At Mama's Fish House After Ten Days in Maui

 

The Mai Tai (/ˈmaɪ ˈtaɪ/ MYE TYE) is a cocktail made of rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice. It is one of the characteristic cocktails in Tiki culture. Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in 1944 at his restaurant, Trader Vic's, in Oakland, California, US. The Mai Tai was introduced in Hawaii in 1953 when Bergeron created a cocktail menu for the Matson Company hotels the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and Moana Hotel. 

Valet parking only, but it was easy to drop off the car in the small gravel lot off the Hana Highway, directly on the ocean and the small cliff.

One is greeted at reception and escorted down across the lawn by the beach, hemmed in by the elevated parking lot on one side, and by a close row of buildings of the resort. 

Inside the young woman hostess guides us through the dining room. I get separated from Jessica because I am wandering away looking for the bartender, to say hi to him, as the woman at the arts center suggested. I don't find him, but I find the bar and I say hey I know this guy, I just met his wife, and the staff behind the bar lights up, "Oh, [name] is a very influential person here!"

Then I look for Jessica and can't find her. The hostess sees me walking in confusion in dining room and says my name, which is the same, and I say yes that's me, and she guides me to another part of the dining room and I see Jessica sitting at a small table.

For a drink I order a classic Mai Tai. Jessica gets a drink with an umbrella in it. She says it reminds her of her grandparents, who ran a restaurant supply business in Youngstown. She and her sister used to open up packages of the cocktail umbrellas and wear them in their hair, when they were girls.

They serve us some nice bread, and amuse bouche of broccolini soup (I had to ask Jessica). She ordered the fish/shrimp curry for her entree. I ordered a fish with a Hawaiian name, which I still can't remember after asking Jessica again. Everything was delicious, especially the curry, which she let me sample. Definitely recommend it as a dining experience.

After dinner we walked on the small beach, which had spent the dinner looking out at, via the large windows that face the sea.