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Sustainable, low impact, responsible group packages at BOCA

A six-course dining experience by six of the city’s prominent chefs at BOCA in DIFC with all proceeds going to support Gaza through the Emirates Red Crescent.

Green MICHELIN Star Restaurant BOCA launches its Festive Season menu running from November 20th, 2023, to January 6th, 2024. We are inviting guests to share a festive Mediterranean menu with families, friends, and colleagues.

The return of BOCA's Wine Cellar Series with special super host, Kevin Grant from Ataraxia, Hermel-en-Aarde, Western Cape, South Africa

Chef Patricia Roig's New Menu Pays Homage to Andalucia While Pioneering Sustainable Dining

On October 8th 2023 and for one night only, BOCA and Fann-À-Porter host dinner with the artist. Indulge in artistic conversation with the Azaïdé herself over an intimate gathering featuring 4-course dinner expertly paired with fine wines.

🍹✨ Shaaz, a boundary-breaking mixologist. Her journey took her from India to Dubai, where she honed her craft at Zuma Dubai, one of the World’s 50 Best Bars. Known for her creativity, Shazz draws inspiration from diverse cultures and the arts, crafting visually stunning cocktails at BOCA.

At BOCA, Nazgul will be creating a menu that showcases her passion for cocktails and her commitment to sustainability. The menu will feature cocktails made with locally-sourced ingredients and sustainable practices, as well as some of Nazgul’s own creations.

We’ve teamed up with our friends at the Tasting Class to bring you a series of TASTING & TAPAS from Spain.

May, a passionate globetrotting bartender with experience in prestigious bars worldwide, is always eager to learn and improve her craft. She infuses each drink with genuine passion and energy, viewing bartending as an art form. Her BOCA menu will feature cocktails inspired by her global travels and her own creations.

Iris Ruano of SUSHISAMBA Dubai takes over BOCA's bar for one night. Catch the industry's most respected mentor and role model in action on August 29th from 7 pm

Tuck into a limited-edition menus starting from Dhs95.

The alchemist of cocktails produces concoctions inspired by different cultures and time periods, each with its own unique story to tell.

The Climate Club is hosting the UAE’s first ‘Conscious Cocktail’ event - a celebration of low-waste living and gastronomy excellence.

Tio Pepe's Global Brand Ambassador Boris Ivan invites you for a casual night of fun drinks and conversations.

Celebrate World Oyster Day with us and Dibba Bay Oysters. Exclusively on August 5th

Queen of hospitality Osmari Corredor from #58 on The World's Best Bars: Mimi Kakushi, Dubai takes over BOCA.

Yvonne Chan, rising star of the world’s bar industry from ARGO, Four Seasons, Hong Kong takes over BOCA's bar for one night.

Seven rising stars making their mark on the Dubai mixology scene take over BOCA's bar from August to September 2023. Specially curated cocktail menu. All cocktails for AED 45+

Celebrate with your favorite Spanish and Mediterranean flavors this Eid al Adha

We are beyond thrilled to announce that we have received a coveted MICHELIN Green Star and have been added to the MICHELIN Guide at this year’s MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2023 star revelation. BOCA now joins an exclusive list of global restaurants that stand out for their unwavering

Born and brought up in Delhi, India, in a household where every meal was full of surprises, infused with her mother´s love, got Trisha intertwined with her love for food. During her sting at BOCA in May, guests can expect a ‘Tandoor Tina’ tasting menu of some of their star dishes.

Sheerin Ghaffar’s honest and authentic approach to cooking has garnered her a sterling reputation as a trailblazing, multifaceted female Chef. Hailed as Caterer ME’s Pastry Chef of the Year 2022; she embraces the challenges of using local and seasonal ingredients to captivate the taste buds in a unique way while not having the ability to […]

BOCA is delighted to welcome Chef Patricia Roig to lead its kitchen this Ramadan, presenting guests with a special Iftar menu inspired by her Spanish heritage.

