Poke Burri, whose seven locations include four in the Atlanta area and one in Tampa, is on the way to Riverside.
The city issued a permit Sept. 23 for Atlas Built Construction LLC of Neptune Beach to build-out a 1,500-square-foot space for Poke Burri at 2545 Riverside Ave., No. 1., at a cost of $100,000.
The space is in Prado Walk in the corner space where 7-Eleven closed. The site is across Riverside Avenue from Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside Hospital.
Atlanta-based Poke Burri’s locations include one each in Houston and in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The pokeburri.com site says locations are coming soon to Jacksonville; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver; and Philadelphia.
For Jacksonville, the site says Poke Burri is “Coming Soon to Five Points, Jacksonville,” referring to the Riverside area.
An online menu at pokeburri.com features starters, poke bowl, burrito bowls, build-your-own rolls and bowls, and poke doughnuts – rice rings with salmon, tuna or crab with a choice of toppings such as avocado, beets, carrots, red cabbage and edamame.
The permit application shows that FDX LLC, doing business as Poke Burri Jax, is the business owner. FDX LLC is led by Andrew M. Clarke in Jacksonville.
Poke Burri’s site says it is “growing fast...working on launching new locations across the country and ...looking (for) investors, franchisees and talented people to join us on our journey.”
Seven Chan and Ken Yu founded Poke Burri in 2016 in Atlanta. Chan told detroit.eater.com in December that the chain would open 20 more locations in 2020.
The Detroit site said Poke Burri is known for build-your-own poke bowls and burrito-sized sushi rolls as well as ring-shaped sushi doughnuts, sushi pizza, and deep-fried sushi corn dogs.
The Detroit News reported in May 2019 that it is Poke Burri’s “limited, ‘secret’ menu that gets them eyes on social media, though, with items made of fresh fish and rice that take the shape of junk food like doughnuts, pizza and corn dogs.”
