Maui's on Main — Restaurant in San Antonio

We read the reviews and we had mixed thought but we had very high hopes! We saw they got very busy and that they had a way to order ahead so, we did just that! We ordered our food and pick a time of 11AM for a Saturday.

We arrived around 10:55am that Saturday and sat in the eating area, we were greeted by the young lady working behind the counter and also by the owner who came an talked to us and gave us both a fist bump!

11AM on the dot our food came in we grabbed our drinks and a mochi cake (extra)! We decided to sit outside as it was a beautiful morning. So we began to dig in! Right away my wife noticed the order was wrong with our 3 meat plate... they gave us teriyaki chicken ILO teriyaki beef but she was hungry and didn't want to wait for new food. The chicken was pretty dry and she did not enjoy it, The shrimp were delicious no complaints there and the Kalua Pork was just missing flavor but sriracha always helps! The mac salad was very tasty and the fried rice yummy!

The 2nd thing we got was a burger and with all the toppings it was really tasty but the burger it self plain. Highlight of the burger was the bun, soft, sweet and just perfect. The fries were cooked well and had a good seasoning! That seasoning should have been used on the burger!!

We also order a Loko Moco! One of my favorite Hawaiian dishes! It was cooked well, eggs runny and lots of gravy but again no flavor....

The mochi cake was pretty good, slightly sweet and chewy like it should be.

All in all it was a good experience but the food was lacking flavor as others have also said... Maui's is about 35 minutes from home so, I don't see us travelling all the way back for...

I was hopeful, given all the positive reviews, that I’d finally get some authentic Hawaiian food. Unfortunately, I got home disappointed.

The storefront was fine, and the waitress was friendly. Food took about 20 minutes to come out. A bit long, but I wasn’t in a hurry.

I ordered the three-meat combo (chicken teriyaki, pork, and fried chicken) along with a spam musubi.

The spam musubi was a miss: no glaze, no sear—just pink, naked and sad. It lacked that essential salty-sweet balance that makes the classic work.

The chicken wasn’t teriyaki, and neither was the sauce just salty, flat, and bland. The meat seemed like it had been pre-cooked, left to sit in a hot well, then sliced and reheated to death.

The pork had a few okay bites, but overall it was dry and stringy—seemed like a mix of fresh and old batches. No cabbage to balance it out, either.

The fried chicken was very inconsistently sized. So, while it wasn’t burnt and the oil didn’t taste old, the texture was dry and gritty from being overcooked.

All the meats were stacked on top of what I’m guessing was instant or parboiled fried rice because the grains didn’t stick to each other. It was way too salty, especially with the spam, and the amount of bell peppers was actually diabolical. They overpowered everything.

I hate wasting food, but this was honestly inedible.

Even the mac salad felt lazy. A splash of vinegar, a shredded carrot, and a pinch of MSG would’ve gone a long way.

Maybe this place was good once. But there’s only so much corner-cutting a...

The Curmudgeon About Town says: I don't know what makes Hawaiian rolls so good ... but after tasting my wife's excellent (and very large) burger at Maui's, we both have a new favourite. If I was rating the food based on just that burger, it'd be five [stars] for sure. Everything in the burger was excellent and just thinking about it now is making me plan another visit. Best burger in town? Gotta say yes.

My own dish, Loco Moco, was good too. Not as good; so few things in life are. But good: spam-fried rice, a traditional Hawaiian dish, topped with two hamburger patties, brown gravy, and two sunny-side-up fried eggs, served with a pasta salad. Both the main dish and the side dish come in copious quantity. I could only manage to eat half my dinner, but it came in a go-box so was no trouble to pack up and carry away. I expected to have a complaint about the cheap single-use plastic utensils, but they proved to be up to the task in this instance. (Though I still wish more restaurateurs would avoid them.)

I was happy with the dish overall. A lighter touch with the brown gravy would be an improvement; it overwhelmed the other flavours of the dish, to the point where I couldn't actually taste the spam at all. And if I'm being honest, I would have been content with one hamburger patty and one egg on the dish. But this is America, Land of the Supersized Serving, so who can really complain about that? And I loved the pasta salad for its...