The north side of Todos Santos is growing and a a result several good restaurants have opened. In one strip along Camino a Las Playitas, you will find Poke Loko, Five Tacos & a Beer, Bonjour Madame, La CochineraBajavaria and Landi’s restaurants. Many of these restaurants offer live music at night.

The first restaurant in the strip is Poke Loke. Built from scratch by Claude Vogel and his family from France, it is run by Bastien Boucard, the chef, manager, and another member of the family. The restaurant has outdoor seating in a garden like environment with a upstairs dining area as well. When entering the restaurant, the first thing that you see is the wood-fired pizza oven, with the fire blazing. Just to the right of the entrance is a stage, where during the high season there is live music five days a week.

We went to Poke Loko to see Terra Nova perform (David Raitt, Richard Hastings and Tony Askins). But of course, it was a dinner time and so we enjoyed several of the offerings from the menu. We started off with some of their special French Fries, which are smothered in cheese and meat. Then, our table of four ordered three different pizzas – a margherita pizza with sliced tomatoes, a mushroom pizza with gorgonzola cheese and a meat lover’s pizza covered with different meats. The pizza comes hot from the wood-fired oven and is delicious. Poke Loko’s menu is not limited to pizza. As the name suggests, there are several different Poke bowls, salads, sashimi, and great cocktails from the bar at the back of the restaurant.Being owned and run by a French chef, there is also dessert, which we had to sample.

Our experience with Poke Loko has always been excellent. The food is very good, the service excellent, the atmosphere great and the live music is among the best that you can find in Todos Santos.