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Boka
Address: 1729 North Halsted Avenue, Chicago
Square feet: 4,100
Completed: 2004
Clients: Rob Katz and Kevin Boehm
Link: www.BokaChicago.com
Boka is a very successful fine dining restaurant in the heart of the Lincoln Park neighborhood. It was designed by Warren Ashworth while still with Bogdanow Partners Architects. It features stretch fabric sculptures, end grain wood block floors, sumptuous fabrics in a variety of seating areas including dining outside and dining under a canopy. Boka features one of the first cell phone booths in the country and was featured in a Wall Street Journal article on the subject. The same newspaper also rated it as one of the country's ten best places to spend valentines day in 2007. Rated among the city's 10 best new restaurants by Chicago Magazine and CitySearch.com.