Bocci's Cellar

If you have never gotten around to dropping by this place, just do it and check it out!!!! It could be gone tomorrow or it could be your new favorite place in the 2020s. I have seen such an array of music from seniors and swing to rave to striptease? Yeah, it is all here, not the clean version of anything....
Also, the spaghetti is oddly the best thing on the menu, and it is good!
The hands down worse thing is that there is only one bathroom stall in the whole establishment for women, and I have been there when there was a very long wait, or worse, that one toilet was out of order...

Came for a drink and check out the haunted spot. Had a nice long talk with the owner about the history and stuff. I really like the music screens and art.

Bocci's is tough to classify, at first you think dive bar as its dark and drinks are well priced. But then you add food service (usually understaffed) and I start thinking pub like or restaurant. Then you walk out back and there are Bocci ball courts, and they often have live music. Even the Do-rights burlesque troop dances here a couple times each month. I guess the best definition is fun! Bocci's is just a fun place!

The bar is well stocked and like I mentioned, the prices are quite good compared to other Santa Cruz spots. Lots of locals hang out here. Service is what you would expect from a dive, you really have to be good at catching the bartenders eye to get a drink on busy nights.

The food is pretty damn good I would say. My gripe here is that there is usually only one or two waitresses and they try to bounce you around a lot before you can actually order. If you manage to get ahold of one of them, the fish tacos are great. I also enjoy the beef and grilled onion sliders. My wife usually goes for the skirt steak salad and I can confirm from the bites I sneak that it is quite good.

I come down here a couple times a month for some food, drinks, and fun. Give em a try!

We came here to try their hamburgers. After reading reviews on Yelp that sounded pretty good.
Well it took awhile to get. We were the only ones seated in this dive bar. They're were about 4 people seated at the bar. So really not busy at all. It was pretty dead.

When we finally got our avocado bacon burger it was a little over done and average. It really needed some seasoning as there was none. It
Didn't come with any tomatoes and we couldn't find the avocado. It was missing. Ugh.. We didn't send it back because we didn't want to wait for another half hour. We got the macaroni salad as a side. It was made with shredded carrots which I thought was really wierd. This had no flavor what so ever. Even adding salt and pepper couldn't save it.

I had an appetizer of deep fried zucchini. Now these were really good. They were also seasoned properly. Big fat sticks served with ranch dressing. I'd get these again.

I doubt we'll be back. The service was just ok.

I have eaten here in past years always for lunch with my business associates. I returned here again two days in a row with my business associates for some more outdoor lunch. We all shared a pitcher of the Lagunitas IPA draft beer for $19. The first day I enjoyed my Santa Cruz sandwich with French fries for $13. Jenn divided up our lunches into 5 checks. My lunch bill was only $15.30 less gratuities. This is a good value.

The five of us returned the next day for another pitcher of Lagunitas IPA draft beer for $19 and some more sandwiches. This time Dawn divided our lunches into 5 checks. My check was $15.93 less gratuities. We really like this place because the lunches are reasonable, table service is great and we can eat outside under the sun. We will return here again next year.

I really like the owners and if you like karaoke, that is the place to go. Great food and great drinks and a nice atmosphere.

We used to go to Bocci's for lunch when my husband worked near there, really good food, nice outdoor seating. His work moved so we hadn't eaten there in a while.

We decided to try it on a Friday night, that is the busiest night for restaurants, but the place was almost empty? I had looked online for their menu and found out it was under new owners.

We ordered drinks, they were okay, my husband had a burger, I order the portabella mushroom burger but I made some changes, it didn't come with lettuce but with a marinara sauce? Very weird, I asked for lettuce and the sauce on the side. The sauce was horrible so that was a good call, the mushroom had so much vinegar it was hardly eatable, but I was really hunger so I ate it. French fries were good. My husband wasn't impressed with his burger either.

Our waitress was very nice, but the food was so bad, I can't even think to go back.

We came in famished and a bit hung over. The service was very good and the much needed bloody Mary's and eggs Benedict were incredible.
I lived in the area for many years and for the life of me don't know why I never came in. I will be coming back!

Been to the People's Disco twice here and it was so fun! Definitely gets super crowded but a great place to hang out and have fun dancing. The bartenders are great and the space is fantastic. It's like a house-style building with a covered "outdoor" type area that feels super comfortable. I look forward to going back and trying out the food and bocci ball!

This is the kind of bar that you want to go to when you want to avoid preppy college kids and enjoy beer over live music. Bocci's is inconspicuously tucked away from largely visited parts of town, which is rather convenient in my opinion.

They have plenty of drink options, two bars, lots of seating, and even a large menu to order from! The food is solid and priced really well.

There is no shortage of music, which takes place both in the main bar (inside) and out back by the second bar. They have folk singer/songwriters, rock bands, and jazz every Sunday from 3:30-730! Seriously cool vibes with the music scene here. Eric, who was bartending, helped the musicians with the house music system without skipping a beat. He makes Bocci's run smoothly - it's refreshing to see somebody care about more than making tips, and more about how the bigger picture comes together.

TL;DR: Great, low-key music scene with solid bar, and good food!