COCONUTS HOT SPOT — Single Fin is up with the trends. The Uluwatu hub quickly rode the smoothie bowl wave, setting up a Nalu Bowls last year, and now it’s adding more hip foods to the line-up.
Single Fin’s latest food addition, Coco & Poke, is now open for business. Sort of.
The breezy, whitewashed little shop promises a unique combo of specialities on its menu, as its name suggests: CocoWhip (the coco) and Hawaiian poke bowls (the poke).
But when we went this week to check things out, it was all poke and no coco—the vegan, bio-fermented coconut soft serve is not yet available and it’s not clear when it will be, Coco & Poke staff told us during our visit.
As disappointing as that was (we’re so intrigued by the coconut soft-serve and are dying to try it), we’ve got to hand it to them for their poke bowls.
They’ve got five different house poke bowls you can choose from, all with pre-selected bases (white sushi rice, red rice, or quinoa), protein (yellow fin tuna, salmon, butterfish sashimi, Balinese pork satay, teriyaki chicken, or organic tofu), various veggies, and dressings.
Bowls come in two sizes, cutely called low tide for small (Rp 75k) and high tide for large (Rp 95k).
You can also make your own bowl, customizing your base, protein, and dressing, and pay per each additional add-on.
We opted for a low tide of the ‘Single Fin bowl’, which is yellow fin tuna on romaine lettuce, shredded daikon, carrot, cucumber, and avocado, topped with shredded nori, pumpkin seeds, black sesame seeds, and a spicy Siracha Chili & Mayo dressing—plus some limes squeezed on top. They didn’t yet have quinoa, so we did a mix of white and red rice for our grain base.
The bowl was fresh, light, and all the ingredients were wonderfully harmonized by the Siracha and mayo dressing—which we were pleased to find had a slight kick to it.
Turns out, ‘low tide’ is a totally sufficient lunch portion for us—we were worried it would be too small.
FYI: They don’t sell drinks at Coco & Poke, so if you want to order something, you’ll have to get it from Single Fin (budget accordingly, mindful of the ‘++’).
If you can handle the intense Bukit heat, take your bowl outside and sit on the deck to get the most of the epic Ulu view–and if you’re in a group, you can accommodate those who are inclined for fruit over fish and choose to take a smoothie bowl from Nalu’s.
Coconuts Hot Spots are notable new restaurants or undiscovered gems around Bali that we think are worth a visit.
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Coco & Poke
Single Fin
Pantai Suluban
Jl. Labuan Sait, Uluwatu
