La Bokka - Restaurant & bar Les Gets — Restaurant in Thonon-les-Bains

We booked a table for two in advance for February 14, 2024, knowing from the photographs that the restaurant was large and there were plenty of tables for both groups and for two, so we thought that the administrator understood that on such a day everyone needed a good table and comfortable chairs like theirs in all the photos there are a lot of round tables against the wall with soft chairs for two. When we arrived at 18:50 and there were no visitors yet, visitors began to arrive later. We were led through a large, beautiful entire hall, the administrator turned to the right and there, behind a curtain, there was one table and behind it a high table, we were seated at this square mini table with chairs, without soft chairs, and we sat as if in a closet, as if we were hidden but not an intimate atmosphere in a good way, but in a bad way, in front we looked at a beautiful hall with people, with beautiful tables at which people who came were seated, and when we asked to be seated in such chairs, we were told there were no places, reservations, although I I’m sure they could have transplanted us, but they decided to hide us, beautiful and elegant, from everyone, like a table for the staff. We spent 250 euros because we ordered scallop carpaccio twice - the only tasty dish because it’s hard to spoil, delicious wine, but the meat was beef with truffle pieces and sword fish in foam were not tasty and even tasteless, in other restaurants this is the perfect combination of meat and sauce, but here it’s terrible, but the meat costs 43 euros, the fish is also about that amount. We already realized that this restaurant does not cook well except for pizza, well, this is understandable Italian, teach the chefs to cook with taste and not without for such a price. The rose petals on the table were artificial, 😂, is it really difficult for a restaurant to buy several roses so that there is a petal for each table, but the natural real one, and not the artificial one, Only the blond, skinny guy with a ponytail, the waiter brightened up the evening, he was friendly, kind, so thanks to him the evening turned out normal, everything else, the table around the corner was like a booth and the food was not pleasant. The restaurant is beautiful, the food...

It takes a lot of vision to setup a place like this in a town like Les Gets. La Bokka wants to be THAT place where cool people meet. And I think they manage to execute that vision very well when it comes to the vibe, the design and the staff (our waitress was fantastic and very attentive). I think there is still a bit of work when it comes to the food: although it was faultless it was far from being spectacular, despite an average plus price. But I think they’ll get there. Went on a Friday night and a band was playing, volume was high so we kindly asked for tuning it down which they did; it went up after 9pm which can be an issue if you wanna have a social dinner with friends. Be...

Annoyingly inconsistent... If one is paying €21 for a Carbonarra itshould be good... 1st visit it was good 2nd nearly inedible... Ambiance is that of an International Hotel.. tasteful but one could be anywhere in the world... and the prices are a bit silly... €120 for 2 people - 2 x starters 2x carbonarras 1 x pud. and 2 glasses of wine... not quite an authentic family Italian supper.... but I can see it suits residents in the blocks above it... we'd maybe give it one more go in a...