Chef Gabriela is a visionary, Latin American chef with a passion for creating unique an intimate dining experiences. As a storyteller, she takes her guests through a sensorial journey using food as her medium.

At BOCA, Penelope will present a five-course Peruvian menu featuring authentic and fresh Peruvian ingredients. See the Menu here...

Every Saturday this season, BOCA's terrace is about to get a whole lot funkier with the groovy tunes of The Youngers. This trio will be bringing their unique blend of jazz, fun, and funk to our outdoor stage, and we can't wait for you to hear it.

Sara will don her signature headscarf in BOCA starting on Valentine's Eve. She will bring her knowledge of regional Italian cuisine to the kitchen with her own style and heritage.

Bethany takes over BOCA’s kitchen as part of its ‘7 Chefs in 7 Weeks’ dinner series, introducing a menu that will bring to life West Asian and North African cuisine, incorporating locally sourced ingredients from BOCA’s kitchen.

BOCA is proud to debut this series of kitchen takeovers with Célia Stoecklin, Caterer Middle East's 30 under 30 best chefs, and 2022 Hotel Young Chef of the Year. Célia is making a name for herself in Dubai's culinary scene with her strong insight, attention to detail, and pursuit of happiness for the people who run the city's kitchens. She believes that "a smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

A supper club sensation, a neighborhood favorite, a catering queen, an award-winning cookbook author, a power chef under 30, a pastry mastermind, and a culinary director of a five-star property. These seven chefs are making their mark on the Dubai culinary scene and this season they take over 50 Best Discovery and 2022 Gault & Millau UAE’s Sustainable Kitchen of the Year, BOCA.

Committed to a greener hospitality industry, Rémy Cointreau is delighted to unveil its Sustainable Shakers movement! Watch the videos here !

Catch all the action in our dedicated BOCA Fan Zone. We are pleased to host a special pop-up on our terrace for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Enjoy our exceptional food, beverage and service while watching all the games live on the big screen.

Our Festive Season packages are valid from Monday 21st of November 2022, until Friday 6th of January 2023 starting from AED 295 per person. New Year’s Eve all inclusive packages start from AED 475 per person.

Star Wine List, the award-winning guide to great wine bars and wine restaurants, has launched the wine lover's guide to Dubai.

We are proud to launch a new cocktail menu inspired by our favorite local and regional ingredients and our obsession with reducing waste in the bar. The list is the result of months of research and close collaboration with the restaurant’s award-winning culinary team.

13C bar in the back, ranked 27th on Middle East North Africa's 50 Best Restaurants™ and one of Amman's long standing and finest establishments is proud to host Chef Matthijs Stinnissen from leading sustainable fine dining restaurant, BOCA Dubai for one night only on July 2.  Book through 0096279860 0616.

BOCA & Fann-A-Porter present the work of Hady Boraey titled “Eden Dance”. This exhibition is born from the pandemic and represent the desire to reconnect with nature. Go to boca.ae to learn more.

On the 23rd and 24th of May, Estrella Damm, the beer of Barcelona, will present a unique pop-up gastronomic experience in partnership with Spanish chef Paco Pérez at BOCA restaurant in Dubai. Paco Perez, who’s restaurants hold a total of five Michelin-stars will host the exclusive dinner featuring 8 small dishes, paired with Estrella Damm lager.

Introducing BOCA X Pickl, an exclusive 5-course dinner that reflects the best of both brands on May 10th at 7:30pm. From oysters to foie gras fried chicken and even s’mores.. Call +971 4 323 1833 or email hola@boca.ae to book your spot!

10-course tasting menu, served at our chef's table, with a focus on sustainability.

BOCA, Dibba Bay Oysters and Gin Mare host a ten-day celebration featuring special promotions and marks launch of a reef building project.

