Pacific Poke Life Building UBC — Restaurant in Electoral Area A

An okay place to get a healthy and filling meal in this part of campus. Generally fresh ingredients, tasty bowls, and options for customization whether you go with one of the set bowls or build your own. Prices are fair for the portion size. Depending on who you get, service can be cheerful and reasonably quick or extremely sluggish. I've never had any serious problem with the food quality here, but some ingredients seem to not be as fresh or as high-quality as I've come to expect from poke (again, never had anything that was bad, but it's just missing that pristine touch). I also find that some of the flavour combinations are kind of odd, like the pesto-marinated tofu and pineapple or very guac-like avocado scoops. But I still generally find their bowls satisfying if you know how to pick your ingredients. The Main and the Cali are my favourite standard bowls. Although I like the personalization of just building a bowl, I wish you could get more than 3 toppings on a regular size. Service is iffy sometimes. Mostly nice people, but there are a few staff members that don’t seem to know...

Have been waiting to visit this location for a while given its proximity and centrality on the UBC campus. I can’t say I was blown away but the food was sufficient. For the price I found it to a bit expensive but it’s possibly justifiable given that some of the ingredients such as tuna and salmon are generally more costly. Ordered The Main- item number one on the menu. Found it to be fine but the flavors were a bit strong on salt and umami. Overall, an average meal, though I will be returning to try the Açaí Bowl as that looked very...

2.5/5. The most mid poke I’ve ever had. The rice was pretty mushy, the fish didn’t taste right (I got spicy salmon and it didn’t actually taste like spicy mayo, it tasted…old?) and half my bowl was just pickled onions 😭 Service was fast, but the workers pretty much ignored me the entire time to keep up their animated conversation with each other instead. Don’t know why they were so disinterested in their customers… anyway, only positive thing from this is that I didn’t pay full price for this bowl as it was the...