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own sake). Kojima's is just east of Pukalani Superette in the Pukalani Square shopping
center. Its traditional Japanese decor gives the restaurant an air of urban authenticity you
would never expect sitting across the street from an old pineapple field.
Continental
The
Ulupalakua Ranch Store
(Kula Hwy. 37, 808/878-2561,
www.ulupalakuaranch.com/
store
, grill 11am-2:30pm daily, $10) is also the only place on the island where you
can—believe it or not—order an elk burger for lunch. Despite the quirky signs on the
walls, don't be fooled into thinking this is just some out-of-the-way tourist trap. Ulupalak-
ua Ranch is the real deal, and the meat served here is raised right on the same pastures you
were looking at when you drove in. This 20,000-acre cattle ranch has raised beef cattle
since 1886, and over a hundred head of free-range elk still roam the upper pastures. Other
options include the Ulupalakua beef burger, steak chili and rice, or a beef tenderloin sand-
wich. They also serve salads, but you don't come here to eat quinoa and kale. This is a
real ranch that serves real meat, and if the cowboy vibe suddenly strikes mid-meal you can
pick up a belt buckle at the store inside.
Bully's Burgers
(15900 Pi'ilani Hwy., 808/878-3272,
www.triplelranchmaui.com
,
11am-7pm, $9-12) is a roadside stand in the pasturelands of Kanaio where the beef is 100
percent all-natural, and you can occasionally even see the herd being driven by while you
dine. This might look like little more than a wooden shack in the middle of nowhere (be-
cause that's exactly what it is), but once you chomp into a 10-ounce Double Bully, you
can immediately taste the difference of eating locally sourced beef. Seeing as Bully's is
only four miles past the Ulupalakua Store, this is the place to come if the Ulupalakua Grill
is already closed, or if you're driving the “back road” from Hana and realize you haven't
eaten since breakfast.
