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| - One thing I love about Japanese restaurants, you can always find a decent bento box lunch for an inexpensive price. It usually leaves you satisfied without breaking the budget. And if they treat you well during this midday meal, you're more likely to come for dinner and try their sushi too. (I do hate how many of them close for business in between that lunch and dinner hour though, which luckily, isn't the case with Tokyoto.)
Located next to Caffe Gelato in the Bocapark Mall, you walk into this pleasant and bright Japanese restaurant. The sushi bar takes center state with tables all around. The BF and I grab a table facing the TV (behind the sushi bar), so we can watch the baseball game.
Our waitress brings us the menus and takes our beverage orders. It's not long before she returns with our tea and complimentary suno mono (cucumber salad).
My choice for today is their Lunch Special #1 which is Chicken Teriyaki, Shrimp & Vegetable Tempura, and California Roll ($7.95). The BF gets their Lunch Special #4, which is Tonkatsu, Shrimp & Vegetable Tempura, and California Roll ($9.95). (Rice and miso soup automatically comes with all the lunch specials.)
When our orders arrive, we are both pleasantly surprised with their generous portions. A nice heaping side salad also accompanied our bento box (with a carrot-based dressing?). Six pieces of CA roll instead of the pictured three pieces and five pieces of tempura - shrimp, onion, potato, zucchini, and carrot were presented before us (along with our chicken teriyaki or tonkatsu).
We were initially thinking of adding a roll to our order since they had some unique ones that piqued our interest. But after seeing our order come out, we knew we couldn't finish it all.
Service was good, our waitress was very pleasant and refilled our beverages as needed. A steady stream of customers started coming in a little after noon on this Friday, so it started to fill up slowly.
Overall, we had a pretty good experience based on their lunch bento box. A solid 3.5 stars.
We'd definitely return to try out some of their unique rolls like the "Who Your Daddy?" roll (Spicy Yellowtail inside, Yellowtail and Jalapeno on top with Ponzu sauce $13.50) and the "Heart Attack" roll (Spicy Tuna, Cream Cheese, Jalapeno, & Deep Fried with House Sauce $9.50).
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