Lulu Hawaiian BBQ features a wide range of lunch plates including a Spam musubi plate, a chicken katsu option, and a fried shrimp saimin plate. The menu also includes teriyaki bowls and low-carb Hawaiian barbecue specials served with eggs instead of rice.

Aloha Hawaiian BBQ has two Las Vegas locations that specialize in seafood plates such as fried mahi mahi, shrimp curry, and fried scallops. The menu also includes musubi, saimin, udon, and oxtail soup.

Suha Bites specializes in Hawaiian barbecue entrees including combination plates with options including hamburger steak, garlic shrimp, and short ribs. The restaurant also offers sushi burritos, such as the Hawaiian-inspired Suha Bite burrito filled with crab, Spam, pineapple, and fried onions.

This little restaurant inside the California favors the slogan “Aloha spoken here.” Diners can order chicken adobo, kalua pig, and cabbage plus teriyaki and noodles. The saimin, plate lunches, and rice bowls are always popular and the wicker chairs here are always packed.

Pacific Island Taste is a hidden downtown spot with just four tables that specializes in Hawaiian breakfast plates, musubi, poke bowls, and specialties such as ahi nachos, pork hash, and cone sushi.

This family owned and operated restaurant with roots in Reno offers Hawaiian breakfast specialties including loco moco, fried spam and eggs, teriyaki pork with eggs, and rice and beef chili with eggs.

The Kalua pork here is extra flavorful — slow-roasted for 12 hours. And it’s just right nestled in the Bomber wrap with pulled pork, rice, cheese, grilled onions, and sweet guava barbecue sauce. The pork is also a standout on the lunch plate, served with rice and a green salad tossed in papaya seed dressing. 

Chinatown’s Paina Cafe is a Hawaiian export with two other locations in Honolulu. The casual restaurant prides itself on simple, fresh poke bowls, plate lunches and salads. The Las Vegas menu features build-your-own poke bowls plus curated options and fried salmon plates, kalua pig bowls, and Asian slaw salad.

Find Filipino and Hawaiian favorites here, with plates of garlic chicken, loco moco, and spam musubi. The fried chicken is extra crunchy and served with a generous scoop of mac salad.

Musubi, a rice dish with Spam wrapped in nori, is one of the most popular dishes here. Aloha Kitchen has five locations in Las Vegas and is a popular destination for daily karaoke featuring a rotation of popular Hawaiian songs.

With two locations in Las Vegas open every day for breakfast and lunch, Squeeze In serves an Aloha Aikane omelet (translation: “Hello friend!”) that’s filled with ham, pineapples, and sautéed in honey. The menu also includes banana and walnut pancakes named after Hawaiian singer Jack Johnson.

It would be remiss to leave this chain off the list of Hawaiian spots. Barbecued short ribs, a barbecue teriyaki plate, and more are just some of the specialties here. Find 13 locations in Las Vegas.

This Hawaiian-owned spot with four locations in Las Vegas is known for lunch plates with their barbecue fare. Diners can stop in for stir-fried udon with beef, minute chicken cake noodles plus musubi, saimin noodles, and wings.

Island Flavor is helmed by chef Darcy Ambrosio, who grew up on the Big Island. His menu features katsu loco moco, kalbi ribs, and lau lau (steamed taro leaves wrapped around chunks of fish and pork). Loco moco features rice with a fried egg and brown gravy on top. There are two Island Flavor locations in Las Vegas.

Terence Fong, owner of Island Sushi and Grill, believes in serving Japanese and Hawaiian fare under the same roof at an affordable price. The menu here includes fresh poke, an all-you-can-eat Hawaiian brunch every Sunday plus 50 percent off sushi specials every Thursday through Sunday.