9. HUGGO’S
For more than 45 years, locals and tourists craving a luxury dining experience right on the Pacific have turned to Huggo’s for a chic, yet casual seaside atmosphere, serving only the freshest seafood, much of it caught offshore within hours of reaching your plate. With an open-air dining space that juts out slightly into the ocean, Huggo’s provides diners with a premier view of the sun, sand, and surf where fish, eels, and manta rays swim about, putting on a seaside show during the evening hours. This Kona restaurant is renowned for its view, but its notoriety extends beyond unmatched ocean sights to its menu of locally harvested ingredients, used to prepare favorites like Chef Ken Schloss’ legendary teriyaki steak, crab-crusted Ono, and Hualalai ice cream pie. Oceanside dinner at Huggo’s for two will average between $42-78. Eight different bottles of wine are also available, priced from $14-167.