L&L Hawaiian Barbecue

Food is decent for a quick lunch/dinner to go for work. Chicken Katsu w/ double salad is my go to here

I haven't been to L&L for a very long time I forgot how good their food was. I ordered the BBQ mix plate and enjoyed it. The young man that took my order was very kind.

Justin Conde

Food is decent for a quick lunch/dinner to go for work. Chicken Katsu w/ double salad is my go to here

Patricia

I haven't been to L&L for a very long time I forgot how good their food was. I ordered the BBQ mix plate and enjoyed it. The young man that took my order was very kind.

Inside seating and lots of parking.. Love that their macaroni salad doesn't have tuna! But this time is tasted over cooked with too much mayonnaise. The loco moco patties tasted frozen & gravy wasn't very good . . ($16) The mixed BBQ plate comes with a lot of meat, a couple scoops of tice, & Mac salad. ($19) They don't have the original Red Rooster Siracha anymore .. bummer.

Jennifer

Inside seating and lots of parking.. Love that their macaroni salad doesn't have tuna! But this time is tasted over cooked with too much mayonnaise. The loco moco patties tasted frozen & gravy wasn't very good . . ($16) The mixed BBQ plate comes with a lot of meat, a couple scoops of tice, & Mac salad. ($19) They don't have the original Red Rooster Siracha anymore .. bummer.

Great place to get your katsu craving fixed. Honestly a little sticker shocked at the current price for a *mini* plate, but the flavor was as satisfying as always. Sneak over to this spot before or just after regular lunch hour to get in and out quickly.

Ryan Hall

Great place to get your katsu craving fixed. Honestly a little sticker shocked at the current price for a *mini* plate, but the flavor was as satisfying as always. Sneak over to this spot before or just after regular lunch hour to get in and out quickly.

The lady was nice and helpful. I ordered a moco loco, and it was kind of disappointing. It was $14 after taxes for the one egg on a hamburger patty on rice. This is something I make at home easily, but I wanted to try an authentic one, and this was pretty much the same. I've had better ones at other Hawaiian places. Maybe I just ordered poorly, and their other stuff might be good, but paying $14 for such an average dish that should probably cost like $6-$8 feels like such a rip-off. I won't be coming back.

Bought this snack. It's called "Musubi". I think. It was pretty good. A nice salty flavor combination with the white rice.

Definitely not the standard L&L normally is. Below average size portions. Longer than usual wait times. Taste is OK.

Richard L

The lady was nice and helpful. I ordered a moco loco, and it was kind of disappointing. It was $14 after taxes for the one egg on a hamburger patty on rice. This is something I make at home easily, but I wanted to try an authentic one, and this was pretty much the same. I've had better ones at other Hawaiian places. Maybe I just ordered poorly, and their other stuff might be good, but paying $14 for such an average dish that should probably cost like $6-$8 feels like such a rip-off. I won't be coming back.

Natasha Contreras

Bought this snack. It's called "Musubi". I think. It was pretty good. A nice salty flavor combination with the white rice.

Ernesto Munoz

Definitely not the standard L&L normally is. Below average size portions. Longer than usual wait times. Taste is OK.

Simple. If you're going to charge $16 or more per plate, please make sure that you're giving customers sriracha sauce and teriyaki sauce and anything else that they need. Because if you're already paying that much and you're going to skimp customers, that's ridiculous, Plus your teriyaki sauce is watered down. I'm not sure if ethanol changed their recipes to cut cough but definitely noticeable and it's sad that people spend so much money to get water-down versions of what l&l used to be.

Miguel Garcia

Simple. If you're going to charge $16 or more per plate, please make sure that you're giving customers sriracha sauce and teriyaki sauce and anything else that they need. Because if you're already paying that much and you're going to skimp customers, that's ridiculous, Plus your teriyaki sauce is watered down. I'm not sure if ethanol changed their recipes to cut cough but definitely noticeable and it's sad that people spend so much money to get water-down versions of what l&l used to be.

We decided on trying out this L&L after reading the reviews. I ordered the mixed BBQ plate, & we also got the seafood plate. My meat was bland, fatty & it tasted as if it was warmed up & not cooked fresh. I'm originally from Oahu, Hawaii, so I'm VERY, very familiar with "local" food & how it is supposed to taste, this isn't it. (This isn't "Hawaiian" food. It's local/island grindz) that as a non local, you'd assume it's Hawaiian. The cashier was very friendly! The portions were worth the price, but I was looking/expecting a flavor that just wasn't there. Mahalo nui loa!

use to come to this L&L very often over the past 9 years. The food quality was always good and larger portions where the plate wouldn’t even close. To say the least I visited recently, for what I usually order the BBQ mix, substituting the chicken for the katsu chicken now for 17$. The macaroni is soggy now and the portions decreased by a few pieces. Usually even two people could get full now it’s barely enough if you’re hungry. Another thing, they may have changed the breading because part of it retained a lot of oil or something and left it mushy in a few parts of the chicken pieces. Bit disappointed for what I use to expect and the price.

This place is more expensive than the location in Gardena. They give you less food here too. The older female Asian cashiers aren't too friendly either. It seemed like they were arguing yesterday. I honestly prefer the Gardena location; food tastes better, price cheaper by almost $4 a plate, & you get more food. Avoid the dirty restroom at this Carson location. Dirtiest restroom I've ever seen. Smelled like mildew.

Leilani C.

We decided on trying out this L&L after reading the reviews. I ordered the mixed BBQ plate, & we also got the seafood plate. My meat was bland, fatty & it tasted as if it was warmed up & not cooked fresh. I'm originally from Oahu, Hawaii, so I'm VERY, very familiar with "local" food & how it is supposed to taste, this isn't it. (This isn't "Hawaiian" food. It's local/island grindz) that as a non local, you'd assume it's Hawaiian. The cashier was very friendly! The portions were worth the price, but I was looking/expecting a flavor that just wasn't there. Mahalo nui loa!

