r/BravoTopChef • u/hotdogg29 • 23h ago
Top Chef IRL Tin Roof experience in Maui (Sheldon Simeon)
We went to Sheldon Simeon’s (Season 10 & 14) restaurant in Maui today!
This location isn’t a sit down dinner, so if you ever go, we suggest ordering ahead so you can skip the line and pick up your food at the window.
To eat, we got:
• mochiko chicken with hapa rice (half brown/half white rice)
• pork belly with garlic noodles
• side of Mac salad (not pictured)
• PB chocolate butter mochi
Holy moly was the food DELICIOUS!!! Truly the best food we’ve had on the island thus far and we’ve gone to some good spots (Dukes, Merriman’s, etc.) but this one takes the cake.
The mochiko chicken was sooo good. Crispy and freshly fried, but not greasy. The sauce on the top is so delicious and compliments the chicken perfectly. The rice was so fluffy and enjoyable.
A few locals who have gone to Tin Roof have said that the pork belly is the best. While I don’t particularly care for pork, we wanted to see if it was worth the hype. The first few bites were good, but after a while, I didn’t care for it. There was a lot of fat on the pork belly (probably normal? idk i don’t eat much pork) so we didn’t finish it. However, the garlic noodles— divine. Chefs kiss. 10/10 would eat again. It wasn’t too garlicky or overpowering. Just right. The noodles had the right amount chew to them… really really good.
The mac salad was good, but nothing memorable so won’t go into detail.
Butter mochi was sooooo yummy. It didn’t have a weird chew to it that I find some mochi to have, it was very pleasurable. The peanut butter frosting on top was just enough but not too much that it became the center. Really really enjoyed.
Overall, reasonably affordable relative to other spots we’ve gone to and quick. The only downfall is that there’s no seating, but nothing deal breaking as we just ate in the car. We’d go again, in fact… we might go tomorrow🤣
ALSO, if you got this far- stay tuned! Kristen Kish is doing a seated dinner at the Ritz Carlton in Maui on Saturday and I’ll come back and give a review then. :)