Just a small detail, Elena, but regarding time sequence, the "another" or "more" poke place for downtown Mountain View (in the phrasing currently appearing above) actually is Pokeworks, which you wrote up a few days ago. It not only plans to open later, it was announced much later. Poke Bar, described in today's blog, has been locally publicized, via signs and printed handouts at its location, for a couple of months, preceding your writeup about Pokeworks, and before Pokeworks (as "Poke Fresh") had its permit-application hearing last month. I see these sites up close as a pedestrian; as of a couple of days ago, remodeling was not yet evident at the location planned for Pokeworks, and its only visible on-site information was a City notice about the permit hearing.

I wonder if poke is a current trend (like the Bay Area's new-wave pastry shops, which likewise brought two new pastry businesses in quick sequence -- PanotiQ and Alexander's Patisserie -- last year to the same neighborhood now getting poke restaurants).

Poke isn't just an appetizer in Hawaii. It can be a whole meal (possibly with some rice or green salad on the side). We're really looking forward to this restaurant opening. Hopefully, they have access to fresh caught fish, which is the secret to great poke.

From time to time, Costco sets up a Poke display and sells a TON of Poke ! It's very popular. Not at our house, but at other places ... :)

Nothing about "another" or "more" implies anything about who declared their intentions first or who is opening first. From Oxford, "another" means "[u]sed to refer to an additional person or thing of the same type as one already mentioned or known about; one more; a further." A prior article mentioned Pokeworks; that is therefore the "one already mentioned" per the definition of the word. Because that article came first, Mountain View Poke Bar is in fact "another." Elena's word choice is correct given the local frame of reference, and whether Pokeworks was first as an ontological or epistemological matter is entirely irrelevant. The complaint about "more" is also wrong under the same analysis.

Whatever. My point above (as you probably know, if you read it) is that Poke Bar was the first publicized and is expected also to be the first opening of the two new poke places near each other. Some might misunderstand the sequence from the phrasing in the blog headlines. (Not, of course, anyone posting comments here, the showplace of great wit. . .)

Upon reflection, my nitpicking over seemingly inconsequential details about someone's statements on a website really serve no purpose other than to point out how much I know about everything. While true in this case, upon re-reading it, this kind of behavior is actually really annoying. I hope you'll forgive me - it is difficult to have any kind of self-awareness of how awful one can come off online when engaging in this kind of behavior.

Look, whoeveryouare in Blossom Valley (I don't know how to address you, since you aren't willing to sign your words): You did a good job of reading misimpressions into some comments to Elena's blog already, then responding based on those notions; so it's a good bet you'll do the same again. But in case anyone ELSE is curious, there's more going here than meets the troll.

I send raw MV restaurant-news tips to the Voice and have done so for many (13?) years. Sometimes, Elena will research much further and write a blog post (or if the restaurant has been open long enough, a staff member will visit and write a review article for print). If you read these papers regularly, you've seen this process in action. This time, I found surprises in the blog posts (including, eventually, that this website won't show accented letters) just as I was finishing some other writing about the same two pending poke restaurants. So, I pestered Elena publicly here via blog comments instead of by private mail. But then, many people tell me they're interested to read about these details. (Even if, clearly, not everyone is!)

There's something broken with the way this website displays accented characters.

Poke with some sort of accent is showing up as "Pok�'©" (pok, capital A with a tilde ~ above, and the copyright c symbol, where the word should be poke with a macron (solid line) over the e, like this: "pokē" (if the website renders correctly).

Anyhow, it's tasty, so I look forward to more diversity in the downtown restaurant offerings.

Ah well, it was worth a try, but my comment was mangled by the web server as well.

Poke is an awesome meal. I make it at home 2-3x a month. I'm sure the restaurant will be great, but it's also a super easy dish to make at home (no cooking, ha ha!) so no need to just eat at the restaurant. Plenty of poke recipe books online.

Poké Is yummy! (Copy paste)

Poké is too good! (Typing)

I'm curious so here's a test pattern of accented letters, to see how they appear currently. In order: a e i o u each w/ grave accent, acute accent, circumflex, diaeresis/umlaut. Second line has them with macron and breve; then tilde a, ring a, cedilla c, diaeresis y, schwa, Viet. long schwa, double-acute u)

à è ì ò ù á é í ó ú â ê î ô û ä ë ï ö ü

ā ē ī ō ū �' ĕ ĭ ŏ ŭ ã å ç ÿ ə ở ű

This is an outrage. Next i will be hearing that it's not formatting carons properly. Let's see...

ÇŽÇŽÇŽ

Noooooooooo!

Poke should be written with a macron over the 'e', not an acute accent.

PokÄ“, not poké.

Or no diacritic at all.

Ah, the Embarcadero Media web server still doesn't handle all accented characters gracefully. A shame.

Tell me about it my last name is Spanish and there is a ~ over the n in Sardina. Can't do that here. it shows up as a diamond......

Roy Thiele-Sardina

Did they open on November 1? Any customer reviews? Strangely, Yelp is silent about this restaurant.

Thanks for the prompting, resident. I just checked and Erica Kim, their communications person, said the opening has been pushed back to Monday, Nov. 16.

Went by there today (Nov 23). Still not open and seems like a lot of work still to do.

Also, poke is typically a warm weather food. With no indoor seating, I wish them luck opening during the winter. Build your own poke works best if you eat it right after building it. This isn't nearly as much fun if you have to take it home or back to work, especially if you're buying for a group or family.

Hawaiian: I was there this afternoon, the Poke counter is in place and the cooks were doing training runs with the chain's owner supervising. So I expect it will be open very soon.

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