Aloha Platez & Shave Ice Co.
Hawaiian restaurant, Breakfast restaurant, Brunch restaurant in Gardena, CA
- Address
- 1534 W Artesia Square, Gardena, CA, 90248
- Phone
- (310) 715-6900
- Website
- alohaplatez.com
About Aloha Platez & Shave Ice Co.
Aloha Platez & Shave Ice Co. serves Hawaiian-inspired comfort food out of its Gardena location, blending plate-lunch classics with a pizza menu built on homemade dough and sauce. The kitchen's signature dish, Uncle's Kalua Pie, layers slow-cooked kalua pork with red onion, cilantro, and mango under a light drizzle of barbecue sauce, a distinctly island twist on a familiar pizza format. Beyond the specialty pizzas, the menu spans crispy chicken wings, fresh salads, ono plate lunches, fluffy malasadas for dessert, and hearty breakfast burritos, along with the shave ice that gives the shop half its name. That breadth lets the restaurant function as a breakfast, lunch, and dessert stop all in one, appealing to families looking for a casual, flavor-forward meal with Hawaiian roots. The restaurant currently operates Wednesday through Sunday, giving it a shorter, more concentrated operating week than a typical daily restaurant. As of February 2025, the shop came under the ownership of the team behind Aunty Maile's, who rebranded the concept from its original Aloha Pizza identity while preserving its Hawaiian food focus and introducing new menu items alongside extended hours. For Gardena-area diners craving a distinctive mix of Hawaiian plate lunch, specialty pizza, and shave ice, Aloha Platez offers a genuinely unique combination not found at typical pizza or poke spots.
The restaurant now known as Aloha Platez & Shave Ice Co. began in 2013 as Aloha Pizza, a Gardena eatery built around Hawaiian-style specialty pizzas made with homemade dough and sauce. In February 2025, the owners of the well-known Aunty Maile's took over the business, rebranding it as Aloha Platez while keeping the core Hawaiian food identity intact. Rather than simply renaming the shop, the new ownership expanded the menu well beyond pizza, adding ono plate lunches, breakfast burritos, malasadas, and shave ice, and extended the restaurant's operating hours to serve the community more fully. That transition from a single-concept pizza shop into a broader Hawaiian comfort-food destination reflects the new owners' background running Aunty Maile's, bringing established recipes and a Hawaiian food service model to a location with a decade of existing brand recognition in Gardena. The rebrand has preserved the restaurant's original neighborhood ties while broadening its appeal to diners looking for a fuller range of island-style dishes beyond pizza alone.
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