A FARM TO GLASS, FARM TO PLATE COCKTAIL DINNER Little Red Door is a Parisian institution tucked in the discreet Rue Charlot and counted among the 50 best cocktail bars in the world for the last 7 years. This March, the Little Red Door team will fly to Dubai with The Botanist Gin and BOCA Dubai to host […]

BOCA’s FIRST CARBON FOOTPRINT REPORT With the launch of our new menu, we also introduce our first carbon emissions report. The report, calculated by local carbon consulting firm elementsix, shows that our total carbon emissions for the year 2021 was 754 tonnes of CO2. This is a 10% reduction from the original total, as we […]

SPRING 2022 MENU: RESPONSIBLE. CONSCIOUS. DELICIOUS In this menu edition, vegetables take centre stage, and skins, stems, seeds and ugly produce get a second chance. We bring you a dining experience with a low carbon footprint, and without compromising on taste. We want to stop throwing the word sustainability around and start making a difference. […]

Explore the origins of American, Irish, & Scottish Whiskies, learn to identify key traits, & discover how these distinctive styles were born thanks to natural resources, necessity, passion, & politics.

Fancy a Gin? Make cocktails with The Tasting Class while learning about the incredible history of gin and the stories behind the drinks we make.

You are cordially invited to join us for a food & wine paired dinner to toast all things British in partnership with Nyetimber, the finest English sparkling wine. 

BOCA hosts Special Dinner Celebrating Mexican Day of the Dead with two World’s 50 Best restaurants and bars

This November our friends at The Tasting Class host The UAE Vine Festival. A month-long celebration of grapes in all shapes, form and glory, showcasing some of the very best wine, food and hospitality on offer across the United Arab Emirates.

BOCA AND MAISON MOËT & CHANDON invite you to rediscover the simple pleasures of life. Revisit the times you travelled, explored, laughed, and loved - guilt-free, simple, and without any pressures.

BOCA Explores New Native Local and Regional Ingredients in Latest Menu Release An abundance of local and regional seafood and fish is in season, and the land is rich with fresh produce. In this menu edition, our kitchen uses only locally grown tomatoes from Pure Harvest Farms, and a new aromatic native desert plant called ‘Shih’ شيح […]

Join us for Dubai Summer Surprises The Big Eid Eat. Between July 20th and 24th from 1pm to 4pm guests are invited to enjoy a sharing set menu of ten dishes and beverage packages starting from AED 260+ per person with children 12 and under dining free with every paying adult.

Join iconic Spanish restaurants in the UAE and the Spanish Tourism Office from 20-27 June and celebrate the glorious tapa with the world.

BOCA hosts Special Dinner with Top Pastry Chef Fabrizio Fiorani and Renowned Mixologist Patrick Pistolessi

BOCA and Matusalem, official partner of The World’s 50 Best Bars, are proud to host a bespoke paired dinner celebrating the launch of the unusual and rare Matusalem Insólito rum.

From Cava to Rioja, Spain offers some of the most iconic wine in Europe. On this Spain-focused wine tasting we’ll give the nation’s grapes the love they deserve and taste five Spanish wines from some of its most famous regions, plus learn the history of tapas and why they go so well together.

Join us as we explore the origins of American, Irish and Scottish Whiskies. We learn to identify key traits and discover how these distinctive styles were born thanks to natural resources, necessity, passion, and politics.

Between May 13th and 15th from 1pm to 4pm enjoy a sharing set menu of ten dishes and beverage packages starting from AED 260+ per person

A collaboration between two teams that represent different sides of Dubai, BOCA and Frying Pan Adventures host a daily iftar throughout the month of Ramadan made up of a series of dishes that is as much a joint tribute to the timeless flavors of Old Dubai as to the innovative spirit of New Dubai.

The Workshop Warehouse in collaboration with BOCA and Fann A Porter are pleased to present an exclusive selection of limited edition prints and serigraph of artworks by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí – two of the 20th century’s greatest artists.

BOCA, Tratok, and Bodegas Arzuaga invite you to a series of paella masterclasses and a special dinner with visiting paella master from Spain and renowned Valencian chef, Vicente Rioja. Chef Vicente will work alongside BOCA’s Chef Matthijs Stinnissen to create paella recipes that pay tribute to local ingredients and flavors from the UAE.

