Bocconcino,
19 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8ED
www.bocconcinorestaurant.co.uk
www.bocconcinorestaurant.co.uk
02/01/2015
She said: A new year, a new restaurant. This time an impressive grand space off Berkeley Square. At first the large but rather private looking front door was off-putting and club-like but on entering Bocconcino I was wowed by the vast double height basement space below the entrance runway. I immediately felt excited about this place. The design is clean, contemporary but warm and the Italian menu has an excellent range of pizza, pasta and main (meat/fish) dishes. The starters are on the high side but the pizza selection is good value. I was able to substitute the tagliatelle with a linguini pasta which I think worked better with the prawn and courgette dish, which was delicious and a reasonable portion. His pizza was nice and large so I helped myself to an excellent slice of thin crust gorgonzola and pear combo, mmm. Being in Mayfair, where many restaurants are clearly style over substance, Bocconcino really stands out for me as being a perfect balance of great space and delicious, good portions of food. A welcome addition and another find to go back to.
She said: A new year, a new restaurant. This time an impressive grand space off Berkeley Square. At first the large but rather private looking front door was off-putting and club-like but on entering Bocconcino I was wowed by the vast double height basement space below the entrance runway. I immediately felt excited about this place. The design is clean, contemporary but warm and the Italian menu has an excellent range of pizza, pasta and main (meat/fish) dishes. The starters are on the high side but the pizza selection is good value. I was able to substitute the tagliatelle with a linguini pasta which I think worked better with the prawn and courgette dish, which was delicious and a reasonable portion. His pizza was nice and large so I helped myself to an excellent slice of thin crust gorgonzola and pear combo, mmm. Being in Mayfair, where many restaurants are clearly style over substance, Bocconcino really stands out for me as being a perfect balance of great space and delicious, good portions of food. A welcome addition and another find to go back to.
He
said: 'live insect cuisine' is probably the only three word descriptive less
likely to get you into a restaurant than 'Russian owned pizzeria'. Yet
that is what Bocconcino is (pizza, not bugs) and it would be a mistake to miss
it. It serves other Italian classics, but pizza is what I was in the mood for,
half expecting awful fusion combinations like Nutella and anchovies. But what
came out was actually very nice: pear and blue cheese pizza on the thinnest and
crispest base I've had in London. The design of the place was also a pleasant
surprise: not a hint of narco-trafficker classics like gold taps, but lots of
establishment colours like taupe and mushroom - very Mayfair. The architect
actually managed to make this basement site really inviting. All this for
a fairly reasonable price, for the neighbourhood. This is definitely one to try
when you feel like pimping out your pizza night.
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