Leo’s Island BBQ

Great food, very reasonable prices, and super friendly staff. Love this spot, I hit it up anytime I’m in the area. One of the best island BBQ’S I’ve been to on the mainland.

Quick and helpful service. Good food. My lemon chicken was good. My wife’s teriyaki chicken even better. «This tastes like asian food I grew up with in Seattle» was high praise from my wife.

5 stars due to efficient service, friendly people, ample seating, great food, esp. the macaroni grill, and reasonable prices. Love it.

Delicious food every time. Cheap prices. Fast service. Friendly, family owned business. Just like a little place you would find down in Honolulu.

No frills, friendly staff, delicious food. This place is great. This is a place Anthony Bourdain would love because it is straight forward, fried, and delicious.

Leo’s staff is very friendly all the time.
I have ordered the chicken katsu which comes with fresh cabbage, white rice, and macaroni salad. Every time I come here, I order double macaroni with no rice and they do it for me. YUM! The chicken has been hard. stale, and tasted funky to me before.
The cleanliness and attractiveness of the store is a bit lacking. Price is reasonable. This place is pretty decent.

I really really liked this place. It’s not perfect but pretty damn delicious.
I got the short rib plate (#10) it was just under $ 10 (before tax?) and a large side of steamed veggies. Qty was pretty generous so this was 2 meals for me!
Short rib plate ~$ 10
–Comes w/​2 scoops of rice, 1 scoop mac salad, steamed veggies & ~5 pcs of short rib.
–Short rib was so tender! Was able to EASILY cut through with plastic knife. Pcs were pretty big, seasoning spot on!
–Mac salad was good. Seasoning fell a bit short (compared to L&L back in California), cook and creaminess was great though. (just me being nit-​picky).
Steamed veggies (large side): ~$ 4.50
–wow this was HUGE. I probably should’ve gotten a small. They’re very generous here. Steam veggies had mainly cabbage but also broccoli, carrots, cauliflower.
Great place, cheap & big quantities. Would come back!

NOM NOM NOM! I wanted bbq/​hawaiian food while visiting AZ so the bf took me to Leo’s, I got the chicken combo which comes with teriyaki chicken, katsu with rice and macaroni salad with a generous amount of veggies. It was really delicious! The katsu was deep fried perfectly. Not too dry and the meat is still juicy on the inside. The teriyaki was more towards the sweeter side but still very good.
The restaurant is located in a small plaza across from the plaza that Barnes and Noble sit in. Our GPS had some problems getting here. Kept looping us around but luckily, we found it.
The owners/​employees are very nice and the restaurant is well kept and clean. I wish i had more time to try the other items on their menu!

I LOVE this place. The food is wonderful, but the customer service surpasses even that. I go to Leo’s once or twice a month, and they always remember my face and favorite order when i walk in the door.
My favorite experience at Leo’s is from the time I rolled in there 10 mins before they closed after pulling a 12 hour day at work. I had left my wallet at home that day, and only had my license and my AmEx in my pocket. Unfortunately, Leo’s doesn’t take AmEx, but that did not stop me from getting a warm dinner in my belly that night. They let me walk out the door with my BBQ mix plate and spam musubi with a promise to pay next time I stopped in! That type of service and generosity is rare in the food industry! (Suffice to say, I stopped in the next day and settled that bill with some cash!)
I highly recommend getting one of the lunch mix plates your first time in, to get a sampling of truly authentic Hawaiian food. After that, feel free to experiment around with the different rice and noodle bowls on offer. The spam musubi is my favorite item on the menu, and I usually order that, with crab rangoon and a side of macaroni salad if I don’t have the appetite for a full plate.
This place is ALWAYS busy, but they get the food out fast and with a smile.

Great food and good price. The spam masubi is good if you like spam. I’ve tried a few things on the menu and have yet to come across anything I didn’t like.

At first, $ 7 – 8 seems like a lot for one meal. Once you get your food, that opinion changes– I got 4 meals out of the amount of chicken they gave me! I tried two different sauces, orange and pineapple. I liked the orange better, but they were both fantastic! It was clean inside, the employees were friendly, and the food came out pretty quickly. I will definitely be back!

It’s probably been over 5 years since I’ve last had Hawaiian food, so I decided to stop by since I live less than a mile away. Wow, this place is great — fantastic food at a great price, and massive portions to boot! First time I went, I ordered the Island Loco Moco. I loved how the egg was just slightly runny, which gave the rest of the dish extra flavor. The gravy was also very tasty and went well the hamburger patty and rice. The 2 patties were cooked well and not dry at all. Just to balance the meal, the patties sat on a bed on cabbage. Macaroni salad was on point too. I didn’t plan on finishing the whole thing, but I did!
The second time I came here (only a couple days later), I ordered the chicken rib combo which was just as good. It came with chicken katsu, BBQ chicken, and short ribs. The katsu had the perfect crispness, the BBQ chicken was moist, and the ribs were very similar to kalbi that you would get at a Korean restaurant (for a fraction of the price!). If I had to make a small nitpicky complaint, it would have been nice to have gravy or curry sauce on the side for the katsu.
Overall, this place is great and I’m happy that this place is so close to where I live. I’ve already been here twice in a few days and I plan on coming more often!

I’m not Hawaiian so I don’t know what «real» Hawaiian food taste like. I assume it taste like this place, cause the food here so very good! The meats are very well marinated, and the rice is cook just right! Their macaroni salad is so good! Katsu chicken is so crunchy and good! I like this place better than Ono Hawaiian. The only problem is their seatings. Sometimes it gets really busy in their and there are no space to sit and eat. I normally get it Togo cause the place is too small.
Anyways, would definitely come back!

