Reviews Bocconcino Mayfair

Great place to eat. Best seafood risotto I he had. Attentive staff and great atmosphere. I may have to eat here again!

We had one of the best Italian meals at Bocconcino.... worth recommending to sample the fresh quality of food and excellent service we experienced yesterday afternoon....along with some amazing cocktails they have to offer... well done team

Awesome staff ,5 star plus food and such a great atmosphere. Always happy to be back.

The service is second to none, we were made to feel welcome as soon as we stepped in. Each course was wonderfully authentic, with some interesting twists. Our food was wonderfully accompanied by excellent wine, chosen by their fantasstic sommelier. This is real authentic Italian food meets high-class Mayfair cuisine. A wonderful dinin experience from start to finish, I couldn't reccomend it more. Keep a look out for my official review on the Wee Italian Kitchen! ��

Nestled in Mayfair, Bocconcino was a true Italian Gem. We opted to visit Bocconcino when on vacation, and were delighted to find such a classy, delicious and refined Italian restaurant in London. We ordered the focaccia mozzarella, the Scottish beef tartare, Fritturi di calamari, and the Pizza Valtellina to share. As for the main dish, I truly hit the jackpot when I ordered the seafood risotto. The rice was perfectly aldente, with a generous quantity of different seafood graciously laid on top. This dish truly tickled my taste buds. As for the rest, they had the Veal Milanese, the roasted octopus and the black truffle Tagliatelle. I was surprised to find a truffle pasta with such an abundant quantity of fresh truffle shaved on top. Overall I strongly recommend this restaurant of a night of fine dining, its definitely more on the expensive side, but worth every penny!

I was intrigued. In the crowded London restaurant scene, it’s easy to miss openings.   I’d never heard of Bocconcino and so when I got a message on social media asking me if I’d like to review I wanted to find out more.  It turns out the restaurant has been opened for over two years now and is the brainchild of Moscow raised restaurateur Mikhail Gokhner who spent time in Northern Tuscany, fell in love with the food and opened a collection of restaurants in Moscow before this, his first outlet in London.

Located on Berkeley Street, this chic Mayfair Italian restaurant is another (not-so) little gem that I recently had the pleasure of discovering.Stepping through the main entrance, Bocconcino is actually much larger than it appears to be from the outside. Spread across two floors, there is a livelier dining/bar area downstairs, and the more intimate room at the end of the corridor where we were shown to our table. They are known to serve both classic and modern Italian cuisine using only the freshest of ingredients, served alongside a wide selection of exclusively Italian wines.I had a sneaky peak of their menu on their website before my visit, so I knew that I was in for a treat that evening ...

Bocconcino is a beautiful Italian restaurant based in the heart of Mayfair. Through a small door at number 19 Berkeley Street lies a gorgeous two floor modern restaurant with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The menu is based on simple but exquisite Italian classics. There are plenty of choices for antipasti, primi and secondi, with a decent range of fish and meat. They have the “catch of the day” available which you can view in advance. Bocconcino also offers a number of exotic pizzas...

T’was the Brex’t of times, t’was the worst of times.
But despite all the chaos and turmoil caused by the EU referendum, this weekend I found myself enjoying the best of Italian hospitality at Bocconcino. 
Situated on Berkeley Street (just off Berkeley Square), it’s a...

You enter through a wooden door into a space that is centralized by a circular staircase. It leads to a lower level dining space. The high mirrors make the restaurant look very spacious. The bar area is super cool and nicely lit. We were seated facing the pizza oven. The tomato salad was so simple yet so refined and good tasting. The angel hair spaghetti and crab dish was perfection. The pizza crust was prepared and cooked right infront us. The confident chef seemed to know what he was doing. The pizza was pinpoint delicious and served in a flat plate so that the cheese would not gather in the middle. The experience could not be better without the hazelnut semifreddo with berries. It was wrapped with a biscuit roll and surrounded by a berry coulis. The service was below par, mostly because our waiter was so unpleasant. The overall dining experience was good.

I tried the pizza and the ravioli and they were both very good. It's got a brilliant ambiance and a fantastic selection of wine. Definitely a good option for vegetarians.

While blogging events are great fun, I really enjoy catching up with blogging friends in quieter surroundings and with less of us. So when Andrea invited Angie, Catherine and I to Bocconcino in Mayfair for a weeknight treat I jumped at the chance!. These ladies are some of the closest friends I've made through my little blog and I always love hearing what they're up to, from Catherine's trip to Poland, Angie's holiday of a life time in St Lucia and Andrea trying to get the work life balance that I'm going to be searching for next year there was a lot to catch up on!

Very nice decor and ambience and definitely one of the best pizza's I have had in London. The food wasn't badly priced, when you consider where the restaurant is located, but the wine list was very expensive. In general thought, it was a very pleasant evening with good food and good service. Would definitely recommend it

As we walked through the doors of Mayfair’s Bocconcino Charlotte (10) turned to me and mouthed: ‘It’s posh!’ As we took our coats off we admired the sweeping metal spiral staircase from the mezannine entrance level and the glow of the restaurant below. Eight years ago I wouldn’t have dared take my step-children somewhere like this but they know the drill now, it’s like eating out with a couple of (very young) friends who are arguably more grown up than us at times.

