Bocconcino (Mayfair)

• Just the right amount of crisp and the calamari was accompanied with a amazing dipping sauce
• Located on a opupent road with many high class restaurants to compete with
• Once coats and bags are handed over
• Unfortunately these were already booked up
• S like eating out with a couple of (very young) friends who are arguably more grown up than us at times
• Where the idea is the kids are taken off to the kitchen to make pizza whilst the adults eat their dinner in peace
• 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 (£
• As Ade and I were checking out the cocktail menu the manager came over to suggest drinks for us both
• S Negroni turned up served in a shiny silver tray with the Negroni pre mixed in an old Schweppes bottle
• When I say toppings it was just a lot of cheese (before the chef whisked it away) and a handful of mushrooms
• Charlotte ordered a portion of Deep fried calamari with tartare sauce (£
• A perfect sized portion with a sweet and tender ragu
• 7) was one of the best things he&rsquo
• 6) was gorgeous with a super crunchy carmelised top
• S a nice little idea but perhaps could do with being a bit longer or more involved and as Charlotte said &ndash
• T know how feasible this is in a busy working kitchen
• S amazing how much fun a child can have playing with a chef&rsquo
• The downturn is that its too expensive
• Very nice decor and ambience and definitely one of the best pizza's I have had in London
• The wine list was very expensive
• It was a very pleasant evening with good food and good service
• A few years ago it may have been considered a little *unusual* but since starting my blog getting together with people who I&rsquo
• So it was on a was Wednesday night that I headed down to Bocconcino in Mayfair to meet up with my &lsquo
• The restaurant itself is quite cavernous and you enter on to the street level mezzanine floor before descending via a winding staircase into the basement restaurant
• I really enjoy catching up with blogging friends in quieter surroundings and with less of us
• 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
• 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
• A few weeks ago I had the absolute pleasure of dining at Bocconcino with some of my favourite fellow foodie bloggers
• After settling down with champagne and wine
• I tried the pizza and the ravioli and they were both very good
• I would be keen to try the non pizza dishes as there was a big fish and pasta selection to choose from
• You enter through a wooden door into a space that is centralized by a circular staircase
• The bar area is super cool and nicely lit
• 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
• It was wrapped with a biscuit roll and surrounded by a berry coulis
• Mostly because our waiter was so unpleasant
• This weekend I found myself enjoying the best of Italian hospitality at Bocconcino
• Bocconcino is a rather chic Italian restaurant in the heart of Mayfair
• I have a real love for Italian food and I love this little corner of Mayfair so I was definitely looking forward to see what Bocconcino had to offer
• 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 wine list is vast and somehow unusual
• I will definitely go again with my husband
• The crowed was quite eclectic
• This chic Mayfair Italian restaurant is another (not so) little gem that I recently had the pleasure of discovering
• Bocconcino is actually much larger than it appears to be from the outside
• The more intimate room at the end of the corridor where we were shown to our table
• So I knew that I was in for a treat that evening
• Italian food is one of my absolute favourite cuisines and I was super excited about trying somewhere new
• The restaurant is very impressive with two seating areas
• 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
• Everything was delicious and reasonable for the price even though we had to wait 25 minutes for the food to be ready
• Bocconcino was a true Italian Gem
• I was surprised to find a truffle pasta with such an abundant quantity of fresh truffle shaved on top

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