Italian Restaurants in Mayfair, Soho and Covent Garden
Mayfair, on Berkeley Street, celebrates the best of fresh fish and seafood across two distinct floors. Upstairs, white tablecloths and refined service set the tone for a more formal evening. Downstairs, the mood shifts entirely - a casual, energetic space with DJs and live performers.
Soho, on Great Marlborough Street, brings the grill to the heart of our regional menu, alongside a private dining room complete with its own bar.
Osteria by Bocconcino, on the Strand in Covent Garden, is our largest and brightest space — built around an open kitchen, with a private dining room of its own.
Italian restaurants in London: Bocconcino in Mayfair, Soho and Covent Garden.
Bocconcino has been serving regional Italian food in central London since 2014, across three restaurants and a bar…
The group runs three restaurants: the original dining room at 19 Berkeley Street in Mayfair, the Soho restaurant at 59 Great Marlborough Street, and Osteria by Bocconcino at 366 Strand in Covent Garden, with Sotto Bar in the basement below Soho. The group was established by Michael Gokhner and has kept the same kitchen leadership across every opening.
What separates the three venues is the room rather than the kitchen. Mayfair is built around fresh fish and seafood, across two floors that work as two different evenings: white tablecloths on the upper floor, and a casual room below with DJs and live performers. Soho brings the grill into the same regional menu and has a private dining room with its own bar. Osteria is the largest and brightest of the three, with an open kitchen and a private dining room of its own. The regional Italian menu, led by Head Chef Marco Corsica, runs through all three, as does the Italian-led wine list of over 300 bottles.
Three restaurants and a bar in central London
Bocconcino Mayfair, 19 Berkeley Street
The original restaurant, a few minutes from Green Park and a short walk from Bond Street and Piccadilly. The kitchen here is built around fresh fish and seafood, with the open-fire pizza oven in view and the pasta station behind glass. The two floors work as two different evenings, and the booking is as much a choice of format as of table. The upper floor is the formal room: white tablecloths, full table service, the setting for a long lunch, a quiet dinner or an anniversary. The floor below is the casual one, with DJs and live music at the weekend and the private dining rooms off the same corridor. Bocconcino Mayfair holds six current awards, among them Best Restaurant in London and Best Hospitality Team at the 2026 British Restaurant Awards and a place in the Luxury Lifestyle Awards' Top 100 Restaurants of the World. The Mayfair page covers both floors in full.
Bocconcino Soho, 59 Great Marlborough Street
Three minutes from Oxford Circus, at the top of Carnaby Street. The fit-out is contemporary, in warm earthy tones with marble accents that nod to the brand's Forte dei Marmi roots. The regional menu runs as it does in Mayfair, with the grill added: steaks, chops and whole fish cooked over fire alongside the pasta and the pizza. The private dining room has its own bar, so a group can run the evening as a self-contained space rather than a corner of the restaurant. Weekends are the busiest service, with resident DJs and a live show on Friday and Saturday nights, tables until 10:45pm, and a bottomless brunch across Saturday and Sunday. The Soho page has the detail.
Osteria by Bocconcino, 366 Strand
The most recent opening, on the Strand in Covent Garden and the closest of the three to the theatres at the eastern end of the West End. It is the largest and brightest of the group, built around an open kitchen that puts the cooking in the middle of the room rather than behind a wall. There is a private dining room for larger groups. The format follows the Italian osteria: a room set for regular dining rather than occasion dining, at a pace that suits a weekday evening as much as a Saturday. Osteria has its own site.
Sotto Bar, beneath Bocconcino Soho
A basement cocktail bar with its own identity, its own drinks list and its own opening times. Sotto shares an address with the Soho restaurant but runs as a separate space, and can be hired for private events independently of the restaurant above. Many guests book dinner upstairs and move down for the rest of the evening.
The cooking: regional Italian, led by Head Chef Marco Corsica
Marco Corsica grew up on the Mediterranean coast and leads the kitchen across the group. The menu draws region by region: Florence in the bistecca and the Chianti pairings, Sicily in the octopus and the parmigiana, Rome in the cacio e pepe and the carbonara, Napoli in the pizza dough. The pasta is hand-rolled in-house each morning. The pizza is Roman-style, thinner crust, baked in front of guests on the open-fire oven. Fresh fish and seafood carry the largest share of the menu at Mayfair, where the counter is set up around the daily catch, and the grill at Soho adds steaks, chops and whole fish cooked over fire.
Dishes are built to be shared in the Italian way, though most work as a single main with a side. Vegetarian and vegan options run through the menu rather than sitting in a separate section, and the kitchen handles allergies and dietary requirements as a matter of course. Menus change with the seasons, with a truffle menu in autumn and a lighter, more southern lean in late summer. Current menus are on the Mayfair and Soho menu pages.
The wine: over 300 bottles with an Italian spine
The list carries more than 300 bottles at any time, built around Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello, Amarone and Super Tuscans. Every Italian region with a serious wine tradition is represented, from Piedmont down through Tuscany, the Veneto and the Marche into Campania, Sicily and Sardinia. Alongside the recognisable producers, the Head Sommelier looks for organic and biodynamic winemakers and indigenous varieties that rarely reach London lists.
