Don’t mind the photo – it has nothing to do with this post except to place you in Hawaii which we serendipitously left less than 24 hours before the tsunami warning sirens started.

While there, on the island of Maui, we had our fill of delicious fresh fish: Ono, Ahi, Opakapaka, Mahimahi.  We ate so much fish in fact, that on our last day, we decided to have a burger.  The kids were thrilled. 

So, while Cool Cat Café got high marks from the locals, we knew we had to return to Cheeseburger in Paradise.  Maybe it was the restaurant’s beachside location in Lahaina that drew us there or the siren call of Jack Johnson and Dire Straits coming from the guitar player upstairs (or the fact that we first ate there on our honeymoon).

Or, since we are a family of entrepreneurs, perhaps it was the story.  The menu reminds us, “No Guts, No Story,” and this is a story we love.  In a nutshell:  Two restless Southern California girls explore paradise, eat expensive fish every day and one declares, “I sure would like a great big gooey, five napkin Cheeseburger.”  The first Cheeseburger restaurant opened in 1989 and today there are 8 locations.  The Lahaina restaurant serves 1,200 guests per day and 18,000 “cheeseburgers with an attitude” a month.

What’s your dream?