{"id":228776,"date":"2026-03-20T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:56:09","slug":"hawaiian-barbecue-chain-closes-berkeley-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228776\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian barbecue chain closes Berkeley branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L&amp;L Hawaiian Barbecue<\/p>\n<p>The Berkeley L&amp;Ls has closed, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/l-and-l-hawaiian-barbecue-berkeley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yelpers<\/a> and it is no longer listed on the company\u2019s website. The Honolulu-based chain, which first opened in 1952, serves plate lunches like chicken katsu, kalua pork with cabbage, and snacks like Spam musubis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiianbarbecue.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">L&amp;L Hawaiian Barbecue<\/a>, 2475 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gform_required_legend\">&#8220;*&#8221; indicates required fields<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/author\/momo-chang\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MomoChang_AndriaLo_cropped2-100x100.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  data-attachment-id=\"388703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/?attachment_id=388703\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MomoChang_AndriaLo_cropped2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1517,1397\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Andria Lo&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1417695085&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;photo by Andria Lo&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MomoChang_AndriaLo_cropped2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Momo Chang, alumni coordinator at Oakland Voices.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MomoChang_AndriaLo_cropped2-300x276.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MomoChang_AndriaLo_cropped2-1200x1105.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Momo Chang is a freelance journalist who writes about food, culture, and social issues. She is the former co-director of Oakland Voices, a project of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/author\/momo-chang\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Momo Chang\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L&amp;L Hawaiian Barbecue The Berkeley L&amp;Ls has closed, according to Yelpers and it is no longer listed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2436,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-228776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-berkeley-restaurants-and-bars","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}