Ono Hawaiian Plates North Loop

Place was a little hard to find. Its located inside the North Loop with many other restaurants. I ended up getting my plate with fried rice. Everything was so good. I do wish the shrimp came peeled.
Apr 7th, 2024

This was my first time trying Ono and everything was so delicious!! I got the Spam musubi and the Katsu/Hawaiian BBQ chicken combo. Rice was perfectly cooked, loved the teriyaki sauce on the spam musubi, the chicken was moist and flavorful, crispy katsu breading, and the macaroni salad was mild and creamy. Portion sizes are great value for the cost. I got takeout and my order was ready so quickly. Also, I appreciate the efforts to be eco-conscious by not automatically including disposable silverware and using recyclable takeout containers. The only thing I didnt enjoy was the atmosphere. I am disabled and found the space difficult to navigate. The door was heavy and hard to open, it was crowded inside with pretty narrow walkways, and it was quite loud and overstimulating (I came on a busy Thurs evening). I probably wouldnt come back to the North Loop location for those reasons, but I will absolutely order takeout from their other location inside United Noodle in the future.
Apr 3rd, 2024

It was my first and last time there. Came in looked at the menu, asked for assistance because it was my first time there. The person didn't seem like they wanted to help at all. And just shrugged their shoulder and talked very lightly. Ended up just ordering 2 meals and 3 drinks for $50.00 AS soon as we sat down the food came out. I thought it was supposed to be fresh food, I get the rice and other side dishes are premade but all the meat was cold and burnt somehow. Each taste was a taste of burnt food. Even the sauce couldn't cover up the burnt chicken. MCDONALDS chicken sandwiches taste much better, hotter, and fresher with FLAVOR. And I only eat McDonald's once every 2 months. This is definitely not Hawaiian food. Flavor is burnt, meat is cold. I would say that the fries are the best. Sad I spent $50 bucks on cold/burnt/flavorless food horrible customer service. Left with such a disappointment.
Mar 27th, 2024

Mar 25th, 2024

This review is for the Central location in United Noodle in Minneapolis but its the same restaurant. (Owners - You may have to update your Google profile bec its under United Noodle when I tried to review it) We have visited Hawaii close to 10x and Kauai is our favorite island. This is legit Hawaiian food and I am glad we have this in the Twin Cities. We live in the birthplace of Spam - legit Spam musubi like what you would get at the islands. (As long as you dont have issues with seaweed wrapper, but thats a You problem) Mac salad is a big thing in Hawaii and theirs is good. Entrees - Loco moco! Its a lot for me so it was good for 2 meals. Garlic shrimp - amazing! I also liked their tuna poke. Im sure Kalbi beef ribs is good too. Its hard to mess that up. Please support them! We need more of this in the Twin Cities. This is why I keep coming back when Im in the area.
Mar 13th, 2024