Poke Burri opens very first Jacksonville restaurant, providing poke, sushi

Specializing in one of a kind poke and sushi dishes together with doughnuts, pizza and corn canines, Poke Burri will open up its initially Jacksonville cafe Friday.

The restaurant at 2545 Riverside Ave. is in the room previously occupied by 7-Eleven across the avenue from Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside medical centre.

“We appreciated that place in general. … It is really in walking distance to Five Points and amazing things. It can be just a good vibe for us and a locale that I think will be really great and hassle-free and sets alone apart from the other regions as properly,” Seven Chan, co-founder of the Atlanta-primarily based chain, explained to the Instances-Union on Monday. “We are not your regular poke spot or your ramen put,” Chan reported. 

“For us, we regarded as ourselves not to be the finest poke restaurant in the city but we usually test to be 1 of the most effective dining places in the metropolis in normal,” he mentioned. 

Chan also said they will offer Jacksonville “an awesome secret menu that everyone is heading to enjoy.”

“Every thirty day period we rotate top secret menu products — our neat unusual stuff like sushi donuts, corndogs, and so forth.,” mentioned Chan, noting men and women can adhere to the Jacksonville cafe on Instagram @pokeburrijax.  

The Jacksonville restaurant, operated locally by Andy Clarke, will be at minimum the eighth location for Poke Burri, which has eating places in Atlanta, Tampa, Raleigh and Houston. At minimum three much more are coming before long to Denver, Philadelphia and Charleston, in accordance to the firm’s web page.