Rainbow Drive-In
- ★ 4.5
- American BBQ
- $
Try Plate lunch with two scoops rice
Rainbow Drive-In in Kapahulu Honolulu has slung budget plate lunches since 1961, with mix plates of loco moco, BBQ beef and boneless chicken averaging $11.
Eat well in Honolulu for under €15 a plate: the places locals on a budget actually use.
Cheap eats worth seeking out
10 places
Marukame Udon Waikiki
- ★ 4.2
- Japanese
- $
Try Kake udon
Marukame Udon Waikiki in Honolulu pours kake udon for around $6 a bowl from a cafeteria-line counter, with tempura sides at a buck each making a full meal.
Ono Seafood
- ★ 4.5
- Poke
- $
Try Two-scoop poke bowl
Ono Seafood in Kapahulu Honolulu fills a two-scoop poke bowl with shoyu ahi and rice for around $12, the most affordable sashimi-grade poke in the city.
Hawaiian tours and tastings in Honolulu
2 of the budget eats on this list serve hawaiian.
Leonard's Bakery
- ★ 4.7
- Portuguese
- $
Try Original sugar malasada
Leonard's Bakery in Kapahulu Honolulu sells the canonical Hawaii malasada for around $2 each at the counter, the lowest-cost taste of Portuguese-Hawaii sweet.
Zippy's Kapahulu
- ★ 3.8
- American diner
- $
Try Zippy's chili and rice
Zippy's Kapahulu in Honolulu serves the local-chain chili over rice for around $9, plus saimin bowls at $9 to $11, with the 24-hour diner the cheapest.
Musubi Cafe Iyasume
- ★ 4.4
- Brunch
- $
Try Spam musubi
Musubi Cafe Iyasume on Kuhio in Waikiki Honolulu sells handmade Koshihikari rice spam musubi for $3 to $5 a piece, the most efficient breakfast under five.
Palace Saimin
- ★ 4.4
- Hawaiian
- $
Try Saimin bowl
Palace Saimin in Kalihi Honolulu sells the shrimp-and-pork-dashi saimin bowl for $6, the cheapest sit-down hot-noodle bowl in the city and unchanged.
Highway Inn Kakaako
- ★ 4.3
- Hawaiian
- $
Try Kalua pig combo plate
Highway Inn Kakaako Honolulu serves a combination kalua pig plate with rice, mac salad and lomi salmon for around $15, the cheapest sit-down Hawaiian food.
Ted's Bakery Plate Counter
- ★ 4.5
- Bakery
- $
Try Garlic shrimp plate or chocolate haupia pie slice
Ted's Bakery on the North Shore an hour from Honolulu sells garlic shrimp plates and a slice of chocolate haupia pie for $14 total, the most essential cheap.
Maguro Brothers Hawaii Chinatown
- ★ 4.6
- Poke
- $
Try Poke bowl
Maguro Brothers Hawaii in Chinatown Honolulu sells fish-auction-fresh poke bowls for around $12, the city's strongest sashimi-grade fish to dollar ratio.
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