Eat Out London!Casa Di Stefano
Casa di Stefano is an Italian restaurant on Dover Street in Mayfair, serving authentic Italian food.
Casa di Stefano | Italian Restaurant | Dover Street | Green Park | Mayfair | London
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Casa di Stefano NEW ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR IN MAYFAIR
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La Petite Maison has long worn the laurels for Mediterranean dining, but now there seems to be a challenger to the throne: since Casa di Stefano opened its doors on Dover Street, it‘s been packing in glamorous Mayfair crowds with its exceptional Cote d‘Azur cuisine.
Helmed by the mighty Stefano Stecca, formerly at Toto‘s, it‘s already making Neptune-sized waves.
The front floor is run by a trio of LPM alum, General Manager Christophe Dentamare, Guest Relations Manager Alex Moreschini and Restaurant Manager Francesco Coccia, ensuring that guests are well taken care of is given pride of place at Casa di Stefano.
As for aperitifs, we chose a lovely glass of prosecco, which was quickly followed by a selection of grissini, focaccia and flatbread with olives, olive oil and tomato.
Casa di Stefano is a very welcome addition to the neighbourhood, and will likely give Cecconi‘s and La Petite Maison a run for their money.
Restaurant Review: Casa di Stefano
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As Casa di Stefano charms Dover Street with its laid-back Italian ambience, Luxury London samples the freshest Mediterranean opening in Mayfair Dover Street Market has recently uprooted from its namesake location, however the street remains one of the most iconic areas in Mayfair: home to The Arts Club and HIX at Brown’s Hotel, and where Victoria Beckham, Alan Yau and – most recently – mosaic company SICIS have chosen to put their names in lights.
You may have noticed another new – and rather blue – addition to the elite, in the spot where local Italian joint Alloro once nestled.
In fact, Casa di Stefano isn’t a far cry from Alloro, with its relaxed ambience, fresh and hearty cuisine and chic bar, but aesthetically it feels much brighter – like a breezy Mediterranean restaurant.
This fresh and rustic Italian elegance exudes from the menu too, and to start I opt for the beef carpaccio while my guest chooses the succulent pan-fried scallops.
On entering Casa di Stefano I imagined it would be more suitable for a lunch date or an after work al fresco cocktail on a balmy evening, however head chef Paolo Parlanti and consulting chef Stefano Stecca have made this a serious contender within the gastronomical hub around Dover Street.
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Casa di Stefano, Mayfair – tried and tasted | London Evening Standard
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General manager is Christophe Dentamare from La Petite Maison, bar manager Vanni Lottino hails from Frescobaldi, and Paolo Parlanti, once of Franco's, Baretto and the Arts Club, heads up the kitchen, where top Italian chef Stefano Stecca (Toto’s, Novikov, Osteria Stecca) consulted on the food.
The quiet front door reveals a busy but bright restaurant: to the right, a wide bar stacked to the ceiling with bottles, where the counter is populated with red wine types filling up on snacks and cured meat and giving the enviable impression this is just part of their day-to-day, which made me think I should've worked harder at school or found a rich relative to blackmail or something.
The English take on Italian food can be dull: each mouthful the same, exact ratios of carbs and meat, tessellations of flavour which begin to get boring about halfway through the inevitably oversized dish.
They do pasta dishes, of course – the likes of tagliolini with lobster and sweet chilli, or risotto with truffle, not bang average spag bol – but the mains, while all jaw-clenchingly expensive, offer fine, delicate, thought-out cooking.
Italian wine is always the best choice for Italian food, but there are some extras from France and begrudging, to the rest of the world as well.
Casa di Stefano Review - What We Thought
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On the Menu: Classic, authentic Italian dishes delivered with a touch of Mayfair class.
First Impressions: Sitting unassumingly on Mayfair’s Dover Street, right opposite Victoria Beckham’s boutique and just down from Hix Mayfair, Casa di Stefano looks from the outside like a true Italian ristorante, with the wrought iron balconies at the windows above and soft lighting making it one of those places you’d love to discover down a back street on holiday.
The individual lemon tart was huge, topped with a dollop of homemade vanilla ice cream, whilst my dessert was whipped up by the kitchen based on their possession of white Sicilian peaches (which had appeared as a special starter with prawns).
What We Drank: With a private dining room in the basement encased by walls of temperature-controlled bottles of fine wine and a heavily stocked bar as you walk in, you know that they take drinks as seriously here as they do food.
Go With: For lunch I imagine the restaurant full of businessmen, pretending to discuss important matters over bottles of fine wine and racks of lamb, but in the evening there was almost a village-y feel with what looked like locals enjoying the unpretentious sophistication.