Honolulu Hawaii Best Prime Beef of Rib Restaurants
Here in Hawaii, barbecue doesn't just mean smoked meats topped with a tangy sauce. It also incorporates grilled meats, with Japanese, Korean, local and traditional American influences, reflecting our island's diverse landscape. We're also lucky to have the local-style plate barbecue lunch, which is defined by two scoops rice, mac salad, and meat slathered in soy sauce-based teriyaki sauce -- the island's iteration of barbecue sauce. If you're looking to fill a meaty hole in your soul that only barbecue can sate, then you're in luck -- Oahu's barbecue culture is one of the best and most diverse in the nation. We've rounded up the most amazing smoked and grilled meat flavors in the area, whether they're local or influenced from Korea, Japan -- or Texas.
Uncle Bobo's Smoked BBQ
Ka'a'awa
Classic barbecue comes with a view at this Windward-side hole in the wall, which serves dry-rubbed meat that's been smoked for hours over a combination of hickory and tropical woods. Try the popular beef brisket or pulled pork shoulder, served on a platter with seasoned rice and sides, or piled high onto a homemade French cottage roll packed with onions and garlic. The desserts here are totally worth saving room for: shave ice, ice coffee floats, and some delicious specials (if you're lucky, you'll catch the malasadas).
Guava Smoked
Kalihi (and Blaisdell and Kailua farmers markets)
Located in a residential neighborhood in Kalihi, this tiny apartment-style eatery serves up local-style barbecue for lunch only. As its name implies, dishes are smoked with guava -- strawberry guava, to be exact -- which lends a sweeter note to its smoky meats, poultry, and seafood. Order a plate lunch of spicy pork, butterfish collars, salmon belly, burgers, duck, kalbi short ribs, or meat chili. Or, if you would prefer to go to the beach and work the hibachi yourself, this joint has you covered: grab your favorite from the selection of pre-smoked, frozen meats to take home and impress your friends.
Kau Kau Grill
Kakaako
Put on your best (read: worst) grubby clothes and head to the Kau Kau Grill, located at the Makers & Tasters marketplace. This killer food truck offers tender, fall-off-the-bone baby back ribs smothered in barbecue sauce. Pro tip: try the "trust us" combo, in which you'll also receive a handful of garlic shrimp for just a few bucks more.
Japanese BBQ Yoshi
Makiki
If the thought of high-quality marbled meat makes you drool like one of Pavlov's dogs, you should probably stop whatever you're doing and head to Yoshi, where you can order cuts of succulent US prime and Kobe Gold Grade beef, either marinated or au naturel. If you want to learn about the true glories of Japanese cattle, however, go for the A5 Wagyu -- the highest grade possible -- and let the soft, buttery meat melt in your mouth.
Bob's Bar-B-Que
Kalihi
Bob's Bar-B-Que has been serving up delicious, classic, local-style barbecue to Oahu residents and tourists alike for over 38 years. Hit the walk-up counter, where you'll find hibachi, traditional barbecue, and sweet-and-tangy teriyaki. With so many options to choose from, your best bet is the Super Combo: a delightful, meaty medley of beef and baby back ribs, kalbi, teri beef, and teri chicken, all served with heaping spoonfuls of rice, plus mac salad. You could split this extravaganza with a friend (or two) and austerely save the leftovers, or -- and this is the recommended option -- embrace your inner meat beast and go to town solo.
Hughley's Southern Cuisine
Aiea
Even the mini rack of pork spare ribs at this Southern soul joint will quell hunger pangs: the barbecue here runs sweet, tangy, and -- most importantly -- plentiful. Be prepared to paint your face with the good stuff. If you're up for a serious challenge, go for the full rack -- or supplement your half-rack with some tender, smoky beef brisket (and consider names for your future food baby).
Molly's BBQ and Seafood
Wahiawa
If you have a sudden, inexplicable craving for Southern barbecue, perhaps the scent of Molly's wood-smoked meats found you all the way from central Oahu. The restaurant formerly known as Molly's Smokehouse serves up rich, country-style comfort food, including Texas-style barbecued chicken, baby back ribs, pulled pork, and the amazing brisket that it's known for. Wash it all down with a glass of sweet tea, the Southern confection/quaff that's basically eleventy-billion parts sugar to one part water.
678 Hawaii
Ala Moana
For a barbecue splurge with a Korean twist, this yakiniku restaurant offers up quality meats that you cook yourself on a tabletop grill. Pop your Kobe beef brisket, pork belly, or prime rib in the center, then cook your kimchi, onions, zucchini, or corn in separate compartments on the grill's perimeter. The best feature (aside from the hot, hyper-fresh dinner in front of you): there's a vent situated just above the grill that sucks away the smoke -- so you aren't stuck with the scent in your hair and clothes afterward.
Smokey Ranch Barbeque
Waimānalo
On the drive to Makapuu Lighthouse, keep your eyes peeled for a food truck like no other: it looks like a log cabin and is located on the mountain-side of a road, as all great barbecue should really be. The meat here is hand-rubbed with a custom blend of spices, and smoked over keawe wood, which infuses the smoky pulled pork, brisket, chicken, pork ribs, and spare ribs. Go all out and try a combo plate, which lets you sample a variety of the smoked meats, plus coleslaw, baked beans, cornbread, and a pickle spear. After a day of snorkeling, hiking, or (let's be real) just driving around the island, stuffing yourself silly with home-cooked smoked meat is a nice reward.
Henry Loui's
Mapunapuna
When a place proclaims to have the "best suckin' ribs in Hawaii," it's definitely making a bold claim -- especially when it looks more like an old-fashioned supper club than a barbecue joint. But with over 18lb of ribs cycling through the restaurant every week, this joint's popularity might just speak for itself. The ribs are adored for their homemade barbecue sauce, which the chef describes as a mix of Asian and Texas influences.
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Summer Nakaishi is a freelance writer for Thrillist and is currently letting her hunger cravings control her life, thanks to her research for this story. Teach her how to use Twitter @summercolada.
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