La Boca

2 Reviews on “La Boca”

• Mister Jk

  Cheery little place offering some fantastic food. I think the food here was better than many others in Glasgow. There has been loads of tapas places opening – Fino, Cubatas, Tinto West End, Rioja, Brutti Compadres etc So far those places have been good in their own ways and pleased to say La Boca is too. Super friendly staff, delicious food and a real nice atmosphere. We had desserts too which is rare for us and they were also really good. Recommend the sticky toffee pudding. Only negative was that they use those really harsh white/blue LED lights at the very back where our table was which weren’t so comfortable to sit under and weren’t cosy like the rest of the restaurant. Would go back.

  December 7, 2014, 10:59 pm

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• Laura Simpson

  La Boca literally means the mouth in Spanish a strange name for a restaurant I first thought until I came round to the blatant simplicity of it. Feed me, feed me now.Having heard of this new place online, I convinced Mr S that this was what we needed to do on our day off. Arriving in between lunch and dinner meant that it was fairly quiet but thats how I prefer it. Draught Estrella was ordered and we began trying to eliminate items from the menu to narrow down our choice. Our waiter had the rubbish job of telling us that their bread delivery had not arrived yet. A new restaurant has such hiccups and it really is not their fault but with so many places selling bread nearby I couldnt help but think a quick shopping trip could have remedied it. I like to use bread to mop up sauces in the little dishes so I was pretty gutted. If I hadnt heard such good things I probably would have suggested drinking up and coming back another day but Im glad now that I didnt.Instead we stuffed our bocas with queso & jamon (platter 10). The queso in question was sliced manchego and the jamon was of my preferred iberico variety. No cooking required, just quality ingredients, but such a pleasing dish. The iberico had the richness that only iberico jamon has this is perhaps my most favourite meat ever.The rest of the dishes came in dribs and drabs as it would in Spain. We ordered sangria and enjoyed the experience. Gambas pil pil (4.50) had big, juicy prawns and packed a punch I even enjoyed it without bread. We dunked our fries (2.50) in and wondered why we had never done this before.Bread appeared soon after with our brocheta a skewer of chicken, pepper and onion from the grill (6.00). A good marinade and barbeque like flavour lifted this simple combination. The roasted salted tomato on the side was very much to my liking and I hope they keep it up with little jazzed up accompaniments.The star of the show was the secreto iberico (6.00). We had never tried this before but we had something that sounded similar in Pizarro in London so it immediately piqued interest. When our waiter finished his description with a wide eyed you have to try it we knew that he was right. In fact, the meat comes from in between the shoulder blade and the loin of an Iberico pig. It looks like a piece of thin pork, has the texture of really good quality pork with a cooked taste of iberico jamon. It is special indeed and La Boca have excelled themselves by putting this on the menu.The desserts change regularly and the waiter described them for us. One sounded like crema catalana but with biscuit on top instead of burnt sugar so we chose this. When it arrived it was indeed like a rich tea on top with cinnamon but it complemented the crema. Unfortunately the crema was not at all set so after a few spoons we were not enjoying it so much. The owner came over to our table and asked about it before seeing how runny it was and apologised before removing it from the bill. He was so passionate about everything being authentic (he used to live in Spain) and this really impressed us.La Boca could be described as typically Spanish, informal and fun. It is the sort of place that we will take friends to for a catch-up with lots of laughs. Now just to check that they sell port to round off the night girlaroundglasgow.wordpress.com

  October 17, 2014, 2:10 pm

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