{"id":228960,"date":"2026-03-20T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228960\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:24:09","slug":"hawaiian-barbecue-chain-closes-berkeley-branch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228960\/","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:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/author\/momochang\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774034649_797_Momo-Chang_photo.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMomo 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.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/author\/momochang\" 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\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/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":228961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2436,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-228960","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\/228960","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=228960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}