BOKA Kitchen + Bar, at downtown's Hotel 1000

Acclaimed chef Angie Roberts presides over the outstanding BOKA Kitchen + Bar inside the fashionable Hotel 1000, a gay-friendly, luxury property downtown. Roberts tends to use regional ingredients in her elegant yet accessible contemporary cuisine. Here's a sampling of BOKA appetizers, including pork-belly steam bun sliders, grilled Painted Hills beef satay with Thai chili sauce, sugarcane-skewered Dungeness crab cakes with lemongrass aioli, and rhubarb bruschetta with Rogue River blue cheese.