Pokeworks

Everything we got was so tasty. The spam musubi is great. The service was friendly and fast as well. I love having the option to make my own custom bowl.The one bad thing is that the brown rice was rock hard and inedible. Spent the meal trying to pick it out until I gave up and threw my bowl away

Came here for the first time, overall a good experience. I got the 'small' bowl which consists of only one scoop of protein, choose your own base. Unlimited toppings. The person behind the counter was nice, but kinda stingy with almost all the ingredients. Felt like I should've gotten a bigger bowl. I've gone to poke places where one scoop is plenty, here the portions seemed a little stingy. Everything tastes great. I got a free garlic musubi with check in on Yelp, spicy but delicious!No sodas or any drinks sold besides their specialty drinks, so we just for water. Inside the place was clean but very empty. Wouldn't come out of my way for this location.

I was so excited to try this poke place as the reviews seemed promising. There was another poke spot of mine that I went to often and I came here with the expectation that they'd match. Everything about the poke bowls were fantastic: portion, ingredients, pricing, etc. One thing that I am disappointed by was the ponzu sauce. I asked for heavy and when I went home there was no taste whatsoever! Without any flavor from the sauce the poke just tasted like nothing. I highly suggest you choose two or more sauces instead of just one. Maybe I chose the wrong one but it made my whole meal taste bland. Love that with check in you can get a garlic spam musubi !

Another pokeworks location that just opened up. Usually I'm a little bit biased (and snobby heh) about poke that's not in Hawaii but I decided to give this place a try.For $15 it does the job and it's a decent amount of fish. They do load it up with a lot of rice but it's not as soft/fluffy like I'm usually used to. Get all the topics you want to match how much rice they'll give you lol. If you ask nice they might throw in some masago for free hehe thanks for that. spicy mayo (I think they call it Sriracha aioli lol): I rlly like this sauce and usually like to keep my poke pretty clean but I had my expectations low for any mainland poke.The tuna: It's decent but a little fishyThe salmon: Pretty good and I'd get this again next time

Lots of variety for poke options! Kinda standard for quality in my opinion. Miso soup was a nice addition. Secret menu add some ramen and chicken for a miso ramen :)Service was quick on a weekday. It's pretty clean inside. Indoor and outdoor seating. Big parking lot.

This was my second visit to Pokeworks (first time was an yelp elite event right after they opened) and both visits have been great!I once again ordered the sweet sesame chicken bowl, though I slightly modified a couple items. It's $~16 for a regular sized bowl, but both times I've been able to make two meals out of them (if you're really hungry, though, it's not that big). Both of my dining companions built their own bowls and loved them. We also got a garlic spam musubi, and enjoyed that as well.The staff is always patient while deciding on what to order. All three of us ended up needing more sauce on our bowls once we tried them, and they had no problem giving us all little containers of extra sauce.There are plenty of tables and chairs inside, as well as a couple outside. The interior is fairly echo-y and the ambience is nothing to write home about, but it wasn't a problem for us.Definitely my go-to poke spot in the area!

We ordered takeout from this restaurant and the bowls are delicious. We got the volcano bowl, poke-your-way bowl and a garlic spam musubi. The poke bowls were flavorful and the fish was pretty fresh as well. The volcano bowl was really spicy so if you like fiery hot spice, this is it! The poke-your-way had half rice/half salad and salmon/spicy salmon along with toppings. With a yelp check-in, we also receive a garlic spam musubi which was also really tasty as well. Overall, this is one of the better poke restaurants in the area because it doesn't just taste like a hodge podge of fish and rice with toppings, it retains the essence of the poke bowl concept which is high quality fish with good ponzu sauce and rice.

Pokeworks is a new eatery located in the Costa Mesa Courtyards shopping mall, located at the corner of 19th St and the Park Ave. This location opened barely 2 months ago, it is already drawing a crowd.I ordered a spicy ahi brown rice bowl and it is pretty good. Rice was fluffy and ahi was flavorful. I was tempted to order its lobster bowl, but I want to try a more traditional bowl first.Service at Pokeworks is good. The guy behind the counter was already helping 2 customers when I walked in, and a guy in the back jumped in to help me with my order. I don't know whether this is a company store or owned by a franchisee, I think it will do such fine here, so closed to the waterfront.

Came here and was immediately greeted by the workers. I appreciated the fact that they were so patient with me. (I'm a super indecisive person, so sometimes it takes me a while to decide what I'm in the mood for.) The spot has already premade bowls or you can build your own. I opted to build my own but I was super tempted to try their lobster bowl. I was very surprised to see that noodles was an option for one of the bases. A lot of places don't give you the option. I still went with my half rice and half salad base I get everywhere though! The worker was super nice in giving me recommendations for what suace to use. I liked that the fish quality wasn't maskes by the sauces too! Would definitely recommend coming here if you're in the area.

This review is based on my experience at this newer location while ordering with the official Pokeworks app, which I ordered from and I picked up, but stayed in store to eat. First, the app was very easy to use and order from, I got to select items that I could have easily missed if I ordered in person. I was curious to see how fast it would take to send through the app order so I waited to arrive at the store before sending, and was surprised to see if get immediately received and the staff started just a few seconds after sent through my order. The supervisor who worked there was extremely professional and made sure I wasn't rushed and even mentioned the free spam masubi if I checked in on Yelp. So helpful. He saw me sitting at a table and even delivered my order directly to me, and later asked how I enjoyed it. That is service that's even rare in a full service restaurant these days, much less a fast casual restaurant so hope that the staff are recognized for their outstanding service and system they have here. Outside of the service, the place itself is very clean and comfortable, great place to get a quick bite to go or have a normal lunch, but there's just limited seating both inside and out. The food itself was fantastic. The quantity is there, which makes the slightly more expensive (compared to other Poke places I've been) menu prices a bit more worth it. Everything was fresh, lots of great choices, and it was delicious, it's possibly one of the best Poke bowls I've had. There's possibly enough for two meals if you're not a big eater. One additional thing I'll add is the app is a very nice way to order here even if you decide to dine in. Not only can you skip the line, but there is an offer for for $5 off for downloading and ordering via app. Just be sure to download and install as early as you can, as it can take an hour or so to even get your coupon after installing the app. But even though I read that people never got their $5, I got mine no problem. Overall, great experience from every aspect. I may not come often as it is more on the expensive side, but I do plan to return and introduce it to friends as well.