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Keneke's Plate Lunch & BBQ
Keneke's Plate Lunch & BBQ Review
When you're sightseeing between Hanauma Bay and Makapuu, the food pickings are slim. But every day, 365 days a year, there's Keneke's in Waimanalo town. It's the home of inexpensive plate lunches, shave ice, and Scriptural graffiti on the walls (Keith "Keneke" Ward, the burly, weight-lifting, second-generation owner of the place, is a born-again Christian). The food is diet busting, piled high, and mostly pretty good, particularly the Asian-style barbecue (including teriyaki chicken or beef and Korean kal bi (barbecue), and Filipino guisantes (pork and peas in tomato gravy) and adobo (piquant pork stew). If you want a treat, try the shave ice with ice cream. There is also a location in Punaluu on the Windward side of the island.
- Address: 41-855 Kalanianaole Hwy., Waimanalo, HI, 96795 | Map It
- Phone: 808/259-9800
- Website: www.kenekes.net
- Location: Windward Oahu
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- Reservations not accepted.
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