Sit down sip the house red wine and eat Italian bread dipped into oil and balsamic vinegar. You'll melt into the interior fabric of the restaurant, feeling like you've been here a hundred times.
Snuggled into the one and only major intersection of downtown Makawao, Casanova's is a central spot for all the local familys and friends living in the area as well their guests from the mainland and a few tourists who researched the area immensely or got lost and fell upon the local's upcountry, upbeat Italian restaurant.
Casanova's, well known by most of Maui's locals for dance nights and for serving Italian cuisine seen in every city on the mainland yet sparse on this island, caters to the food lover's stomach and artist's pallette.
The red table cloth wine glass shiny silver decor, custom clay benches, dance floor, two seating levels and roaring emblem of founder/artist Piero Resta warms the tummy as you watch the tanned Maui locals eat their pizza and wait for your pasta to arrive.
Casanova's serves your typical fine pastas, pizzas and wine with some particular themes to Maui's way of life. Mmm yum. I have yet to taste them all!
For that food fascination when you are bored of the tourist joints in Lahaina, Casanova's is a good choice.
Don't forget to go to Ladies night serving hip-hop dance beats on Wednesday nights, the band "The Prolifics" on Thursday nights, and Friday is the wildest night of Latin dancing excursions. My friends drive 2.5 hours from "the other side of Maui" where the roads are windy and rocky to make it to Casanova's on Friday nights. Piero Resta, the flambuoyant Italian artist and founder of Casanova's shows up and makes Friday nights even more special on the days he is not too tired of his work's gallery showings.....
Seek out what the locals are doing!