Sushi and poke barbecue spot opening on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza with 40% off
Simple. Tasty. Fresh.
Those words line one wall of the new Hokibar Poke & Sushi BBQ scheduled to open Saturday on the Country Club Plaza.
Menu items will include:
▪ Sushi BBQ, in regular or Cajun flavors, such as lobster rolls with shrimp tempura, avocado and cucumber, topped with spicy crab and lobster tail for $17.
▪ Specialty rolls include the Kansas City roll with cream cheese, avocado and smoked salmon, topped with scallop, crab and masago for $13.95.
▪ Bowls include the Kansas City bowl with hoki rice, seaweed, green onions, cucumber, spicy mayo, seared ahi tuna, mashed spicy tuna, mango salsa, edamame, sweet corn, seaweed salad, spicy crab, ginger, wasabi, fried garlic, crispy onion and furikake.
Customers also can build their own bowls with a choice of rice, greens or tortilla chips as the base, then mix-ins, a choice of sauces or salad dressings, six different proteins, and a variety of toppings including chickpeas, roasted corn, watermelon radish, fried garlic and sesame seeds.
Bowls are $13.99 for a regular size with two scoops of protein or $15.99 for three scoops.
Other menu items include miso soup, wakame salad (marinated seaweed) and Ninja Fruit Rolls for dessert (with strawberry, pineapple, kiwi, Rice Krispies-style treats and New York-style cheesecake wrapped in soy bean paper with mango sauce).
Partner Ket Kiun Lo is from Indonesia and worked at restaurants in the Midwest. About a year ago he decided he wanted to move to Kansas City.
Hokibar took the former Zoës Kitchen spot at 100 Ward Parkway. Zoës Kitchen temporarily closed at the start of the pandemic and then took its logo off the building in early 2021. Its other metro locations also closed. Cava, a fast casual Mediterranean restaurant chain, opened in a couple of former Zoës Kitchens in Overland Park.
Hokibar plans to open Saturday with menu items 40% off main dishes through Monday to introduce Kansas City to the concept.
It will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
Hokibar Poke & Sushi BBQ also plans an Overland Park location in 2023.
In other Plaza news
▪ Sees Candies has opened a holiday pop-up store at 4747 Broadway, in the former Michael Kors space.
▪ Pink Lipps Cosmetics, a locally owned makeup store, has opened at 225 Nichols Road, in the former Marine Layer space. Marine Layer closed in August.
▪ Capital One Cafe, bank and cafe, 430 Nichols Road, is scheduled to open Dec. 7.
