Located within the Millenium Hotel, although with it's own private entrance, Avista offers a diverse, Italian menu combining a variety of both rustic and contemporary dishes with a wine list encompassing many fine wines, also predominantly from Italy. The influence of Executive Chef Arturo Granato shows; hailing from Italy's Amalfi Coast and having worked in prestigious kitchen across Italy, Austria and London, dishes are increasingly confident and ever-changing with the seasons.
Avista
Italian Restaurant in Mayfair
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Website
http://avistarestaurant.com/
Opening Summary
Kitchen
Monday - Friday:
Lunch 12noon - 14.30
Dinner 18.30 - 22.30
Saturday:
18.30 - 22.30
Kitchen
Monday - Friday:
Lunch 12noon - 14.30
Dinner 18.30 - 22.30
Saturday:
18.30 - 22.30
All In London Review
Fine dining Italian by Grosvenor Square
The menu is modern Italian, so the amuse bouche includes macaroon-like concoctions that are actually crispy beetroot muffins stuffed with gorgonzola. The bread is made freshly in-house and is fantastic, particularly the warm, doughy potato and rosemary focaccia.
A soft, slow-cooked egg oozes over wild mushroom and aromatic black truffle, dotted with Parmesan crisps. There’s also a smear of that highly haute cuisine flourish: foam. Their take on the Caesar salad has pink, salty veal in rolls plonked among salad leaves in creamy dressing, smoked potato, and more black truffle, given that it’s season. Both are very good.
The lemon sole tempura is nice firm fish but on its own a little bland, however the bed of trompette mushrooms, candied onion and Jerusalem artichoke soup lifts the flavour. Perhaps our favourite dish is the English pork fillet, sliced into cubes to reveal rosy-pinkness in the middle, along with slabs of pork belly with the top layers cooked to a bacon-like crisp. Instead of the traditional apple sauce there are small dollops of quince chutney, along with a slice of lasagne with Swiss chard and Taleggio cheese, and a single green tortellini.
Given its Mayfair address and affluent customers the menu is priced accordingly, with starters between £10 and £15, and mains upwards of £20.
Reviewed by Leila
anonymously
Published on Oct 22, 2015
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