Bar Acuda

After launching two successful restaurants in San Francisco (The Slow Club and 42°), chef/owner Jim Moffat up and moved to the tiny town of Hanalei and opened this sleek, romantic restaurant. Candles light the room and exotic mouthwatering aromas waft from the open exhibition kitchen. Bar Acuda specializes in Moffat's favorite tapas dishes from the southern European regions along the 42° latitude (southern France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal). The creative dishes range from onaga en papillote with pineapple, lime, chiles, and vanilla ($27) to lobster- stuffed squid ($14) to a grilled rib-eye steak with shoestring potatoes and salsa verde ($28). There is an excellent wine selection, with some 50 handpicked, estate-bottled wines, mainly from Italy, France, Spain, Oregon, and California (with an emphasis on Rohne-style grapes). Half of the wines are available by the glass.

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