Vote for your favorite restaurants!

The Advertiser¹s annual 'Ilima Awards are among the Islands' most prestigious restaurant honors, with winners selected by savvy diners as well as by our restaurant and food writing staff, and ballots tabulated by N&K CPAs, Inc.

After feedback that the voting process was too laborious, we¹ve streamlined the public portion to four simple choices; Best Restaurant, Best New Restaurant and Best Casual and Fine Dining Restaurants. Diamond Head Theatre ticket holders have voted in another public forum. And our critics will choose ethnic, regional and specialty categories.

DEADLINE: Must be submitted from this site on July 15 or earlier.

SEND COMPLETED BALLOT TO: IF YOU  CHOOSE TO USE A PRINTED BALLOT (FOUND IN THE SUNDAY ISLAND LIFE, WEDNESDAY TASTE AND FRIDAY TGIF SECTIONS) send it to 'Ilima Awards, Diamond Head Theatre, 520 Makapu¹u Ave., Honolulu HI 96816.

BEFORE VOTING, READ THESE IMPORTANT RULES:

• One ballot per person. The computer program notes when two votes have been sent from the same URL and all subsequent ballots arre invalid.
• Vote only once for any restaurant; if you vote for a restaurant in one category, you may not vote for it in another.
• Vote in all four categories
• STAR CIRCLE WINNERS: Restaurants that have won 10 or 'Ilima Awards are considered permanent awardees and are honored on stage at the 'Ilima gala. The Star Circle includes Alan Wong¹s Restaurant, Roy¹s Restaurant, Ryan¹s, Starbucks and Zippy¹s. Don¹t vote for these, they¹re already winners.

Starbucks, A Star Circle winner, is the official coffee of the 'Ilima Awards.