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| - We were here during the rush of a Christmas Market night. Everywhere else was packed and we wanted to sit down to a meal, so we thought we'd try Boku. We were greeted and seated promptly, however it took at least 15 minutes for the server to come back and to fill our water glasses. This would be the ONLY time we had our water glasses filled. The food was good, but I wasn't floored by any of the flavours, especially given the heftier price tag than you'd pay elsewhere. We had the tempura seafood and veg udon, spicy scallop and salmon canapé and box pressed saba sushi. The shrimp tempura was definitely better than you'd get an your local run of the mill sushi joint, but the rest of the was meh. I've had better mackerel box pressed sushi at Guu, there wasn't enough of the char to it. Also, the food did not come out at a good pace and we had finished the udon and canapé, and waited 10 mins before the box sushi came out. There were only two servers working that night, one of which was also the hostess, which meant that we could never get anyone's attention to get our bill. After waiting 20 minutes trying to make eye contact with anyone, I finally went up to the server as I was going to the bathroom to ask for the bill. There definitely should have been more servers working that night, especially when you know that the whole Distillery District is going to be teeming with people. Or if you are really busy, maybe leave the carafe of water at each table so you don't have to pay as much attention to that. From the great reviews that this restaurant I really expected better. This experience has really tainted my view and I won't be coming back.
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