Okipoke’s format is the now-familiar build-your-own style popularized by Chipotle. At Okipoke, you pick a style of meal, a bowl, burrito or salad, a base rice, brown or sushi, then proteins, toppings, and sauces/condiments. The proteins include the classic poke raw tuna, as well as raw salmon, spicy tuna and salmon, cooked shellfish, and two non-fish options, chicken and tofu. The toppings selection is vast, including mainstays like sweet onions, edamame, avocado and cucumber. A few options provide some needed crunch for textural variation, like wonton crisps. Finally, there’s a variety of sauces, including ponzu sauce, wasabi aioli, and the Okipoke Classic mentioned above.
After a couple of years in Westford, the owners opened a second location in Burlington this September. Patch visited for lunch twice, and got two bowls, to try the core components. This reporter first ordered a bowl with sushi rice, both tuna and spicy tuna, and mango, jalapeno, cilantro, seaweed, and wanton crisps, finished with the Okipoke Classic. For a second round, I got a bowl with brown rice, salmon, chicken, corn, cucumber, edamame, sweet onion, wasabi tobiko, cilantro, scallions, pickled ginger, wonton crisps, and wasabi aioili.
