Pokedon in College Area, San Diego builds customizable poke bowls from fish filleted in-house at 6353 El Cajon Blvd, Suite 130, in the 92115 ZIP. Owner Dennis opened the shop in 2016 after a career in sushi preparation, and the build-your-own format lets customers choose three proteins at the regular size or five at the large across salmon, spicy tuna, eel, krab, and shrimp. The TJ Bowl layers fresh salmon chunks over brown sushi rice with finely sliced vegetables and a mildly spicy house sauce, and the single-origin pour-over program at Scrimshaw Coffee a few blocks west caters to the same study-break crowd near SDSU. Most sauces are made in-house and run gluten-free, a distinction that matters on a corridor where San Diego sushi restaurants and ramen counters compete for the same lunch traffic. The Seoul Bowl swaps in a sesame-soy base with edamame and corn, and the Neapolitan Bowl sets a fixed build of krab, spicy krab, spicy tuna, edamame, corn, cucumber, and furikake under a drizzle of aloha sauce, spicy mayo, and eel sauce with seaweed salad. Board games line the counter area — chess sets, Jenga towers, and card decks — turning a fast-casual poke stop into a longer sit-down for the college crowd grabbing food near SDSU. Beer, cold sake, and soju round out the drink list, a licensing tier that most poke counters skip entirely and that pairs well with the craft-beer rotation at Next Door Craft Beer & Wine Bar on the same stretch. Vegan bowls sub tofu for fish protein and hold the mayo-based sauces, and the aloha dressing anchors a plant-based option that reads closer to a grain bowl than a standard poke format. Protein portions run heavier than most competing poke bars in San Diego, with large bowls packing five scoops across a rice or salad base that weighs out closer to a full sushi dinner than a snack.