A Tavola

Established in 1995. Gnocchi, Hand-Made pastas, Braised Meats, Grilled Italian Steaks, Classic Seasonal Vegetable Preparations Professional Waitstaff Wine List- Completely Italian, Lesser know varietals. Intimate, Unique Dining in a Converted Home Private Parties-Parties like No Where Else Fun Cooking Classes with Chef Dan, then 4 course Italian Dinner together a tavola is the creation of Chef Dan Bocik. At 26 years old, Dan picked up a copy of Rolling Stone Magazine, a story called The Great Caper Chase. From that split second on, Dan has known. Dan enrolled in the California Culinary Academy in S.F. , working full time between Wolfgang Pucks Postrio & Greens. Sleeping barely 4 hours a night until Graduation, he moved to Paris, to see if everything he learned was true. He worked at 2 Very good Restaurants and One Very Bad restaurant. You learn some of the Best tricks from the Laziest Cooks you can hear Dan say in his Monthly cooking classes. Moving to Guadaloupe, Cooking French Creole, Moving back to Chicago to be an opening cook at Coco Pazzo, Moving back to S.F. to work side by side for a year with Chef Claude Bougard, then moving to Milan. Dan worked in Vegetarian Joia until he could speak Italian, then moved to be Chef of Osteria di Via Pre. Dan visited 18 years later to see the same menu & staff are still there