Far north neighborhood gem Tomodachi specializes in traditional and fusion fare. Come for the poke on the cold menu. Stay for the friendly service.

Among Poke House's poke offerings (rice bowls, salads, tortilla strips) is the poke burrito which can made covered in Cheetos dust.

This Brentwood spot offers a build-a-bowl approach to the fast-casual poke experience. Choose a protein, sides, mix-ins (yes, there’s kale), a topping, and sauce. Or make it easy, and opt for pure poke. The restaurant also offers other Hawaiian dishes like loco moco and musubi.

The casual campus restaurant focuses on customizable bowls, with rice, vegetables, toppings, and seafood picks from raw ahi tuna to marinated spicy scallop to cooked shrimp.

Among Don Japanese’s rice-filled donburi bowls is the poke one, which can be made with tuna or salmon.

Eater Dallas’s casual restaurant of the year Malibu Poke upped Austin’s poke game with fresh, thoughtful bowls created by James Beard Award-nominated chef Matt McCallister, found in downtown Austin.

Mongers chef Shane Stark opened up his own food truck dedicated to Hawaiian-inspired dishes at East Austin bar Stay Gold. Of course this means poke is on the menu

The east side fish market/restaurant’s raw bar includes poke bowls with rotating daily dish options mixed with kukui nuts, avocado, pickled cucumbers, and radish, with an optional egg for an untraditional take.

You’ll find the yellowfin tuna poke bowl on the brunch, lunch, and dinner menus at South Congress Hotel’s California-inspired cafe. It includes pickled fresno peppers, spicy yuzu kosho, with a side of spicy rice chips.

As the Venice Beach-based takeout window’s first out-of-state expansion, this South Congress shop features made-to-order bowls and signature bowls like JT's Spicy Poke, made with sambal, jalapeños, ginger, sriracha, chile oil and red pepper. There are tofu- and veggie-based options as well. There are two other locations too, one on Brodie Lane and the other in Hancock.

Sunset Valley’s casual poke spot is prepared with signature bowls with plenty of fish and crab (as seen with the Baked Poke bowl, the Jungle with spicy crab salad, and a spam iteration with crab salad).

The Hawaiian food truck offers up classic poke, from the shoyu ahi tuna to the spicy to the fishless tofu and baby broccoli.