Poke Bowl Near Me in SoMa: Bimi Poke Inside the Metreon

Bimi Poke describes itself as a mix of Hawaiian and Japanese style poke, and its counter sits inside the Metreon at 135 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, the entertainment building on the Yerba Buena Gardens block in SoMa. The name, the shop says, simply means delicious. If you typed poke bowl near me from Moscone Center, SFMOMA or a Union Square hotel, this is the stop where you can trade a rice bowl for a sushi burrito and carry either one out to the lawn next door.

Bimi Poke has been part of the Metreon's dining lineup since at least September 2020, when the building added it to its store directory, and customer reviews of the shop go back to 2021. That timing matters. Plenty of poke counters that opened during the mid-2010s rush in San Francisco have since closed, and one customer review from June 2024 called Bimi one of the classic poke places that survived, praising the friendly service and the value.

The shop's mission statement is short: fresh, healthy and delicious raw fish bowls. The menu reaches further than that, though. Alongside poke bowls and sushi burritos, the counter serves curry rice bowls, curry udon, maki rolls, cheesecake and mochi ice cream, which makes it a practical pick for a group where not everyone wants raw fish. No public source names the owners, and the shop itself has not published a founding story, so the food carries the reputation.

Bimi's build-your-own bowl starts with an unusual rule: you choose exactly two proteins. The included choices are tofu cake, crab salad, steamed fresh tofu and kimchi, while fresh salmon, salmon poke, tuna poke, spicy tuna, spicy crab and tempura shrimp cost a little more, and hamachi sashimi sits at the top of the range. Every create-your-own bowl already comes with crab salad, edamame, cucumber, sweet corn, seaweed salad, fried onion, purple cabbage, green onion, tobiko and sesame seeds.

Pick a base of white rice, brown rice or mixed green salad, then choose sauces from a list that includes wasabi mayo, the house poke sauce, unagi, ponzu, ginger and wasabi. Spicy mayo costs extra. Extra toppings run from green beans and pickled radish to avocado, pineapple, cream cheese, kimchi and a Flamin' Hot Cheetos crunch, and you can add more protein if two scoops will not carry you through the afternoon.

One tip for plant-based eaters comes straight from the shop's menu note: if you are vegan, ask for the poke sauce on your salad, because the regular salad dressing is not vegan. Steamed tofu and tofu cake are both included proteins, so a vegan bowl does not need any upcharge at all.

If you would rather not build, the Bimi Super Bowl is the shop's loaded option, stacking tuna poke, salmon, hamachi, albacore poke and crab meat with cucumber, edamame, corn, purple cabbage, fried onion and tobiko. The Fire Bowl is marked very spicy and mixes spicy salmon, spicy tuna poke and spicy crab with kimchi, jalapeño and white onion. For cooked fish, the Special Salmon Teriyaki Bowl and the Special Unagi Bowl both finish with unagi sauce over crab, seaweed salad and corn.

Recent reviews are mostly about portion size. An October 2026 customer praised the great portions and options, with the one complaint that the order arrived a little different from what she had chosen, close to a preset mix instead. A September 2026 review called it some of the best poke the writer had tried, and a December 2025 note summed it up as excellent and generous. Read your ticket back at the counter if you customized heavily.

The Metreon's own directory lists Bimi Poke's hours as 11 am to 7 pm every day for the week of October 12 to 18, 2026, while the building itself stays open until 8:30 pm. Delivery apps show a longer window, so if you arrive after 7 pm for dinner before a movie upstairs, do not count on the counter still being open.

Ordering works at the counter or online through the order link on the shop's website and on Uber Eats, where the shop holds a 4.8 rating from more than 3,000 ratings. Sides such as miso soup, edamame, seaweed salad and spicy crab inari round out a meal, and combo sets on the delivery menu bundle a bowl with extras. Getting there is easy without a car: Yerba Buena/Moscone station on the Central Subway is about 265 meters away, and Powell Street station for Muni Metro and BART is about 325 meters away.

The best seat is outside. Yerba Buena Gardens sits right beside the Metreon, less than a hundred meters from the counter, and its lawn is the obvious place for a takeout lunch on a sunny day. Take a bowl out, find a spot on the grass, and you have a view of the downtown towers and the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial waterfall on the far side of the gardens.

After eating, the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Mission Street is about 200 meters away, SFMOMA on Third Street is about 290 meters away, and Moscone Center is roughly 270 meters from the counter. Union Square is a little over half a kilometer north if you want to walk off a Super Bowl with some window shopping. Because the counter sits inside a building with a cinema and a Target, it also works as a rainy-day fallback when the gardens are too wet to sit in.