale. If you take the 1.5 mile hike up to Waimoku Falls, take water. It's farther than you think.
Laulima Farms is a little over a mile past the national park. They serve coffee and snacks. You can peddle their bike motor to create your own smoothie.
About ten miles more, vistors report that the Kaupo Store is open. I'm not sure about the hours.
Fifteen miles more or so you cross the South ridge and come to Ulapalakua Ranch. The ranch store sells sandwiches.
If the Tedeschi Winery is open when you go by, you can have a taste of their wine (the raspberry liquor is really good) and buy some exquisite chocolate truffles. Rob a bank before going.
Next stop is Grandma’s about five miles more. Grandson and proprietor Al Frank roasts his Haleakala grown coffee.