Julyinthesun

use to come to this L&L very often over the past 9 years. The food quality was always good and larger portions where the plate wouldn’t even close. To say the least I visited recently, for what I usually order the BBQ mix, substituting the chicken for the katsu chicken now for 17$. The macaroni is soggy now and the portions decreased by a few pieces. Usually even two people could get full now it’s barely enough if you’re hungry. Another thing, they may have changed the breading because part of it retained a lot of oil or something and left it mushy in a few parts of the chicken pieces. Bit disappointed for what I use to expect and the price.

SAVAGE AF

This place is more expensive than the location in Gardena. They give you less food here too. The older female Asian cashiers aren't too friendly either. It seemed like they were arguing yesterday. I honestly prefer the Gardena location; food tastes better, price cheaper by almost $4 a plate, & you get more food. Avoid the dirty restroom at this Carson location. Dirtiest restroom I've ever seen. Smelled like mildew.

Avoid this location like the plague - drive 4.5 miles away to the Crenshaw location in Torrance. You get about 33-50% more at Crenshaw location, plus they don't try and cheat by slicing the chicken to 1/8" thick before breading it - they may as well serve Van De Kamps fish sticks because all you could taste was breading. Also if you order steamed vegetables at Crenshaw you get 80-90% broccoli instead of green beans. I've never been satisfied at the Carson location which is why this was my 3rd visit (in 5 years, vs hundreds of visits to the 5-star Crenshaw location over the past 15 years) even though it's the closest to me 1.5 miles and right next to Home Depot. They have gotten worse and now that they decided to start cheating by slicing the chicken about 66% thinner than they are supposed to I will NEVER be back and will be reporting them to corporate.

William Strickland

Avoid this location like the plague - drive 4.5 miles away to the Crenshaw location in Torrance. You get about 33-50% more at Crenshaw location, plus they don't try and cheat by slicing the chicken to 1/8" thick before breading it - they may as well serve Van De Kamps fish sticks because all you could taste was breading. Also if you order steamed vegetables at Crenshaw you get 80-90% broccoli instead of green beans. I've never been satisfied at the Carson location which is why this was my 3rd visit (in 5 years, vs hundreds of visits to the 5-star Crenshaw location over the past 15 years) even though it's the closest to me 1.5 miles and right next to Home Depot. They have gotten worse and now that they decided to start cheating by slicing the chicken about 66% thinner than they are supposed to I will NEVER be back and will be reporting them to corporate.

Rude lady I called , she told me to wait one minute then hangs up on me. I call back and ignores my calls. Horrible service. Rather eat somewhere else lost business from me

The Asian lady was rude and cheap with a packet of Siracusa. I asked for hot sauce she gave one packet for 3 spam musubi. The musubi wasn’t that good anyway. Stop being cheap with the sriracha packet. At least give two. Never going here again the spam musubi wasn’t all that good anyways and the older lady was rude and not friendly. Like you can smile.

The food is always great! we love L&L and have no issues with the restaurant but this time the customer service was terrible! To say the least, clearly the woman who took our order was having a bad day or does not know what customer service is! She didn't say hello even though we said hello to her, she stood there inpatient while we decided what to order she did not say a word! She had an angry expression on her face took our order my husband paid and said thank you and again she didn't say a word! As we paid she immediately turned her back on us, but forgot to give us our cups for our drinks, I then asked for the cups, she handed them to me and my husband again, said thank you! And again she didn't care to say, You're welcome and much less to say she was sorry for forgoting to give us the cups, She was just rude! As a few other customers were leaving one of them said to this woman that she was extremely rude and that being more courteous with the customers would go along way! As the customer left she proceeded to start talking bad about that customer and trying to justify herself. Needless to say, we will not be going back to this place. It's very unfortunate because we love this place and as paying customers we deserve to be treated with respect and great customer service This is the L & L in Carson on Albertoni and Avalon. Today is 12/22/24 and we were there around 3pm. Don't go to this place if you expect to be treated with kindness and respect.

Jo lu

Rude lady I called , she told me to wait one minute then hangs up on me. I call back and ignores my calls. Horrible service. Rather eat somewhere else lost business from me

Cheryl Manalo

The Asian lady was rude and cheap with a packet of Siracusa. I asked for hot sauce she gave one packet for 3 spam musubi. The musubi wasn’t that good anyway. Stop being cheap with the sriracha packet. At least give two. Never going here again the spam musubi wasn’t all that good anyways and the older lady was rude and not friendly. Like you can smile.

M Lopez

The food is always great! we love L&L and have no issues with the restaurant but this time the customer service was terrible! To say the least, clearly the woman who took our order was having a bad day or does not know what customer service is! She didn't say hello even though we said hello to her, she stood there inpatient while we decided what to order she did not say a word! She had an angry expression on her face took our order my husband paid and said thank you and again she didn't say a word! As we paid she immediately turned her back on us, but forgot to give us our cups for our drinks, I then asked for the cups, she handed them to me and my husband again, said thank you! And again she didn't care to say, You're welcome and much less to say she was sorry for forgoting to give us the cups, She was just rude! As a few other customers were leaving one of them said to this woman that she was extremely rude and that being more courteous with the customers would go along way! As the customer left she proceeded to start talking bad about that customer and trying to justify herself. Needless to say, we will not be going back to this place. It's very unfortunate because we love this place and as paying customers we deserve to be treated with respect and great customer service This is the L & L in Carson on Albertoni and Avalon. Today is 12/22/24 and we were there around 3pm. Don't go to this place if you expect to be treated with kindness and respect.