We were here to check out ‘Family Sundays’ where the idea is the kids are taken off to the kitchen to make pizza whilst the adults eat their dinner in peace. Now we’re a little old-fashioned and like to eat together, which was just as well as Charlotte wasn’t gone for long. Oliver is 13 so felt too old to take part even though we could tell he was itching to. Instead he came and watched his sister briefly before heading back to the table for his starter of Burrata with aubergine and basil pesto (£13).

As Ade and I were checking out the cocktail menu the manager came over to suggest drinks for us both. Now I am not a girly girl in the slightest so felt slightly put out having a feminine drink suggested to me. Had it not have been an Aperol Spritz (£10), I would have declined and gone for my original choice of an Espresso Martini (£10). Ade’s Negroni turned up served in a shiny silver tray with the Negroni pre-mixed in an old Schweppes bottle, nice touch

Charlotte donned a chef’s hat and apron and got started rolling her own dough and spreading tomato sauce under instruction from the chef, finally sprinkling on some toppings. Well, when I say toppings it was just a lot of cheese (before the chef whisked it away) and a handful of mushrooms. She’s the fussy eater amongst us. Then it was into the oven to be served up to her shortly. They’re quite small pizzas, ideal for little kids but bigger kids would probably want something extra. Charlotte ordered a portion of Deep fried calamari with tartare sauce (£13).

Meanwhile Ade and I got stuck into our starters of Pan fried king prawns (£12) – a few juicy prawns on a bed of rocket and Ade shared Oliver’s Burrata with a side helping of Foccacia al rosmarino (£5). We explained to Charlotte that this would be like the ‘cloud bread’ from Pizza Tipi in Wales but it turned out to be more like thin crispy pizza bread. Still tasty, just not what we were expecting.

My main of Wild boar ragu tagliatelle was great, a perfect sized portion with a sweet and tender ragu, one of those I don’t want it to end dishes. Ade opted for pizza – a huge Pizza Gorgonzola e pere (£14) – a huge thin and crispy base cooked wood fired oven, topped with chunks of salty and creamy blue cheese and sweet thinly sliced peeled pair. Oliver is a boy/man of fine taste, so ordered the Scottish rib eye steak (£25) for which we tasted for ‘review purposes’ – a very good steak, tender and cooked perfectly medium rare.

We’d seen other people’s desserts whiz past so we knew we had to save space for these. Oliver said the Meringue cake (£7) was one of the best things he’s ever eaten and reluctantly let us try a slither, watching with anxious eyes to ensure we didn’t take too much. My Creme brûlée (£6) was gorgeous with a super crunchy carmelised top.

We thought we’d be the only ones getting involved in the pizza making, but the place was full of kids in chefs hats and aprons being led up to the designated area in the kitchen, mostly Italian children. It’s a nice little idea but perhaps could do with being a bit longer or more involved and as Charlotte said – bigger pizzas. I don’t know how feasible this is in a busy working kitchen, probably not very.

Perhaps some children’s drawing equipment would have been nice too, that always stops the boredom setting in. We have a no iPhones at the dinner table rule so the pressure’s on us to keep them entertained. It’s amazing how much fun a child can have playing with a chef’s hat, Charlotte became so attached to hers that she even wore it home.

What: Italian Pizzaria

Where: Green Park, London

Value: £30pp

Food Review: For starters, calamari and cheese bread. Enough to share, but enough to have by yourself, just the right amount of crisp and the calamari was accompanied with a amazing dipping sauce. For mains, pizza and lobster linguini (shared). The lobster liguini consisted of thick lobster pieces (could have been a touch more) and thick tomoto sauce. The pizza was huge and didnt fit the small table and had to be bought after, was thin and cheesy. For dessert, meringue cake and creme brulee (again shared).

Settings Review: Located on a opupent road with many high class restaurants to compete with, boccocino have kept a simple decor. Upon entrance, you immedietley glace over at the spiral staircase leading to the restaurant below. Once coats and bags are handed over, you make your way down the spiral staircase to set eyes on the woodfired oven and comfy looking sofas. Unfortunately these were already booked up.

Positives: calamari, merigue cake, ambience

Negatives: was no big tables left so had mains in 2 parts

3 Word Review: simply, no frills

Good quality pizza and pasta. The pistachio pesto is an interesting choice. Overpriced compared to what you can get outside mayfair but not a bad choice! Worth visiting.

Unbelievable experience!. Great food, delicious food and top class service. Looking forward to going back!

We went there with my husband to celebrate my birthday, it was a surprise location for me. We had tasting menu which we were pleased that the taste was quiet good and the presentation was cute also. At the end they brought a plate with happy birthday written with chocolate which was a cute touch. Definitely recommend this place 👍

Fantastic Italian restaurant. THE BEST PASTA DISHES in London! I have been twice in this restaurant and I must say that the superb quality of the food and service is consistent. Everything is amazing but the pasta dishes are to die for. 11/10. They are cooked to perfection. I am definitely going back there. We have Diego as our waiter both times, and his attention and customer service are unbeatable.

I came here for Saturday lunch and loved the decoration of this place and you can feel the nice vibe since you are at the entrance. The service is great and the food is awesome. As a downside, and to be fair this happens to most of the fancy restaurants that are in this area, but I need to mention the wine is overpriced, the cheapest bottle you can find is £60 (for a bottle that costs £15 in the market) and it was not even a nice wine, it was just the cheapest on the menu, the rest of the bottles minimum £100 for a bottle, which I think is extremely overpriced. I would recommend the place overall and would come back here, but just bear that in mind if you’re thinking of having wine with your menu.