text: BoCa is an exotic Vietnamese restaurant that offers the traditional specialty of courses of beef and fish As soon as you enter the space you are enveloped in a sea of red from the red orbs of light from above to the red mosaic tiling on the walls This place has a very bright and friendly feel while still maintaining a sense of the exoticnnThe food is also fabulousthey offer a variety of dishes other than the courses of beef and fish option Being a fan of red meat I tried the cubed beef tenderloin with garlic and onionsthis is served with a watercress salad and rice The slightly sweet and peppery marinated meat simply melts in your mouth nnWe also ordered one of the house specialties the crispy skin oven roasted whole Catfish sprinkled with crushed peanuts scallions and carmelized onions This dish is phenomenal and unlike any fish that I have had What I really enjoyed was the crispiness of the skin The Catfish meat was also very soft and delicate The dish is served with rice paper mints mixed greens green banana and apple slices and bean sprouts which you use to wrap the fish in nnThey also serve a variety of traditional desserts and specialty drinks such as freshly squeezed coconut juice with limennIt opened its doors just about two weeks ago and if the food is this good now it can only get better It was late Saturday night when I dined here and there were still a number of patrons in the restaurant If you want to try some nontypical Vietnamese food in a friendly chill environment this is a great pick