Spago’s is offering a new take on their fine dining experience, providing a few less expensive offers for local patrons. A child’s entree is $9, or $15 for a three course meal. As far as adults go, bring a date, and the second entree is free. Just make sure your sweetheart brings her valid Hawaii ID or she might be a more expensive date than you had planned. The final option is a set menu for $49. Spago’s is a great way to enjoy “playing-tourist” for a night, now at a reasonable price. Read the glowing reviews about this beautiful maui restaurant here. 879-2999 for reservations.

David Paul’s Island Grill hosts The Diva Club, where membership benefits Women Helping Women (WHW). Fifteen dollars buys you access to delicious year-long perks, with ten of those dollars going directly to WHW. Read all about it HERE, at Mauivents.com, plus be sure to check out this great new review by Jen Russo.

To entice you further, dear foodie, here’s a peek at the complimentary Hors d’oeuvres menu, for Diva Club members:

GOOD TIMES WITH GYOZA & GIRLFRIEND GOSSIP

I’m lucky. Lucky in that my best gal pal (besides a great listener) is a foodie like no other. She’s literally always got the scoop on the best eats and what to order and recently turned me on to Queen Ka’ahumanu’s Ramen Ya.

Good friends are good listeners who know good grindz.

From our very first venture there, I was already hooked–their fried rice haunting my hungriest dreams. To ensure it wasn’t a good-day fluke, I had to go back. Sure enough the grindz were not only consistent, I think they might have even improved.

While the entire menu is enticing, selection “A” seems like the steal of the century (all for under $9): a big bowl of ramen, a mound of killah fried rice (seriously, some of the best out there–flecked with pink fish cake) and four pieces of plump gyoza (gyoza so good it has me turning up my nose elsewhere) is more deliciousness than I–a clean-your-plate kind of girl–can handle.

The employees are ultra sweet and attentive (my root beer never sinking lower than quarter cup status) and every time I glance up, the hard working chefs from the open kitchen are smiling, observing us–as if eager to see our reactions to the fare.

While the food has a quality tastiness enough to make you “Mmm!” aloud, when they give us the bill, the prices have me feeling a little like I’m stealing. Thus, Ramen Ya has quickly become one of our new ‘spots’ to dish each other our latest love life gossip over yumminess that appeals to our local palate.

If you need an early bird breakfast on the upper west side, look no further than Kahana Sands Restaurant. For $3.99 you get two eggs, hash browns or roast potatoes with your choice of meat between the hours of 7:30am to 8:30am. The restaurant is right on the ocean, and there is a pool right next to it too. and they had $2.50 bloody mary’s served in a pint glass that were terrific. The views are stunning. Their hash browns and roasted potatoes were top notch, cooked perfectly, crisp on the outside and not greasy at all. I also enjoyed the eggs florintine, two poached eggs perched on a bed of spinich and sliced tomato atop an english muffin and slathered with their hollandaise sauce. That was delicious though not on special running me around $10.

Kahana Sands is also boasting a $3 lava flow or mai tai special from 3 to 5, with food specials then too.

Their Maui Time Weekly dining listing and map here.