Boka Restaurant & Bar
| Address: | 1010 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA |
| Phone: | +1 206-357-9000 |
| Site: | hotel1000seattle.com |
| Rating: | 3.9 |
| Working: | 6:30AM–11:30PM 6:30AM–11:30PM 6:30AM–11:30PM 6:30AM–11:30PM 6:30AM–12:30AM 8AM–12:30AM 8AM–11:30PM |
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Duke Tennant
To say the least, this restaurant completely under delivered my expectations. None of the three courses were any good, but let me start with the appetizer: I had ordered local oysters, and when my plate came it was a bunch of oysters (obviously) that were laid onto a bed of sea salt or some other variation of it. The oysters looked normal at first but upon biting into one of them I realized they had large hard chunks of salt stuck in the oysters. You would be eating and suddenly your teeth would land on a extremely salty shard. At this point I had just excused this as being a minor mishap or maybe some people liked salt in their oysters, so I was looking forward to the main course. For my main course I ordered Maine Lobster Paella, and upon receiving the dish I was quite shocked at the complete lack of lobster. I had ordered Main LOBSTER Paella and yet I had not a single piece of lobster in my dish! However I must say to the credit of the restaurant that they did give me a full refund on that dish which is extremely professional. By now I was annoyed with the restaurant for delivering both a sub-par main dish as well as a unappetizing appetizer (although that is opinionated) I was curious to see the dessert. Quite honestly I have no way to judge the quality of the dessert due to the fact that I ordered something I didnt like at all. The New Years Duet was decent, so I have no strong opinions about it. In all, I just have to say that the restaurant failed to serve me a decent appetizer and main dish, albeit the dessert was average. Although your experience may differ from mine I still have to warn you to watch out for low-quality restaurants that run under hotels. Gordon Ramsey would have something to say. Thanks, -Duke
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Shawn Besabella
I came specifically for happy hour, and it was awesome. They have a good assortment of happy hour food plates $4, $6, and $9 plates and a cocktail menu. We ordered truffle fries, Boka salad, crispy kale, and a wagyu rib-eye (also came with fries). The truffle fries were great, and not oily. The crispy kale was doused in cheese, so I wouldnt say it was anything special. I would liken eating crispy kale to eating crispy seaweed. I could do without ordered it the next time around, as with the Boka salad. Both werent terrible, just nothing spectacular in my eyes. Onto the meats. They were totes amaze. The short ribs just fell off the bone and melted in my mouth. So good. We ordered the steak cooked medium, and it was the perfect temperature and texture. I was very impressed. For the price and portion of each small plate, it was a definite happy hour success. As for drinks, I ordered their drink special which was some vodka, blueberry lemonade concoction. It was... Not tasty at all. It tasted like cough medicine, not to mention it literally took 10 minutes to make it. The atmosphere was sexy. Its located right next to the 1000 Hotel, so I expected something fancy. I would definitely recommend this place for happy hour. The rest of the menu for dinner looked great too, so I plan on going back soon.
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Patricia Simon
Went for happy hour with a friend. Ask for a Canadian Club in a bucket glass with lots of ice and two twists. 20 something server with gold glitter on her eyelids tells me that they dont carry Canadian sodas. I explain that Canadian Club is a Canadian blended whiskey. Off she goes. She comes back and tells me they dont have Canadian Club. Bartender comes over and tells me that they only have Crown and something called Pendleton. After he described that, I ordered it. Ms. Glittery comes back with the Pendleton in one of those small snifters, no ice. I explain that a bucket glass is similar to, but larger than, the water glass and that thats what I want, with lots of ice. Ms. Snotty Pants says, "Oh! Then you want it on the rocks." DUH! Happily another server brought something like what I asked for to begin with and stayed with us the rest of the time. We got 3 plates of food. Two were awful: pork ribs in some kind of awful gravy that tasted as bad as it looked and cold, and friend cauliflower that was covered in some kind of breading (looked like they bought it that way) and was hard inside. Friend had two drinks. I had one. Bill $71 + change. Crappy service by someone who had potentially 1/2 a clue, crappy and overpriced food, and a big bill. Not my idea of "happy" hour.
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Scott Laird
WE stopped in on a sunday at 5:00pm..wanted to sit on the patio was told to pick a place to sit and when we did the ho-stess told us we couldnt sit in that spot that there was a 4top reserved so we chose to sit inside.our waitress was very good at her job and new the menu..however a dinner menu was not available at 5:pm??? so we were stuck with an overpriced happy hour menu that lacked any sustanance..so the only food was burgers..and who cant go wrong with a good ole american burger? we did the patties had no flavor(my guess is costco frozen pattie) were still frozen in the middle and rather gross.the prices were way out of order for this jernt...my drink from the bar was amazing and perfectly made..i will never eat in this swill house ever again..i will stop in the bar for a drink though..total bill for our early dinner..60.00 bucks for two discusting burgers two waters and a jameson mule...and when the waitress came and saw that we didnt eat but a bite of the burgers she never asked what the problem was..oh the brioch buns were damn good
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A Private User
The food was very delicious, and the environment was clean. However, the servers were not very attentive. Whenever we needed a server, even after we flagged them and they answered us, we would have to ask at least once more. The food, although good, was way too expensive for the quality, and took forever to come out. Even though we sat right next to the hostess, we were essentially ignored the whole event by all staff. We had a party of 10, and only one server, and we had virtually NO attention besides taking our order, and the drinks from the bar almost took as long as the food. All the servers ignored us, including the assigned server. In short, dont expect a quick service or value for the experience.
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Paul Fichter
I dine frequently at Boka for lunch. I find that Boka has high quality food at very reasonable prices. Their hamburger is very gourmet. The fish tacos are also a treat. They have a $10 lunch special every day that is a full meal with high quality ingredients. Most lunch items are in the $12-$13 range and are served with a side and bread and butter or balsamic jelly. They have a loyalty card for lunch where you buy 6 and get one free. They server lemonade with fruit and the price includes one refill. I find Boka to be the best quality for the money for hot lunch in downtown.
