Il Pampero

Open for breakfast lunch & dinner, experience exceptional Italian cooking in the heart of Belgravia in London. Dine with contemporary decor and a chic feel. Fine dining has never been finessed in such a fun and contemporary way!

Il Pampero Italian Bar & Restaurant | Italian Dining In Belgravia

Open for lunch and dinner, experience exceptional Italian cooking in a sophisticated setting which embodies Italian chic and vintage glamour; designed by acclaimed designer, Tara Bernerd.

Under the direction of Executive Chef Claudio Covino, the team deliver a traditional Italian menu complemented with an impressive wine list and cocktail menu.

“This Italian restaurant at the new boutique hotel The Hari brings a dash of la dolce vitato the smart London borough of Belgravia” Harper’s Bazaar

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Il Pampero’s was varied, challenging –think squid ink grissini and salty focaccia – and unmistakably fresh.

It was good to see that il Pampero’s elegant location and polished interiors had not detracted from that feel.

White clothed tables and mid-century modern style leather chairs surround the focal point bar, all decked out in warming earthy tones and dark greens.

The stand out dish, however, was undoubtedly the main course: a whole salt-baked cod, whose thick white exterior was expertly cracked open at the table, to reveal fresh, flaky fish beneath.

Il Pampero is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Its current avatar is The Hari, which has succeeded in softening the harsh edges of the ’50s style building with simple yet striking touches, such as the midnight-blue lettering and the lush greens buttressing its glass exteriors.

Marrying traditional cooking with a contemporary finish, the chic restaurant has all the potential of becoming my new favourite for Italian fine-dining in London… Leading off directly from the Manhattan loft-like lobby, it’s a cheerfully-bright and inviting space embracing a nostalgia for old-world glamour.

Sadly we missed out on this experience as we’d visited during the soft launch, but we did enjoy learning about the different types of Pecorino cheese which are not just bound to Rome (as I’d mistakenly thought) but can also be found in Tuscany, Sardinia and Sicily, with the profile and sweetness of this ewe’s cheese varying across regions.

As for the pasta itself, well this was one of the finest Cacio e Pepe’s I’ve had this side of Rome – the delicate strands wreathed in an full-bodied sauce, with a generous sprinkling of cracked black pepper punctuating the creaminess of it all.

As I mentioned earlier – we’d visited during the soft launch, a period usually aimed as a buffer to allow the restaurant to fine-tune its cooking techniques, presentation and service… Yet the slightly slow spell in service aside, all aspects of our meal were rather impeccable.

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The wine list started at £25 and went all the way up to £1,200 in price, though it was nice to see that there were several bottles under £40.

Sample labels were Azienda Agricola Bandut di Giorgio Colutta Pinot Grigio of mysterious vintage at £30 for a bottle that you can find in the high street for £16, Vietti Castiglione Barolo 2012 at £60 compared to its retail price of £38, and Salette Amarone della Valpolicella 2012 at a very reasonable £85 for a wine that will set you back £80 in a shop.

Tagliatelle Bolognese featured very good pasta that was made fresh, and a bolognese sauce that had plenty of flavour.

Service was good, the Neapolitan restaurant manager formerly having worked both in Lyon and at a Japanese restaurant in London.

I think there are improvements to be made here, but this is already a good restaurant.

Il Pampero, Belgravia

The buzzThis Italian restaurant at the new boutique hotel The Hari brings a dash of la dolce vita to the smart London borough of Belgravia.

Il Pampero offers traditional cooking, with food including the bread and pasta made from scratch; all smoking and curing is done on-site, too.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Menu highlights We started with a gorgeous plate of antipasti, which involved generously layered Parma ham, bresaola, mortadella and fennel salami, olive and sun-dried tomatoes.

For main course it was impossible to resist the alluring list of pasta dishes, including pappardelle with lobster and cherry tomatoes, pumpkin gnocchi with taleggio and black truffle, and a delicious tagliatelle with bolognese sauce.

And make sure you leave ample room for pudding, with hits including the babà al limoncello – a traditional Neapolitan sponge cake – and the tiramisù, reimagined as a semifreddo, with the espresso poured directly into the half-frozen dessert.Perfect for……embracing the Italian tradition of aperitivo, a sophisticated date night, or an evening of gourmet delights with foodie friends.Book itIl Pampero, 20 Chesham Place, London SW1 (020 3189 4850; ilpampero.com).

Restaurant Review – Il Pampero | The London Economic

Having recently joined the likes of Margot, Il Pampero is another fresh purveyor of Italian fine dining I feared I’d never discover.

Serving as the main restaurant space on the ground-floor of the Hari Hotel in Belgravia, Il Pampero oozes sophistication as well as serving the type of food that doesn’t rouse me to seek solace at the bottom of a Morley’s fried chicken box, on the way home.

Well-aged like a fine red Bordeaux, the steak has an intense depth of natural flavour, heightened by the cooking process over hot coals to ensue a heavily charred bark that surrounds the blushing, warm internal flesh, showered with rock salt.

In fact, the Fiorentina T-Bone at Il Pampero is just about the best steak I’ve eaten: ever.

A rare brilliant example of Italian fine dining in central London, dinner at Il Pampero is somewhat expensive, but worth every penny.

Il Pampero | Restaurants in Belgravia, London

Starters were decent: a plate of beef carpaccio dotted with spiky horseradish, and gooey, warming goat’s cheese croquettes with fresh pesto to dip them in.

The tagliolini with sheep’s cheese tasted suspiciously like a plate of spaghetti and Philadelphia you’d drunkenly chuck together at 2am, while the pricey wild boar casserole was oversalted and disappointingly small.

The side plates were a travesty – £6 apiece for tasteless overcooked broccoli and rosemary roast potatoes with nary a whisper of rosemary.

It got worse, with a thin zabaglione that arrived in an inedibly hard and tasteless shortcrust pastry container.