About Te Honu Iti
Restaurant Te Honu Iti has a balcony terrace on the water of Cook's Bay, offering a perfect spot to watch rays, sharks, and other fish swimming up to the restaurant — a deliberate practice of the kitchen, which throws scraps into the bay and has trained the local marine life to come up to the dining-room balcony at scheduled times.
The menu is a blend of local Polynesian and French cuisine. Signatures include a Polynesian poisson cru with coconut milk; a wood-fired Polynesian mahi-mahi; a slow-cooked Polynesian-vanilla lobster; a French-style Polynesian shrimp bisque; the famous 'tarte à la noix de coco' for the dessert course.
The wine list runs to 200 references with French Champagne and Polynesian-rum coverage.
The dining room and water-balcony terrace together hold sixty covers.
Why It's Perfect for First Date
Te Honu Iti is the easy first-date room in Moorea — the rays-and-sharks-swimming-up balcony is genuinely conversation-worthy, the Polynesian-French menu is reliable, and the kitchen runs at a friendly mid-tier register.
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