Boccabò ... il bocconotto — Restaurant in Bitonto

Not to be missed!!!

An unusual pastry place for most of us who are used to big display cases with dozens of kinds of pastry exhibited and wetting our appetites. At Boccabò all you find in the sales room is a desk as you might expect in any old fashioned tax accountant’s studio in Southern Italy. But it is what is behind the screen to your left that counts. It is where the most delicious bononotti, cannoli and cakes are being produced. Mainly upon order but there are always also a few for sale for the passer-by. As I walked in to pick up my order to share with friends in Vienna, a fresh load of boconotti had just come out of the oven and the warm light ricotta filling with a faint hint of lemon melted on my tongue and begged for more. Further South you will be offered boconotti that are essentially differently shaped pasticciotti (with the customary cream or amarena cherry fillings). Anyone in Bitonto will instruct you as to the true origin and nature of THE boconotto and, you guessed right, the are from Bitonto and look and taste just like produced but the friendly and hardworking...

This is NOT a Pasticceria, but a shady place where you cannot actually see any pastries (you go through a door, but inside there are no display windows, just a 1m by 1m and a curtain that supposedly has a "a lab" behind, nothing like the pictures in Google Reviews). All they sell is 1 type of bocconotto (only with ricotta filling) that has nothing to do with the Martina Franca-style crema pasticcera boconotto, worst version I've had in all of Puglia. What a...

Il miglior laboratorio artigianale di pasticceria a Bitonto. Poche specialità ma tutte di alto livello. Bocconotti, sospiri, cannoli alla crema e alla ricotta assolutamente da assaggiare. Prezzi bassi. Cordialità da parte della titolare che mi ha consigliato di non comprare i cannoli alla ricotta perchè non avevo subito la possibilità di metterli in frigo, visto che non vengono utilizzati...