Among the handful of excellent restaurants (including Azul for contemporary seafood, and Ushio-Tei for authentic Japanese fare) at southwestern Oahu's JW Marriott Ihilani Resort , the open-air Naupaka Terrace is well-regarded for its expansive breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffet spreads as well as first-rate a la carte fare. Sunday's champagne brunch is another favorite meal, during which you might try such Hawaiian specialties as the Kama'aina breakfast (pictured here), Loco Moco, banana-macadamia-nut pancakes, scrambled eggs with Kalua pork, and Puna papaya with lime.

The Kama'aina breakfast mixes Hawaii's local and Portuguese traditions and features a pair of eggs cooked as you like them (I like mine sunny-side up), over Lup Chong Jasmine fried rice with bacon, slightly spicy Portuguese sausage, traditional breakfast link sausage, and green onions. It's especially tasty if you shake a few (or a few dozen, in my case) drops of Tabasco sauce on the entire spread. Also in this photo, note the plate of delicious grapefruit segments, topped with fresh mint and Hawaiian sea salt.