France is represented seriously, with Champagne and Burgundy taking the largest share, and there is a smaller selection from the rest of the world. By-the-glass and Coravin options run from accessible to serious, and the sommelier team is on the floor through service to advise on pairings, particularly for tasting menus and larger private dining bookings.
Brunch, lunch, pre-theatre and late dining
Mayfair runs a Saturday bottomless brunch with a DJ, bottomless prosecco and an optional cocktail upgrade, and a Sunday buffet brunch, Il Grande, which leans into the seafood side of the menu. Soho runs a bottomless brunch with a resident DJ across Saturday and Sunday. Weekday lunch is served at both restaurants, with an Italian set lunch at Mayfair for the working lunch crowd and a seasonal set lunch at Soho from midday to 4:45pm.
For the theatre crowd, Soho runs a pre-theatre menu Sunday to Friday, with the London Palladium three minutes away and most of Shaftesbury Avenue within a ten-minute walk. Late dining runs at both restaurants. What is on each week is listed on the What's On pages for Mayfair and Soho.
Private dining and events in central London
All three venues take private bookings, and each room is a different kind of space. Mayfair takes private and semi-private bookings on both floors, for groups from twelve up to seventy, with audio-visual setups and tailored menus arranged in advance. The Soho room has its own bar, which makes it the closest of the three to a self-contained venue: a group can drink, eat and stay in one space for a whole evening without crossing the restaurant. Osteria has a private dining room on the Strand, with the open kitchen and the scale of the room suiting larger parties. Sotto Bar in the basement below Soho can also be hired on its own. The events team handles the booking, the menu and the drinks package as one arrangement through the private dining page.
Established by Michael Gokhner
Bocconcino was established by Michael Gokhner, who opened the Mayfair restaurant on Berkeley Street in 2014 and has run the group since. Soho followed in 2023 on Great Marlborough Street, and Osteria by Bocconcino opened on the Strand as the third venue. Each opening kept the same regional Italian kitchen and the same wine philosophy rather than launching a separate concept, which is why the cooking reads as one restaurant group across three rooms with different characters.
Booking, locations and contact
Bocconcino Mayfair is at 19 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8ED, nearest station Green Park. Bocconcino Soho is at 59 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7JY, nearest stations Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road. Osteria by Bocconcino is at 366 Strand, London WC2R 0JF, nearest stations Charing Cross, Covent Garden and Temple. Reservations for all venues are taken on 020 7499 4510 or through the booking page. Group bookings and corporate enquiries go through the events team on the contacts page.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are three. Bocconcino Mayfair is at 19 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8ED. Bocconcino Soho is at 59 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7JY. Osteria by Bocconcino is at 366 Strand, London WC2R 0JF, in Covent Garden. Sotto Bar, a separate basement cocktail bar, sits beneath the Soho restaurant at the same address.
Bocconcino was established by Michael Gokhner, who opened the Mayfair restaurant on Berkeley Street in 2014 and has run the group through the Soho and Covent Garden openings since. The kitchen is led by Head Chef Marco Corsica across all three venues.
Bocconcino Mayfair holds six. Best Luxury Restaurant 2023, Best Restaurant in London 2026 and Best Hospitality Team 2026 at the British Restaurant Awards. Top 100 Restaurants of the World 2026 at the Luxury Lifestyle Awards. Best Regional Italian Restaurant Group 2026 from LuxLife's Leaders Magazine. The 100% Italiano mark for 2026 from the Istituto 100% Italiano.
Mayfair for fish and seafood, and for the choice of two floors: white tablecloths and a formal dinner upstairs, or the casual room below with DJs and live performers. Soho for the grill, late tables, weekend DJ nights, and a private dining room with its own bar. Osteria on the Strand for a large, bright room with an open kitchen, and for anyone dining at the Covent Garden end of the West End. The core menu is shared, so the choice is about the room rather than the cooking.
Regional Italian, drawn from Tuscany, Rome, Sicily, Napoli and Florence. Fresh fish and seafood carry the largest share at Mayfair, and the Soho kitchen adds the grill. Across all three: pasta hand-rolled in-house, Roman-style pizza baked on the open-fire oven, and seasonal antipasti. The menu changes with the seasons and reflects Head Chef Marco Corsica's upbringing on the Mediterranean coast.
Yes. Mayfair runs a Saturday bottomless brunch with a DJ and bottomless prosecco, with a cocktail upgrade available, and a separate Sunday buffet brunch, Il Grande. Soho runs a bottomless brunch with a resident DJ on Saturdays and Sundays. Each brunch has its own menu and its own seating times.
Both. A weekday Italian set lunch runs at Mayfair for the working lunch crowd, and a seasonal set lunch runs at Soho from midday to 4:45pm, Monday to Friday. Soho also runs a pre-theatre menu Sunday to Friday in the late afternoon and early evening, with most West End theatres inside a short walk.
Yes, at all three venues. Mayfair has dedicated rooms on the lower floor for dinners and corporate events. The Soho room comes with its own bar, so a group can hold a whole evening in one space. Osteria has a private dining room on the Strand, alongside the open kitchen. Sotto Bar in the basement below Soho can be hired separately. Tailored menus, drinks packages and audio-visual setups are arranged in advance through the events team.
Tables at all venues can be reserved online through the booking page or by calling 020 7499 4510. Weekend evenings and brunch services are the busiest and are best booked in advance. Group bookings of six or more, and any private dining enquiry, are handled by the events team.