I ordered takeout from here and as I was eating my Stromboli there was a short blonde hair within the cheese of my meal. I don't have blonde hair and I don't have any blonde people within my house. I was very disappointed about the experience. Other than the obvious issue, the food was okay. The Stromboli (of what I ate if it) had tons of filling but not enough sauce. The interior of the dough wasn't cooked through which was hard to stomach. I personally did not think it was worth $20. read more

Bocca Bistro - Stromboli - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

Great service from Janessa, high quality Italian food which tasted great, however our homemade lasagna was luke warm, not hot when we received it. Everything else was excellent, especially the service from our wonderful waitress! I would eat here again, just go at an earlier time and perhaps specifically request my food to be hot. read more

What we ordered was mediocre at best. We got mozzarella sticks for the appetizer- they were amazing. Then for entrees, we ordered Chicken Scarpiello and pasta with meat sauce - both with house salads and garlic knots. When the salads came out they were HUGE. The side salads are easily large enough as a meal itself. The downside to them is the lettuce used - it was a very thin leafy spinach and spring mix. The entrees came out with garlic knots which were also amazing, but there was at least a stick of melted butter in the bottom of the bowl. The portion sizes for the entrees were even bigger than the salads. The Scarpiello tasted pretty good, but way too much pasta. The meat sauce pasta was not so appetizing and had at least 1/2 pound of pasta. The portion sizes are a little ridiculous and seem to come at the sacrifice of quality. By the time we left, we felt nasty from the amount of butter and grated parmesan on the garlic knots. Service was AMAZING, but the food was not worth the $60 we paid. read more

Bocca Bistro - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

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Good was fresh, delicious and the portions were enough for several persons. The staff was amazing! Great with kids and adults. read more

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Bocca Bistro is absolutely amazing! Besides wonderful food, the service is second to none. I had a situation arise with an order through DoorDash and even though Bocca Bistro did not have to make it right, they did and went so far as to make me what I had ordered and deliver it to my home. Marie is wonderful and really cares about her customers. This is what makes Bocca Bistro hands down the best Italian Restaurant in Boone! read more

interesting experience the server was pretty nice. Mediocre with the service was really bad. We waited about 50 minutes to get pizza and soup and the pizza was not fully cooked and soggy, but I will say we did get a refund for the pizza the food was OK not the best. I've had better for sure. I would say this definitely is not a first option and I will not be coming back. And there was a bunch of people just sitting around, including the chef on his iPad at the bar very unprofessional also the waitress went over to the bar to a random lady to ask if the pizza was cooked enough and the lady flipped over the pizza and looked at it. I don't strangers hands being my food. read more

Excellent foot and big portions. Food is home made. Kyle was excellent. Very attentive but not over bearing. Very nicely decorated. Definitely a come back place. read more

Amazing food, great people working here. The wait was long, but worth it. The prices are fair as well. read more

Bocca Bistro - NY style hand tossed pizza, with pepperoni, Sausage and mushrooms. - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

Service was great. Pizza was average. When we got the pizza it was not hot. We decided to try one of their cheesecakes to take home. Slice was very small considering you are paying $10 a slice, it was over baked and dry. read more

Bocca Bistro - Bailey's oreo cheesecake - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

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The food crushed! My son was calling out "hallelujah!" Eating the pizza burger. The garlic knots steal the show! Every one of us as a table of 6 had plenty to eat and leftovers. Service was phenomenal. Don't let the proximity to walmart fool you, the food is the highest quality!! read more

On our last night of vacay, we decided to order in. The reviews seemed decent with the price point being the main concern but we were willing to give it a try. The pepperoni pizza was extremely basic, so much so that we regretted not ordering from a pizza chain. Not awful but not something we'd want to get again. The lasagna was a huge serving that could feed 2-3 people. Not bad, not great, but nothing to write home about and again, nothing I would ever order again. Last up garlic knots. Fairly plain. After a bite or two, everyone was done. The price was high but would have been ok if the food had been good. Will definitely not be ordering from here again and will stick to a chain for pizza/pasta. Good luck! read more

Giant giant giant portions, reasonably priced. Decent food 4 dollar drafts Wednesdays. read more

Bocca Bistro - Pasta with Bolognese and garlic knots - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

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Lots of food for the price. Come hungry. The garlic knots are great and the pasta is fresh. read more

Bocca Bistro - Chicken fettuccine Alfredo - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

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Fantastic place, fantastic food, fantastic service! Salad, soup and garlic knot lunch special was outstanding, the salad was a very generous size and carefully prepared, there is no iceberg lettuce in this, it is high-quality Romain, onions cucumbers, also no shredded cheese, the way I like it. Highly recommend the Pasta Fagioli soup. The garlic knots are to die for. My husband had the mussels appetizer and the lunch size lasagna, which was more than enough to fill us up. For dessert we shared a tiramisu, which I also highly recommend. The ambience is beautiful and we will gladly return. Thank you for outstanding service by waiter Carman! read more

