Cheeseburger in Paradise - Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
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wildwoodke
N 20° 41.263 W 156° 26.449
4Q E 766589 N 2289691
This Cheeseburger Restaurant, is a sister restaurant to the Cheeseburger in Paradise in Lahaina, named after Jimmy Buffett's 1978 song of the same name. This one is located in Wailea, Maui, Hawaii.
Waymark Code: WMG21B
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2013
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"Cheeseburger in Paradise" was first released on Jimmy Buffett's 1978 album Son of a Son of a Sailor and was released as a single, reaching #32 on the "Billboard Hot 100".
The following is quoted from Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville website:
"The myth of the cheeseburger in paradise goes back to a long trip on my first boat, the Euphoria. We had run into some very rough weather crossing the Mona Passage between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico and broke our bow sprit. The ice in our box had melted, and we were doing the canned-food-and-peanut-butter diet. The vision of a piping hot cheeseburger kept popping into my mind. We limped up the Sir Francis Drake Channel and into Roadtown on the island of Tortola, where a brand-new marina and bar sat on the end of the dock, like a mirage. We secured the boat, kissed the ground, and headed for the restaurant. To our amazement, we were offered a menu that featured an American cheeseburger and pina coladas. Now these were the the days when supplies in that part of the world were rather scarce-when horsemeat was more plentiful than ground beef in the tiny stores of the Third World. Anyway, we gave particular instructions to the waiter on how we wanted them cooked and what we wanted on them-to which little attention was paid. It didn't matter. The overdone burgers on the burned, toasted buns tasted like manna from heaven, for they were the realization of my fantasy burgers on the trip. That's the true story. I've heard other people and places claim that I stopped or cooked in their restaurants, but this is the way it happened. I love to eat and have taken advantage of my success to travel and discover the foods of the world. There are elegant restaurants and out-of-the-way seafood joints and tiny Thai hamlets that spring into my mind when people ask where I like to eat, but that is another book. I don't eat much meat as I once did, and I now treat a cheeseburger as a treat rather than a ration. So when the urge hits me to have a burger, I try to match my desire to splurge with the right town and the right burger. I'm sure you know a place in your hometown where you believe they make the best cheeseburger in the world. These are the places I have visited personally when I was trying to come up with the perfect cheeseburger for Margaritaville in Key west. These are my cheeseburger roots."
See: http://www.margaritaville.com/parrotheads_archives_top10burgers.html