Is now open at 785-G Rockville Pike, at the Ritchie Center shopping center. “Hawaii’s Favorite Plate Lunch” invites you to “slither into 2025” here during the Year of the Snake. In 1999, the founders of L&L called their restaurant “Hawaiian Barbecue,” assuming their future patrons on the mainland United States would be unfamiliar with the culinary history of the Hawaiian Plate Lunch. You, dear readers, won’t suffer that ignorance, as you will be armed with this knowledge before visiting.