{"id":435643,"date":"2026-09-14T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435643\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:10:11","slug":"youve-probably-driven-past-lubbocks-best-little-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435643\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve Probably Driven Past Lubbock\u2019s Best Little Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of little restaurants you could drive by every day in Lubbock without giving them a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>And then, there&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmenus.com\/tx\/lubbock\/730615-aloha-bbq\/menu\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Aloha BBQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tucked away at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmenus.com\/tx\/lubbock\/730615-aloha-bbq\/menu\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9810 Indiana Ave<\/a>., Aloha BBQ is tiny, no-frills, and incredibly easy to miss if nobody has ever told you about it. I couldn&#8217;t help but mention it today because it&#8217;s my all-time favorite place to eat in Lubbock, and I know for a fact that I am not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Someone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/LBKFoodies\/posts\/2564717287309979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced yesterday on the LBK Foodies Facebook page that it had reopened, and people were ecstatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, Aloha BBQ is finally open again.<\/p>\n<p>The little Hawaiian hole-in-the-wall serves favorites like chicken katsu, Hawaiian BBQ chicken, kalua pork, loco moco, musubi, noodles, fried rice, and INCREDIBLE macaroni salad. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmenus.com\/tx\/lubbock\/730615-aloha-bbq\/menu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get the full menu here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The portions are HUGE, y&#8217;all, and the food is made to order. They&#8217;re usually pretty busy, so expect to wait a bit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantji.com\/tx\/lubbock\/aloha-bbq-grill-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews regularly mention waiting period of 30 minutes<\/a> or longer.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to know it is WELL worth the wait. It&#8217;s kind of just part of the whole experience.<\/p>\n<p>Newbies, this isn&#8217;t just some trendy new restaurant that showed up in Lubbock. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowpages.com\/lubbock-tx\/mip\/aloha-bbq-grill-1637245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Yellow Pages, it&#8217;s actually been around for nearly 2 decades<\/a>. They&#8217;ve got\u00a0a seriously loyal and decidated following in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant has <a href=\"https:\/\/lonestar995fm.com\/is-lubbocks-aloha-bbq-finally-back-open-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gone through some extended closures<\/a>, a few that lasted longer than expected, but they&#8217;re open now, so get to it!<\/p>\n<p>Bring your patience for the wait-time, go hungry, and prepare yourself to discover why everyone loves this place so much. You&#8217;ll never drive by that restaurant again without considering Hawaiian food for dinner&#8230;for the third or fourth time this week.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Keep scrolling for more Lubbock news in the galleries below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Local Lubbock Places That Offer Great Seafood Boils <\/p>\n<p>Looking to get messy? 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Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are plenty of little restaurants you could drive by every day in Lubbock without giving them a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-435643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}