Toko Restaurant & Bar
Editorial
What a serious pleasure this place is. An award-winning restaurant where you can just walk in after work, plonk your weary bones at the bar, order up cocktails and snacks without mortgaging the house, or being made to feel like you're just slightly too uncool to be taking up a seat. The bar staff here all have a welcoming and calm attitude, but they move quickly, and not so quickly that it makes you stressed just watching them work.
Anybody's day will be resoundingly improved by a Mi Mi Chi daiquiri of rum, blood orange, raspberry and chili sorbet with fresh lime, which is all at once confronting, exciting and intensely delicious. The not-so traditional lychee and jasmine tea mojito is tall, tasty and very refreshing, and could only be improved on if you cared to chase it down with another of the same.
Tiny bar snacks at big prices are thankfully out of fashion. The bar food at Toko comes in decently proportioned serves, and it surely doesn't disappoint. Beautiful fresh salted edamame beans, salt and pepper squid and the yakitori chicken skewers all come highly recommended.
The Crown Street traffic in the background never stops, but the proximity of the road and the constant flow of envious pedestrians certainly don't detract from the venue. If anything they just add some movement and colour. Park yourself anywhere in the bar area, and you'll soon be part of the happy buzz that fills the bright, airy room and flows back and forth through the wide open windows onto the footpath. All set to a good volume of bass-heavy background music, such as the classic "K&D Sessions". Get in there at 6pm to beat the crowds and just enjoy.
Blake Williamson, March 2009
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