The award-winning Mala Ocean Tavern restaurant reopened Feb. 1 on Maui, after being closed for 5 months, and is now taking reservations. The constructing survived the Maui wildfires, and it is one of many few oceanfront buildings nonetheless standing in Previous Lahaina City.
Lahaina’s Mala Ocean Tavern reopened Feb. 1 after being closed as a result of Maui wildfires. Photograph Credit score: Photograph courtesy Mala Ocean Tavern
Ashley Davis, co-owner of Mala Ocean Tavern, stated it was crucial to ensure the area was secure for workers to return again to work and for company to dine earlier than reopening.
“Simply typically, opening a restaurant, there’s at all times plenty of challenges which can be going to return your approach, after which you have got a constructing that is been sitting for a while, and clearly had slightly bit of injury,” Davis stated.
“A very powerful factor to us is to honor our group, and to honor Lahaina and to honor the individuals of Maui. And to actually be right here for our employees. They wish to get working,” Davis stated. “The restaurant is beloved by our group. As an proprietor, I can not take credit score for that. It is due to the individuals who work right here.”
The dinner menu at Mala Ocean Tavern options seafood and steak entrees. Photograph Credit score: Photograph courtesy Mala Ocean Tavern
The menu nonetheless consists of seafood and steaks, however there might be some slight changes resulting from modifications in the place components are sourced. For example, the bread was from a Lahaina baker, and native fishermen had been affected by the fireplace.
“We’ll nonetheless have the No. 1 factor that I do know all people loves [and that] is our ahi bruschetta, so I feel there generally is a big sigh of reduction there,” Davis stated. “The oyster shooters, and identical to an incredible oceanfront brunch. We’re actually doing our greatest to take care of that excellence that we had at dinner.”
All of the employees at Mala Ocean Tavern have been personally affected by the Maui wildfires not directly, so Davis asks that company not inquire about it with employees as not everybody desires to speak about it. However, she stated, the aloha spirit is at Mala Ocean Tavern and everyone seems to be welcome there.
“It is simply good to suppose that we are able to carry it again and that there is nonetheless one thing, and I am so grateful that our neighbors are nonetheless right here as properly,” Davis stated.