"Gnar Bar is switching things up from the many California-cuisine vegetable gallettes and grass-fed burgers in town. The broadly Asian and Hawaiian counter-service restaurant serves furikake-dusted spam musubi, poke bowls with perfectly fanned-out avocado slices, and tonkatsu ramen. A sleeper hit is the chicken karaage over rice, which is finished off with salt and fried until craggy and golden. Most people take their haul to go, or you can sit at the bar facing the street and watch tourists point at things on a map." - Julia Chen