Zen Fish- Hooray

Last week Carter and her friend Cait went to eat at a new Ninth Street eatery called Zen Fish. It is a Poké Bar which means it is kind of like a sushi salad bar. Carter came home raving about it, so tonight she and I went there so I could try it. I think I have found my new healthy place to eat.
The bar is on the north end of Ninth street in the ground floor of the Solis apartment building, directly across from One World Market. It is a couple of steps down from street level so you might miss it if you were driving by. They have a bunch of out door tables and seating for about 20 inside. It was crowded enough tonight on this raining evening that we had to take ours to go.
Three very nice young people waited on us Chipolte style, meaning you start your order with one person and they hand your meal off to the next person to add what you want and then again to a last person. The first decision you have to make is if you want a “Bowl” or a “burrito” made with a seaweed wrapper and rice. If you chose. Bowl you then choose a “base,” rice, Quinoa, salad or zucchini noodles. Right there you have a bunch of healthy choices.
Your next decision is your protein. You can have up to five different proteins, a small scoop is one of raw tuna or spicy tuna, salmon, scallop, shrimp, crawfish, crab legs, sweet potato or tofu. I got a combo of salmon and crab legs. You pick a sauce that gets mixed in with your protein and there were so many yummy ones to pick from. I got miso ginger, which was delicious. Two kinds of onions thinly sliced, fresh jalapeños, bean sprouts, mango and cucumber are your next choices and you can have any and all.
All of that was mixed together and put on my salad greens as my bowl was handed around the corner for the last of the goodies. Beautiful radish slices, seaweed, edamame, ginger, the list went on forever. I got some crispy shallots and then added a touch of srirach aioli for a little heat. Lastly I got avocado which was the only up charge on my bowl adding $1 to the flat price of my large bowl at $13.95.
My mouth was watering just looking at my beautiful dinner, but I had to wait until I got home to see how it tasted. In a word it was DEVINE! I think I have found my new go to place and I don’t need to have any guilt about it.