Bocca Cucina and Bar — Restaurant in New York

Do you want your morals to be disrespected and for you to feel like garbage for having those morals? Then look no further, and visit Bocca Cucina and Bar! This restaurant is NOT friendly to anyone who loves animals. The menu is marked with vegan and vegetarian options. I told the waiter I was vegan, and he said they can make me a vegan pasta al pomodoro. When the plate came, their was cheese on it. So I reminded the waiter that I was vegan. He asked me if I told him that. I told him yes, that's why we did a special order. 2nd time the pasta came with no cheese. I took a few bites to only find meat everywhere. I told the waiter that I have not had meat in my system for 13 years. He again asked me, did you tell me you were vegan? I said yes. That's why we did the special order and we had to send back the cheese! I told him vegan means no meat. He told me he knew. Then why did you not tell me the pasta came with meat?! He was very unapologetic to me after my morals were destroyed after 13 years of living my lifestyle. The manager came and he seemed upset with me too! He did not respect my morals. This is 13 years of my lifestyle- and he ruined it. I was crying because I put an innocent animal in my mouth after 13 years. He didn't seem to care that I was absolutely Devastated. I respect people who eat meat. Why can't I be respected too? Oh and he made us pay for our meal after my morals were destroyed along with dealing beyond devastated!!! My morals were not respected, and they made me feel like garbage for what I believed in!!! I want all my money back!! I can't believe I had to pay them after they ruined 13 years of my lifestyle and didn't...

We booked at this place via recommendation of opentable.com and this place truly exceeded our expectations.

We arrived slightly early for our dinner and decided to have some cocktails at the bar. Yes, you read that right, bar seating is allowed again in NYC. I then have Toronto; gin-based cocktail and my partner had a spritz so fitting for mid-May weather.

We were told by the host that our dinner table is ready, we started with complimentary home bread and olive oil followed by focaccia Parma; homemade mozzarella, prosciutto de Parma, tomato sauce, and rucola. It was delicious and the portion is perfect for 2 people.

For our entree, I chose fettuccine con funghi e cream de tartufo or homemade fettuccine with wild mushrooms and black truffle sauce while my partner chose papardelle al ragu di agnello; homemade ribbon pasta with tomato braised lamb shank and pecorino Romano. Both dishes are freshly made and delicious it suited well with our choices of quartino of wine (size of 2 glasses serving).

We then capped the night with Sicilian lemon tart to share. This place serves solid Italian dishes, we both enjoyed the efficient customer service, definitely a...

Went to Bocca as the restaurant week menu looked interesting so we thought we'd give it a try. Got there pretty early so it wasn't too busy or noisy during our dinner. There a lot of people at the bar by the time we left, but still not noisy.

We had the crab cake and veal meatballs for the appetizers, I preferred the crab cake, the meatballs were a little tightly packed and didn't have a huge amount of taste.

For the main course we had the pappardelle with lamb shank and the slow roasted pork shoulder "porchetta". Both were very nice, I mistook the pork shoulder for duck at first due to the thinness of the skin., slightly chewy but went very well with the pork meat.

The dessert of chocolate molten cake and panna cotta were fine too.

Service was fast and friendly, though this is another restaurant that took our bread plates away after the appetizer, yet left the bread plate on the table. Is this becoming a thing in NY?!?

Anyway, a good restaurant and would certainly go back if I'm...