Local legend: Why Boca is still at the top of its game 10 years on

As it nears 10 years of operations, Boca continues to prove why it’s so much more than just a restaurant…

“These salicornia are probably some of the last we’ll get this season, you have to try them,” Omar Shihab, the founder of Boca tells us passionately, presenting two small bowls of what look like skinny asparagus heads in front of us. “They’re a potentially very exciting new super food, and they come from right here in the UAE,” he explains animatedly. These salicornia have come from Umm Al Quwain, and are a type of halophyte, which Boca is currently exploring the use of…