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Boka Tako Bar at 304 N. Robinson St. in the Fan District is closed.

The restaurant closed at the end of service Tuesday, Nov. 27 and employees were notified the same day that the restaurant would be closing.

"Everyone’s pissed off at me and I understand why," said Patrick Harris, owner of Boka Tako Bar, the fleet of Boka Tako trucks and Boka Grill & Growlers, to name of a few. "That was the notice we had."

Harris said the timing of the notification and the closing couldn't be avoided. The building he leased since early 2014, just before Boka Tako opened, had been sold to a new owner and the closing date had been fluid as terms of that deal were hashed out.

"We didn’t know when it was going to go through," he said, "It could’ve been last month, it could've been February. This is strictly an issue where the building was sold from one owner to another owner."

Harris said he learned Tuesday that sale went through, though he'd previously known that the new owner would take possession of the property immediately to flip it from a full-service taco bar to a fast casual restaurant concept. Harris said he wasn't at liberty to share the name of the new owner.