Eight-course tasting menu served by Chef Matthijs Stinnissen of BOCA

Part of the city’s annual celebration of gastronomy, Dubai Food Festival 2021 (DFF) is Dubai Restaurant Week which runs from 25 March to 10 April. Enjoy a two and three-course menu starting from AED 95.

Join us for an intimate dinner with Xavier Gramona, champion of aging, head of the family-owned estate, Gramona and head chef Matthijs Stinnissen. The specially curated six-course paired menu honors preservation and flavor enhancing techniques.

BOCA will host Spanish Tapas Master, Ager Urigüen and recipient of Michelin Green Star in Spain, Miguel Ángel de la Cruz at a series of collaboration dinners celebrating sustainable produce, recipes from Al Andalus heritage, and Spanish lamb.

This Valentine’s choose to celebrate with a delicious meal at BOCA, where you can experience a sharing menu of eight dishes highlighting responsibly sourced local ingredients.

We are extremely excited to unveil new food, beverage, and wine menus for this season; an accumulation of research, travel, trials, and ideas shared with farmers, botanists, municipalities from multiple Emirates, scientists and artists. Click here to know about our new menu including native desert plants from the UAE, underrated Arabian Gulf fish and more.

Join us as we explore the origins of American, Irish and Scottish Whiskies. We learn to identify key traits and discover how these distinctive styles were born thanks to natural resources, necessity, passion, and politics.

As part of ‘The Best of Dubai: A Dining Experience’ series by award-winning author Flavel Monteiro, Chef Matthijs Stinnissen and Chef Reif Othman team up for a four hands dinner in BOCA, DIFC for one night only on February 3rd 2021.

As part of The Best Of Dubai: A Dining Experience series Chef Vinu Raveendran welcomes Chef Matthijs Stinnissen to a four hands on 21 and 22 January 2021 at Carnival by Trèsind. Both chefs bring their own personal unparalleled culinary flair to the table.

This December BOCA offers a limited period pop-up menu of four sharing dishes inspired by the hospitality and cuisine of Chile with a bottle of crisp Chilean Sauvignon Blanc or a Jug of Virgin White Sangria for AED 345.

Join us on a gastronomical journey through Rioja. Enjoy a menu of five sharing dishes with a bottle of red Rioja from Familia Torres’s Altos Ibéricos or a jug of virgin sangria for AED 345.

We are proud to collaborate with Fann A Porter at The Workshop Dubai to present A Feast with Fasaeen by Majd Kurdieh. This exhibition is in celebration of art, food and conversations, part of DIFC Art Nights scheduled to take place on 17th and the 18th November in the Gate Village from 6-10 pm.

Our Festive Season packages are valid from Sunday 15th of November 2020, until Saturday 16th of January 2021 starting from AED 295 per person. New Year's Eve all inclusive packages start from AED 400 per person.

We have teamed up with our friends at meat melt to bring you their famous salt beef that literally melts.

Join us between November 2nd - 8th as we celebrate International Sherry Week and all things Andalucía. For one night only on November 4th, BOCA hosts celebrity chef, Bethany Kehdy cooking a menu celebrating the common history between the food heritage of Andalucía and the Middle East.

This October BOCA offers you a glimpse into the unique culture and gastronomical heritage of Galicia through a five-course set menu, matching Pazo das Bruxas (Home of the Witches) and Galicia’s mystic tradition of card reading. Click to read more..

A celebration of the most quintessential dish of Spanish gastronomy across five of the UAE’s most iconic Spanish restaurants promoted by Turespaña.

This July and in BOCA in DIFC, The Workshop Dubai and Fann A Porter are pleased to present a selection of hand-colored photographic prints from Barry Iverson’s The Tour series. Iverson’s 25-year long career as a photojournalist for Time magazine gave him a window into stories that have shaped politics and social life in Egypt and across the Middle East. The photographs cleverly juxtapose old and new so that in one image, the viewer simultaneously views life in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition also takes viewers outside of Egypt to Damascus, Doha, Baghdad, Aqaba, and even Paris with each image casting the narrative into the past yet retelling it in a contemporary context.