Phoenix has very few good island spots to eat, and this place is one of them. Real island food is pretty salty most of the times, but this place (run by chinese i think) found a good balance between salty and delish. It’s not salty, but it’s not flavorless either, its a good balance.
I would come back here again one day to enjoy the food.
Place is clean, food is good, and customer service was great!

New Fave Place for Hawaiian Grinds!
Saw Leo’s highlighted on Unilocal!and thought to give it a try after another disappointment at the other places in town. Very glad I did.
My wife had the Kalua Pork, I had the BBQ Mix, our older daughter went Noodle Bowl, and we got Chicken Katsu for our toddler. All washed down with Hawaiian Sun fruit drinks, of course. And took some spam musubi and manapua to go.
Food is excellent with ample portions. Kalbi and teriyaki chicken reminded me of home. I loved the mac salad. However, my daughters thought it too oniony. lol
The staff were cool. A lady who seemed like an owner or manager connected with our toddler. Very nice people.
Alas, no kimchee on the side and no poi or haupia for dessert. That’s minor, though.
It’s nice to get and island feel in Phoenix as the chances aren’t common. And leaving with a full tummy is even better!

Yummy, fast. The place is clean, try serve your food to you. The workers are friendly !
Island BBQ mix is my fav!

I’ve been to Leo’s for lunch and dinner well over a dozen times and they serve consistently great tasting food and the staff always provides service with a smile.
I waver as to what my favorite plate lunch is, but recently I’ve been doing the seafood mix– which is shrimp, fish filets and their hawaiian-​style bbq chicken served with steamed sticky rice, steamed vegetables and the best macaroni salad in the world. You can opt for brown rice for .50 cents. If you haven’t tried their short ribs, you better order those because they’re outstanding, but so is the Kalua Pork, Loco Moco and the curry.
If you like Chinese-​style steamed pork buns (and if you have taste buds, you should love them), they call them Manapua here and they’re really good.
The dining room is small– only room for about 30 people if it’s fully packed in wall-​to-​wall, but there are a couple of outdoor tables for days when the sun isn’t scorching. Calling ahead for carry-​out is fine for those days when you want to binge watch Game Of Thrones in your boxer shorts, but don’t forget to take some katsu sauce, teriyaki and soy sauce with you when you pick up your grub.
I would recommend Leo’s to anyone, and if they don’t like their food, I’d delete their contact info immediately and unfriend them on facebook.

Came out to Peoria for some Padre Spring Training, take in a few games and even took in a hockey game on whim. Prior to out arrival we Unilocaled a bunch of places to check out and eat. Leo’s happened to be one of them given it’s location to Peoria Sports Complex.
So the day would come when we figured out the practice schedule and stopped in for a bite to eat before watching our first Padre practice.
We located, parked and walked in. I hate the pressure of the clerk behind the counter staring all the while not offering any sort of assistance while we sort out our selection. Not really rude but more indifferent to our first time experience. But having been to many a style joint like this, we ordered up. Curry Chicken Katsu (good), Grilled Fish (non-​eventful), Pineapple Chicken (tasty), Carb Rangoon (fine), two Spam Masubis (fine). It all eventually proved our eyes were bigger than our stomachs.
The gentleman who dropped the food off at the table was friendly. I wish he would have been behind the counter.
The food was solid. The entries were in abundance but the mac salad was a smaller portion.
Happy to have experienced this A-​OK of an Island comfort food establishment in the Sonoran desert.

This place is amazing! It’s a hidden gem out here in Peoria.
I come here all the time. The staff has always been very friendly and very helpful, and the place is always very clean. The were in the New Times a few years ago, and for very good reason.
I’ve tried a very good portion of the menu and I have never been disappointed, its all great. However, some of my favorites include the Curry BBQ Chicken Mini Meal (don’t let the name fool you — its still a good amount of food!), the Chicken Katsu (don’t forget the Katsu sauce), and Island BBQ Mix! They also have Bao Buns AKA Cha Sui AKA Manapua (Its hawaiian, duh), and they are good.
Skip the soda fountain and hit up the canned Aloha beverages — yum!
I told my co-​worker that I come here as often as my wife will let me, and its true!

I stopped here after paddle boarding on Lake Pleasant and I must say, this was the perfect little pit stop on the way back to Phoenix. I’m kind of a noob when it comes to Hawaiian food but was lucky enough to try some when I visited California earlier this year. The restaurant itself is pretty small with about 10 tables and a few tables outside. The staff were friendly and really helpful in explaining the different menu items. I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to eat so I went with the Spam Masubi, fried shrimp, and the Chicken and Rib plate. Here are my thoughts:
1. Spam Masubi — Awesome! Loved the saltiness of the spam (would have preferred it fried a bit crispier), sweetness of the sauce, and texture of the rice. The rice was not too dry or mushy, so just perfect.
2. The Chicken and Rib plate was HUMONGOUS. I recommend sharing this with another person because no human should be consuming that many carbs in one sitting. This meal came with chicken katsu, hawaiian bbq chicken, and sweet short ribs. It was served with two large scoops of white rice, boiled cabbage and broccoli, and macaroni salad. This meal definitely hit the spot because there was a little bit of everything — the chicken katsu was juicy and crispy, bbq chicken was savory and sweet, and the short ribs were really tender. I personally love boiled cabbage so it was a nice complement to the flavorful meats. The macaroni salad was creamy and mild but not overly rich.
3. The fried shrimp was tasty and the panko flakes gave it a good texture. I liked how the butterflied the shrimp, making it easier to eat. I dipped it in the teriyaki sauce.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this place if you are craving some good quality Hawaiian food at a very reasonable price. The food took a tad long to come out (10 – 15 minutes) but was worth the wait.