Poke Lover

Amazing slow cooked Original Beef Soup, everything done right from the mellow broth base to the pickled cabbage and oh so tender beef. It's real quality taste at a really great price. The dining experience is casual and food is served quickly, perfect for lunch hour. You'll order on a tablet with a simple UI and be presented with some pickled radish as an appetizer. The staff is friendly and welcoming, highly recommend this place!

UPDATED: This place was really good when they just opened it up, but now they started cutting the corners. I ordered a bowl with 2 proteins like always I do and with the same toppings and after putting the lid on the bowl I noticed that I had only half of the bowl, when they just opened the lid had to push down the muffin order to close the bowl. Looks like they trying to serve less food for the same money, I think this is not fair. ------------------------------------------ This is an awesome poke spot in Bellevue. They have a big variety of fish and toppings as well as different sauces and you can mix with as much as topping and sauces as you want with no extra charge. They offer you samples before you make your order. The fish and all ingredients are fresh and really delicious. So far this is my place to go for lunch, highly recommended.

I'm a bit of a poke fan, I'll admit. And there's a lot of poke places within 4 or 5 blocks of this place and I've tried them all. Poke Lover has fresh ingredients, the food is good. We ordered online, and the build your bowl system indicated the sauces were on the side so we ordered up several sauces figuring we'd dip the ingredients in each and see what we liked best. When we got to the restaurant, they asked us for our order number instead of our name. That led to us digging thru our phones to find the receipt mail because we ordered from our desktop and it never said we'd need a number. Meanwhile we were holding up the line with the cashier glaring at us. Not a great experience. When we got back to the office and opened the bags, we discovered the sauce wasn't on the side, it was all mixed in so it was a rather gross mishmash of flavors. Anyway, a better thought out order process would make this better. Other nearby poke places have a much more polished procedure.

Really like Poke Lover. The flavors and toppings are delicious (unlimited toppings!) for a reasonable price. Sometimes, depending on the person behind the counter, you may feel like they're skimping on toppings. Also, I was disappointed to find that there's no free miso (I believe it was part of an earlier promotion).

I’ve been to multiple poke places in Bellevue and this is hands down the worst. They were out of many menu items, including sushi rice, different marinated fish, avocado, crab, and masago. When asked if they had any extras, the employee stated “it’s Friday and we don’t get our next shipment until Monday.” So I can only assume that they will run out of more things over the weekend. Also, their menu doesn’t describe each food item. For example, they have “happy salmon” and “aloha tuna.” You cannot tell what you’re getting based off of the name. I ordered my bowl with cilantro sauce and it tasted heavily of wasabi. There was no indication of this on the menu. Therefore, for all of these reasons, I will not return to Poke Lover. I can spend the same amount of money at another decently located poke venue and have a much better experience.

This place looks cool and has good Poke. It's ashamed it's in a rundown looking building overall. I made my own bowl. How it works is you go in and pick how many scoops you want of the main protein and you can pick scoops from as many as you want. I picked Ahi Tuna and Happy Salmon because I am not a HUGE poke fan, I just like miso soup a lot. There was a giant sign that they are under new management and miso soup comes free with every entre. I would go here again because I love the salmon and after the two scoops you can go as crazy as you want on toppings. I added all the seaweed I could see. I also added edamame, mango and pineapple for sweetness, and poke sauce because the man said it was not spicy. I don't like spicy food. The rice was super filling along with the salmon. I really liked it all around and want to eat in next time because the big flower decoration inside is very pretty! The miso soup wasn't the best of all time but pretty much what you'd expect.