Review 5 Pollen Street

5 Pollen Street

Italian 
5 Pollen Street, Mayfair, London W1S 1NE
Latest critic review: March 29, 2011
Critics' score: 5.5 out of 10 Users' score: 0.0 out of 10



5 Pollen Street

Italian food from top chef Stefano Cavallini

Critic Reviews


Zoe Strimpel City AM
Reviewed by March 29, 2011
"More striking is how lovely to look at it is: small and jewel-like, with wallpaper that’s half botanical and half something that could be of a more sexual nature... But once the meal began in earnest, things lost their spot-on-ness." READ REVIEW
Critic's score: 6
Marina O'Loughlin Metro
Reviewed on March 16, 2011
"With its invisible hierarchy, cod-French on the menu and prices designed to keep out the hoi polloi, it’s a gorgeous anachronism, just like equally, inexplicably sleb-magnet C London (formerly Cipriani) and San Lorenzo."
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Critic's score: 4
AA Gill Sunday Times
Reviewed on March 13, 2011
"The chef said the calves’ liver was the finest in the country, and it may well have been. It could possibly have been the greatest calves’ liver in the universe. In the history of bovine offal, however, rather like a small man with a tall model, he didn’t really show it off to its best advantage." READ REVIEW
Critic's score: 6
Fay Maschler Evening Standard
Reviewed on February 17, 2011
"...bold Mayfair prices and the Michelin history created expectations that were not quite met at the two meals I tried - but it was very early days." READ REVIEW
Critic's score: 6
 

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Price:
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Italian 
Address
5 Pollen Street, Mayfair, London W1S 1NE
Telephone
020 7629 1555
Nearest Tube
Oxford Circus
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