DUBAI TAPA WEEK | June 20th to June 27th | Tapa and a drink AED 80 | Paellas and a jug or bottle of Spanish beverage from AED 305

An off-menu experimental food and wine tasting experience featuring lesser-known local crops, sustainable seafood, and artisanal and ethical produce from local farmers and from friends abroad.

Enjoy BOCA’s culinary experience in the comfort of your own home or office with a private chef. From canapes for your private event, to a tapas spread or a set menu for your dinner party. Our waiters, bartenders and sommeliers are also available on request.

Flying in from Ribera del Duero, Spain, the team behind 1* Michelin restaurant Taller [tah-yehr] will takeover kitchen, wine service and floor of Mediterranean restaurant BOCA. For one night only expect a menu combining the very best of Castilian and Peruvian cooking using local ingredients from the Arabian Gulf complemented with the service and wines of Bodega Arzuaga.

An intimate yet social seating inside BOCA’s coveted cellar. Bubbly, four grapes and a four-course sharing menu. Grape guiding by BOCA’s sommelier Marishka Van Der Walt For six couples only | AED 395 per person

Join us for the unveiling of BOCA’s own blended whisky; a unique golden blend with woody, caramel and wheat notes, a subtle sweet and spicy finish, a hint of vanilla oak and a slight earthy peat smoke.

BOCA is joining more than 1,000 outlets from 30 countries from all over the world to celebrate International Sherry Week 2019. A celebration of the best of Jerez that runs from November 4 to 10, 2019 (see https://www.sherry.wine/sherryweek.)

Join us as we host Jo Ruxton, producer of the multi-award-winning film ‘A Plastic Ocean’ screening a twenty minute version of her 2016 documentary. The night will include a reception with sustainable movie snacks and beverages, followed by a zero waste dinner drawing attention to lesser known local produce and maximizing usage of our food paired with environmentally-conscious drinks.

Taking place from the 12 to 26 October 2019, part three of Off the Menu – The Emirati Edition will continue at Boca with Head Chef, Matthijs Stinnissen collaborating with Emirati Chef Khaled Al Saadi for an Emirati and Mediterranean inspired set menu.

BOCA invites you to celebrate the legendary tale of Jean Leon and BOCA’s five year anniversary at a quintessential 1950s dinner party. Click to find out more.

Familia Zuccardi invites you to an Argentinian takeover of BOCA serving ceviches, empanadas and ‘Asado’ featuring barbequed ribs, chorizo, steaks and slow-cooked lamb. There will also be a special plant-based ‘Asado’ of glazed celeriac, barbequed kohlrabi, heritage carrots, roasted cauliflower and scorched Padron peppers followed by a finale of a mighty black chocolate block and cherry compote. Nicolás Angelini of Zuccardi’s Valle de Uco /Ew-coh/ (awarded 2019 World’s Best Vineyard*) will guide us through four grapes and will explain the family’s efforts towards sustainability during this one off dinner. Click to find out more.

Enjoy special prices on all our Dibba Bay Oyster dishes starting August 5th. Valid all week or until stocks last.

For one night only, BOCA, The Zonin Family’s Rocca di Montemassi and FishFarm are proud to host Bahraini Chef Tala Bashmi on February 12th for a collaboration dinner honoring ingredients and recipes from the Arabian Gulf.

Our corporate & family festive menus are out !

Get ready for the winter edition of BOCA’s gastronomy nights featuring Baked Dibba Bay Oysters 3-Ways, succulent 24-Hour Braised Lamb, hearty Local Beetroot Risotto and more paired with sought-after native grape varieties from Spain.

BOCA invites you to an evening of a unique whisky and Spanish tapas; a guided tasting by the city’s top whisky representatives and experts of 10 curious whiskies and a spread of modern Spanish tapas by award-winning restaurant & bar: BOCA, located in the heart of DIFC.