The bowl came with sides which, for the record, is never added into a poke bowl in Hawaii. I got a regular poke bowl with classic white rice (they also have mixed grain rice and spring mix for all you health fanatics). So I settled for salmon which has always been a hit or a miss since it tends to have a fishier taste than ahi. After waiting for 30 minutes, I finally made it up to the front but, to my disappointment, they ran out of all the 50 pounds of fresh ahi they shipped up that morning. I quickly averted my eyes and tried to focus on the prize: poke. The only way that I can equate the uneasiness of seeing this is if you walked into a McDonalds and one of the walls was painted with cartoon cows and chickens with their eyes crossed out. (I would also like to add that it included depictions of dead cartoon fish.) Thankfully they had some 2015 pop hits playing throughout the shop, which kept me entertained.Īs I was jamming in line, I noticed a mural of cartoon ocean creatures, which I found to be tacky and off-putting since I was about to eat fish. hoping the line had gone down (it did but It looped around several times and trailed into a hallway towards the back of the shop. The first time I tried going was during lunch time, which was a mistake. Aloha Poke Co, 12th ave’s new Poke restaurant.
