Awards and Media Quotes
“Best After-Work Bar”
- Best of Citysearch: Seattle Nightlife 2008
“Award for Excellence”
- Wine Spectator, 2008
“Washington Wine Grand Award”
- Washington Wine Commission 2008 Restaurant Awards, April 2008
“A decidedly artistic backdrop and impressive seasonal menu brings a pleasantly modern option to downtown hotel dining.”
- Citysearch.com, October 2008
“Hotel 1000’s BOKA Kitchen + Bar provides an artistic amuse bouche with its displays of illuminating glass art installations, to be enjoyed during an upscale lunch or dinner.”
- Seattle Magazine, August 2008
“It’s been a busy day, so unwind with a ginger Thai martini as you peruse the menu at the acclaimed BOKA Kitchen + Bar. BOKA is short for Bold Original Kitchen Artistry, and that’s precisely what this sophisticated contemporary restaurant dishes up.”
- North Shore News, Canada, June 2008
“Call it ‘business intimate’ – as right for a strategy session as for a tryst – and if the small plates (from BOKA’s kitchen)…do not present the most compelling reason to visit, the well-chosen wine flights and uncommonly engaging urban surroundings do – and then some.”
- Seattle Metropolitan, May 2008, Pours column featuring STUDIO 1000