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Wow Ambience ...ok. Food - . The parking will be tough. It's on one of the busy roads in Boone. My advice - find a place to park or get an Uber ! This is good food. Mom and pop type place with great staff. Go to Bocca!9 read more

If you're looking to be insulted by the chef then come here. The chef had a professionalism of a 4 year old. Instead of handling food being sent back graciously he chose to attack and tell a female that she "had no taste and just because she didn't like it to get over it and that it was made right". First off, we never said it wasn't made right. Just that it wasn't made tasty. The dish we got was very plain. The Chef did not go "above and beyond" to make up for it. We sent the dish back very apologetically and instead of learning what we didn't like he chose to think we were the idiots. No sir you are. As an Italian Woman I am very disappointed. My Nonna would never!!! read more

Appalled Very bad service Got no menu, no drink after waiting too long and the manager was sitting right there and did nothing to make us feel welcome or acknowledge our existence. We left! read more

We were so happlily surprised at Bocca Bistro. The food was very good and the menu had some interesting items, besides the standard Italian basics. The servings were incredibly generous. I had a dish with chicken and eggplant with pasta. I was expecting the usual big portion of pasta with some chicken, etc on top. But no, I had a huge portion of the chicken -eggplant concoction with pasta on the side. And the sauces were all delicious. Every meal also comes with a generous salad. As locals, we will be going back and looking forward to trying their pizza. And oh, I didn't mention that the prices were very reasonable. Just reading through some of the other reviews and a few mentioned something about difficulty parking. I think they must have been writing about a different restaurant because it's in the same area as Walmart but on the other side. You can park right in front. read more

Finally got back to Bocca Bistro where the food is excellent and plentiful. The wait staff is friendly and efficient. Lunch was great and I'm taking home enough for dinner. First time I tried the Stromboli and it was excellent. read more

I was also a patron at this establishment last night in the party of the most recent reviewer who mentioned the hour-plus long wait that we experienced. I was not planning on leaving a review as I felt that one review from our experience was enough, however I feel compelled to leave another to greater clarify our experience following the owner's unprofessional dispute of the situation and his resorting to character assassination. Paul, you mentioned that you checked the ticket data at our request for an update and that it was at 28 minutes, however I think you are failing to account for the fact that our ticket was likely not entered immediately following our order, resulting in the wait time. To give you specifics, we were seated at approximately 5:45 pm, we ordered at approximately 6:03 pm, and we left the establishment at approximately 7:30 pm. Between 3 guests, we ordered 1 cocktail, 2 beers, cauliflower fritti, wings, the soup of the day, a sandwich and a chicken entree. We received the fritti, the wings, and the soup within a reasonable amount of time, but we still ended up waiting probably 50 more minutes AFTER these items were brought out for the remaining chicken entree and sandwich -- a total of 90 minutes POST ORDER without seeing either of the two main items that we ordered. We decided our time and money would be better spent elsewhere, so we decided to leave and only wanted to pay for the food that we received -- we never once asked for or expected any food for free. To your staff's credit, the server was incredibly apologetic about our wait time and went to the back to see if we could take the food to go, only to be told no. It is a shame, Paul, that you resort to lying and to personal attacks when met with poor reviews of your establishment. A quick look at your comment history reveals that you reply to every 1-star review with character assassination. Perhaps if you took more pride in the quality of your establishment, incidents like the ones that happened last night would not happen as frequently. I encourage you to closely watch the surveillance footage from our arrival and departure last night and see for yourself. We got there at 5:45 and left at 7:30. Nobody should ever have to wait 90 minutes for an entree. And, finally, in regards to your comment about other patrons, we did hear your guests at the table next to us and your server mocking our order. Not behavior I would encourage your staff to partake in. I eagerly await your response. read more

Great food, large portions, great prices, friendly staff. Best marinara I've ever had, pasta cooked just right. Also the best garlic knots I've ever had. Didn't have the texture of day old pizza dough. Will definitely go back next time we're in town. read more

Bocca Bistro - St. Patty's day drink with Bailey's. Yummy! - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

Told the wait was 30 minutes, a hour and 1/2 later we got a table. A hour and 10 minutes after that we got our food.... that was cold!!! When asked by a member of the wait staff how everything was he was told "it's cold" his reply was "got it". The full bill was promptly laid on the table. When my wife complained about the wait and the cold food, our waitress returned with change like everything was fine. Horrible experience!!! They seemed very short staffed and we were not the only people frustrated. I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone!!!! Nobody was looking for a free meal a--hole!! BTW, I put the money on the table and walked the hell out. After reading the other BAD reviews, it's obvious no one at your strip mall restaurant has ever done anything wrong!! Get over yourself read more

I ordered a NY Hand Tossed pizza with onions, green peppers, pepperoni, and sausage and it honestly was delicious. There's a great sauce ratio and this hand tossed pizza is one of the best i've had but the only problem is this medium sized pizza cost $42.69 because of a $4 topping fee for every topping you add, on top of the pizza that cost $17 alone. I recommend but it would be much cheaper somewhere else. read more

Bocca Bistro - NY Hand Tossed - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

I thought this place was OK. Massive portions at high prices. I wish they'd give me a more reasonable size meal at a more reasonable price. But anyway, the massive portion I got was fine. A little bland and I had to add a bunch of salt. The garlic knots that came out were hard and cold. Risotto balls were pretty good tho. read more

This place willbsurprise you. Huge pasta portions, great food and service. Solid draft beer choices.

