Linguists can be an argumentative bunch—and not very helpful. They bicker, for instance, over tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to and pot-ay-to, pot-ah-to. T…
For almost a month now, The Poke Lab has been dark, with social media buzzing about whether the popular poke spot had sailed off into the suns…
Two words: It's time.
There are a lot of ways to look at a sushi donut.
Sharon Randall, formerly of Pacific Grove, was one of my earlier writing influences. She wrote “Bay Window” for the then-Monterey Peninsula He…
The most appetizing thing about the area’s hottest food phenomenon – sorry, Cultura Comida y Bebida, it’s still Poke Lab (200-3474) on Alvarad…
The Hawaiian concept of raw sashimi-grade fish salad – called poke (pronounced po-kay) – is migrating east, getting bigger and bigger in urban…
Within less than 100 steps along downtown Monterey’s Alvarado Street, a striking number of things are happening.
An iceberg-shaped chunk of ahi looms on the stage-lit demo table next to a sharp knife and a tantalizingly blank cutting board. The audience s…