Great place for a scotch and a cigar after dinner. Fantastic selection for a little corner lounge…read more Playing Billie Holiday was the perfect ending of the evening while visiting Palermo.

Music venue with actual, real-life rock music.. In Sicily!! Not like, "This dude has a guitar and…read morethis dude has a cello... so listen to their folk-ish music and this terrible cover tune." On an island completely void of live music and entertainment, this place was pretty cool. Drinks were cheap enough, vinyl records are for sale, and if you're lucky enough for the one holiday when they have live music, you're in luck. Because it's good. Honestly, it might only be Fridays, I don't know. I think Sicily refuses to acknowledge any other days as days to have fun except for Friday after 10pm. Even then it's a stretch. No kidding. But the vibe is cool, it's a good size, and it gets packed... because I'm guessing everyone is just waiting like a pack of rabid dogs during the week for Friday to come where you can see rock music, drink a little booze and stay out past 9pm. Oh, if you're lucky, by the time you're reading this, hopefully it won't be closed already. That seems to me the norm around these parts. By the time word spreads of a good place, it's long gone. Or at some other address you can't find because it's hidden like some goddamn Smurf Village.

Location, location, location! We arrived at sunset thinking we would have drinks and dinner but the…read morekitchen was already closed. We ordered a bottle of wine and a bottle of water just to admire the marina. We were served quickly and matter-of-factly. Not much communication. We noticed everyone around us was offered a bowl of chips but they forgot us. Not a big deal as we want to eat dinner but an over-site. When they are ready to close, they are ready to to close and you are pretty ignored. The open air seating and outdoor seating is pretty amazing, looking over the marina is special so I'd say it is worth it all to come here for a drink

Nice location, beautiful view, food was good. When I asked…read morefor the check, the price of the glass of wine in the check was different from the menu. Of course when I mentioned it, they corrected the check, but they tried to bring a reason. Lol

This amazing restaurant mixes simple Sicilian ingredients with creative recipes. Everything we had…read morewas sooo tasteful.

Tl;dr: I highly recommend Boccum. The drinks, food and service were all excellent…read more Palermo's cocktail culture is a work in progress compared to many of the other large cities in Italy, but there are a few small places doing some exceptional drinks in the city and Bocum can count themselves as one of them. Boccum's bar is a single-person operation lead by bartender Sonja who at the time of this review had been working behind the stick there for approximately 3 months. She was happy to chat with us about her experience, give us recommendations and discuss the growing cocktail scene in Palermo. Bocum has a dozen or so unique craft drinks on their menu and a good selection of bottles to prepare high-quality classics. My first cocktail was their Vesper Twist, which was quite a twist, as they have swapped the usual Lillet for a quinquina vermouth and added a hint of scotch for a very dry, slightly smokey version of the drink. My partner got a Geisha sour, a yuzu forward drink with Ki No Bi gin, cherry liqueur, yuzu purée, wasabi, lemon juice and egg white. We were also treated to some unbidden but yummy fried, stuffed squash blossoms during this first round of drinks. By this time Sonja started to realize that we were pretty enthusiastic about cocktails and started bringing out some fun stuff she was experimenting with, including a super creamy clarified milk punch and an absolutely stunning porcini mushroom infused Negroni, which sounds like a gimmick but was legitimately the apex of our drinking experience in Palermo. It was super well balanced and the porcini wasn't overbearing at all. To showcase that porcini taste, we were also provided with some panko fried porcini mushroom tapas which were delicious and light. We went to several other cocktail bars in Palermo with varying degrees of success, but Boccum was the only one we came back to again. The second time was for their dinner service, which is also top-notch from antipasti to dessert. I definitely recommend Bocum if you'd like a break from the typical tourist menus and aperol spritzes of the historic district. The drinks, food and service were all excellent.

We were looking for a quiet location away from the hustle and bustle of the Main Street cafes when…read morewe found this place located just off the main thoroughfare. The wine was cold and delicious and the food was very good and reasonable. The portions are very generous. Will come back again.

Very cool bar in a very cool rustic ally way... Good/affordable local wine list... Will get busy…read morelater in the night with locals booking tables... Drop in and try your luck...