Ate-Oh-Ate

I’ve been here a couple times and each time it did not disappoint. Their Saimin is pretty damn good for place outside of Hawaii. You can’t go wrong with soup or fried Saimin. Top that off with a Maui Brewing Coconut Porter. And on the side you should get their deep fried Spam Musubi. The deep fried is much better than the regular Spam Musubi. You can only get it deep fried during happy hour. Go try it, cheers!

Always tasty, laid back and sweet service. The burger and mac salad are esp deluxe. I come here for lunch often and the staff is always friendly and I love that they have a punch card, a free plate is always appreciated.

Pretty solid Hawaiian food here but I was pretty disappointed in their ribs. For the price, it came with not as many ribs as I would think and way too much rice. Everything else looks fairly standard for Hawaiian food but I have heard from friends that they do have some delicious burgers.

This place has great food. I had a dark and stormy, which is not my normal lunch beverage. That was OK. The burger was great! And the mac salad was great! I came here craving a burger, so that’s what I ordered, but I want to come back and get the teriyaki chicken with steamed rice. I saw people eating it, and it looked compelling

Ordered some Teriyaki chicken and boy oh boy was it tasty. They have a charbroil girl that allows them to get a good char on the chicken and makes it taste so good. The only issue I had was that the teriyaki sauce was like water

All i gotta say is dont try the poke. Too much ginger and about 10 small pieces of fish. Other than that the food is pretty good. Parking is very limited though.

I got the shoyu chicken and it was pretty underwhelming — tasted nothing like any other shoyu chicken and had some weird flavor to it that needed some Sriracha to mask. The macaroni salad wasn’t terribly flavorful but it wasn’t bad.
I’ll eat their food again but will probably stay away from the shoyu.

Love it. Mac salad, spam musubi, loco moco. As good as it gets. Though my favorite is the Lau Lau and THAT is DEFINITELY second to none! …but I haven’t seen it on the menu recently and am scared that it won’t make an appearance again. (say it isn’t so!)
They also have a catering menu and do a great job at packaging.

I’ve ordered takeout from ate a few times. I’m a fan of teriyaki chicken (in general), and wanted to try AOA’s version of the famous dish.
Seeing as to how Hawaiian can be (at times – don’t hate me!) pretty unhealthy, I TRIED (operative word here) to make it a little better by replacing the rice with lettuce. They seemed accommodating about this, which is great. The chicken itself is pretty good – sweet, but tasty.
I’ll need to come back to try some more dishes – including the spam musubi, which sounds awesome. Actually, spam + anything sounds awesome.

The Kalua pig was very salty and the shoyu chicken tasted more like Chinese roasted duck? Imho, neither of these dishes come close to plate lunches you could find in Hawaii.

I treat this Hawaiian place as a Japanese fast-​casual restaurant and am never disappointed. The chicken katsu, my regular go to, is better than any Beaverton hole in the wall and at least as good as a middle-​of-​the-​road+ Japanese joint. And the macaroni salad delivers when you are feeling more on the Hawaiian side of things.
The best feature, though, is the cocktail menu, offering many strong drinks as well as a fun «slushee» take on a piña colada. I’m looking forward to coming here for happy hour.
A solid lunchtime choice.

Everything I’ve had here is superbly delicious. I was hooked on coming in on a weekly basis when I lived in the area.
Mai Tai’s are the best I’ll ever have.
Shoyu chicken plate is my favorite.
My one disappointment is how little the amount of pork is in the grilled saimin noodle dish. I could honestly say there seems to be 10 or less dime sized pork pieces.
Also, I brought about 15 people here on my birthday, and they didn’t seem to care or notice. When I asked if a large table could be made across from the large booth, they were clearly bothered and didn’t end up doing it because spare tables were toward the back of the place.
Regardless of this mishap, I keep coming in. Thanks for the great happy hour deals, too.

Wow. Ate-​Oh-​Ate was great and so is their name. We at at Ate-​Oh-​Ate after seeing a review in the Oregonian and they were right. It was spectacular. I had the Spam Fried Rice Omelet. I was skeptical… it was a Spam Fried Rice stuffed into a 3 egg omelet. Who would guess. It was awesome. Thin sliced spam, just the right amount added a very unique flavor to the rice. A little weird stuffed into the omelet, but it worked.
My wife had a shredded pork dish with rice and salad that was also wonderful (I took her leftovers home and ate that too for dinner!). The menu is small but they did a wonderful job of creating some great, tasty food with a casual ambiance. Thanks Ate-​Oh-​Ate we will be back soon! –Adam

I’m luke-​warm on Hawaiian/​Island food, so I’ve passed this place for years even though a number of friends have recommended it.
I was pleasantly surprised by my first visit during Happy Hour. Their offering is one of the better value plays in town.
The $ 2.50 Kailua Pig Cabbage Slider was incredibly tender and «wet.» Equally blissful (if not more) was the tempura SPAM with egg concoction. The Korean Wings maybe the star of the show. Mai Tai was very strong and tall. SUPERB service, plenty of seating and decent parking.
Do it!

