💥 For one night only, fine dining meets fast food.

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, BOCA and Pickl will offer a dining experience not to be missed. Expect the unexpected across five surprise courses from BOCA Head Chef Matthijs Stinnissen and Pickl Founder Steve Flawith. A paired drinks menu, live music, and communal seating arrangement will ensure a lively party atmosphere.

Click here to see the menu. Come as you are and be ready for fun 😉

May 10th. 7:30 pm. Five Courses, Eight Beverages. 21+ only. AED 395 + 7% authority fees.
BOCA Dubai, Gate Village 6, Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC)

Book through Hola@boca.ae +971 4 323 1833 or Whatsapp +971 52 160 7507

DUBAI FOOD FESTIVAL: SUSTAINABLE CHEF’S TABLE AT BOCA

10-course tasting menu, served at our chef’s table, with a focus on sustainability. This low carbon footprint meal sees vegetables take center stage, with usually-discarded skins, stems, seeds and produce getting a second change. Best of all, there’s no compromise on taste. Click here to see menu or here for a preview of the experience. 

Dubai Food Festival | May 2-15, 7:30pm | 4 seats only | AED 345+ pp | with paired beverages AED 495+ pp

A CELEBRATION OF OYSTERS AND OUR SEAS
BOCA, Dibba Bay Oysters and Gin Mare host a ten-day celebration featuring special promotions and marks launch of a reef building project.

Dibba Bay Oysters and Gin Mare share a deep connection with the sea, gastronomy and marine conservation. This March, we invite you to share this passion with us through a ten-day celebration featuring Dibba Bay Oysters specials, Dibba Bay Oyster pairing menus and Gin Mare cocktails.

BOCA has been serving only one type of oyster since 2018; Dibba Bay Oysters from the pristine waters of Fujairah, UAE. Thanks to the unique conditions of the ocean, which made Arabia world-renowned for its lustrous white pearls, the Dibba Bay oyster is thriving and continues to showcase the heritage of the region through its distinctive and vibrant white and gold shell. The unique qualities of the waters of the Emirates, which have been historically through the legendary white pearls, now live on through the Dibba Bay oyster shell.

Together with Gin Mare, who share a deep love and passion for the ocean, oysters and gastronomy, we come together to celebrate with special offers on freshly shucked oysters, specially curated pairing menu and new Gin Mare cocktail creations.

During the ten-day celebration, BOCA will offer special pricing on freshly shucked Dibba Bay oysters throughout the day and present a five-dish oyster menu and three Gin Mare cocktails for AED 260 per person. On the menu expect to see BOCA’s SIGNATURE COOL SEASON DIBBA BAY OYSTERS with clementine and Gin Mare vinaigrette, Pure Harvest tomatoes and calamansi gel, OYSTER CROQUETTES with piccalilli mayo, ARROZ NEGRE with Indian Ocean Octopus, bergamot allioli, Spanish Bomba black rice and a DIBBA BAY OYSTER ICE CREAM or ‘OYSCREAM’ with cucumber gel, Opalys Valrhona chocolate and sea salt tuille. Gin Mare’s creations are priced from AED 45.

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This celebration will support reef projects by local non-profit marine conservation organization AZRAQ. AZRAQ, in collaboration with the Freestyle Divers Conservation team, protects and propagates coral off the coast of Dibba, Fujairah, through the construction of coral nurseries and artificial reefs. Dibba Bay Oysters, BOCA and Gin Mare will help by collecting and transporting cleaned Dibba Bay oyster shells to be used as building blocks for creating habitat and ecosystems to support marine life.

Monday, March 21st: BOCA x Gin Mare Takeover of Dibba Bay Oyster Farm (invitation only event)
Tuesday, March 22nd: Launch of the special BOCA x Gin Mare x Dibba Bay Oysters in BOCA

21 – 31 March 2022 | All Day Offers | ½ Dozen Dibba Bay Oyster with Signature Dressing AED 96 | Five dishes and Three Gin Mare Cocktails AED 260 per person | Gin Mare Cocktails from AED 45

Advanced booking is essential | Guests can book through 04 323 1833, Whatsapp on 971521607507 or hola@boca.ae

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 a cocktail dinner that places local produce at the heart of the experience.

Together they will present a multi-course dinner paired with The Botanist cocktails using ingredients grown and foraged from the UAE. Tomatoes, beetroots, strawberries, and native desert plants will be gathered from farms of the central region of the UAE during a planned day trip. The ingredients will then be exalted and reinterpreted by the team in order to arrange the composition as well as the presentation of the cocktails and dishes served during the dinner. 

Thursday 3 and Friday 4 March 2021 | 7:30 PM onwards | Four courses, eight vegetarian dishes, five cocktails | AED 375++ per person | Limited seating | Advanced booking and payment are essential

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For bookings: 04 323 1833 or hola@boca.ae or through Whatsapp

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 source our electricity from renewable energy sources, through the use of International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-RECs).

We intend to reduce a further 26% of its total emissions by the end of 2022 by switching its chilled water consumption to renewable energy sources and another 4% by recycling its used oil and composting its organic waste. 

