Poke Bowl Near Me Downtown Miami: ROZU's Peruvian Bowls at Julia & Henry's

ROZU is where a Peruvian ceviche sauce ends up on a poke bowl. The counter sits on the second-floor mezzanine of Julia & Henry's food hall at 200 E Flagler St, Miami, FL 33131, a few steps from the Olympia Theater, and its chef cooks what he calls Asian-Peruvian food. If you searched poke bowl near me from Downtown Miami, Bayfront Park or the Flagler Street offices, this is the bowl to order when you want acevichada and cancha instead of the usual spicy mayo.

The person behind ROZU is Chef Xarles Thomson, who was born in Peru. The food hall's vendor page says he specializes in Asian-Peruvian cuisine and arrived with 20 years of cooking experience in the United States and Europe, and it describes ROZU as an Asian street food inspired fast casual restaurant with an emphasis on modern poke bowls. That combination is less strange than it sounds. Peru has a long Chinese and Japanese immigrant history, and dishes like lomo saltado and tiradito already blend the two traditions.

The building is half the story. Julia & Henry's opened on June 3, 2023, according to the Miami Herald and Time Out. The hall fills a structure built in 1936 as a Walgreens with an 88-foot soda fountain, which later housed the La Época department store until 2018. King Goose Hospitality runs the hall and Stambul Development redeveloped the building. The Herald's opening coverage named ROZU as Thomson's poke concept, and ROZU's first Yelp review is dated October 2023.

The in-store menu on ROZU's own Toast ordering page lists five composed bowls. The Signature ROZU Poke costs $20.00 and layers tuna and salmon over sushi rice with edamame, carrots, ginger, cucumber and avocado, finished with eel sauce and acevichada. The Peruvian Poke costs $19.00 and puts salmon tartare on sushi rice with edamame, avocado, pickled onion and purple cabbage under acevichada. Acevichada is a creamy sauce built on the citrus marinade of ceviche, and it is the reason to come here rather than to a chain.

The Miami Poke is $18.00 and pairs tuna with pineapple, cucumber, carrots and nori under a miso-cashew sauce. The Ninja Teriyaki Poke is also $18.00 and has no raw fish at all, just mixed greens, pickled onion, avocado, crispy onions and sesame with teriyaki. The Kao Orange Poke, at $19.00, swaps fish for crispy fried chicken with mango, radish, seaweed salad and quinoa crisps, under spicy mayo and cashew sauce. A build-your-own bowl is $20.00.

Add-ons are priced individually on the same Toast menu. Avocado is $4, another protein is $5, tofu is $3 and an extra base is $2. A vegetable or fruit adds $3, a topping $1 and a sauce $1. The food hall's archived vendor menu from 2025 shows the range of choices behind those prices: sushi rice, brown rice or quinoa as a base, and proteins that read like a Lima chifa menu, including lomo saltado, tuna saltado, salmon saltado, Mongolian beef, sesame chicken and a mushroom saltado.

The same 2025 list of toppings included cancha, the toasted Peruvian corn, along with nori, pickled ginger, confit onions, kale, mango, pineapple, turnip and guacamole, and sauces ranging from ponzu and teriyaki to cilantro-jalapeño and a samurai sauce. The live build-your-own options could not be read during research, so treat that list as a guide rather than a guarantee. The composed bowls above are the safer order if you want a specific combination.

For sides, Toast lists veggie spring rolls at $9 for two, a tuna tartare cake at $14, crab rangoon at $14 for three and pork wontons at $10 for seven. The drinks are the Peruvian part of the menu: Inca Kola is $4, and chicha morada, the purple corn drink, and maracuyá, passion fruit juice, are $5 each. A chicha morada next to a Peruvian Poke is the most on-theme lunch in the building.

ROZU has only a handful of Yelp reviews, and the average is mixed at 3.3 stars from ten. A January 2026 reviewer said the food and presentation were very good and the portion was big enough to need a to-go box. A 2025 reviewer called the chicken poke and the salmon poke both very good and praised the service, and another described fresh ingredients and quick service with no lines on a Saturday afternoon. The complaints are about consistency: a September 2025 reviewer found the rice gummy, and several October 2024 reviews described order mix-ups.

Price is the other thing reviewers mention. The very first review, from October 2023, called it a bit expensive but enjoyed the Peruvian bowl and its fresh ingredients. At $18 to $20 a bowl, ROZU sits at the top of the poke range, so the Peruvian and Signature bowls, with sauces you will not find elsewhere downtown, give the best value for the money.

ROZU's Toast page lists Sunday from 11:30 am to 7 pm, Tuesday through Thursday from 11:30 am to 9:30 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, with Monday closed. The food hall itself keeps longer hours, so the hall may be open on a Monday when this counter is not. Pickup orders placed online quote about 10 to 15 minutes, and Toast also offers delivery.

Note that ROZU's delivery-app menu on Toast is priced higher than the in-store menu, with the Signature bowl at $23 and the Peruvian at $22, so ordering at the counter or for pickup is the cheaper route. Seating is the food hall's shared tables. Go up to the mezzanine, order, and grab a seat on the same level, where one reviewer noted a beer bar that brews its own beer and a large screen for games.

The Olympia Theater, the 1926 atmospheric movie palace now called the Gusman Center, is practically next door at 174 E Flagler St. Gesu Church, Miami's oldest Catholic parish, is about two blocks away on NE 2nd Street. Bayfront Park is roughly a quarter mile east, and Bayside Marketplace is a little farther along the water. The Metromover's First Street station is about a tenth of a mile from the hall, and the free Metromover is the easiest way to reach Brickell or the Kaseya Center.

A good weekday plan is to order the Peruvian Poke with a chicha morada, eat on the mezzanine, then walk east along Flagler to Bayfront Park. On a Friday or Saturday night the counter stays open until 10:30 pm, which makes it a practical dinner before a show at the Olympia. Just remember the Monday closure before you climb the stairs.