I visited this place right after completing day 2 of STP. I was so hungry I ordered both the Shoyu Chicken and the Samin. The Shoyu Chicken was pretty good. I like the flavor of the sauce and the chicken just fell off the bone which is what I love. The Saimin was just ok for me. It had crispy roasted pork belly which is what made me want to try it and it was pretty good, but the broth wasnt anything special. The atmosphere was nice and chill which I liked. Overall, I’m definitely a fan. When craving Local Hawaiian food in Portland, this is the place to go.

To say this is my favorite Hawaiian food place is an understatement. The food here is consistently good and always filling. Great happy hour items including their Portland’s best cheeseburger for $ 5 and panko fried spam musubi! I love that they offer shave ice and you can get it with rum and/​or ice cream at the bottom. The cocktails are great too! I’d say the food is as good or better than the best Hawaiian lunch plates you get on the islands. Okole Maluna!

I continue to go in thinking I’m going to try something different other than the Saimin soup and get something like the Aina burger but I don’t.
Today that was the right decision. The Saimin soup today is the best soup I have had this year. In addition the roasted pork belly in the soup was the best pork belly year to date.
The 3 kinds of broth in the soup along with charred onions, fish cakes, soft boiled egg and al dente noodles makes it a winner.
But don’t take my word for it, go get you some and enjoy.

Sometimes food is never as great as it is on the mainland is it?
Laid back, and casual. You order your food at the register. I ordered the Kalbi pork ribs with the kalua pork. 2 of my favorites. We also ordered the loco moco, another favorite of ours. The kalua pork was great, had a lot of flavor and enough smokiness to it. The Kalbi pork ribs, just didn’t do it for me. I think the issue with the loco moco was the gravy, it’s a mushroom gravy. It didn’t have the right flavors going on. The mac salad was ono. I’ll definitely try this place again. I would probably try other items on the menu or check out their happy hour now that they have a decent list of cocktails!

Oh, Ate-​Oh-​Ate. how I have tried so hard to like you. So, so hard. But depending on what I order my taste buds are either assaulted by sodium or yearning for some type of seasoning to keep them interested.
The mac salad is okay but generally has been very salty. Mixing it with some rice helps take the edge off. Similarly, the Kalua pork is like a shredded meat salt bomb: nice texture but the flavor is overwhelming. Again, mix with rice (but not mac salad) to help with that.
On the other end of the spectrum the Saimin is incredibly bland and just feels like wet noodles in your mouth without the added benefit of flavor. The loco moco (typically my favorite Hawaiian dish to get) looks freakin’ bomb, but taste-​wise fails to live up to expectations. The patty is hardly seasoned and even the gravy doesn’t do much to elevate the experience.
I like how they add some egg to the SPAM musubi, it’s a nice touch, but one time I ordered it and the rice was incredibly dried out and had clearly been sitting out for a while. If you’re gonna do a good musubi, making sure the rice is on point is essential!
Probably the best and most reliable dish I’ve gotten has been the chicken katsu. Fried to order and the katsu sauce has good flavor. If I come back again, I’ll be sticking to that.
I think I’ve given Ate-​Oh-​Ate a fair shot and tried multiple dishes several times, but for now I will have to give my mouth a break from the taste extremes and bid you farewell.

This place is located down the street from our apartment. I wanted to try hawaiian food for a long time, since we don’t have that back on the East coast.
I ordered the korean chicken wings plate and my bf ordered the luau luau?. I loved mine so much more. The Korean chicken wings were fried really crispy and had just the right amount of saucy flavor that was delicious paired with the macaroni salad and the white rice! I didn’t need any extra soy sauce or flavoring. It was just so delectable!
I wish i can say the same for the luau luau, which was pulled pork wrapped in steamed leaves. It wasn’t as good as we thought it would be. Kinda disappointing.
We also ordered the poke of the day. It was a small dish, with a couple of pieces of tuna in a ton of onions and chives! you definitely don’t want to kiss anyone after eating that. All in all, i would just come back for the wings.