Catering in Hilo, Hawai'i

Hilo is home. Big Island Smokehouse started here, on the rainy, green east side of Hawai'i Island, and this town is where we cook for our own people. When you book us for a Hilo event, you are hiring neighbors who know the venues, the backroads, and exactly how your 'ohana likes to eat.

Because we are local, we move fast. No ferry, no long haul across the island, no guesswork about traffic over Saddle Road. We load up, roll out, and set up right where you are, whether that is a backyard in Keaukaha, a hall downtown, or a pavilion out in Puna.

What We Bring to the Table

• Slow-smoked meats, homemade sausage, and huli huli chicken
• Classic Hilo plate lunches with rice and our signature mac salad
• Our famous banh mi, built fresh and layered with island flavor
• Food truck on-site, buffet trays, or plate-lunch style service
• Custom menus built around your guest count and budget

Catch the Food Truck Around Town

You will find our truck parked around Hilo most weeks, serving plates fresh off the smoke. Our spots and hours move around, so the best way to track us down is to follow @big.islandsmokehouse on Instagram, where we post the weekly schedule. Come say aloha and grab a plate.

Events We Cook For

From graduation luaus and baby birthdays to wedding receptions and office lunches, we cater it all across East Hawai'i. Hilo families trust us for the big milestones, and local businesses call us when they want to feed a crew something better than the usual boxed lunch. Tell us the occasion and we will build the right spread for it.

Why Hilo Chooses Us

Everything comes out of the kitchen of Chef Evan Salvador-Stevens, trained at the Culinary Institute of America and raised on island flavor. We are humbled to hold a 5.0-star rating on Google, to have fed 500+ events, and to be voted People's Choice 1st Place at the 2025 Smoke It Up Festival. We do it all with love, because in Hilo you are cooking for people you will see at the store next week.

Serving Hilo and East Hawai'i

Based right here in Hilo, we cover the whole east side: Keaukaha, downtown Hilo, Pahoa and greater Puna, and up the hill to Volcano. If your event is on this side of the island, we are close by and ready to feed everyone. Tell us your date and venue and we will make it happen.