Italian restaurant Bocca di Bacco, which recently gave up on plans to open a new restaurant on 74th street and Columbus, has found a new location.
The restaurant is set to open this week at 85th street between Broadway and Amsterdam in the current home of Arte Pasta (Bocca di Bacco is owned by the same company as Arte Pasta). Arte Pasta had just opened late last year, taking over for Dean’s Pizzeria.
On it Facebook page, the restaurant says people can sign up to attend the grand opening celebration with free food and drinks on April 23 from 6-8 by emailing NYCRG12@gmail.com.
Here’s the dinner menu for its other locations.
Image via Bocca di Bacco’s instagram page.
unrelated, but I noticed Casa Pomona on Columbus is “closed for renovations”. Given that it only opened again recently after the water main break, i’m not sure what they need to renovate again. It doesn’t look good, although they did serve a nice pilsner.
Yeah, looks like they’re closing: https://www.westsiderag.com/2014/04/02/new-seafood-and-burger-joints-opening-on-the-uws
Avi
Since they’re opening this week I would assume they’re keeping the brick oven pizza ovens, hopefully they’ll continue to pump out great thin crust pizza like Arte has been doing.
My wife and I, and friends we recommended, were loyal customers of Arte Pasta. It was a very nice addition to the neighborhood, and its closing would be a shame. We thought the food was good, the prices reasonable, and the manager and staff were efficient and pleasant. We are part of a group of 10 to 12 that enjoyed monthly luncheons there.
An update on my previous comment about Arte Pasta: A visit Monday afternoon found the encouraging news that the restaurant isn’t being closed, but rather undergoing a name change to Bocca di Bacco to reflect its parent company’s other restaurants and a menu upgrade. And the top-notch manager and staff are staying. Hooray.
I walked by that place today and the Arte Pasta sign was still up. that’s kind of strange if their opening night is tomorrow…
so is it one company that owns all these restaurants?
and now changing all to Bacca di Bacco? I see they changed one at 21st and 7th avenue too.
like all those lost department stores names throughout the country that became “Macys”.
Be careful, they are moving into the loathed (by some) “chain store” category ! :-)~
I went to this opening freebie; the wine flowed freely but if the idea was to introduce their food, then they really served nothing appetizing. The pizza had hardly any cheese on it, and the rice balls and meatballs where blah. The sound system was too many decibels high and I fled from it.
I was there, also, and thought they put together a nice opening party. yeah, the music was loud and not my type, but people were enjoying it and it set a good vibe. they were extremely generous with wine pours and there was plenty of food to be had.
i thought the pizzas were pretty good considering how many they were serving. the prosciutto flatbread and the mushroom crostini both had a lot of flavor. i had one small meatball which wasn’t great, but i’ll forgive them.
but hey don’t look a gift horse in the mouth….
Going to a free event and dissing it? no class.
remember if you have nothing nice to say…..