As a guest of BOCA, we are committed to serving you a delicious meal in a beautiful setting while maintaining a high standard of waste management, responsible sourcing and operating a low impact business. As a guest with us, your emissions will not exceed 15 kg of CO2.

Click here to see BOCA’s 2021 Carbon Footprint Report.

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.

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For further information and booking please call 043231833, email hola@boca.ae or WhatsApp through +971521607507

WHISKEY TASTING BY THE TASTING CLASS
Learn the stories of how American, Irish, and Scottish Whisky evolved thanks to the people, natural resources, and the politics of the day. Discover the key traits of each style.

What’s included in experience?
A welcome drink of a classic Bourbon cocktail
Tasting of six whiskeys. The whiskeys we taste changes at each monthly tasting. But some of the brands we frequently profile include Bunnahabhain, Aberlour, Jameson, The Glenlivet, Bladnoch, Jura, Ardbeg, Kilchoman, The Dalmore, Glengoyn, Kavalan, Four Roses, Michters, & Jack Daniel’s
A selection of light tapas dishes.
Guided lesson with a WSET certified spirit educator.

BOCA, Dubai
Date : 2 February 2022
Time : 7 PM – 9:30 PM

Please note: All our experiences include tasting samples of carefully selected alcoholic beverages, and we do not provide ‘free-flow’ or brunch experiences. Tickets for this event will close at 0900hrs on Tuesday 1 February, or earlier if sold out.

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Fancy a Gin?

This is an event where you make the cocktails with us, all while learning about the incredible history of gin and the stories behind the drinks we make. You’ll learn about gin’s birth, the gin craze, the invention of bathtub gin all the way through to the craft gin revolution which we are in the midst of now. We start with a neat gin tasting and talk about how it’s made. Then break up a history lesson by making and drinking 3 different cocktails. We will make a Gin & Tonic, Tom Collins and a Negroni, all while learning the stories behind these great drinks

What’s included in the experience?
Taste 3 different samples of gins
4 gin cocktails
A selection of light tapas dishes
Cocktail making and interactive lesson by The Tasting Class

BOCA, Dubai
Date: Sunday 30 January 2022
Time: 3 PM – 6 PM

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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. 

Wednesday 17th of November 2021 | 7:30 PM onwards | Four courses, eight sharing dishes, four Nyetimber expressions including Nyetimber Blanc de Blancs Traditional Method Chardonnay 2013 | AED 495++ per person | Limited seating | Advanced booking and payment are essential.

For bookings: 043231833, hola@boca.ae, or WhatsApp on +971521607507

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Click image above to watch the video from the event.

This Día de Muertos or Day of the Dead, we invite you to a celebration of food, drink, music, and storytelling dedicated to this life-affirming Mexican tradition. BOCA and Altos Tequila – the official sponsor of the World’s 50 Best Bars – invite you to honor this day over dinner with some of the most prestigious restaurants and bars in global gastronomy.

Chef Gerardo Vázquez Lugo of Nicos Restaurant from Mexico City, Mexico (No. 31 on Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2020 and winner of Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants Lifetime Achievement Award 2018) will fly to Dubai for two nights with the UAE’s Tratok travel network to cook alongside Chef Matthijs Stinnissen of award-winning restaurant BOCA. Together, they will mark the day by preparing a six-course, twelve-dish menu that reflects their commitment and passion for sustainable processes: sourcing locally with a blend of traditional and modern cooking styles.

Diners can look forward to ‘Chile de Bola’, pumpkin seed butter and smoked chili powder on a corn tortilla, ‘Caramelized Tomato’ with marinated cherry tomatoes, ginger granité, soy and citrus vinaigrette,’Pesca en Escabeche Colorado’, a ‘Colorado Veracruzano Style’ sea bass loin from the southern states of Campeche and Veracruz in Mexico, and ‘Wagyu Beef Tonnato’ prepared with a mayo of caught bonito tuna, pickled watermelon skin, crispy black quinoa, pomegranate and oil infused with UAE native desert plant Shih شيح. Other highlights include ‘Tamal de Pato Ahumado en Adobo’, a steamed corn dough tamal stuffed with smoked duck confit in adobo wrapped in a banana leaf with dried chili sauce, ‘Grilled Octopus’ with sunchoke purée, black radish, confit la ratte potato, caper sauce and brown miso for main course and ‘Caramelized Banana’ with dried fruit mince on rice custard for dessert.

Chef Gerrardo and Chef Matthijs will be joined by Odd Strandbakken of Himkok, Oslo, Norway (No. 30 on the World’s 50 Best Bars, 2020 and the first bar in the world to win the World’s 50 Best Bars Sustainability Award in 2018). Supported by the bar team at BOCA and Altos Tequila’s global brand ambassador, Odd will bring his flair for minimalist and clean ingredient-driven cocktail creations to the dinner. He will serve six cocktails made with Altos Tequila matching the six courses with ingredients that showcase true Scandinavian flavors.

Monday 1st, and Tuesday 2nd November 2021 | 7:30 PM onwards | Six courses, twelve sharing dishes, six Altos Tequila cocktails | AED 445++ per person | Day of the Dead Attire Encouraged | Limited seating | Advanced booking and payment are essential.

For bookings: 043231833, hola@boca.ae, or WhatsApp on +971521607507

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