Avista Restaurant

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Avista Restaurant | Mayfair Italian Restaurant

Come and taste modern, contemporary Italian cuisine at AVISTA Restaurant Bar.

Savour our hand-made pastas and freshly-baked bread, and indulge in our range of reinvigorating Italian wines.

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Avista of Mayfair - Restaurant Review -

Guests have the option of the la carte menu, the Chef’s seven course tasting menu or the special truffle menu.

For the main course we both chose from the white truffle menu.

The Lemon sole blended well with the Sauvignon Blanc and a favourite was the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, a red wine that packed a punch with fruity plum, blackberry and a chocolate and liquorice finish, a perfect partner to the beef fillet.

The chef’s 7 course tasting menu is £55 per person, £115 with matching wines.

The Truffle and a la carte menu offers starters from £10.50, pasta from £13.50 and main courses from £23.50.

AVISTA Restaurant

Located in the heart of Mayfair at 39 Grosvenor Square, Avista boasts a private dining room for up to 14 people and a separate bar, ideal for pre- and post-dinner drinks or private receptions.

The main focus of Avista is the impressive granite-topped preparation area where diners can observe Chef Arturo Granato and his team put the finishing touches to their dishes before service.

Avista's interior has been brought to life by celebrated designer David d'Almada and sets the mood with a cool ambience making this location both light and spacious, whilst retaining a chic "Mayfair" feel.

Diners can choose from a range of award-winning innovative dishes created with the changing season in mind.

Open for lunch and dinner, Avista offers a set menu and an irresistible a la carte menu complemented by an unrivalled list of Italian wines.

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Avista restaurant review 2008 October London | Italian Cuisine ...

An unusual touch was that a part of the kitchen was set in the dining room, loaded up with vegetable produce (the main kitchen was tucked away behind this).

I am unconvinced that music is ever a good idea in a dining room; if you have to, perhaps some quiet classical music or jazz is not too intrusive, but muzak like this.

The 11 page wine list was mostly Italian, with a few token choices from elsewhere.

Even better was ravioli filled with soft cheese (Taleggio and Brie I believe) with nicely cooked wild mushrooms; the pasta had excellent texture, the cheese was in the correct proportions and the mushrooms were very good (a strong 16/20).

I tried a special, tagliolini with porcini, which looked particularly nice on the open kitchen counter; the pasta was again very good indeed, with fine texture, the mushrooms tasty (16/20).

London Restaurant Guide: Avista, London W1 - Telegraph

The dining-room was full of stylish groups of four or five, dressed in taffetas so bright and starchy they could have slipped home naked and left their collarless jackets manning the conversation.

That 'sweet and sour’ referred to a sweet pickle (rather than some idiosyncratic Chinese fusion), and the veg – teeny baby turnips and carrots – were eye-poppingly tangy and lovely.

A, in a choice conservative enough to almost bump her out of my address book, had the sea bass, pan-fried, with stewed artichoke (£22), and this reminded us of the kind of Italian cuisine you’d find in an Intercontinental: so understatedly posh the fish had just stalked haughtily past the seasoning, and even the olive oil probably had more heritage than our entire Royal family.

The Italian menu treats design junkies to agnello arrosto – saddle of lamb with honeyed vegetables (£18) A William and Mary house, Capability Brown grounds, and a surprisingly groovy restaurant –think feature walls of baroque wallpaper and black vinyl design-y chairs.

Roast pork belly comes with puy lentils and baby leeks (£15.50) The restaurant at Olga Polizzi’s super-elegant hotel draws stylish weekenders with unbeatable sea views and dishes of local fish.