Me and my husband was on a nearby cabin retreat. We decided to go wine tasting and have a sit down dinner. Italian was in the top of the menu. We read the reviews to Bocca, in Boone, NC and decided that we had to try it. We were going in being critical because we lived in Italy for a few years. We started out with the Artichoke/Spinach dip and the Bruchetta. Looking around at the other customer plates, I knew we were going to be very satisfied. Our appetizers came out and not only were they beautiful, they were mouth watering delicious! We also order Chicken Madeira and a Stromboli. Everything was tastefully delicious. It was beyond our expectations. As if we didn't have enough food, a huge Caesar salad was accompanied by huuuuge garlic knots. We felt that this was as close to authentic Italian that we've had since leaving Italy. We had a lot of food to go. I forgot to mention, our bill only was only $60 (this included drinks). So we gave our wonderful waitress a $20 tip. We will be back next year. Bocca is highly recommended. read more

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Best wings! Service was great and the Buffalo hot wings were good. We got the order to go and everything went smooth!

Used to go to Bella's for Pizza but of late there pizza was not up to their standards. Tried Bocca Bistro and found the pizza to be good. Thin crispy crust like we like it. Service was outstanding. Our waiter Carmen was attentive but not over bearing. Food came out as ordered. Pizza was reasonably priced but their regular food is a bit expensive. read more

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Ate here with a group of 6 on a Thursday evening. Service a good. Everyone enjoyed their food. The Cesar fries appetizer was a hit. It has bacon so I didn't have any but everyone loved it. The place was clean and food is mid-priced. You get ample food for the pasta dishes and some may come with bread, soup or salad, so it's plenty. read more

Bocca Bistro - Great White Buffalo - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

This was a nice place with excellent service. The food quality and portions were good. We had enough leftovers for dinner the next day. The food had great taste. This restaurant is in a strip mall, but the interior was very nice. read more

I had the Zorro Pizza, Lentil Soup, Caesar Salad, as well As mozzarella sticks. Everything is homemade. You can tell the food comes from a family recipe: incredible place. Go here and eat pasta and pizza, and have a drink. read more

What a great addition to Boone NC. Owner/Chef is bringing real Italian to Boone. I ordered the Salmon encrusted with Pistachio and it was cooked to perfection. I also had a huge side of healthy veggies. The garden salad was crisp and fresh. I left with some amazing NY Cannolis. read more

Although there was hardly anyone in the restaurant we waited on our meal for almost an hour. We ordered cheesecake to go and I was very aggravated whenever I saw how small the slices were. There were literally only 3 bites in one slice. Such a rip off!!! My first and last trip!!!!! read more

Bocca Bistro - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

Ask for any food dressings on the side. They drown everything. Soup is very salty. Service is perfect. Staff are very pleasant Restaurant very clean but too dark for lunch time. read more

My son and I were excited to try this restaurant as we had some recommendations on the food. We got here on a Saturday night and the waiting area was packed. We checked in and were told a 30-40 min wait. After an hour and 20 min wait, many parties ahead of us left in frustration as no one was leaving. We were 2nd on the list and I asked to see the manager as one of the staff indicated that the kitchen wasn't taking orders since they were so backed up, but I heard them taking to-go orders. The manager/owner was very confrontational saying that they contractually had to take those orders and "don't be rude to my staff" (which I was not). We left. Never to return. read more

Excellent New York style pizza, the best I have had. Exceptional service, quality and quantity.

I know you get tired of me talking about this restaurant but this is different. We had an office party at Templeton Meadows catered by this fantastic group of people. I went to pick up the food and it wouldn't fit in my car. Y'all...they followed me to the venue with the rest of the food! Going over and above to make our event a success. Besides that the food was exceptionally good. And don't even get me started on the homemade cheesecakes!!! These two businesses made our Christmas gathering a huge success. So so good! read more

Best Italian food EVER! I couldn't decide which was better. My lasagna or my husbands Alfredo. Both were excellent. I am thrilled they are open for lunch since many "nice" restaurants only open for dinner. By the way did I mention how amazing the garlic knots were? I could make a meal of them as well perhaps with a bit of red sauce for dipping! I am going back in a couple of days for my birthday. I will try one of their many desserts. I am hoping for a pistachio cannoli ! read more

Definitely in the best pizza in the area. The price is a little on the high side, but worth it. Quality ingredients, generous portion size, nice presentation. Had it delivered via DoorDash and it arrived hot and delicious. read more

Absolutely the best Italian restaurant in Boone area. Chef Paul never disappoints. From Italian classics to exceptional variations, it is always a wonderful experience. read more

Bocca Bistro - Sicilian Eggplant( on request..not breaded but parmesan crusted). Chef recommended now a favorite of ours. - Italian Near Me - Boone, North Carolina

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